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“Speak Up! Spoken Word and Open Mic,” hosted by Black Queer and Intersectional Collective [BQIC]

Tuesday, February 8, 8-9:30pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Join us for BQIC’s monthly fundraiser, “BQIC Speak Up! Spoken Word and Open Mic.” Come out and share your poems, songs, monologues, inner musings, and good encounters, bad days, good dates, etc., on the digital mic! LGBTQIA+ people of color take priority. Come and bring a friend; we hope to see you there!

“Friends of Wadi Foquin,” hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio

Tuesday, February 8, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Reverend Michael Yoshii, co-chair of the Friends of Wadi Foquin, will discuss how this organization operates to provide financial assistance to support the economic survival of this Palestinian village and the organization’s advocacy work in the U.S. Congress to stop the threat to the village from settlement expansion. For more information, visit the friendsofwadifoquin.com website.

“HCR [House Concurrent Resolution] 39: Why it Matters,” hosted by Ohio Health Modernization Movement

Tuesday, February 8, 12noon, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”

Attendees of this webinar will learn about the content of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 39 and why the Ohio Health Modernization Movement is taking this tactic to further our mission of modernizing Ohio’s HIV laws and statutes.

In this webinar, attendees will learn the education gaps we have identified with Ohio legislators and why HCR 39 is one avenue for this education.

“Army Control of Myanmar Government Ministries Via Isolation and Infiltration,” hosted by Mershon Center for International Security Studies

Thursday, February 3, 4-5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join the Mershon Center American Foreign and Military Policy Cluster Discussion Group virtually on Thursday, February 3 for a discussion with Jim Schnell on the Myanmar Radio-Television headquarters as an illustration of Army control of Myanmar government ministries via isolation and infiltration.

“No Struggle, No Progress: Social Justice Organizing in the 21st Century,” hosted by Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University

Thursday, February 3, 11am-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Dr. Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University, will present “No Struggle, No Progress: Social Justice Organizing in the 21st Century.”

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University.

“AAPI [Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander] History in Ohio’s K-12 Curriculum (S.B. 214) Testimony Workshop,” hosted by OPAWL [Ohio Progressive Asian Women’s Leadership]: Building AAPI Feminist Leadership in Ohio

Wednesday, February 2, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Call to Action: Give Verbal and/or Written Testimony to the Primary and Secondary Education Committee in support of S.B. 214

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