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Wednesday, December 8, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Do you have questions about legally changing your name and or gender marker in Ohio? Join us for our free legal clinic. You’ll be able to talk to a trained lawyer over the phone or through Zoom about the name and gender marker process.

Step 1: Complete and submit the intake paperwork below.

Step 2: We will review your paperwork to make sure that it is complete and contact you with available clinic appointment dates and times.

Monday, December 6, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Featuring panelists:

• Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Sonoma State University

• Leslie Moore, Associate Professor of Teaching & Learning and Linguistics, College of Education and Human Ecology, OSU

Saturday, December 4, 3-4:30pm, The Magical Druid, 3165 N. High St.

This event will be a look at the various global customs, creatures, and cuisine that surround the many midwinter celebrations.

Registration cost: $10.00.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by The Magical Druid.

Thursday, December 2, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

This fall, the Tilted Scales Legal Collective (a group of dedicated anarchist legal support workers who have spent years supporting and fighting for political prisoners, prisoner of war, and politicized prisoners), published Representing Radicals with the goal of demystifying common political defense strategies and equipping criminal defense attorneys with the tools to better understand and support their radical clients’ legal, personal, and political goals.

Wednesday, December 1, 7-8pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

The Merion Village Association will hold a special meeting in December to discuss a recent zoning variance application for the property located at 363 Thurman Ave. [rear parcel]. All are welcome and encouraged to attend! If you’d like to learn more about the Merion Village Association or if you’re interested in becoming a member, visit our website at merionvillage.org. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the MVA will hold all meetings virtually until further notice.

Wednesday, December 1, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Our democracy rests on the premise that justice prevails in our courts. When bias and corruption undermine justice, public trust in the judiciary system erodes.

Wednesday, December 1, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The Mandel Humanities Center and Stand for Racial Justice at Cuyahoga Community College will host an online panel discussion on “The Color of Environmental Health: The Effects of Environmental Justice on Human Well-Being.”

Wednesday, December 1, 11:30am-8pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”

This World AIDS Day, join us as we bring together LGBTQ+ communities around the world to rewrite the narrative to end the HIV epidemic. We’re tacking the fight to end stigma, embrace our sexuality and our identities.

We’re hosting events all day, so feel free to pick and choose what works for you or attend them all.

• Session 1: Transgender Justice, 11:30am

Tuesday, November 30, 7pm, this event will be live-streamed on “Facebook Live”

Join Equality Ohio and our partners to learn more about two bills in the Ohio Legislature targeting LGBTQ+, especially transgender, youth.

This panel will feature “subject matter” experts on two types of bills being introduced in the Ohio legislature, both targeting transgender youth.

Monday, November 29, 12noon-1pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The 2021-22 COMPAS [Conversations On Morality, Politics And Society] Program on Markets and the Open Society hosts Dr. Helen McCabe for a discussion of her new book, John Stuart Mill, Socialist, with CEHV [Center for Ethics and Human Values] Director Piers Norris Turner.

The conversation will examine how Mill’s interest in socialism should inform our understanding of his political ideals and the relationship of socialism to open society.