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Saturday, February 6, 4-6:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The Trans AND Virtual Performance Festival brings together trans and gender non-conforming artists from across the country for a weekend of genre-blending, gender-defying acts and dialogues exploring the intersections of art, identity, activism and community. The festival is a two-day event.

Day one, sponsored by the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute (TRI), consists of two hour-long webinar panels. Each panel will be made up of three artists and a moderator.

Friday, January 5, 3-4:30pm, this event will be occurring via GoToMeeting

This event will be a dynamic panel discussion addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the African-American Community.

Featured Panelists

• Brandon C. Chapman, LGBTQ Health Program Manager at Columbus Public Health

• Marnina Miller, Board Member of Positive Women’s Network USA

• Olivia Nathan, Pharmacist at Equitas Health

• Tim’m West, Poet, Hip Hop Artist, Youth Advocate, Educator, Scholar

Friday. February 5, 1-2pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The approval of the COVID-19 vaccines raises difficult ethical questions about how the vaccine should be distributed and administered. Should priority be given to those who are at the greatest risk of death or serious complications from the virus, or to front-line workers whose immunity would allow schools and business to re-open more quickly? To what extent can these aims be balanced against one another?

Speakers

• Anne Barnhill (Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University)

Thursday, February 4, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

For several decades now, community activists and movement lawyers alike have actively opposed police brutality. They organized “Cop Watch” and legal observer initiatives across the U.S. and have made a real difference to folks on the ground.

Join Civil Liberties Defense Center [CLDC] and experienced panelists to learn more about how these projects document and push back against law enforcement abuses.

Wednesday, February 3, 7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

This event will feature the following candidates or elected officials.

• Sheena Marie Barnes (Toledo Public Schools Board of Education)

• Zach Stepp (2020 Candidate for Ohio State Representative, District 55)

• Mark Carr (2020 Candidate for Ohio State Representative, District 71)

• Dara Adkison (2020 Candidate for Ohio State Representative, District 57)

• Reggie Harris (2021 Candidate for Cincinnati City Council)

Wednesday, February 3, 6:30pm, this event will be occurring via Zoom

Working people need to stand together in solidarity against the right-wing attempt to silence Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Black Lives Matter Movement recall campaign! The recall campaign, if successful, would overturn last year’s re-election and push a working-class representative out of office. Most importantly, the recall effort is an attempt to undermine Seattle’s social movements, which have won major victories against big business.

Wednesday, February 3, 3:30-5pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

The years 2017-2020 have been remarkable in the long stand-off with North Korea, as much for the drama of war-threats and then summits, as for the durability of the inter-Korean status quo. Indeed, given all the excitement of both hawkish and then dovish approaches to North Korea since 2017, the greatest surprise is how little both alternatives have accomplished “on the ground.”

Wednesday, February 3, 3-4:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Jeff Halper is the author of [recently-released] Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State.

Wednesday, February 10, 12noon-1pm; this event will be occurring via WebEx

MORPC is working with nine Central Ohio counties to develop a transit coordinated plan for the ODOT Human Service Transportation Coordination Region 6 — the Regional Mobility Plan.

The Regional Mobility Plan will identify local transportation needs of people with disabilities, older adults, and those with low incomes. It will help to provide strategies for meeting those needs and prioritize transportation services and projects for funding and implementation.

Thursday, February 4, 6-7pm; this event will be occurring via WebEx

MORPC is working with nine Central Ohio counties to develop a transit coordinated plan for the ODOT Human Service Transportation Coordination Region 6 — the Regional Mobility Plan.

The Regional Mobility Plan will identify local transportation needs of people with disabilities, older adults, and those with low incomes. It will help to provide strategies for meeting those needs and prioritize transportation services and projects for funding and implementation.