Meeting

Thursday, March 9, 6pm, Northern Lights Branch Library, 4093 Cleveland Ave.

Join Columbus City Council Member Shannon G. Hardin for a roundtable discussion with the City of Columbus Department of Public Service, COTA, and Smart Columbus. This conversation will provide a platform for community members to ask questions, offer suggestions and collaborate on how to improve transportation in Columbus.

This event will allow residents to engage with traffic engineers, city council members, and transportation officials to talk about the future of transportation in Columbus.

Saturday, April 1, 12pm; to Sunday, April 21, 4pm; Innerwest Priority Board, 1024 W. Third St., Dayton, Ohio

Join the Ohio Student Association for the first-ever Ohio Black Student Summit! This event will be a two-day summit for black students, leaders, and organizations to build a network of support throughout the state. This summit will focus on developing a collective identity of Black Student Resistance on campuses across Ohio and provide a unifying strategic method on how we resist against anti-blackness on campus.

Monday, March 6, 6:30-8pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Sunday, March 5, 7-8:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

Join us to mourn the loss of our democratic voice. In recognition of the solemnity of the occasion, we ask attending mourners to wear black and forego bringing signs. The program will feature constituent eulogies capturing what they would have said to Senator Portman had he chosen to listen, and end with a time for silent reflection when all guests will have the opportunity to write and share their messages for the lost Senator.

Thursday, March 9, 12noon-1:30pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120

Saturday, March 4, 11am-4pm, Quest Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place [south of Polaris Pkwy.; east of I-71]

Join us for an Empowerment Conference to learn practical tools to fight back against Islamophobia, recent and expected Executive Orders, and other issues affecting Muslims and immigrants.

There will be four one-hour sessions and a lunch break.

Agenda and Speakers:

11am-12noon: “The Power of Legislative Advocacy,” by Gary Daniels, ACLU of Ohio

Thursday, April 6, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

We are the Columbus branch of the International Socialist Organization. We are opposed to all oppression and fight for a world centered around human need, not corporate greed. We are students, community members, workers, and activists. We are socialists.

Contact: iso.columbus@gmail.com

Thursday, April 6, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a multi-racial group organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.

Email SURJColumbusOH@gmail.com with any questions.

Saturday, April 1, 9:30am-4:30pm [registration begins at 8:30am], First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

A statewide gathering of local chapters of the national Move to Amend organization that is calling for a U.S. Constitutional amendment to reverse several U.S. Supreme Court decisions during the past century and thereby to firmly establish that corporations are not people and that money is not free speech.

Thursday, March 30, 7:30-9pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

Hemant Mehta is the editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, appears on the Atheist Voice channel on YouTube, and co-hosts the uniquely-named Friendly Atheist Podcast. He is a former National Board Certified high school math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago, where he had taught for seven years. He is also the author of several books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide.