Meeting

Saturday, March 18, 2-4:30pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

We are a grassroots organization for poor working-class people. We discuss current events and explore how commons-based transitions, Fab Labs and other models can end class exploitation and transform the capitalist system.

Contact: economictaskforce@gmail.com

Saturday, March 18, 12-2pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

The monthly meeting of the local affiliate 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. Find out what can be done locally to restore democracy! Bring a brown bag lunch.

Wednesday, March 15, 8am-4:30pm, Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd.

The 2017 Ohio Concussion Summit brings together experts on the nature of a concussion, changes that take place in the brain that has been injured, how a concussion is diagnosed and treated, as well as recommendations for optimal post-concussion recovery.

This event will include the following:

Sunday, March 12, 3-5pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library, 96 S. Grant Ave.

The aim of this monthly reading group is to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing holistic political education. We seek to create community-based interventions to IPV that do not rely on the police or governmental institutions.

We are currently reading “Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation and Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence.”

Saturday, March 11, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “Columbus’s Discriminatory At-Large City Council Elections”

Thursday, March 9, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com

Tuesday, March 7, 10am, Congregation Tifereth Israel, 1354 E. Broad St. (free parking in rear)

The Central Ohio Worker Center (COWC) is proud to be a part of the coalition One ID Columbus organizing for a recognized city-wide Municipal ID. Many in the Columbus community, including members of COWC, do not have the benefits of a form of identification, something that most take for granted. A form of ID is a crucial need that is felt by these members of our community.

A Municipal ID for Franklin County would have many benefits, including:

Thursday, March 2, 4:30pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

In recent years, numerous scholars have engaged with political theology (à la Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Gamben) to interpret religion and state power by foregrounding the legacy of European fascism and the assumptions of political liberalism. What happens when race and colonialism move to the foreground, not as relics of a past era but as contemporary forms of Western state power?

Wednesday, March 1, 7-8:30pm, Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St.

Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.

Contact: centralohio@jvp.org

Tuesday, February 21, 6:30-8pm, First Congregational Church [Parish Hall], 444 E. Broad St.

Between February 20 and February 24, Congress will not be in session and legislators will return to their home districts. Members of Congress often use this time to meet with their constituents and hold town hall meetings.