Meeting

Thursday, February 2, 8:30am-4:30pm; Friday, February 3, 9am-2:30pm; Ohio Statehouse Atrium

Purpose: to facilitate and further the conversation about the rise of human trafficking in Ohio.

Hosted by State Representative Teresa Fedor; details will follow.

Participation is free but tickets are required. For tickets, please register at Eventbrite to keep up to date with our speakers and program information.

Thursday, February 2, 8:30am-4:30pm; Friday, February 3, 9am-2:30pm; Ohio Statehouse Atrium

Purpose: to facilitate and further the conversation about the rise of human trafficking in Ohio.

Hosted by State Representative Teresa Fedor; details will follow.

Participation is free but tickets are required. For tickets, please register at Eventbrite to keep up to date with our speakers and program information.

Thursday, February 2, 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, February 2, 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.

Saturday, January 21, 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.

Saturday, January 21, 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

Tuesday, January 17, 6:30pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join Ohio Revolution and a long list of interested organizations and parties as we discuss and coordinate strategies to address fracking in Wayne National Forest following the Bureau of Land Management’s auction of leases for 17 parcels of the forest to oil and gas corporations in December.

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

Saturday, January 14, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “Secular Identity and Values”

Ever heard an atheist say they use “Logic and Reason” or that separation or church and state is the only issue the secular movement should care about? This talk goes over the process of identity building, how much of our secular experience is still emotional/illogical, and why our worldview has to expand beyond an antithesis to religion.

Saturday, January 14, 9:30-11am, Parsons Branch Library, 1113 Parsons Ave.

Change is coming to health care in 2017. You need to know what’s happening with your health care and we want to hear about why health care is important to you.

That’s why we’re hosting community meetings across Ohio next month for anyone who has questions about what’s next for health care or who can share their experience with health care, good or bad.

Sponsored by UHCAN [Universal Health Care Action Network] Ohio.

Thursday, January 12, 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