Meeting

Wednesday, October 5, 12noon, Columbus Public Health, 240 Parsons Ave., Rm. 119-C

Do you need government information to help advocate for change in your community? Do you want to use your blog, neighborhood newsletter, or community newspaper to empower your audience?

Ohio’s Sunshine Laws give people the right to access numerous government records and require the government to conduct official business in public. Citizens, activists, advocacy groups and others use these laws to monitor government actions and uncover potential wrongdoing.

Sunday, October 2, 7pm, King Ave. United Methodist Church, 299 King Ave.

Christians everywhere are being called upon to declare where they stand on the question of homosexuality. For insight into this question, they naturally turn to the Bible. John Shore and his wife did the same, and it changed their lives. King Avenue United Methodist Church is proud to welcome John to Columbus on Sunday, October 2 at 7pm for a special presentation for those searching to understand better full inclusion in the church.

Saturday, October 1, 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

Wednesday, September 21, 6-8pm, University Hall, Rm. 014, 230 N. Oval Mall

Join us for a book event with Bill Ayers, part of a national tour to celebrate the release of his latest book, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto.

In an era defined by mass incarceration, endless war, economic crisis, catastrophic environmental destruction, and a political system offering more of the same, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible.

Sunday, September 11, 1-5pm, Whetstone Branch Library, 3909 N. High St.

Help set the agenda of Central Ohio from the bottom up! Don’t leave the future of the greater Columbus area to current out-of-touch public officials and elite titans.

Representatives of community organizations are invited to attend the September Pre-Election 2016 Citizen’s Grassroots Congress to decide what causes we can all work together on in central Ohio to affect this November’s election.

Bring a proposal from you or from your group or just come to vote on the issues.

Saturday, October 8, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “The Human Dilemma and What Death Can Teach Us About Living”

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

Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a group of white people 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.

Friday, September 23, 7pm, Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church, 2350 Indianola Ave.

Through a clever mix of stop-motion animation and interviews, “The Wanted 18” recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army’s pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared “a threat to the national security of the state of Israel.” Consequently, the dairy is forced to go underground; the cows continue to produce their “intifada milk” with the Israeli army in relentless pursuit.

Saturday, September 17, 2-4:30pm, Martin Luther King Branch Library, 1600 E. Long St.

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, September 17, 12:30-2pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

When the Founding Fathers signed the Constitution in 1787, less than six percent of Americans could claim their rights as legal persons. A hundred years later, the Supreme Court recognized personhood rights for corporations while denying those rights to the majority of actual human beings living in the U.S.

• How have corporations gained constitutional rights? Through unelected Courts without a democratic process.