Meeting

Thursday, September 15, 7-8:30pm, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center [conference room], 3222 N. High St.

The Columbus Club represents the Communist Party USA (established 1919) in Central Ohio.

Contact: 614-325-1926

Wednesday, September 14, 6-8pm, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 428 E. Main St.

Please join us for our 2016 candidates’ forum! We have partnered with Mt. Olivet Baptist Church and have invited the candidates for Franklin County Prosecutor to answer questions about the issues that matter most to people in our community.

Tuesday, September 13, 6pm [business meeting]; 7pm [general meeting]; Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join the Franklin County Greens to help our local candidates at 6pm or to plan the Party’s annual events at 7pm. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month.

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

Contact: fcgreenparty@gmail.com

Monday, September 12, 7pm, The Center on High, 3208 N. High St.

The monthly meeting of the central Ohio chapter of Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL], a national lobbying group of Quakers and friends who are working for public policy change on Capitol Hill.

Contact: Greg Pace, gpace67@gmail.com or 614-565-6067

Monday, September 12, 6-7:30pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

Once each month at the Driving Park Branch Library, central Ohio residents, city and state leaders, non-profit organizations, community professionals, activists, Columbus City Schools professionals, law enforcement, faith-based communities, and leading thinkers come together to discuss central Ohio’s current issues and solutions. This event is coordinated by the emerging non-profit, State Of The Community.

We will be discussing the following:

Monday, September 12, 3pm, OSU Research Commons [18th Avenue Library, third floor], 175 W. 18th Ave.

In June 2013, Gezi Park became the staging ground for the most serious challenge to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s decade-long rule in Turkey. When police brutally cleared the Istanbul park, five young men lost their lives, becoming official “martyrs” of the Gezi movement.

Saturday, September 10, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “Save Lives Using Reason and Compassion”

Save lives, using reason and compassion, by attending today’s event! For every participant, $10 will be donated to a charity, and best of all, it’s free for you - the donations will be sponsored by an external party.

Thursday, September 8, 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

Wednesday, September 7, 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

Thursday, September 1, 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.