Meeting

Thursday, August 4, 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.

Saturday, September 3, 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, August 20, 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, August 20, 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

Thursday, August 18, 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

Saturday, August 13, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “Transhumanism: Taking Humanism to the Extreme”

What is at the heart of a human? What does Humanism celebrate, at its core? As the blinding notions of the past and the physical constraints of the present are cut away by science, technology, and reason, what will remain?

Thursday, August 11, 2016, 7pm, Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church, 2350 Indianola Ave.

Saturday, July 30, 8:30am-5pm; and Sunday, July 31, 12-3pm; First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

Join three Ohio Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] chapters, and two national SURJ staff people, for a training on direct action, organizational building and deep canvassing!  The training will be led by Erin Heaney, the National Organizer for SURJ, and Z! Haukeness, the Midwest Regional Resource person for SURJ.

Saturday, July 30, 8:30am-5pm; and Sunday, July 31, 12-3pm; First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

Join three Ohio Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] chapters, and two national SURJ staff people, for a training on direct action, organizational building and deep canvassing!  The training will be led by Erin Heaney, the National Organizer for SURJ, and Z! Haukeness, the Midwest Regional Resource person for SURJ.

Monday, July 25, 7pm, St. John’s Evangelical Protestant Church [UCC], 59 E. Mound St.

We cordially invite you to attend this forum, which will include presentations by the following:

• PFLAG Columbus: Growing up LGBTQ

• CBS video: Family with a young transgender son

• GLSEN [Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network]: Gay/Straight Alliances in high schools

• TED video: College-age transgender woman

• Equality Ohio: Ohio’s LGBTQ laws