Meeting

Monday, March 14, 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 E. Oakland Park Ave.

Screening of film “Bananas!.” Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary “BANANAS!,” filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food.

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

We advocate for alternative economic models that pose serious challenges to the capitalist system. Please join us as we explore how Fab Labs, commons-based transitions and empowered participatory governance can empower marginalized communities in central Ohio. This meeting is free and open to the public.

Contact: Michael Vinson, 614-843-8721

Tuesday, March 29, 5:30-7pm, University Hall, Rm. 143 [University Museum], 230 N. Oval Mall

Sunday, March 27, 2-4pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

Saturday, March 26, 2-4:30pm, Franklinton Branch Library, 1061 W. Town St.

We advocate for alternative economic models that pose serious challenges to the capitalist system. Please join us as we explore how Fab Labs, commons-based transitions and empowered participatory governance can empower marginalized communities in central Ohio. This meeting is free and open to the public.

Contact: Michael Vinson, 614-843-8721

Saturday, March 19, 2-4:30pm, Martin Luther King Branch Library, 1600 E. Long St.

We advocate for alternative economic models that pose serious challenges to the capitalist system. Please join us as we explore how Fab Labs, commons-based transitions and empowered participatory governance can empower marginalized communities in central Ohio. This meeting is free and open to the public.

Contact: Michael Vinson, 614-843-8721

Saturday, March 19, 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.

Thursday, March 17, 7-8:30pm, Clintonville-Beechwold Community Resources Center, 14 W. Lakeview Ave.

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

Contact: 614-325-1926

Saturday, March 12, 11:30-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Rm. 131

This month’s program: “How Curiosity Kills a Seminary Faculty Position”

Thursday, March 10, 3:30-5pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave.

In this talk, Hurd introduces the central argument of her book, Beyond Religious Freedom. The book is a study of state-sponsored global efforts to promote religious freedom, religious engagement, and the rights of religious minorities. It asks, “What difference do these projects make for the well-being of the people whose lives they seek to shape, reform and redeem?”