Meeting

The Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee (ATAC) advises the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA) on matters pertaining to accessible transportation. Members include customers and people in the community who advocate for those with disabilities. ATAC meets monthly and twice a year with COTA leadership.

Contact: columbusatac@gmail.com

PFLAG Columbus is a local chapter of PFLAG National. “PFLAG” is Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians And Gays. We are a national support, education and advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, their families, friends and allies. With 200,000 members and supporters and local affiliates in more than 500 communities across the U.S. and abroad, PFLAG is the largest grassroots-based family organization of its kind. PFLAG is a non-profit organization and is not affiliated with any religious or political institution.

We advocate for alternative economic models that pose serious challenges to the capitalist system. Please join us this month as we explore how FLOK Society, Open Cooperatives and Fab Labs can empower marginalized communities in central Ohio. These meetings are free and open to the public.

Contact: Michael Vinson, 614-843-8721

Saturday and Sunday [September 19-20, September 26-27 and October 3-4], 8am-5pm, Clintonville/Beechwold Community Resource Center, 14 W. Lakeview Ave.

Want to learn how to install solar systems? Want to prepare to become certified in the solar field? Now you can spend just six days (three weekends — 5½ days instruction; ½ day taking the certification test) in Columbus, OH to realize your goal.

In most cities, the city budget is usually decided by the mayor but with Participatory Budgeting, ordinary people decide how to spend the budget. This practice originated in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989 and has spread to cities and countries all over the world, including Chicago, New York City, Boston, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Puerto Rico and many others.

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.

Friday, September 18, 7-8:30pm; Saturday, September 19, 9:30am-3:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

This two-day workshop will examine the impact that the planetary crisis is having on the soul. We will explore the idea that the global transformation that humanity is undergoing is mirroring and accelerating an equally profound shift taking place inside the soul.

This exploration brings together two lines of inquiry that often appear separately in spiritual and transpersonal consciousness literature:

Friday, September 18, 7-8:30pm; Saturday, September 19, 9:30am-3:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

This two-day workshop will examine the impact that the planetary crisis is having on the soul. We will explore the idea that the global transformation that humanity is undergoing is mirroring and accelerating an equally profound shift taking place inside the soul.

This exploration brings together two lines of inquiry that often appear separately in spiritual and transpersonal consciousness literature:

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

This month’s meeting will include a presentation by representatives from the Ohio Student Association about that group’s work in the student debt crisis and in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Contact: 614-325-1926

Congress will be back in session in September, so you have an opportunity to write letters about those issues for which you long for justice and peace. Paper, pens, envelopes, stamps, and addresses will be provided.