Meeting

Columbus Free Press Editors Bob Fitrakis and Suzanne Patzer joined Code Pink on their week-long “To Cuba with Love” delegation this February in the first large U.S. people-to-people exchange since the warming of relations last December. They will share their experiences touring the country, meeting with public officials [including Mariela Castro], visits with Cuban people and impressions of the state of the nation under the U.S. embargo. Also presenting will be Lisa Valanti, a longtime Pastors for Peace activist.

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

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

This month’s meeting will include a presentation by the Columbus Community Bill of Rights organization.

Contact: 614-325-1926

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

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.

This meeting will be a business meeting and the first of our Labor Film Series! We plan to screen the documentary Matewan (2002, 135 min.). A labor leader who is seeking to organize the workers of a company town sets off a powder keg of racial hostility, corruption and betrayal in this tale of the bitter clash between unionist miners and the tyrannical coal company owners in West Virginia in the 1920s.

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

This month’s program: “Winning at Life Using Science, Compassion, and Reason”

The Ohio Association of Railroad Passengers (dba All Aboard Ohio) exists to achieve for the citizens of Ohio a modern, consumer-focused, statewide passenger transportation network that provides people with real travel choices they want and can use.

Contact: 844-GO4-RAIL or Larry Robertson, robertson.9@osu.edu

Columbus Residents are working to ensure safe drinking water, clean air, and safe soil in the City of Columbus.

The Columbus Community Bill of Rights is an Amendment to the Charter of the City of Columbus. This rights-based amendment will give Columbus residents local control over the extraction of hydrocarbons and protect their unalienable rights for pure water, clean air, and safe soil, free from “toxins, carcinogens, radioactive substances, and other substances known to cause harm to health.”