Meeting

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.”

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.”

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.”

Our mission is to empower marginalized communities by expanding their capacity to convert their social power into significant economic driving forces that propel social justice movements towards victory. We advocate for alternative economic models that pose serious challenges to the existing capitalist system.

Our focus for these meetings will be to draft an alternative economic vision, community-building strategy and implementation plan for central Ohio.

Contact: Michael Vinson, 614-843-8721

We start with an icebreaker topic for conversation and then move to an open discussion. Our agenda is always open but in general we discuss life and living beyond religious belief.

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.

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.

Topic: “Natural Law,” with Fr. Charles Curran, professor at Southern Methodist University. Fr. Curran is a Roman Catholic priest who is considered one of the foremost Catholic moral theologians. Fr. Curran is a former President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Rome stripped Fr. Curran of his license to teach in 1986 because of his moral views concerning human sexuality (both heterosexual and homosexual).

Natural Law is used to justify many of the Roman Catholic Church’s moral teachings. Does Natural Law really justify Church teachings? Come find out.

On May 4, 1970, Ohio’s National Guard killed four young people during anti-war protests on the Kent State campus. We will view “Kent State: The Day the War Came Home (2002).” The film looks at the reasons for the attack on anti-Vietnam-war student demonstrators by National Guardsmen, shows the build-up of the protest against the Vietnam War, and follows the stories of the four students who were killed at Kent State.

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

Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com