Meeting

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

Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com

Blue Dublin, a progressive organization, will meet at Washington Township House, 6200 Eiterman Rd. Dublin, OH 43016, on Thursday, March 26 at 7:30pm.

There will be a very short annual business meeting to choose leaders for the year, March 2015 through March 2016.

We will have an excellent speaker, Sandy Theis, the Executive Director of Progress Ohio. The title of her presentation will be “Prospects of Progressive Candidates in the 2016 Election.”

Join us as we fight to stop this secret trade deal and keep good jobs from going overseas!

The doors will open at 5:30pm; the meeting will start at 6pm

Sponsored by Communication Workers of America.

http://stopthetpp.org/

Contact: Gwendolyn Castlin, 614-485-1265 or gcastlin@cwa4502.org

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.”

This event will consist of two presentations: “The Science of Shale Gas: Fracking Induced Seismic Events (Earthquakes) in Eastern Ohio,” by Ray Beiersdorfer, PhD, Professor of Geology, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Youngstown State University (presenting via Skype); and “Land-Use, Resource Utilization in Ohio’s Utica Shale . . . Now and in the Future,” by Ted Auch, PhD, Great Lakes Program Coordinator for The FracTracker Alliance and Adjunct Faculty at Cleveland State University, (presenting live).

Professor Sami Schalk is an Assistant Professor of English at University at Albany, State University of New York; she specializes in gender studies, disability studies, African American literature, and contemporary literature. Her research focuses on the representation of disability in contemporary African American literature.

Sponsored by the OSU Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, 614-292-1021.

The Ashland Center for Nonviolence’s first conference aims to respond seriously to challenges, questions, and objections to nonviolence. Our keynote speaker, Robert Brimlow of St. John Fisher College and author of What About Hitler?, will consider the challenge about nonviolence in the face of injustice. Although the concept of nonviolence is often considered only in relation to political and international matters, we expect to also host presentations that consider the challenges to nonviolence in the nation, in communities, in families, and in personal relationships.

This month’s program: “Law Enforcement Against Prohibition”

Carlis McDerment, Jr. is deeply concerned about the effects of drugs on individuals and the effects and costs of drug prohibition on society.

An only child who grew up in the Columbus, Ohio area, he became interested in law enforcement through the 1970s cop shows of his youth. Although he added to his career talents before entering law enforcement, he has spent the last nine years as a Deputy Sheriff for the Fairfield County Ohio Sheriff’s Office, thus returning to his earliest interests.