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.”

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.

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

A presentation, with questions and answers, by Julie Weatherington-Rice, PhD, geologist, hydrogeologist and soil scientist, on “ALEC [the American Legislative Exchange Council] and the Oil and Gas Industry vs. Source Water Protection and Home Rule in Ohio: How we got where we are, and what we can do about it.”

Learn how we can enact a citizens-led Charter Amendment for the City of Columbus to protect our community from radioactive and toxic oil and gas industry (fracking) waste.

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.

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

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This month’s program: “Life After Belief: The Struggle Out of the Evangelical Church”

Former church planter Charles Hill will tell his story called “Life After Belief: The Struggle Out of the Evangelical Church that Almost Took My Life and My Family.” Hill will share reasons behind his leaving the faith and declaring himself “non-religious.” He will share the impact on him, his family, and the large church he started and tell how they are building a new Life After Belief for themselves, their kids, and a new community of those going through the same issues.

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

Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com; or dsacolumbus.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.”