Meeting

Thursday, April 16, 6-7pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

This is the third of four informational meetings that we are hosting this April to invite people to learn more about getting involved with Columbus Community Pride 2020!

If you’ve missed the other ones, then now is the perfect time to get plugged in! After all of the April informational meetings are done, Community Pride co-leads will follow up with next steps.

RSVP here for the Zoom meeting link.

Thursday, April 16, 6-7:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join the Central Ohio Worker Center [COWC] for our monthly Immigrant Justice Committee meeting! This will be a Zoom call; please e-mail us for the link/phone number at <centralohioworkercenter@gmail.com>.

Tuesday, April 14, 7-8:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join us as we gather using social distancing! Elections still matter (perhaps now more than ever before), so our work does not end. It just happens differently.

Agenda

• Check in with each other

• Primary Election: Call to Get Out The Vote

• Jean Wentzel, Tina Cottone, and Cheryl Grossman; Buckeye State Rural

• George Clark, Ohio Democratic Party

• Building for November

Thursday, March 19, 1pm, on-line pre-registration for this on-line event is required

The COVID-19 outbreak is changing the ways in which event hosts, organizers, and vendors do business daily. This transition has even resulted in a trending hashtag, #cancelgate, which is associated with the countless number of in-person events being restricted or postponed.

Thursday, March 19, 7pm, on-line pre-registration for this on-line event is required

Faith in Action is hosting a Demand Equity Tele-Townhall on Thursday at 7pm [Eastern Time]. The conversation will explore how people of faith engage social distancing as a spiritual discipline and use equity as a framework to organize those who are most vulnerable across the country.

We will hear from leaders on how they are continuing their work during the coronavirus outbreak. They will discuss immigration, policing, housing, paid sick leave, elections, and democracy.

Thursday, March 19, 8-9pm, on-line pre-registration for this on-line event is required

Join Lindsay Koshgarian of the Institute for Policy Studies and Bill Hartung of the Center for International Policy for the first of two national calls on Global Days of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS).

Thursday, March 19, 12noon-1pm, on-line webinar

This month’s speaker is Minister Annie Ross-Womack. Annie currently serves as the executive director of The Ohio Sickle Cell and Health Association. She has been a constant source of accurate information to marginalized communities as the virus grows in our state.

Wednesday, March 25, 7-8:15pm, on-line webinar [advance registration is possible but is not required]

Join Rev. Joan VanBecelaere, Executive Director of UUJO, Tadd Pinkston of Pinkston Law, and other guests to discuss what is happening this month in the Ohio Statehouse. We will discuss updates on key legislation, including S.B. 33 [anti-protest bill], S.B. 3 [criminal justice reform], gun safety legislation, and more. The discussions can be very lively.

Zoom Meeting Information: zoom.us/j/3909831611; Meeting ID: 390 983 1611

Wednesday, March 18, 7:30-8:30pm, on-line webinar [advance registration is possible but is not required]

Ohio’s reliance on the cash bail system has created a two-tiered system of justice: one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us. Being locked in jail can lead to job loss, housing instability, and precious time away from family and loved ones. Cash bail is the entrance into the beast of mass incarceration. Join Melekte Melaku, lead organizer for the ACLU Ohio’s Campaign for Bail Reform and member of UUJO, to learn more about this issue and what you can do.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Friday, March 27, 7-9pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

“Oil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of toxic waste a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and contaminating communities across America.”