Meeting

Monday, July 22 7-9pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

Today’s program: a screening of “Black Code” (89 minutes)

Thursday, July 18, 5:30-7:30pm [doors open at 5pm], ACLU of Ohio Columbus Office, 1108 City Park Avenue, Ste. 203

Executive Director Ben Guess, Campaigns Director Mark Gavin, and Chief Lobbyist Gary Daniels will present ACLU Ohio priorities, including a just pretrial system, community organizing opportunities, and information about reform-based legislation. Special guests from the Urban Institute will present their research findings and will walk us through the roadmap for reform.

Open to all; light refreshments will be provided.

Thursday, July 18, 10:15am-4:30pm, Columbus Mennonite Church, 35 Oakland Park Ave.

• Keynote Address: “The New Sanctuary Movement: Strategies, Organization, and Volunteers,” by Ravi Ragbir, an immigrant rights activist who has helped thousands of people as an organizer, and now as the Executive Director of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York, who works directly with those facing deportation to empower them in their struggle to remain in the United States.

Register online now at www.north-broadway.org/sprague.

Monday, July 15, 6-7:30pm, Linden Branch Library, 2223 Cleveland Ave.

We have launched our fourth campaign to protect Columbus water from toxic, radioactive frack waste dumping in our water supply. We are an all-volunteer group gathering signatures to put the Columbus Community Bill of Rights on the Columbus Ballot by November 2020.

Come learn what’s going on and sign the petition at the following Columbus Metropolitan Libraries.

• Monday, July 15, 6-7:30pm, Linden Branch Library, 2223 Cleveland Ave.

Saturday, July 20, 10am-4:30pm [check-in at 9:30am], Columbus Early Learning Centers [Champion Avenue Center], 240 N. Champion Ave.

Join us for Advocacy University, an “activist bootcamp” featuring a full day of free trainings, workshops, and group activities, so that together we can strengthen the culture of social and political activism across Central Ohio.

ACLU experts will be on-site to outline our 2019 priorities and to lead powerful sessions on campaigning, lobbying, and messaging.

Thursday, July 18, 6:30-7:30pm, Northside Branch Library, 1423 N. High St.

Join us for our monthly membership meeting! Come hang and talk about how we can work together to build Columbus that works for the many, not the few.

As always, there will be free pizza!

Yes We Can [YWC] was founded as an independent grassroots political organization in December 2015. We stand for getting big money out of City Hall, building stronger schools, and putting working families’ interests ahead of wealthy developers and corporate donors.

Monday, July 15, 6:30-8:30pm, First English Lutheran Church, 1015 E. Main St.

Please join us on Monday, July 15, at 6:30pm, as we continue the conversation on how we can best support Miriam Vargas and her family.

We will be moving forward on ideas from our February 25 meeting.

• Outreach: Intersectionality, starting with the local community

• Care/Logistics: Miriam’s day-to-day needs

• Media/Communications: Creative messaging

• Fundraising: Funds for Freedom

Thursday, July 11, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

Living in Columbus, it’s not hard to see that the system is broken. We live under a reign of police terror where working-class black and brown youth are targeted for execution and imprisonment; Ohio State University and the city of Columbus have been working together to gentrify neighborhood after neighborhood; tens of thousands of students are getting into life-long debt for an education; ICE harasses undocumented immigrants with impunity; landlords and capitalists exploit and oppress us.

Thursday, July 25, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

Living in Columbus, it’s not hard to see that the system is broken. We live under a reign of police terror where working-class black and brown youth are targeted for execution and imprisonment; Ohio State University and the city of Columbus have been working together to gentrify neighborhood after neighborhood; tens of thousands of students are getting into life-long debt for an education; ICE harasses undocumented immigrants with impunity; landlords and capitalists exploit and oppress us.

Thursday, July 18, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

Living in Columbus, it’s not hard to see that the system is broken. We live under a reign of police terror where working-class black and brown youth are targeted for execution and imprisonment; Ohio State University and the city of Columbus have been working together to gentrify neighborhood after neighborhood; tens of thousands of students are getting into life-long debt for an education; ICE harasses undocumented immigrants with impunity; landlords and capitalists exploit and oppress us.