Meeting

Wednesday, October 3, 6:30-9pm, YWCA, 65 S. Fourth St.

Communities throughout Ohio are increasingly being affected by drug addiction. The current regime of the “War on Drugs” has done nothing to help those who are struggling with drug addiction and instead has only led to mass incarceration.

Issue 1 provides a solution for Ohioans that focuses on treatment and rehabilitation instead of prison sentences for low-level, nonviolent users.

Issue 1 is the compassionate, just solution that we need to support and strengthen our communities.

Sunday, November 4, 4pm, Boulevard Presbyterian Church, 1235 Northwest Blvd.

The Neighborhood Services, Inc. Food Pantry is excited to present its annual Church Choir Concert Fundraiser! Featuring the combined talented vocals of several Columbus-area churches, join us for an afternoon of music and community as we come together to the blessings of the Thanksgiving season.

This event is free or pay-what-you-wish so please join us in choral jubilation!

Thursday, November 1, 7-8:30pm, Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio [inside of Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church], 2350 Indianola Ave.

Join us for an engaging and fun introduction to Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the Language of the Heart, led by Susanna Warren.

People of all experience levels, ranging from beginners to experienced practitioners, are welcome to this gathering. We will have a short explanation, a demonstration, and then we will give everyone a chance to practice giving and/or receiving empathy.

Thursday, November 1, 7-8:30pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

We are the Columbus branch of the International Socialist Organization. We are opposed to all oppression and fight for a world centered around human need, not corporate greed. We are students, community members, workers, and activists. We are socialists.

Contact: iso.columbus@gmail.com

Thursday, November 1, 6-8pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

Join us for our monthly public meeting. SURJ is a multi-racial group organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for racial justice.

Email SURJColumbusOH@gmail.com with any questions.

Tuesday, October 30, 9am-4pm; Wednesday, October 31, 9am-4pm; OSU Biomedical Research Tower, 460 W. 12th Ave.

Refugee integration is a complex and gradual process with legal, economic, social and cultural dimensions. US Together was founded in Columbus, with the purpose to assists refugees and immigrants escaping persecution, violence, tyranny, and extreme poverty. We facilitate their resettlement, provide social/economic integration, and help them to build vibrant communities.

Tuesday, October 30, 9am-4pm; Wednesday, October 31, 9am-4pm; OSU Biomedical Research Tower, 460 W. 12th Ave.

Refugee integration is a complex and gradual process with legal, economic, social and cultural dimensions. US Together was founded in Columbus, with the purpose to assists refugees and immigrants escaping persecution, violence, tyranny, and extreme poverty. We facilitate their resettlement, provide social/economic integration, and help them to build vibrant communities.

Thursday, October 25, 7:30am-4:30pm, Hilton Columbus Downtown, 401 N. High St.

The Summit on Sustainability is MORPC’s signature environmental conference, bringing hundreds of community leaders together to explore and share sustainable ideas and solutions, and to celebrate individuals and collaborative sustainability efforts with the Green Region Awards.

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

Peggy Gish will share from her summer’s work in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Hear more about the current situation in Iraq, the work of local people who are working for justice and peace, and how civilians are affected by the Turkish and Iranian Military bombings of their villages.

Join in the question-and-answer conversation time.

Saturday, October 20, 12-2pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

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.