Meeting

Saturday, May 5, 2:30-4:30pm, Grandview Heights Public Library, 1685 W. First Ave.

A Cincinnati woman whose granddaughter was murdered during the Parkland School shooting on February 14 will speak at a gun violence symposium on Saturday, May 5, 2:30-4:30pm, at the Grandview Heights Public Library, 1685 W. First Ave. Ethel Guttenberg, whose granddaughter Jaime had died in the shooting, which has spurred a national youth movement against gun violence in the United States, will be one of the speakers at this symposium.

Thursday, May 3, 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, May 3, 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.

Wednesday, May 2, 7-8:30pm, Columbus Metropolitan Library [Rm. 1-A], 96 S. Grant Ave.

Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.

Contact: centralohio@jvp.org

Saturday, April 28, 9:30am-4pm, Quest Business and Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place [south of Polaris Pkwy.; east of I-71]

SPAN Ohio is a coalition of individuals and organizations working together to achieve fundamental reform of the health insurance system.

Keynote speaker: Dennis Kucinich

When Dennis Kucinich had been in Congress, he had always been a co-sponsor of H.R. 676, the national single-payer bill that often had been referred to as the Conyers-Kucinich bill.

Featured speaker: Yvonka Hall

Saturday, April 21, 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.

Tuesday, April 17, 3-4pm, Derby Hall [Rm. 1080], 154 N. Oval Mall

This presentation will be by OSU Center for Urban and Regional Analysis [CURA] guest speaker William Hunt, William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University.

Sunday, April 15, 6:30-8:30pm, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer Rd.

Saturday, April 14, 11:30am-2pm, Shepard Branch Library, 850 N. Nelson Rd.

This month’s program: “Selfish Jerks? How healthy self-interest is good for you and those around you”

Many of us, growing up, have been taught that selfishness is a bad thing, that selfish people will be bad for you, and that being selfless is the way to be a good person.

Saturday, April 14, 9am-4:30pm, North Congregational United Church of Christ [UCC], 2040 W. Henderson Rd.

What would you do to survive if you were elderly, disabled, and afraid of discrimination or abuse?

Gen Silent is the LGBT documentary from award-winning director and filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their lives to survive. Their surprising decisions are captured through intimate access to their day-to-day lives over the course of a year in Boston, Massachusetts.