Meeting

Thursday, January 18, 6:30-8:30pm, Panera Bread, 4519 N. High St.

We will be discussing Marxist concepts of exploitation and surplus value, planning for the 2018 elections, and other local struggles for justice.

The Columbus Club represents the Communist Party USA (established 1919) in Central Ohio.

Contact: Charlie Atkins <pkdlenin@yahoo.com>

Tuesday, January 16, 3:30-5pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120

What can we learn from past failures and from current difficulties to produce innovative ideas that are needed to reach a solution for the 100 years of conflict? What are the psychological barriers and the substantial differences one needs to overcome in order to reach an historical compromise? What is the role of the United States in the current political arena? What are the exact steps to be taken in order to reach the necessary breakthrough? And what is the only solution?

Monday, January 8, 7pm, Old Worthington Library, 820 High St., Worthington, OH

J. Mac Crawford will discuss the background of the topic of climate change and then will cover how local water resources may be impacted as climate change deepens.

Thursday, January 4, 7-9pm. Whetstone Branch Library, 3909 N. High St.

Join us in the Whetstone Branch Library meeting room for updates on what we’ve been working on [since we had formed last February], news about upcoming actions and events [including trainings, a “bioblitz,” and a solar fair], and information about volunteer opportunities. Come and share your ideas with us!

Snacks will be provided!

Hosted by Keep Wayne Wild.

Thursday, February 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, February 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, January 30, 6:30-8:30pm, Old Worthington Library, 820 High St., Worthington, OH

Sara Ward, director of Ohio Interfaith Power and Light [IPL], will explain how their volunteers and staff help Ohio faith communities conserve energy, become more energy efficient, and promote renewable energy in response to climate change.

Tuesday, January 23, 2-7pm, Vineyard Columbus, 6000 Cooper Rd., Westerville, OH

During the past year, we have faced a deluge of hateful political rhetoric that stigmatizes people based on their creed, color, or nation of origin. It’s not only disrespectful, it’s dangerous — and we don’t want it in Ohio.

Faith leaders in the Columbus area and across the country can prevent dangerous speech from provoking even more violence. It takes training, skill and, most of all, relationships across religions.

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

Today’s program: Julie Hart, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace and Justice Studies at Ohio Dominican University, will speak about her recent book, Pathways to Pacifism and Antiwar Activism among U.S. Veterans: The Role of Moral Identity in Personal Transformation.

Contact: cohioansforpeace@gmail.com

Saturday, January 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.