Meeting

A Working Summit on Climate Change, sponsored by The Central Ohio Community Project

Saturday, January 20, 10am-5:30pm, Stratford Ecological Center, 3083 Liberty Rd., Delaware, OH

The Central Ohio Community Project is a group of central Ohioans uniting their forces to address the threats of climate change. By talking together, comparing what we are already doing, and looking for steps where we can take things further, we can increase our momentum in addressing this urgent global problem with effective local action. We are committed to the hope that changes are indeed possible and can even bring us and our neighbors together in ways that we may not have imagined.

Ohio Secular Summit 6.0

Tuesday, January 16, 8am-5pm, Ohio Statehouse

Join us for the sixth annual Secular Summit!

Unhappy with the number of laws restricting women’s rights? Feel like too many laws are infused with religion? Want to feel like more of the civic process? Feel it is time your Ohio General Assembly members understand where we are coming from as Secularists?

Join us for a day of training, a Statehouse tour, and speakers!

Meet with your Ohio Representatives, during prescheduled appointments, to lobby for laws based on science and reason and not on religion.

Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL] Central Ohio Advocacy Team meeting

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER

Monday, January 15, 7pm, The Center on High, 3208 N. High St.

The monthly meeting of the central Ohio chapter of Friends Committee on National Legislation [FCNL], a national lobbying group of Quakers and friends who are working for public policy change on Capitol Hill.

The current focus of the Central Ohio Advocacy team is to reduce the most urgent risk of nuclear war in a generation — with North Korea.

Humanist Community of Central Ohio [HCCO] monthly meeting

THIS MEETING HAS BEEN RE-SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 10 BECAUSE OF THE WEATHER

Saturday, January 13, 11:30am-2pm, South High Branch Library, 3540 S. High St.

This month’s program: Jim Helton, of American Atheists, will speak on “The Future of Atheist Activism.”

We will discuss what are “atheist” issues. You may be surprised. Which issues should we take on as individuals and as organizations? What can we do about them?

Palestine Study Group: Screening of “Open Bethlehem: A Big Film about A Small Town”

Friday, December 29, 7pm, Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church, 2350 Indianola Ave.

Bethlehem is an ancient town with a fascinating and diverse history and culture. Bethlehem is a vibrant city, comprising Christian and Muslim communities that have contributed to its spiritual life for centuries. The population has lived under Israeli occupation since 1967 and the Christian population is declining due to economic and political strife and the Israeli invasions of 2001 and 2002.

International Socialist Organization [ISO] Columbus weekly meeting

Thursday, January 4, 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

Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] Columbus Public Monthly Meeting

Thursday, January 4, 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.

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