Meeting

Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee

Monday, November 20, 7-8pm, Central Ohio Transit Authority [COTA] headquarters [William J. Lhota Building], William G. Porter Boardroom, 33 N. High St.

The Accessible Transportation Advisory Committee [ATAC] meets quarterly and advises the Central Ohio Transit Authority [COTA] on matters pertaining to accessible transportation. Members include customers and people in the community who advocate for those with disabilities.

Contact: Tonia L. Pullins, Mobility Coordinator, 614-275-5833 or PullinsTL@COTA.com

Move to Amend monthly update meeting

Saturday, November 18, 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.

Continuing the Sustainability Conversation: “Shale gas development in Ohio and environmental justice”

Friday, November 17, 3-5pm, Thompson Library [Rm. 165], 1858 Neil Ave.

Areas in Ohio are experiencing a surge in the development of unconventional sources of fossil fuels, especially the use of hydraulic fracturing [HF] technologies to gain access to natural gas trapped in shale rock. HF combines horizontal drilling with an extremely high-pressure injection of “brine” deep underground that fractures shale rock and releases trapped bubbles of gas that then rise to the surface.

Franklin County Green Party monthly meeting

Tuesday, November 14, 6pm [business meeting]; 7pm [general meeting]; Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

Join the Franklin County Greens to help our local candidates at 6pm or to plan the Party’s annual events at 7pm. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month.

Free parking is available in the “R” spaces — “R” for “Rardin Clinic” — behind the building.

Contact: fcgreenparty@gmail.com

European Teenage Soldiers of World War I: From Transgression to Filiation

Tuesday, November 14, 4:30-6pm, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 1501 Neil Ave., Rm. 120

The study of “teen-combatants” is a growing subfield in the history of children at war, the history of war violence in general, and World War I in particular. Too young to be legally enlisted as conscripts in 1914-1918, teen combatants also felt that they were too old to remain on the home front. This lecture will explore the cross-European phenomenon of “teen-combatants” both as a rite of passage into male adulthood and as a transgression of wartime norms.

2017 Ohio Marxism Day School

Saturday, November 4, 9:30am-8pm, Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Ave.

During the past ten months of the Trump Administration, we’ve seen a barrage of right-wing atrocities and social suffering — from the far-right carnival of hate in Charlottesville, to the unnatural disasters of Harvey and Irma, to increasing police violence and terror, to the Trump administration ending DACA protections and increasing deportations.

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