Meeting

Monday, July 10, 6:30-8pm, Linden Branch Library, 2223 Cleveland Ave.

Keep Wayne Wild (KWW) is an environmental conservation organization defending Ohio’s Appalachian communities by celebrating and protecting Ohio’s only National Forest.

Increased fracking and fossil fuel infrastructure are threatening the health of both the forest and the people who rely on it for water, agriculture, and recreation. KWW engages Ohio’s communities in this urgent issue by raising awareness and providing opportunities for people to enjoy the Wayne.

Wednesday, July 26, 11am-1:30pm, Ohio Education Association [OEA], Media Room [second floor], 225 E. Broad St.

You are invited to attend a planning session for the Ohio Fair Courts Working Group. We will continue to identify strategies and activities for our public education campaign and will discuss model policy reforms that will make our courts more fair and impartial. We will also develop plans for our fall event that will bring more community partners and voices into our working group. We hope that you will be able to join us and that you will bring a friend!

Thursday, August 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, August 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.

Monday, July 17, 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.

Note: this meeting is being held on a different date from the traditional “first-Monday-after-the-first-Wednesday” date.

Contact: Greg Pace, gpace67@gmail.com or 614-565-6067

Saturday, July 15, 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.

Thursday, July 13, 7-9pm, Northwood-High Building, 2231 N. High St., Rm. 100

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

Contact: Simone Morgen, smorgen@juno.com

Tuesday, July 11, 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

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Today’s program: screening of film “The Lottery of Birth” (77 minutes)

Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? Is freedom something that we are born with or something we must work to attain? Offering a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, “The Lottery of Birth” will make you think again about what it means to be free.

Monday, July 10, 7pm, Whetstone Branch Library, 3909 N. High St.

This documentary is the second American health care film produced by Richard Masters, CEO of MCS Industries; this 50-minute film tells why Americans spend so much on drugs and what we can and should do about it.

Free; all are welcome; discussion and a meeting will follow the screening of the film.

Contact: Bob Krasen, bkrasen@twc.com or 614-261-0754

Sponsored by SPAN [Single Payer Action Network] Ohio, Central Ohio Region.