Meeting

Saturday, April 29, 9am-4pm, Quest Conference Center, 8405 Pulsar Place [south of Polaris Pkwy.; east of I-71]

The purpose of this conference is to bring together advocates of health care for all — businesses, community groups, faith groups, health care providers, unions, women’s organizations, and others — to devise ways to build support for publicly funded, not-for-profit universal health care that guarantees comprehensive coverage for all Ohioans.

Saturday, April 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.

Saturday, April 15, 10am-5pm [registration begins at 9am], OSCEA [Ohio Civil Service Employees Association], 390 Worthington Rd., Westerville, Ohio

RootsCamp Ohio is your chance to learn from your peers across Ohio who are fighting for progressive values while resisting Trump’s hate-filled agenda.

Whether you are a long-term advocate who’s been fighting for clean air, reproductive rights or limiting money in politics or you are newly engaged in local resistance efforts, RootsCamp has something to offer for everyone who is committed to just and fair policies.

Thursday, April 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

Thursday, April 13, 7-9pm, Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport Dr. [near Ohio Dominican University]

Lubna Shomali will discuss the struggle for human rights from the U.S. to Palestine. As a Palestinian human rights defender/activist, Mrs. Shomali will present BADIL’s comprehensive rights-based approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict with a focus on forced population transfer, refugees, and internally displaced persons, according to international humanitarian and human rights law.

Tuesday, April 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

Monday, April 10, 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.

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

Sunday, April 9, 3-5pm, Driving Park Branch Library, 1422 E. Livingston Ave.

The aim of this monthly reading group is to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing holistic political education. We seek to create community-based interventions to IPV that do not rely on the police or governmental institutions.

We are currently reading “Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation and Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence.”

Saturday, April 8, 11:30am-2pm, 1550 Old Henderson Rd., Ste. W200 [Secular Student Alliance office]

This month’s program: “Can Sex Work Be Reasonable and Compassionate?”

The challenges that society faces when dealing with the subject of sex work are numerous and ongoing, especially in today’s modern world, where sexual liberation and sex positivity are taking ever-growing roles as issues of concern.

Thursday, April 6, 7:30-9pm, Compassionate Communication Center of Ohio [inside of Maynard Ave. United Methodist Church], 2350 Indianola Ave.

Join us for an engaging and fun introduction to Compassionate-Nonviolent Communication (NVC), the Language of the Heart, led by Susanna Warren and Pat De Silva or other Compassionate Communication practitioners.