Monday, March 18. 2024, 11:00 AM.  Vigil and Direct Action for Palestine.  Sister Annie Killian, Dominican Sisters of Peace, is working with Christians For a Free Palestine to organize a prayer vigil and demonstration.  Please carry a sign to show your solidarity, wear your keffiyeh (traditional Palestinian scarf) if you've got one, and dress for cold weather. This action is designed to be a peaceful, non-violent demonstration. You can get full details on the event here.  Please share with others who are seeking peace!  The planned prayer vigil and public witness will begin at 11 AM in McFerson Commons Park, 218 West St, Columbus, OH 43215.  Afterward, participants will march to Senator Sherrod Brown’s office to deliver a demand designed to encourage peace in this troubled area.  Make sure you sign our petition here

 

Monday, March 18, 2024, 4:30 PM.  Emergency Rally to Call for Ceasefire in Gaza.   Cardboard signs, hot tea and handwarmers, safe community, and calls to action will be provided.  This action will be led by progressive Palestinian and Jewish community members.  All are welcome. Location:  Outside Senator Brown’s office, 200 N. High St.  For more information you can email to hello@barriertoentrypac.com.

 

Monday, March 18, 2024, 4:00 PM.  Pack City Hall 4 Palestine!  Ceasefire Now!  Columbus City council refuses to vote on a ceasefire resolution.  Keep up the pressure.  Location:  90 W. Broad St., Columbus.  Bring your photo ID. 

 

Monday, March 18, 2024, 5:00 PM.  Grassroots Election Protection Coalition/ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY.  Weekly zoom meeting.  Register here

 

Monday, March 18, 2024, 8:00 PM.  Indivisible Central Ohio Zoom Meeting.  Join us to help strategize and plan events for Fair Districts/Citizens Not Politicians signature collection!  Register here

 

Monday, March 18, 19, 20, 21, 2023, 3:00 PM.  Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & fear into action to stop a genocide.  This week very Monday – Thursday.  Many of us are grieving, angry, scared and confused. Wherever you are, you are needed urgently now to act to stave off imminent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. As we hold the devastating pain of the last few days, in which thousands of Palestinians and Israelis have been killed, we are terrified. The U.S. government is rushing to send more weapons to the Israeli military as it wreaks devastation on the over 2 million Palestinians trapped in Gaza. We must act together to demand the U.S. immediately de-escalate to prevent imminent genocide after 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. Invite your friends to this daily power-half hour to take action in the political community.  Call on Congress to demand they stop fueling violence -Get messaging resources and pointers for having the hard conversations with people in your life -Intervene in the media narrative beating the drums of war against Palestinians Come to channel grief and fear into action to stop the bloodshed. All are welcome. All are needed. URGENT: We need all hands on deck now to act. Register here.  If the Zoom room is full, join us on YouTube

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 5:30 PM.  Ohio Council of Churches Gun Violence Prevention Meeting. Some exciting updates on all the great things happening at the Gun Violence Prevention Committee of the Ohio Council of Churches will be shared. Our resources are expanding with the committee members' input. These meetings are monthly every third Wednesday.  Register here

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2023, 6:30 PM.  Ohio Families Volunteer Orientation.  Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality & OFUPAC are launching our new volunteer program!! Join us to learn more about our organizations and areas where you can plug in and help impacted families!  Register here.

 

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 2:00 PM.  The Stones Cry Out Webinar.   The Stones Cry Out Delegation was made up of 23 church leaders and activists from 12 Christian denominations from all across the United States.  We had a series of meetings with 17 Jewish, Christian, and Muslim peacemakers, human rights activists, and practitioners of non-violence in Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Hebron, then returned to Washington DC for a series of meeting with congresspersons, demonstrations, and an interfaith prayer service. Registration here

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 8:00 PM.  From Palestine to the U.S.: Solidarity with women in the global class struggleIn honor of Women's History Month, join us for a webinar on solidarity with women in the global class struggle Hear speakers in the fight against occupation, racism, sexism and imperialist war. Sponsored by Workers World Party's Women and Gender Oppressed Caucus.  Register here

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 8:00 PM.  Night with the Experts.  How Cinema Can Counter Nuclear Revivalism.  Featuring their award-winning film SOS. The film portrays San Onofre as a microcosm of this national problem - the mismanagement of lethal radioactive waste. This is a syndrome shared by all 55 nuclear reactor sites across the United States.  Open to the public.  Register here

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 7:00 PM.  Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists Meeting.  Location: Enarson Classroom Building Room 206, OSU, 2009 Millikin Road or online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting for a screening of Sir! No Sir!, a documentary about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 6:30 – 8:00 PM.  Faith in Action: Christian Perspectives on Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine.  Join Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) for a special webinar for the St. Luke’s community highlighting the historic and contemporary Christian presence in the Holy Land.  The event will feature remarks from CMEP Executive Director, Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon and CMEP Programs and Outreach Manager, Destiny Magnett. Participants will hear an overview of the Israel/Palestine conflict and the Holy Land, discuss some challenges to and opportunities for coexistence, and share their expertise on Christian engagement in the contemporary contexts of the conflict. Special attention will be paid to October 7, and how Christian communities around the world have mobilized in support of peace in the face of such devastation in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank.  Participants will also have the opportunity to ask questions and engage the speakers in further conversation about how they can get involved in advocating for peace in the Holy Land.  More information and link for registration here

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.  Ohioans to Stop Executions Postcard Delivery Day.  We'll start the day getting to know one another better at the ACLU office in Columbus, get a small training on how to deliver the cards, enjoy a provided lunch, and then head to the statehouse together to deliver the postcards.  After we meet up at the ACLU Office in Columbus, you and other members of the No Death Penalty Ohio Coalition will deliver over 1,500 handwritten postcards to Ohio legislators at the Statehouse. Location:  ACLU Columbus Office, 1108 City Park Ave #203.  Register here

 

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 10:00 AM.  How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare.  Sanctions have enormous consequences, especially when imposed by a country with the economic weight of the United States, inducing clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state as well as upending the everyday lives of citizens. But do they influence the behavioral changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should? As the Iranian case makes clear, sanctions can have unintended, even contradictory consequences: After four decades, they have strengthened the Iranian state, impoverished its population, increased state repression, and escalated Tehran’s military posture toward the US and its allies in the region. With policymakers currently struggling to find ways to deter Iran and prevent a further expansion of the Gaza war by Tehran’s regional partners and proxies, the question of the utility of sanctions is seminal. To examine their impact and effectiveness through the prism of Iran, the second most sanctioned country in the world, Middle East Institute is delighted to welcome the authors of the important, newly released book How Sanctions Work. Please join us for this timely and far-reaching discussion.  Register here

 

Friday, March 22, 2024, 12:00 PM. AFSC Action Hour – Ceasefire Now.  Join AFSC staff every Friday to hear updates from Gaza. Then, take action with us as we contact our elected officials and call for an immediate cease-fire and humanitarian access to Gaza. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us. Register here.

 

Saturday, March 23, 2024, 12:00 – 1:00 PM.  Weekly Rally for Peace.  Location:  East North Broadway and High St., Columbus. 

 

Saturday, March 23, 2024, 12:00 – 4:30 PM.  Ohio State Green Party Community ForumMark your calendars!  This forum will kick off the 2024 Ohio Green Party Presidential primary voting period,

which will be online and continue until April 29th. This forum will be an excellent opportunity to learn about the GP Presidential candidates and their platforms.  Special guest speakers include Ohio Senate candidate -Tariq Shabazz, Green Youth caucus representative- Austin Bashore.  Ohio Nuclear Free Network Coordinator- Lee Blackburn, and former Ohio Green candidate for Governor- Atty. Constance Gadell-Newton.  Please remember to register to vote in this primary at the Ohio Green Party website: https://ohiogreens.org/.  In order to vote in the Ohio Green Party Presidential Primary, you cannot vote in the Democratic or Republican primaries as well. If you do vote in the Primary, make sure to pull an independent or "issues only" ballot.  Location:  Columbus Public Library, Downtown branch (auditorium), 96 S Grant Ave, Columbus Ohio. 

 

Sunday, March 24, 2024, 1:00 PM.  Health Crisis in Gaza.  Please join Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Committee for a webinar on the Health Crisis in Gaza, featuring Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. John Kahler. Drs. Ahmad and Kahler have recently returned from working in Gaza. Dr Ahmad volunteered at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. He’s an emergency room physician and assistant program director for the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Chicago. Dr. Kahler is a pediatrician and cofounder of the MedGlobal project in Gaza and has worked in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and in hospitals and primary health centers in Khan Yunis and Rafah.  He is working to set up a primary health center and small clinics in shelters focused on nutrition. Registration here

 

Sunday, March 24, 2024, 11:00 AM.  Professor Gerald Horne on the Genocide of Gaza, US Foreign Policies, and Domestic US Politics with Gerald Horne.   Professor Gerald Horne will be joining CCB to speak about the genocide of Gaza, United States foreign policies, as well as domestic United States politics.  Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Prof. Horne is the author of numerous books, including W. E. B. Du Bois: A BiographyPaul Robeson: The Artist as RevolutionaryThe Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of SlaveryWhite Supremacy and Capitalism in Seventeenth Century North America and the Caribbean, and many others.  Community Church of Boston.  Join us on YouTube or on Zoom

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 7:00 PM.  Stopping Border Militarization.  Join AFSC to hear from our New Hampshire and US Mexico Border Programs about AFSC's longstanding work to stop the militarization of borders. We will offer information about conditions under militarized approaches, the dramatic differences between the Mexico and Canadian borderlands, and our vision to ensure that migrants and immigrants are treated with dignity and respect. Register here

 

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 07:00 PM.  Health Equity Workshop: Barriers to Care for Persons Experiencing Poverty.  Join the Health Care For All Ohioan’s Ohio Health Equity Committee for a free workshop exploring socioeconomic disparities in healthcare access & how single-payer healthcare could change that.  Our guest speaker is Dr. Brad Cotton.  Dr. Cotton has worked 45 years as a street paramedic in Cleveland. Through a winding career, he has held many positions - first as an emergency department technician, then emergency RN and finally an emergency medicine physician. His education includes graduating from Kent State University with a BSN in 1982, receiving an MD degree from The Ohio State University in 1991, completing an emergency medicine residency at The Ohio State University in 1994. He has been a life activist for social and economic justice. He is an active member of Physicians for a National Health Program and former exec board member of the Ohio Single Payer Action Network. He is a Democratic candidate for the Ohio House of Representatives District 12. As Amber Prater, MD/MPH candidate says, “I advocate for single payer so that no one has to struggle with medical needs due to cost.”  Register now!  Facebook

 

Tuesday, March 26, 2024, Petition Booklet Circulation TrainingLearn the ins and outs of collecting signatures for the Citizens Not Politicians ballot initiative.  Register here

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 6:30 PM.   Justice And Equity: Examining Zionist Settler Colonialism.  Hear Palestinian and Jewish members of Jewish Voice For Peace (Central Ohio) discuss their personal experiences with Israeli occupying forces and settler colonialism.  Location:  Clare United Methodist Church, 293 E. Barthman Ave., Columbus 43207. 

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 3:00 – 7:00 PM.  Citizens Not Politicians Petition Distribution: Columbus. 

Stop by the ACLU of Ohio office in Columbus to pick up petitions for the Citizens Not Politicians redistricting amendment and/or sign the petition. Location:  1108 City Park Avenue, Suite 203, Columbus 43206.

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 6:00 PM.  Community Conversations with the Ohio Community Rights Network:  The Regulatory Fallacy. The Ohio Community Rights Network invites you for a discussion on The Regulatory Fallacy from around the state. This will be the second in a series of Community Conversations which OHCRN will facilitate monthly.  We will hear from some activists from Youngstown fighting a tire pyrolysis plant next to their revitalized downtown.  In order to prepare for a rich discussion, we are asking you to view this short 4-minute video on the Regulatory Fallacy and consider the following questions beforehand.  1. Have you or your community had any experience with a regulatory agency (Not limited to environmental agencies)? What was the process and the result?  2. What do permits actually do?  3. What are some problems with regulations and regulatory agencies? Are regulatory agencies really designed to protect us?  4. What are some reasons that make it difficult/impossible for people to create the sustainable communities they envision?  Register here

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 12:00 – 1:30 PM.  Live from Lyd: Virtual Delegation Webinar. Join Eyewitness Palestine for a webinar featuring a special virtual delegation that will take us around Lyd on a custom tour of the city. Lyd, like many Palestinian cities, is an ancient city that's been home to multiple civilizations over its 5,000-year history. It was the site of one of the most grueling massacres of the Nakba and remains haunted by the injustices brought on to it. Today, the community of Lyd--one of the few cities with an integrated Palestinian and Israeli Jewish population--is marred by addiction and gun violence. We'll hear from Lyd residents about the resilience and struggles they face in the community.  Participation in this event is free as Eyewitness Palestine is seeking to highlight voices in Palestine as broadly as possible. Donations are appreciated.  Registration here

 

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 8:00 PM.  Webinar: From Palestine to the Philippines: Stop US-backed bombings and build a Just PeaceWhile Palestine, the Philippines, and the US are geographically distant, the relationships between these governments is characterized by a common thread of military aid and weapons sales, human rights violations, negligence, widespread vilification of activists and civil society institutions, as well as the weaponization of civilian life as a tactic to maintain control.  More information and link for registration here

 

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 PM.  Josh Paul on the Policy and Ethics of US Arms Supply to Israel.  The State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs is responsible for U.S. defense diplomacy, security assistance, and arms transfers.  Josh Paul previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Congressional staffer for Representative Steve Israel (D-NY).  He resigned from the State Department in October 2023 in protest of the Biden administration's continued military support for Israel despite widely documented war crimes and crimes against humanity during its ongoing military campaign in Gaza, which the International Court of Justice determined was plausibly a genocide. In his resignation letter from the State Department on October 18, 2023, Paul wrote, "I cannot work in support of a set of major policy decisions, including rushing more arms to one side of the conflict, that I believe to be shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse."  Moderated by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Professor of History, Hayes Chair in National Security Studies, OSU Mershon Center for International Security Studies.  Hosted by:  Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine at OSU, Students for Justice in Palestine at OSU, Jews for Justice in Palestine at OSU, and Jewish Voice for Peace of Central Ohio.  Location:  OSU Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Road.  Free Parking.  No registration required.  Facebook Event

 

Thursday, March 28, 2024, 8:00 PM.  Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island Panel Discussion. 

On the Evening of the 45th Anniversary of the Worst Nuclear Accident in US History, join us at this historical webinar, March 28, 8 PM Eastern: “RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island, Gender, Environmental Justice, and the Future of Nuclear Power” Hosted by SIERRA CLUB and BEYOND NUCLEAR.  Register here.

 

Thursday, April 4, 2024, 6:00 PM.  Educating the Haitian Diaspora on the Threat of Nuclear Weapons.  After Russian President Putin’s statement raising the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Ukraine, many people around the world, including Haitians expressed deep concern. A group of local state officials in Massachusetts visited a Haitian church in Malden to learn if its basement could accommodate residents in the event of a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. In the case of a nuclear war, the few survivors will envy the dead. The only ways to prevent a nuclear war are people’s pressure on elected officials for arms control and disarmament and finally winning that abolition of these terrible weapons. Our webinar will focus on education about the nuclear dangers, information about disarmament efforts people and movements in the United States and other nations, and why it is important for Haitians to join efforts by others to prevent nuclear war and to win the abolition of nuclear weapons. The webinar will be in Haitian Creole and English. Sponsored by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security.  Register here

 

Saturday, April 6, 2024, 7:00 PM. Justice And Equity: Examining Zionist Settler Colonialism.  Hear Palestinian and Jewish members of Jewish Voice For Peace (Central Ohio) discuss their personal experiences with Israeli occupying forces and settler colonialism.    Westerwood Retirement Community, 5800 Forest Hills Blvd. Columbus 43231. 

 

Sunday, April 7, 2024, 4:00 PM.  Nathan Thrall: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.   Reconstructionists Expanding Our Conversation on Israel/Palestine are thrilled that the acclaimed author and journalist Nathan Thrall has agreed to speak to our group. Nathan Thrall recently published A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (Metropolitan, 2023), which was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, The Economist, The New Republic, and the Financial Times, and was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Read book details and an excerptRegister here

 

Tuesday, April 9. 2024, 3:30 – 5:30 PM.  International History Seminar: Le'Trice Donaldson on Charles Young, the Liberian Frontier Force and the fight against European Colonialism.  Le’Trice Donaldson is the Paul R. and Mary Haas Distinguished Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Dr. Donaldson specializes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American military history, the Gilded Age, WWI, and Gender History. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and the long civil rights movement. She is the author of Duty Beyond the Battlefield: African American Soldiers Fight for Racial Uplift, Citizenship, and Manhood, 1870-1920, and A Voyage Through the African American Experience. She is also an editor for a new book series, The Black Soldier in War and Society: New Narratives and Critical Perspectives, with the University of Virginia Press. Her current book projects are Remember Me: The Life of Eugene Bullard, the first African American fighter pilot, and Race Prophets: A History of the Army’s Black Chaplains. Professor Donaldson is the founder and president of the Society for Black Military Studies, currently serves on the executive board of the Association of Black Women Historians and is a W.E.B. Du Bois Research Fellow with the University of Mass-Amherst Du Bois Center, and the coordinator for the Black Studies Minor program. Dr. Donaldson earned her Ph.D. in African American History from the University of Memphis and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.  Location:  OSU Campus, Derby Hall 1039, 154 N Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210.  More information and link to registration here.  Campus Map.   

 

Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 6:00 PM.  Fair Districts All Volunteer HuddleJoin Fair Districts leaders and volunteers for a monthly meeting. Every second Wednesday of the month at 6pm!  This month we will be giving an update on all the activities that Fair Districts volunteers, leaders and organizers have been up to in the past few months. We will be joined by some local volunteer leaders from around the state to share the impressive, inspiring, and creative ideas that they have put into action to gather signatures for the Citizens Not Politicians amendment and spread the word about the importance of ending gerrymandering in Ohio.  Register here

 

Saturday, April 13, 2024, 5:30 – 9:00 PM.  Columbus Free Press Second Saturday Salon.  The Free Press is celebrating the 9th Earth Day Birthday of WGRN 91.9FM community radio!  (formerly WGRN94.1FM).  We will welcome folksinger Tom Neilson as our featured guest, singing songs of satire and social commentary with his wife, Lynn Waldron.  We will honor our Producer of the Year: Felice Thomas.  Producer of the program "The Cell" that covers health issues sponsored by the Faith Thomas Foundation, an organization founded after the death of Felice's daughter of sickle cell anemia and Volunteer of the Year: Joe Keehner, longtime environmental activist, and Board member of the Central Ohio Green Education Fund, that manages WGRN. There will be light refreshments. This event is free.  Location:  First Unitarian Universalist of Columbus, 93 W Weisheimer Rd, Columbus 43214.  Parking is available at the west side of the building.  Facebook Event

 

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM.  Faith Leader's Luncheon: Home in Ohio.  The Ohio Council of Churches, Dominican Sisters of Peace, and the Hunger Network are excited to host our 2nd Annual Faith Leaders Legislative Luncheon, where people of faith, legislative leaders, and policy experts will come together to discuss the affordable housing crisis in Ohio. As people of faith and good conscience, we believe every Ohioan deserves a place to call home. Presenters will share policy solutions to help us get there and attendees will have an opportunity to talk with legislative leaders and staff about this important issue.  Location:  1 Capitol Sq, Columbus, OH 43215, USA.  General admission $35.00.  Register here

 

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 9:00 Am – 4:30 PM.  Healthcare for All Ohioans/SPAN Ohio State Conference.

Our program is very exciting. We will have an update on state legislation from Representatives Mike Skindell and Michele Grim and Senator Bill DeMora.  There will be a presentation on state enabling legislation that has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Ro Khanna.  David Pepper, past chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, and Catherine Turcer, Director of Common Cause Ohio, will present a discussion on the importance of the campaign for fair districts here in Ohio.  Lastly, we hope to have Congresswoman Debbie Dingell give an update on the Medicare for All Act of 2023 introduced into Congress by her and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal.  Location:  Quest Conference Center, 9200 Worthington Road, Ste 400, Westerville, OH. $40.00/person, lunch included.  Register here.  Members receive a discount on registration. Not a member? Join here today!  Scholarships are available.  Contact Barb Walden at user298053@aol.com