How to Research for Community Organizing and Campaigns
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
This month's Ohio Voice Lunch & Learn features Alwiyah Sharrif discussing how to power map and understand the cycle of campaigns to create change.  Do you want to launch a campaign? This lunch & learn, will cover power mapping and the campaign cycle. Power mapping allows us to understand who has power and influence to actualize your demands. Who are your targets in your campaign and why? Do they have the power to implement change? Come ready with your campaign details so you can work through the exercises with relevant examples. Join Ohio Voice for our February lunch & learn to learn how to power map, implement strategy, and build campaigns! Register here. 

The Next COVID Relief Bill: Top Biden official explains why it's important and what you can do
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 2:00 PM
Jared Bernstein, top Biden economist serving on the White House Council of Economic Advisers, will join CHN to explain how the COVID relief legislation now moving through Congress is the right size, with the right policies, to get us on the road to economic and pandemic recovery. The new Biden Administration has proposed a $1.9 trillion plan to get the country back on track for health and economic pandemic recovery. Called the American Rescue Plan, this robust plan supports COVID vaccines and health care; cuts child poverty in half; helps the unemployed; provides more nutrition aid, housing assistance, one-time payments, child care, and paid leave; supports education and other state and local services; and much, much more.  Moderator Ellen Teller of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) will field questions for Jared. We’ll then hear more real-world stories about how the pandemic is hitting our communities, and how this COVID relief package will help. And we’ll finish with CHN’s Executive Director Debbie Weinstein updating you on where things stand in Congress, and what you can do to ensure that help goes where it’s most needed. More information and registration here. 

People for a Progressive Ohio Networking Series:  Session 1
Thursday, February 18, 2021, 5:30 pm
In conjunction with America Votes, we are presenting this great event! Join us for a gathering of progressive organizers, activists, staff, and movement leaders from across Ohio! This Series is being organized to help build connection and collaboration across our broad and diverse space. We're excited to get to know you and learn alongside you in the coming months. The main purpose of this series is to provide a structure for those interested in progressive organizing and activism to make connections and foster conversations. The first session will primarily be a space for introductions and to build community.  Please visit https://www.mobilize.us/ohioworkingfamilies.../event/374150/ to RSVP! Facebook. 

New State Bills Threaten Our Right to Dissent webinar
Thursday, February 18, 6-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration
Facebook Event
The failed coup of January 6 is being used to justify more than 60 anti-protest bills that are rapidly advancing through state legislatures.
Join CLDC staff, Meera Shah, Senior Staff Attorney at Palestine Legal, and Quentin Anthony Anderson, Communications Director at Defending Rights and Dissent, to learn more about these authoritarian efforts to chill dissent and what can be done to resist them.
RSVP for this event by using this link.
Hosted by Civil Liberties Defense Center [CLDC].