Today, the Columbus Liberation Center, staffed by organizers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation, opens their doors to the public. The Grand Opening celebration is set for 6PM, December 13th at 1004 Parsons Ave. The Columbus Liberation Center is a space for community organizing, political education, and culture. Included in the space is a bookstore, library, working spaces, kids play corner, and a main hall for meetings.

To explain more about the 4,000 sq/ft space, organizer shenby G says: 

“We’re here on the South Side because we know it’s an area treated with disdain by the city and actively over-policed. Black Americans face the constant threat of violence by Columbus Police, and then you have rising rents and a lack of affordability, with apartments increasing their prices by $100, $150 while there’s fears about grocery stores and convenience stores closing left and right. All the while unaffordable and bougie businesses encroach deeper and deeper down the avenue.

What we’re seeing on the national level is that the Trump administration is waging an all-out war on people’s democratic rights, trying to take us back to the era of robber barons, where working people had no rights and where Black Americans lived under Jim Crow fascism and brutal, brutal apartheid. We’re seeing the inadequacy of the Democratic Party to put up any fight back on the pain inflicted on our class. In Columbus, people are searching for an alternative. People can’t afford to live here, as tech centers crop up all around our city which is going to impact our water resources, our energy bills. All of these things are coming, and we need a space to organize against that. We need to build our unions. We need to build our social movements. The Columbus Liberation Center is the socialist space for workers to do that, together.”

Find our social here and a folder of pictures here