ACLU of Ohio Events Calendar

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February 2012

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			01 7 pm—Church, State & School: The Reality of Religion & Education, Independence	02 6 pm—Primary Purpose: Voter Education & The 2012 Elections, Cleveland 7 pm—Bullying Prevention Summit: Film Screening and Panel Discussion, Highland Hills	03 9 am—Bullying Prevention Summit: Educator Training, Highland Hills 7 pm—Stonewall Uprising, Wooster	04 ACLU of Ohio Board Meeting, Columbus
05	06	07 3:30 pm—GLBT Rights: The Present And Future, Youngstown	08	09	10	11
12	13	14 10:45 am—Understanding Immigration: Issues, Challenges and Concerns, Pepper Pike	15	16	17	18 10 am—"Now! I Have a Dream!” 2nd Chance Re-Entry Conference and Job Fair, Columbus 6 pm—The 2012 Ohio Citizen Action Howard M. Metzenbaum Award Presentation, Cleveland Heights
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Time:: 7:00 pm
Description:: Join author Katherine Stewart for a discussion of her book, titled The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children.

This event is sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Constitutional Society, Northeast Ohio Chapter.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: Independence Public Library
Address:: 6361 Selig Drive
City:: Independence
More Information:: This event is free and open to the public.
Phone:: Independence Library: (216) 447-0160

Time:: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Description:: Please join The Greater Cleveland Re-Entry Strategy along with ACLU of Ohio Policy Director Shakyra Diaz and other local activists as they kick off the 2012 Voter Education Series. Topics will include the upcoming primary election, voter disenfranchisement, the voting process, and how to become an informed voter.

Light refreshments will be served.

This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored in partnership with the City of Cleveland – Ward 7, the ACLU of Ohio, the Cuyahoga County Office of Reentry and Oriana House, Inc.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: Thurgood Marshall Recreation Center
Multi Purpose Room
Address:: 8555 Hough Avenue
City:: Cleveland
More Information:: For a Mapquest map and directions to this event, click here.

Time:: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Description:: Listen: Learn from a panel of educators and students about specific local and national resources and efforts dealing with bullying and violence prevention in schools.

Watch: Light in the Darkness: Not in Our Town which is a powerful one-hour documentary about a town taking action after anti-immigrant violence devastates the community.

Discuss: Issues in the film around civic participation and responsibility in addressing and “standing up” against violence in our own communities.

*Summit details and registration materials available at www.tri-c.edu/GIRC.

Offered by: Facing History and Ourselves and Global Issues Resource Center, Cuyahoga Community College.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus
ELA Theatre
Address:: 4250 Richmond Road
City:: Highland Hills
More Information:: For a Mapquest map and directions to this event, click here.
RSVP:: Open to the public. Reservations encouraged at www.tri-c.edu/GIRC.
*$7 admission fee.
Email:: Elizabeth.Wuerz@tri-c.edu
Phone:: (216) 987-2224

Time:

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

Description:

Participate in a one-day summit that builds upon the prior evening’s discussion around civic participation and responsibility. The summit will feature two learning tracks for participants.

Changing the culture in your school and university
- Presented by Actively Caring for People and Virginia Tech
Bullying Prevention and Intervention
- Presented by Cleveland State University and University of Akron

Three different options are available for participants during lunch. Subjects include school initiatives to combat bullying, a review of laws and policies on bullying and a roundtable discussion on relationship building.

** Full summit descriptions and registration materials available at www.tri-c.edu/GIRC.

Offered by: Global Issues Resources Center, Virginia Tech, Cleveland State University, University of Akron and Beech Brook.

Type:

Event of interest to ACLU supporters

Location:

Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus

Address:

4250 Richmond Road

City:

Highland Hills

More Information:

For a Mapquest map and directions to this event, click here.

RSVP:

**$15 registration fee; Pre-Registration required at www.tri-c.edu/GIRC.

Email:

Elizabeth.Wuerz@tri-c.edu

Phone:

(216) 987-2224

Time:: 7:00 pm
Description:: Join the Ohioans for Marriage Equality for a showing of the PBS film Stonewall Uprising, a story about the historical landmark Stonewall Inn located in Greenwich Village in New York City.

A police raid on the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969 set off three days of protests that launched the modern LGBT civil-rights movement in the U.S. The story of that night unfolds through the voices of the people who were there, especially gays and their supporters who angrily protested the frequent arrests and harassment of individuals simply for being gay.

There will be an opportunity to discuss the film after the showing. Refreshments will be provided.

Free and open to the public.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County
Address:: 3186 Burbank Road
City:: Wooster
More Information:: For a Mapquest map and directions to this event, click here.

Description:: ACLU of Ohio Board Meeting
Type:: ACLU event
City:: Columbus

Time:: 3:30 pm
Description:: Join ACLU of Ohio Associate Director Gary Daniels for a discussion of LGBT rights, topics and issues. Gary will touch on everything from marriage equality, employment discrimination and the recent anti-bullying initiatives.

This event is sponsored by YSUnity, the Youngstown area PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and the Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: Kilcawley Center
Youngstown State University
Address:: One University Plaza
City:: Youngstown
More Information:: For more information, contact Youngstown area PFLAG at http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/pflagy/.

Time:: 10:45 am - 11:30 am
Description:: Join ACLU Executive Director Christine Link for a discussion on immigration. Chris will speak on the challenges faced by immigrants in society, from finding employment to adapting to a different culture.

This program is hosted by Park Synagogue and is part of their annual educational speaker series.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: Park East Synagogue
Address:: 27500 Shaker Boulevard
City:: Pepper Pike
More Information:: For more information, visit http://www.parksyn.org/.
Phone:: (216) 371-2244

Time:: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Description:: In Ohio, it is estimated over 28,000 adult offenders and 1,700 juvenile offenders will be released from institutions annually. Thousands of ex-offenders and restored citizens are presently seeking employment, some lacking the skills needed to get into the workforce.

Join the ACLU of Ohio Associate Director Gary Daniels and other community leaders in Columbus as they discuss ways to eliminate barriers to employment for ex-offenders; assist in company recruitment and increase investment; award and recognize companies who participate and individuals who successfully reach their goals.

Sponsored by the NAACP Criminal Justice Committee.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: The Shoppes at Alum Creek
Address:: 1030 Alum Creek Drive
City:: Columbus
More Information:: For a Mapquest map and directions to this event, click here.

Time:: 6:00 pm
Description:: Join celebrated activists, attorneys and authors Staughton and Alice Lynd as they are presented with Ohio Citizen Action’s highest honor, the Howard M. Metzenbaum Award.

The Lynds have been married for 60 years, and have been prominent activists for nearly as long. They are also longtime friends and partners of the ACLU of Ohio.

As prominent prison reform and anti-death-penalty advocates, the Lynds were profoundly affected by the 1993 Lucasville prison uprising and its aftermath. Staughton Lynd served as ACLU cooperating council in the appeals of Siddique Abdullah Hasan, who was sentenced to death for allegedly killing a corrections officer during the uprising. Lynd argued that prosecutors presented false evidence in Hasan’s case. In 2007, the ACLU presented a statewide tour of Staughton Lynd’s play on the subject, entitled Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising.

The Lynds also served as ACLU cooperating attorneys in 2001, assisting in a successful class action lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of conditions in the then-new “super-max” prison facility in Youngstown.
Type:: Event of interest to ACLU supporters
Location:: College Club
Address:: 2348 Overlook Road
City:: Cleveland Heights
RSVP:: To RSVP or order tickets to the award presentation, visit the event page.

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