KYR 4TH Amendment Workplace Canvassing Training (hybrid event)
6:30-8pm, in-person location provided just before the event.

This is a basic training on your 4th amendment rights as well as canvassing/ outreach tactics for businesses. Host contact: molly@centralohioworkercenter.org .

STAC ICE Watch & Community Defense Training (virtual)
7-8:30pm.

Join this 90-minute training from States at the Core on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. ICE Watch and other rapid response tactics are key strategies being used by people across the country to protect their communities against aggressive activity from federal law enforcement agencies like ICE and Border Patrol. Whether or not you are part of an established community response network, this training will share important skills for building neighborhood resilience, documenting ICE activity, and supporting neighbors. In addition to covering the basics of ICE Watch, we will discuss new analysis on ICE operations, rapid response tactics, and safety guidance. Click HERE to register. 

What You Need to Know About Ice (virtual)
4pm.

Join Ohio Progressive Action Leaders (OPAL) for an important, informative, and empowering conversation with Steve Volk, Professor of History Emeritus at Oberlin College in Ohio, who has been active in immigration issues for 20 years. Sign up HERE.

Sponsored by 4A Workplaces

4th Amendment Know Your Rights Canvassing Training (virtual)
2/18/26
7-8:30pm

Showing Up For Racial Justice and Central Ohio Work Center are collaborating on training canvassers to approach businesses (mostly immigrant-owned businesses) to give them material and inform them about their 4th Amendment rights and how to protect their employees from ICE. Location and zoom link available upon registration. Click HERE for the registration link.

ICO Online Onboarding

6-7pm, virtual.

This is an opportunity to hear about the kinds of things we do, ask questions, and learn about getting involved. Register HERE. 

STAC ICE Watch & Community Defense Training (virtual),
7-8:30pm

Join this training on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Click HERE to register.

2/12/2026

Meet & Greet with States at the Core/ICE Watch trainers
10am-11am
Parsons Library.

Join Common Cause and the Chicago-based Community Defense trainers from States at the Core for coffee, snacks, and conversation. Register HERE.

STAC ICE Watch & Community Defense Training (virtual),
7-8:30pm

Join this training on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Click HERE to register.

 Eyes on ICE: Document and Record (virtual)
8-9pm

Join the No Kings coalition for this training that will cover the latest updates on ICE and CBP's out-of-control and dangerous operations. They will also talk through rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters, and how you can continue to take action. Register HERE.

Sponsored by Defend and Recruit National

4th Amendment Workplace: Train the Trainers (virtual)
8-9:30 pm

Join a virtual Fourth Amendment Workplace (a business that proactively trains staff to uphold employees' constitutional rights against unreasonable government search and seizures) train the trainer event, and strategize with others on how to grow Fourth Amendment Workplaces in your community. Register HERE.

STAC ICE Watch & Community Defense Training (virtual),
7-8:30pm.

Join this training on effectively protecting your neighborhoods from federal enforcement incursions. Click HERE to register.

ICE, a Teach-In: Knowing Your Rights (virtual)
5-6pm

Join the Center for Ethnic Studies at OSU for a teach-in webinar about ICE to learn about our rights and actions we can take as a community. El evento se traducirá al español. Spanish translation services will be provided. This event is free, open to the public and welcoming to everyone. Register HERE. 

Learn to capture and edit video clips at protests and more from John and Mishka Griffin. Two sessions offered. Choose one when you register HERE. 

Learn to capture and edit video clips at protests and more from John and Mishka Griffin. Two sessions offered. Choose one when you register HERE. 

Learn the ins and outs of how to register voters in Ohio, plus, learn all about petition circulation so you can help the Columbus Safety Collective team get an important issue on the ballot in November for the City of Columbus. This would establish a non-police emergency response team. The training will be carried out by Zoom, then we will equip you with the materials you need in person. Zoom information will be sent to you after you register.

Register Here

Tired of your representatives backing corporate lobbies over your community? Ever felt like you’ve done a bunch of marching, but it didn’t quite yield the results you were hoping for? This workshop on strategic organizing will give you some of the fundamental tools you need to build community power for the mid- and long-term.

INSTRUCTOR: Walker Foley is a seasoned organizer who spent over a decade working on grassroots and issue-based campaigns and electoral campaigns.

Budget-friendly workshop fee $5-20; no one turned away for lack of funds.

More information and registration at Organizing For Local Action | CGS

So many people have joined Indivisible Central Ohio (ICO) since November 2024, it's been hard to connect with everyone and give them the info they need to successfully engage and get active with the group. Now we’re providing you with the chance to connect and get to work fighting the fascist takeover of our government and our country.

Please join us for this online onboarding and training session! Specifically, we will discuss: - ICO’s goals - Our tactics and strategies - Our areas of focus - How to connect with ICO and get involved - Where your help is needed right now

We’ll also share information about upcoming in person social events, educational meetings and more.

CLICK HERE to register.

Learn how to communicate effectively with your Republican voting friends and family!

This will be an in person hands-on workshop with veteran trainer Lee Evans.

Register HERE!

Join the ACLU for a Know Your Rights training ahead of May Day to prepare yourself, your friends, and your community.

Whether you're planning to protest, support from the sidelines, or just want to stay informed—this training is for you.

Register HERE. 

Come join us at The Siposium where we laugh, play, and learn together through experts. Grab a drink, join our topical trivia round, and then sit back to hear our expert share their knowledge in our intimate gathering. Audience interaction and questions are encouraged as we all grow in our understandings together.

This month we learn the roots of the right to privacy in the United States, how the roots have eroded, what remains of your rights, and what you can do about it. Acquire confidence and knowledge about your rights in order to help yourself and those close to you navigate a hazardous privacy landscape. Become an involved and informed conversation leader on the importance of civil rights. Decode strategies used to convince people to give up their rights and peek behind the curtain of the justice system to understand the competing interests that exert an eternal tug-of-war on the civil liberties that keep all of us safe.

Speaker Bio: Ben Tracy is a former civil rights attorney, a former senior judicial attorney to the Ohio Supreme Court, and is currently an appellate prosecutor and local politician. He is well into his second decade litigating civil rights and constitutional law topics and holds degrees from Exeter, Brown University, and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Buy tickets HERE!

Interested in hosting an organizing training with your friends and family on April 13? We'll show you how! Simply fill out this form: https://forms.gle/b1PTK6SKhz8dVnzs6. Once submitted, a member of our team will reach out with all the tools and resources you need to host a successful training.

Registration Link: https://www.mobilize.us/pramilaforcongress/event/771833/

This session will cover our Resistance Lab 101 curriculum. If you missed the first session, this is for you!

The Resistance Lab is a series of trainings that are developed specifically for this moment. In this first lab, we look at how non-violent movements around the world have responded to leaders who seize power in authoritarian ways and the most effective tools and tactics to utilize in these moments. We offer frameworks to understand this moment at home, and incorporate interactive conversation with others to help create community and build our resistance movement.

The Resistance Lab was developed with experts who have researched and studied democratic backsliding around the world as well as in the United States and the non-violent movements that have emerged to challenge those authoritarian leaders. We also draw from many toolkits for effective tactics and frameworks as well as from Pramila’s own background leading successful organizing movements for economic and social justice for two decades.

Our goals are to help people understand how democracies fall and the most effective resistance movements that have challenged authoritarians and dictators; to turn anger, fear and frustration into action in the short-term while also preparing for a coordinated resistance movement for the longer term; and to build community across the country that can help grow our movement. At the end of the day, we want to get people strike-ready and street-ready and make sure we protect our people, our freedoms and our democracy.

With Trump and his MAGA billionaires doubling down on their attacks on the economic livelihoods of people to thrive and on our democracy, we can’t afford to sit this moment out. This is about building real power together. And it starts with you.

RSVP today to secure your spot! You’ll receive the virtual event link closer to the date.

Sign up for our Resistance Lab Rapid Response email list to stay informed with the latest updates, click here to join: www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab

Voter Registration Training with Indivisible Central Ohio, 7-8pm via Zoom.

Learn the ins and outs of registering voters in Ohio, including recent changes to the law.

Register HERE. 

Location: Zoom

Communicating across the political divide is more important, yet more difficult, than ever.

This training will teach you how to engage most effectively with your Red neighbors, family, co-workers and friends.

The training will be conducted by Lee Evans, a seasoned facilitator and trainer with over 30 years of experience designing and leading workshops. She is enthusiastic about helping bridge political divides and currently is working with Braver Angels Central Ohio, an organization dedicated to forging the political communication gap. Lee knows how to turn tough topics into interactive, thought-provoking experiences that leave participants with practical tools which they can immediately use.

Register HERE!

Location: Zoom

Solidarity 2025 is a training series equipping activist educators, school board members, students, parents, and allies to unite against attacks on public education outlined in Project 2025. This training series is part of the Public School Strong campaign, and is designed to empower participants to advocate for students, schools, and communities at local school boards and beyond.

Participants will gain critical insights into federal policy proposals, actionable strategies for mobilizing around shared values, and tools like model policies, school board resolutions, and organizing lessons. Together, we’ll build a powerful movement to defend public education from privatization and defunding efforts, while protecting students’ rights and promoting equity in our public schools.

Public School Strong is a campaign of the HEAL Together initiative anchored by Race Forward with dozens of national and state partners.

Register HERE!

CRIS Office, 4645 Executive Dr., Columbus, OH and virtually via Zoom.

The Good Neighbor training covers the basics on the current & historical context of refugees in the US, and why it is important to support our new refugee neighbors. It also details some of the local and national challenges that refugees currently face while working towards self-sufficiency and integration.

The mission of the Good Neighbor Training is to increase awareness about the contributions of refugees in Central Ohio and to provide a guide to building relationships with and supporting our new American neighbors in our everyday lives. It is also the first step to becoming a volunteer with CRIS.

This session is specifically for Indivisible members! Register HERE.

via Zoom

From Abortion Forward:

Our monthly Ramp Up for Repro trainings will further acquaint you with political advocacy tactics, repro lingo, and help you find the best way to get involved. Every month, we'll dive into movement ecology, abortion messaging, the current landscape of abortion access, and provide next steps for you to take action!

The majority of the content of this training does not change between sessions, with the exception of current events and policy updates. In an effort to create a safe and secure space for all participants to engage, these trainings are not recorded.

This session is targeted towards central and southern Ohio, but you do not have to be located in this area to attend.

Register HERE.

Via Zoom

In this approximately two-hour presentation, Jessica Ramos from Legal Aid Society of Southwestern Ohio will discuss the legal rights that immigrants have and how they can best be used in the face of ICE enforcement.

It also talks about what rights immigrant advocates and allies have in doing their work in the immigrant community. 

JOIN the call HERE.

Voter Registration Training with Indivisible Central Ohio, 7-8pm via Zoom.

Learn the ins and outs of registering voters in Ohio, including recent changes to the law.

Register HERE.