GrassRoot Ohio: Recent Episodes
Carolyn Harding
GrassRoot Ohio radio/podcast- Fridays 5:00pm EST, streams @WGRN.org, 94.1FM Columbus. Conversations with every-day people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.
Hi, I’m Carolyn Harding, producer/host of GrassRoot Ohio, conversations with everyday people, working on important issues, here in columbus and all around Ohio.For the past five years I’ve been honored to interview guests working for a better world in their communities, state, country, and, quite frankly, the world, in all areas of justice - environmental, social, racial and economic. My first guests were young activists working to pass the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, one of the first Rights of Nature laws ever to pass in the US, giving the citizens of Toledo legal rights to protect the health of their main drinking water source.I got to interview Ohio activists working on: Women’s Reproductive Rights; Black lives matter; folks making home-made protective masks for health care workers at the top of the pandemic; common sense gun reform; running for public office, even when the party pre-selects/endorses and funds “winners” before the primaries; protecting LGBTQIA+ rights at the State house; ranked choice voting; curbside composting; safe streets; organic farming; protecting the Columbus Metro water supply from oil & gas production and radioactive waste, etc.I interviewed city-wide and state-wide ballot initiative organizers with campaigns to: give Columbus citizens the legal right to protect their water from oil and gas production; End Qualified Immunity; Ensure $15 an hour to Ohio workers; End Gerrymandering; and Inshrine Women’s reproductive rights into the Ohio Constitution.I interviewed writers, doctors, musicians, housewives, attorney’s, nurses, film makers, teachers, bee keepers, retired fire fighters … People who felt the call to protect their communities, nature, rights - to stand up and fight back, in oh so many ways.Throughout these five years we Won and we Lost. And we got back up, adjusted, shifted and are working to create a better world for everyone and all life on this planet.I want to thank each GrassRoot Ohio guest, who shared your cause, your work and your unique stories with us. Thank You. You challenge and inspire us to do better.I want to thank the production teams at wgrn.org and wcrsfm.org for helping me get started and supporting me all along. I want to thank you, my listeners on air, podcasts and viewers on YouTube. I hope you gained as much insight, courage and gratitude as I have.GrassRoot Ohio is ending in its current form. I’m taking a hiatus. I’m curious to know what the next chapter of my life and work will be. So, It’s a wrap my friends-In solidarity for Equality, Sustainability & Justice for All.Thanks for Joining Me.GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Randy Cunningham, Ohio activist and author of the new book, Where We Live, Environmental Activists’ Fight to Save Their Communities.Randy Cunningham is a Cleveland writer/activist. He has been active in a wide variety of issues for the past fifty years. His first book, Democratizing Cleveland: The rise and fall of community organizing in Cleveland, Ohio 1975-1985 (Belt publishing 2018) is a must read for a new generation of Cleveland activists. His second book, Where We Live: Environmental Activists’ Fight to Save Their Communities (Pilgrim Press, 2024) is based on interviews he conducted with environmental activists in Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Since completing Where We Live, he has launched an online weekly newsletter called Randy’s Rants that has become popular in Cleveland.To subscribe email Randy at: randino49@gmail.com.GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Mia Lewis from Common Cause Ohio. She helped organize the volunteer signature gathering effort for the Citizens Not Politicians amendment, with the goal of finally ending gerrymandering. Mia Lewis is Associate Director of Common Cause Ohio. She joined Common Cause during the push to pass 2018’s anti-gerrymandering Issue 1, coordinating teams across Ohio to push for a “Yes” vote. She comes from an organizing and educational background, and is passionate about protecting and expanding the right to vote.On July 3, 731,306 petition signatures were turned in to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, for the Citizens Not Politicians constitutional amendment ballot initiative, where the signatures will be validated by the Ohio Secretary of State and Ohio boards of elections, in order to be placed on the November 5, 2024 ballot.As a lead organizer of the state wide ballot initiative, Citizens Not Politicians, which would create an independent redistricting commission- talk about where we are today? citizensnotpoliticians.orgfairdistrictsohio.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, &Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Mariah Ross, Ballot Initiative Director at One Fair Wage, Ohio.Mariah Ross has worked in progressive politics for the past 10 years. Growing up on the east side of Cleveland in Glenville, she has a passion for economic justice, foreign policy and education. She focuses her work on turning out young voters and communities of color. Currently she is the Ballot Initiative Director at One Fair Wage, leading the campaign to raise the minimum wage and end subminimum wages for tipped workers, workers with disabilities, and youth.The Raise the Wage Ohio ballot committee is working to put an initiative on the ballot for the November 2024 election in Ohio. The initiative would raise the state minimum wage to $15/hour, and end subminimum wages for tipped workers, workers with disabilities, and youth. The initiative is being driven by a large coalition of organizations, led by One Fair Wage, Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Red Wine and Blue, and many more groups at the intersection of community, labor and faith.You are very busy- Talk about the Raise the Wage ballot initiative you are leading out right now.raisethewageoh.orgmariah@onefairwage.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding w/ Ginger Tornes and Margo Wakefield advocates for Friends and Families for Safe Streets Columbus.Ginger Tornes was born and raised in Columbus. She moved to Alaska, where she managed a commercial salmon fishing business and worked with the state legislature. Ms. Tornes became involved in safe street/safe systems advocacy after the 2017 hit and run death of a good friend on a street with no sidewalks. She formed Friends and Families for Safe Streets, Columbus, and World Day of Remembrance, a global event supported by the UN. Ms. Tornes is a member of the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission attributable funds committee, and various other organizations.Margo Wakefield holds an advanced degree in the Performing Arts. As a writer and choreographer, she uses her Art to communicate the human condition. Her Baha'i' spiritual training inspires her active participation in efforts and organizations that support Survivors of Human Trafficking, promote access to Mental Health care without stigma, and movements for Transportation Justice and Safer Streets.According to NBC4i.com, on Thursday, May 30th, at 9:24pm a young man was struck twice by separate vehicles in north Columbus. Unable to survive his injuries he died that night.And On Tuesday, May 28, at 9:15pm, a Pedestrian was killed while attempting to cross West Broad Street in Columbus.According to the Columbus Dispatch, On Friday, April 19, at 1:00am a male pedestrian died after being struck by two vehicles that both fled the scene on East Broad Street on the city's Far East Side.These recent deaths, are a result from pedestrians simply trying to cross a street in Columbus. Talk about these, all too common, tragedies happening in Columbus today.https://www.facebook.com/SafeStreetsColumbusGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jenny Morgan, Anton Krieger, and Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice, producers of the upcoming Sunday, June 2, Central Ohio Concert Book-Tour Event: FrackStock w/ Justin Nobel.Jenny Morgan is a singer/songwriter and an environmental public health activist from Columbus, Ohio. Jenny’s songs have been used for independent documentaries, for nature programs, in school classrooms, at political rallies and more. Along with being a singer/songwriter, Jenny is also a preschool teacher and founder of The Leave No Child Inside Central Ohio Collaborative and Citizen Pollution Watch. She also sits on the steering team of Save Ohio Parks, and is a long time member of the Ohio Brine Task Force, a group working to ban radioactive gas and oil deicers and dust suppressants from our Ohio roads.Anton Krieger started as an environmental justice organizer at Buckeye Environmental Network in 2021 and manages the oil & gas waste program. He received his Master of Public Administration from Cleveland State University with a dual specialization in economic development and city management. He serves as the secretary on the Board of Supervisors for Cuyahoga County's Soil and Water Conservation District.Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice is the Sr. Scientist for the local engineering firm of Bennett & Williams who specialize in the installation and management of public water supplies and the protection of our water, soil and air. She hold a BSEdu in Earth Science Education, a MS in Geology and PhD in Soil Science, all from Ohio State. Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice has a deep and wide knowledge of the geology of Central Ohio, the effects of the oil & gas industry on our region, and Ohio’s regulatory system as it pertains to both. She has been an invaluable guide and resource to many organizations working to protect Ohio’s water, air and soil.On Sunday, June 2, FrackStock w/ Justin Nobel takes Place. It’s advertised as A night of Love, Justin and Music.What is FrackStock?Where?Why?Justin Nobel's (environmental journalist) 2020 RollingStone magazine story, “America’s Radioactive Secret,” won an award for longform writing with the National Association of Science Writers and inspired his newly released book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It. Justin’s writing has helped lead to lawsuits, public dialogue and been taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health.Sign Up for Your Free Ticket/s HERE:https://events.humanitix.com/frackstock-w-justin-nobelFind Out More about Justin Nobel HERE:https://petroleum-238.blogspot.com/Producers and Sponsors:GrassRoot Ohio: facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Buckeye Environmental Network: benohio.orgJenny Morgan Music: jennymorganmusic.comFirst Universalist Unitarian Church of Columbus: firstuucolumbus.orgColumbus Community Rights Network: ColumbusBillofRights.orgSave Ohio Parks: saveohioparks.orgThird Act Ohio: ThirdActOhio.orgOhio Brine Task Force: ohbrinetaskforce.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Justin Nobel, writer on science and environment for US magazines, investigative sites, and literary journals.Justin Nobel’s work has been published in Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best American Travel Writing. A book he co-wrote with a death row exonoree, The Story of Dan Bright, was published in 2016 by University of New Orleans Press. His 2020 RollingStone magazine story, “America’s Radioactive Secret,” won an award for longform writing with the National Association of Science Writers and inspired his book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It. Justin’s writing has helped lead to lawsuits, public dialogue and been taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health.Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio Justin.You’re coming to Ohio in May and early June, 2024 to present your soon to be released book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It - which began as an investigation with Rolling Stone magazine that examined the radioactivity brought to the surface in oil and gas production and the various pathways of contamination posed to the industry’s workers, the public and communities, and the environment. The book will be published April 24, 2024.This book is the culmination of 7 years of investigation in Ohio, Virginia, PA, and other oil & gas regions through out the US.JUSTIN NOBEL'S BLOG - FIND HIS UPCOMING BOOK TOUR DATES HERE:https://petroleum-238.blogspot.com/GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Elaine Robertson and Bryn Bird, concerned citizens working to protect their rural communities next to the mega Intel microchip fabrication industrial buildup in New Albany, Ohio.Elaine Robertson is a founding member of the citizen's action group, Clean Air and Water for Alexandria and St. Albans township. She and about a dozen residents formed the group in 2023 in response to two proposed asphalt plants- one on each end of the town - only 1 mile apart. Due to their effort, in part, neither asphalt plant has permission to operate.Some of the Clean Air and Water for Alexandria and St. Albans Township volunteers have begun working with the CHIPS Communities United with a goal to bring responsible and equitable implementation of the CHIPS Act. The alliance includes labor, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community organizations representing millions of workers and community members nationwide.Elaine currently teaches elementary music for Columbus City SchoolsBryn Bird hails from a dirt road outside of Granville, Ohio growing up on her family's produce farm. After an undergrad at Miami University, she finished her masters degree in public health from The George Washington University. Bryn spent her early career as an epidemiologist working at the Navy and Marine Corp Public Health Center before organizing at Rural Coalition and Rural Organizing. Bryn spearheaded the development of the Canal Market District and Enterprise Hub. Bryn was elected Granville Township Trustee in 2018 and re-elected in 2021. Her passion for just and equitable rural policymaking stems, not only from her own experiences as a family farmer, but the desire for all rural Americans to thrive. She serves on the Board of the Ohio Farmers Union, Buckeye Valley Family YMCA and Rural Organizing. She is co-owner of her family's farm supporting the marketing and direct sale of produce through local markets, CSA's and wholesale accounts. Bryn and her husband Brian are also the proud parents of three daughters 10, 8, and 5! Bryn is currently a candidate for Licking County Commissioner on the November 5th ballot.It’s an election year and President Joe Biden (D), Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) and Governor Mike DeWine (R) are All In with the Intel mega industrial build outs.And according to a March 20, 2024 Reuters news article - “Intel is planning a $100-billion spending spree across four U.S. states to build and expand factories after securing $19.5 billion in federal grants and loans....The centerpiece of Intel's five-year spending plan is turning empty fields near Columbus, Ohio, into what CEO Pat Gelsinger described to reporters on Tuesday as "the largest AI chip manufacturing site in the world", starting as soon as 2027.””You both live in communities that comprise these “empty fields near columbus” - Tell us what’s going on in your communities, regarding Intel.Clean Air and Water for Alexandria and St. Albans Township: https://www.facebook.com/groups/904509544135710https://chipscommunitiesunited.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Judge Terri Jamison, candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court.Judge Terri Jamison began her work history in social work with the West Virginia Department of Welfare. She became a trailblazer when she was one of few women to join the United Mine Workers of America. She moved to Columbus, Ohio when mass layoffs shut the mines down.As a single parent, she worked a variety of jobs before becoming a small business owner for more than 16 years. She became a nontraditional student at Columbus State Community College, ultimately graduating cum laude from Franklin University with a Bachelor of Science degree. She enrolled in Capital University Law School where she obtained her juris doctor degree.As an attorney, she stood beside families in crisis, not corporations, representing them in various courts around Ohio and in U. S. District Court, in administrative hearings, and later being hired to preside over unemployment compensationclaims.She comes to this campaign with more than a decade as a judge, having served on the Franklin County Court Domestic Relations and Juvenile Branch, and now on the Court of Appeals, Tenth District.Judge Jamison has often been quoted, “when the law is not on your side, you deserve to be heard, treated with dignity and respect.”Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio.When everyday folk go to the polls, most voters have an idea of who the candidates are, what party they represent, and if they are engaged, they have some idea of the candidates’ platforms.But even engaged voters, get a bit overwhelmed when it comes to judges. There are usually many judges on the ballot - and very few opportunities to hear what each candidate hopes to bring to the table.Ohio early voting started Feb 21 and primary election day is March 19, and my hope is that each voter does their own due diligence for all the candidates on their ballot, and this November- All Ohioans will vote for the open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.www.votejudgejamison.comGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jolene Strieter, trans woman, founder & CEO of the non-profit advocacy organization,Trans Humanity.Jolene Strieter (She/Her/Hers/Ladywoman) please share your bio with our listeners.“From my earliest memories, I always knew I was created uniquely and wonderfully different. The hidden secret was... I am a Girl. I grew up with great inner turmoil between two worlds, on one side The Far-Right Evangelical Church led by religious zealots bent on narcissistic control of my life. On the other hand, a hidden life of discovering my True Identity knowing I was different than what society's black and white binary viewpoints had attempted to control my life to be, and I struggled greatly....Eventually publicly coming out at age 18 I went through the chutes and ladders of life from being alienated by my own family and outcasted as a recluse, institutionalized, abandoned driven to Cleveland Ohio's homeless shelter by my own father, demon exorcised, attending Conversion Therapy in the deep south of the United States and even drugged up, molested and raped.My upbringings became almost an impossible nightmare where I grew up house hopping from partner to partner just to try to find some security unfortunately never having done so and greatly unprepared for life. I was torn between The Religious Control of my Transphobic upbringing and independently setting a new course for my destiny away from the burden of bigotry and regret.So, I purged and detransitioned to promote Conversion Therapy for 5 years as a poster child for detransitioners. Afterwards having stumbled upon undeniable fact which validates Transgender and Gender Variant Identity I re-transitioned at age 33 at the tail end of 2020.Today I advocate because of the undeniable truth I have found and have established Trans Humanity to promote the equality of all genders. I believe we're on the verge of a mass New Renaissance in the transgender world and since Felicity Huffman, Jenner, Jaz and Bono Transgender exposure has gone mainstream this has become a verge of success for so many. I would like to see what the future holds in store for us all.”We first met at the Ohio statehouse on January 24, 2024, the day the Ohio Senate Voted to overrule Governor Mike DeWine’s Veto of HB68, which, according to the Ohio Capital Journal, will block gender-affirming care for trans youth and prevent transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. The bill prohibits transgender youth from starting hormone therapy and puberty blockers…. Gender-affirming care is supported by every major medical organization in the United States.Talk about HB 68 and how it will impact Ohio trans girls/boys and their families?Talk about your story.https://www.facebook.com/groups/202511045351389GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Zerqa Abid, Columbus community leader and Candidate for US Congress, Ohio District 15.Zerqa Abid is a small business owner, an award-winning nonprofit leader, and a women’s rights advocate. She is running as a Democrat for US Congress out of Ohio’s 15th congressional district against incumbent Mike Carey.She is the Founder, President and Executive Director of the largest Muslim Social Services Organization in Ohio, MY Project USA. She served as the Greater Hilltop Area Commissioner and as the Public Safety Chair and has served more than 300,000 Ohioans and has saved thousands of children. The impact of her work in the district is about $38 million.She has received the national AARP Purpose Prize 2023 Award, the Benefit Mutual’s Philanthropist of the Year Award 2023, The Columbus Foundation’s Outstanding Philanthropist 2021 Award and Everyday Hero 2019 Award from the Dispatch Media Group for her outstanding work.She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of North Carolina State University.Talk about your community work on the West side of Columbus.You’ve worked hard in your Community. Talk about why you are running to represent Ohio Congressional District 15 in Washington DC.www.zerqaabid.comGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jaelle Terrell, a Ohioan trans writer and humorist who is currently living in Akron with her chosen family. Excerpts from her novel "The Tales of Victoria" can be found at www.statestreetnews.com.On January 24, 2024, the Ohio Senate Voted to overrule Governor Mike DeWine’s Veto of HB68, which will, according to the Ohio Capital Journal, "block gender-affirming care for trans youth and prevent transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. The bill prohibits transgender youth from starting hormone therapy and puberty blockers…. and Gender-affirming care is supported by every major medical organization in the United States. Children’s hospitals across Ohio, the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, and the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians all opposed HB 68. No Ohio children’s hospital performs gender-affirming surgery on patients under 18 currently."You were there at the Senate Session with your adopted trans daughter and partner. We heard the myopic statements of State Sen. Kristina Roegner, R-Hudson, “There are men and there are women and there are boys and there are girls and they are different…Gender is not fluid. There is no such thing as a gender spectrum....”And they passed HB 68, 24-8. It will go into affect, likely on April 23, 2024.And here you are Jaelle.... talk about your experience that day.Tell us your story.GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with visual artist/activist Andrea Bowers and Lauren Leving, curator at Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, or commonly called moCa. On December 21, 2023, Andrea, you posted on Face Book, “A line from the Lake Erie bill of rights will be shining over Lake Erie on the science center across from the rock and roll hall of fame!” with photos and video clip from the installation of your work of Art, which is now hundreds of feet high installed on the Great Lakes Science Center, next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in downtown, Cleveland, Ohio. Congratulations! That’s a big and very public work of Art.Let’s Talk about this huge Glowing Sign that says “Lake Erie has the Right to Exist, Flourish and Naturally Evolve” in Red, Green, Blue and Yellow Neon.Ohio-raised Andrea Bowers is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been recording and amplifying the work of activists present and past for more than two decades. Her multi-media practice includes drawing, video, sculpture, and installation work that foregrounds the experience of the people who dedicate their time and energy to the struggle for gender, racial, environmental, labor, and immigration justice and those who are directly affected by systemic inequality. Over time, her different bodies of work have become a document of the changing language, prerogatives, and dynamics of social justice movements. In 2021, a major mid-career survey of Bowers’s work curated by Michael Darling and Connie Butler opened at the MCA Chicago and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2022. Other recent solo exhibitions include Grief and Hope, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany and Light and Gravity, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany. In September 2022, Bowers opened a solo exhibition including both new and existing work at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano as part of an exhibition program organized by the Fondazione Furla. Bowers is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto, and Jessica Silverman Gallery.Lauren Leving (she/her) is a curator and writer based in Chicago, IL and Cleveland, OH. Her work explores how creative practice can expand institutionally-rooted understandings of access. Currently, she is Curator-at-Large at the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland; Associate Curator for the Orange County Museum of Art’s 2024 California Biennial; and Co-Curator of Everlasting Plastics, originally presented in the U.S. Pavilion during the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Since joining moCa in 2019, Leving has organized projects including the Getting to Know You residency, which supported the production of Messages to Authorities (Go Away!), a largescale textile commission by Aram Han Sifuentes and Don’t mind if I do, a group exhibition stewarded by Finnegan Shannon. She holds an MA in Museum & Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois–Chicago and a BA from Tulane University.https://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibitions/andrea-bowers-exist-fourish-evolveCeldf.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Kyle Herman and Lee Crumrine, Ohioans working to establish Ranked Choice Voting in our State.Kyle Herman co-founded Rank the Vote Ohio in 2020, volunteering in different capacities until he was hired to serve full-time as Executive Director, with the help of their national partner Rank the Vote USA, in December 2022. Before his work with Rank the vote Ohio, Kyle managed pro-democracy programs in Iraq and Lebanon, worked for the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence, and taught high school history and civics. Kyle was just sworn in as a Stowe Ohio city council member. A proud son of Stow, Ohio, Kyle earned degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.H. Lee Crumrine is a public sector law attorney and currently serves as an assistant law director providing legal services to a northeast Ohio municipality. He earned his Bachelors of Arts in History and Political Science from Ohio University and his Juris Doctor from William & Mary Law School. He is a resident of University Heights, Ohio, and previously served on the 2022-23 University Heights Charter Review Commission, during which time he proposed an amendment to the city's charter to adopt ranked choice voting for city elections. He is now the chair of Rank University Heights, a local ballot issue committee comprising several former members of the commission, that supports the adoption of ranked choice voting in University Heights with the goal of getting a charter amendment on the ballot in 2024.Happy New Year. 2024. It’s a big one for our communities, our State & Country. And Ranked Choice Voting is gaining momentum here and all around the Country.RanktheVoteOhio.orgRankUH.orgRank the Vote Ohio Linktree: https://linktr.ee/rtvohioSB 137 Petition: https://www.rankthevoteohio.org/sb137petitionRank Choice Voting History: https://www.rankthevoteohio.org/historyProportional representation and election reform in Ohio / Kathleen L. Barber ; with a foreword by John B. Anderson: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu:80/record=b16307191~S0Fair Vote: https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding sharing this Sprouts episode from one of GrassRoot Ohio shows featuring Tish O’Dell on State Preemption Laws and Nature’s Rights. It was an honor to work with Pacifica Radio to bring this to you.Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privatization, industrial scale energy development, and others addressing worker’s rights, homeless rights, immigrant rights, fair election issues and nature’s rights, including the first in the nation law recognizing the rights of a specific ecosystem, the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in 2019. Tish is a founding board member of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), organizing and assisting county chapters to build a movement of community rights organizing throughout the state to culminate in constitutional change that will guarantee people’s rights to local self-governance and the rights of people and nature over corporations.Tish co-founded the grass-roots organization MADION, Inc (Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods) in her hometown of Broadview Heights, Ohio that successfully campaigned to adopt the first Home Rule Charter amendment in Ohio creating a Community Bill of Rights banning new gas drilling, fracking and injection wells in 2012. Tish has also been featured in the documentary We the People 2.0, appeared on the Thom Hartmann Show and The Daily show and is one of the editors of the 2021 book, Death by Democracy: Protecting Water and Life - Frontline stories from Ohioans fighting corporate and state power.celdf.orgohiocrn.orgpacificanetwork.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Sharon Scott, co-founder and general manager of the Low Power Community Radio Station ART FM/ WXOX 97.1 FM in Louisville, KT. WXOX is a noncommercial radio station committed to providing access to the airwaves for creative and experimental use. Ms. Scott’s radio advocacy has been covered by sources such as the New York Times, The Hill and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Sharon Scott has just published the book and primer “Low Power FM for dummies”.In October, we both attended the 2023 Grassroots Radio conference in Charleston, West Virginia, hosted by community radio station, WTSQ 88.1LP-FM. This was my first conference, and I was inspired by meeting new community radio folks, the excellent presentations, exhibits, performances, and the opportunity to hear Amy Goodman from Democracy Now.You were attending, presenting and introducing your newly published book, “Low Power FM for dummies” -artxfm.comLPFMresources.comCommonfrequency.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, andSundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Adrienne Hood, Columbus City Council candidate for the People, on the November 7, 2023 ballot.Adrienne Hood is a mother of three and has four grandchildren. She retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2020 as a Master Sergeant, and is a Columbus native who grew up in Linden. Adrienne graduated from Columbus City Schools and has her bachelor's in criminal justice administration and her master's in human services. A servant leader at her core, she serves in her church and has served on several grassroots boards over the years.Adrienne is passionate about the changes that need to take place in our city which will protect everyone regardless of their zip code. She is most passionate about public safety, mental healthcare, affordable housing, and public education.Adrienne Hood for Columbus City Council is endorsed by ElectBlackwomen, New Politics New Power, Our Revolution - Ohio, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in AmericaCandidate, Ohio Working Families Party and The Matriots.Welcome Adrienne. Your campaign is in the final stretch, less than two weeks to election day. If elected Columbus City Council member, what will you do first for the People of Columbus?AdrienneHood.comGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 91.9FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: GrassRoot OhioInstagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Joe Motil, Columbus Ohio Mayoral candidate for the November 7, 2023.Joe Motil was born the 7th of 11 children and grew up in the Columbus Clintonville neighborhood. He graduated from Bishop Watterson High School, attended Youngstown State University where he played college basketball, and in his 20’s, aspired to be a professional jazz musician.Married for 37 years, he raised two children while working in the commercial construction industry as a union Laborer of Local 423 for 24 years, and worked as a construction safety professional before retiring.Since 1995, Joe ran for City Council and State Representative, and has been active in citizen driven ballot initiatives on voting rights, tax levies, and development projects that negatively impacted the environment. He fights structural racism, and advocates for our unsheltered, for police reform/community policing, for historic preservation, for creating affordable housing, parkland protection, and for strengthening public education through his long-standing fight against the city’s tax abatement policy.Your website states you are the “People’s Mayor” and your Facebook page calls you the “Mayor of the People and for the People”. If you are elected in less than three weeks, what’s the first action you will do as Mayor for the People of Columbus?joemotil.comGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 91.9FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dr. Lauren Beene, a general pediatrician practicing in the Cleveland area. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and co-leader of the non-partisan grassroots coalition Protect Choice Ohio and the Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights alliance.Dr. Beene is concerned that abortion restrictions will cause a medical crisis in Ohio, and will disproportionally affect the most vulnerable populations, including her teenage patients and people of color. Dr. Beene with Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, Protect Choice Ohio & Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights are working diligently toward protecting reproductive freedom via the citizen-led ballot initiated constitutional amendment on the November 2023 ballot.Welcome back to GrassRoot Ohio. This is our third episode together focused on this momentous campaign to Codify Womens’ Reproductive Rights into the Ohio Constitution at the ballot - Issue 1. Folks are voting now through November 7, 2023.Where are we Today Dr. Beene?https://ohioansunitedforreproductiverights.winGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 91.9FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jason Orabella and Josephine Duffy, volunteers with Redbird Books to Prisoners.Redbird Books to Prisoners has been packing books in Columbus since 2011. They send books free of charge to prisoners incarcerated in both Ohio and West Virginia. They also have an extensive catalog of zines (pamphlets on various subjects) that prisoners can also request.Jason Orabella is an Ohio State University alumni who has been volunteering with Redbird for over a decade now. Outside of his passion for prison activism, Jason enjoys gardening, hiking and identifying wildlife native to Ohio.Josephine (JD) Duffy is a student at the Ohio State University pursuing a Masters in environmental science. She began volunteering with prison book programs during her time as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, where she spent 3 years working with Books-to-Prisoners Urbana-Champaign to provide free books to incarcerated readers throughout Illinois. Determined to stay involved with the mission after moving to Columbus, she started volunteering with Redbird and has been involved with the organization for over a year.https://www.facebook.com/redbirdbookstoprisonersBook Packing Volunteer Sessions:1st & 3rd Sundays every month, 5-7pm @ Third Hand Bike Co-op 979 E. 5th Ave.GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Julie Doran, hemp farmer and advocate for cannabis in Ohio. Julie was raised on a small farm in a big family. She’s passionate about cannabis, and her focus is to free this plant, and to keep cannabis a clean medicinal option for anyone who wishes to use it. She manufactures an organic fertilizer formulated for cannabis production. She also farms 5 acres of hemp and grows the cbd that she uses in her cbd line, Ohio Friends and Family CBD Products. She enjoys educating people on the benefits of cannabis, how to cultivate it, and what it’s uses and possibilities are. You can find her at the statehouse educating legislators on the benefits and uses of cannabis, or hosting summits to educate farmers on how to cultivate a new crop. She loves connecting the dots for businesses, growers, patients, and legislators. She has submerged herself in the industry because of the way the cannabis plant can change a life. When Julie isn’t focused on the world of cannabis, she can be found outside in nature, gardening, showing alpacas, and hanging out with friends and family. ohiofriendsandfamily.com GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dr. Lauren Beene, a general pediatrician practicing in the Cleveland area. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and co-leader of the non-partisan grassroots coalition Protect Choice Ohio and the Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights alliance.
Dr. Beene is concerned that abortion restrictions will cause a medical crisis in Ohio, and will disproportionally affect the most vulnerable populations, including her teenage patients and people of color. Dr. Beene with Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, Protect Choice Ohio & Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights are working diligently toward protecting reproductive freedom via the citizen-led ballot initiated constitutional amendment on the November 2023 ballot.
Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio.
Yesterday, on July 25, 2023, 495,938 valid Ohio voter signatures were certified from the Ohio Secretary of State office, meeting the requirements for citizen-led ballot initiative “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety” to be on the November, 2023 ballot - where Ohio voters can Vote to codify the Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety in the Ohio Constitution.
Huge Congratulations Dr. Beene!
Talk about this monumental Win.
ProtectChoiceOhio.com https://ohioansforreproductivefreedom.org https://www.facebook.com/OURR2023
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Carolyn Harding with David DeWitt, editor-in-chief of the Ohio Capital Journal about Ohio Issue 1 - the Single Issue on the August 8, special election Ohio ballot. Ohio Capital Journal Editor-in-Chief and Columnist David DeWitt has been covering government, politics, and policy in Ohio since 2007, including education, health care, crime and courts, poverty, state and local government, business, labor, energy, environment, and social issues. He has worked for the National Journal, The New York Observer, The Athens NEWS, and Plunderbund.com. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism and is a board member of the E.W. Scripps Society of Alumni and Friends. The Ohio Capital Journal covers the Ohio Statehouse, Issues, Politicians, Wins/Losses and Votes since I started reading your daily newsletter. And in my opinion, your articles, editorials and opinion pieces have been pointedly on the side of the People of Ohio. As a professional journalist and news organization, you must have credible sources and facts to back up your assertions, statements, opinions in your articles. Your July 6 commentary entitled, “The historical malfeasance of equating the Ohio Constitution with the U.S. Constitution to attack it - Issue 1 assault on majority rule is a grotesque overthrow of ideals behind America’s constitutional republic”, your June 29 commentary, “Ohio government is already captured by radical special interests. State Issue 1 would make it worse” , and your June 8 commentary “Change to 88 counties under State Issue 1 would effectively kill Ohio grassroots amendment proposals”- leads one to surmise you have strong opinions in opposition to Issue 1. So let’s look at some of these issues and breakdown for our listeners & viewers- Ohio Issue #1- on the statewide ballot now through August 8, 2023. ohiocapitaljournal.com https://twitter.com/DC_DeWitt
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Carolyn Harding w/ Cathy Cowan Becker and Randi Pokladnik, co-organizers of the grassroots coalition to Save Ohio Parks, No Fracking on Public Land.
Cathy Cowan Becker is a longtime climate and environmental activist in Central Ohio. From 2017-21, she led the Ready for 100 Ohio campaign, which pushed the city of Columbus to enact electric aggregation for 100% renewable energy and issue a Climate Action Plan that aims to cut carbon pollution 45% by 2030. She is the former director of the sustainability nonprofit Simply Living. Cathy now works as Responsible Finance Campaign Director for the national sustainability group Green America and is volunteer co-lead for Save Ohio Parks, a grassroots campaign to resist forced fracking in our state parks and other public lands. Cathy holds master's degrees in history, journalism, public administration, and environment and natural resources.
Dr. Randi Pokladnik was born and raised in the Ohio Valley. She earned an associate degree in Environmental Engineering, a BA in Chemistry, MA and PhD in Environmental Studies. She is certified in hazardous materials regulations and holds a teaching license in STEM. She worked as a research chemist for National Steel Corporation and has taught secondary and post-secondary science and math classes for more than 20 years. She now volunteers for several local grassroots groups including: FaCT Ohio, Citizens Climate Lobby, Mid Ohio Valley Climate Action and Save Ohio Parks.
www.saveohioparks.org
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Carolyn Harding with Rachna Dhingra, environmental and social activist who works in Bhopal, India, with the survivors of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide India Limited Corporation’s poisonous gas leak- killing thousands of people.
Rachna Dhingra works on the issues of medical care, research, social support, economic needs, assessment and cleanup of toxic waste, legal claims for appropriate compensation and corporate accountability of Union Carbide & Dow Chemical.
She works with a group called Bhopal Group for Information and Action and also with International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. In 2003 she quit her job in Michigan, US and moved to Bhopal to work with those exposed to poisons of Union Carbide & Dow Chemical.
On December December 3, 1984, in the middle of the night, 40* tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) and other poisons leaked from Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary plant in Bhopal, in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India. Talk about what happened that night.
www.bhopal.net Rachnya@gmail.com
- in the Guardian article of June 14, 2023, they cited 27 tons of MIC were leaked.
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Carolyn Harding with Bob Krasen, Sandy Bolzenius and Will Perkins, volunteer organizers with the Columbus Community Rights Coalition and Leads on the recently released White Paper Study, The Risks to the Greater Columbus Water Supply from Oil and Gas Production.
In retirement, Bob Krasen became an activist for SPAN Ohio in 2006. The organization wants "Health Care for All Ohioans" and/or Enhanced and Improved Medicare for All. He joined the Columbus Community Rights Coalition in 2014 because he figured there was no point in trying to get health care for all, if we were going to be poisoned by our drinking water. We need both clean water and health care for all.
Sandy Bolzenius is a local community rights activist, the facilitator for Move to Amend (Central Ohio), an Army veteran, and a former international teacher who has lived in Europe, Africa, and Asia. she holds a doctorate in History from the Ohio State University, and is the author of Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army during World War II (University of Illinois Press, 2018). Sandy believes that a just, fully inclusive and sustainable world for all is not only possible, but within our grasp--so long as People (not Big Money) are deciding our public policies.
Will Perkins was born and raised in Columbus. He was a member of the first graduating class of Columbus Northland High School and went on to graduate from both Columbus Technical Institute and Ohio Dominican College. He spent his career in printing and graphic arts, ranging from printing press operator to plant manager, and finished his printing career as manager of the in-house printing and mailing operation at Ross Laboratories, a division of Abbott Laboratories. He is realizing a life goal by spending his retirement years involved in community activism with a focus on endeavoring to improve our planet for future generations.
In February of 2021 the Columbus Community Rights Coalition (CCRC) reached out to the Columbus Water Department asking for a copy of the Columbus Source Water Protection Plan to review and ascertain whether Columbus was testing for oil & gas production and waste contaminants in the Columbus Metro water supply, serving over 1,200,000 people and 20+ communities.
The CCRC White Paper team received only 3 out of the 9 sections of the Columbus Source Water Protection Plan. Undaunted you took on the material provided, researched publications, peer reviewed scientific studies, conferred with water, soil and map scientists, to write, The Risks to the Greater Columbus Water Supply from Oil and Gas Production - White Paper.
www.ColumbusBillofRights.org
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Carolyn Harding with Michael Ketterer, PhD, an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. We’ll talk about the Portsmouth Ohio Nuclear Site, otherwise known as the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, south of Piketon, Ohio, and HOT in Energy news NOW.
Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, is an analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University. Michael holds a BS in Chemistry from University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colorado. Michael has worked in private industry, as a chemist for USEPA’s Office of Enforcement, and has taught at four different Universities.
Dr. Ketterer specializes in understanding the sources, transport and environmental fates of long lived radioactive contaminants, such as uranium and plutonium, near former and active nuclear sites. Michael has performed mass spectrometric studies of uranium isotopes in off-site samples near the Portsmouth Nuclear Site (PORTS) which show conclusively, using modern nuclear forensics, that the contamination originated from PORTS. The US Department of Energy has contradicted but has not disproved Dr. Ketterer’s results.
Michael is currently providing technical assistance to communities throughout the US affected by legacy nuclear contamination.
Ohio Nuclear Free Network website coming soon: www.onfn.org
The Ohio Nuclear Free Network PRESENTS:
A CITIZEN FORUM ON
RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH and THE FUTURE OF THE PORTSMOUTH NUCLEAR SITE
Saturday, June 10 at 1 pm At the Comfort Inn, 7525 US-23, Piketon, OH 45661
Speakers: Michael E. Ketterer, PhD, analytical chemist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University “Contamination is forever: Radioisotopes near PORTS”
Joseph J. Mangano, MPH, MBA, epidemiologist and Executive Director, Radiation and Public Health Project “Soaring Death Rate Near Ohio Uranium Plant”* Announcing the release of his NEW Seven-County Health Impact Study
Terry J. Lodge, Esq. Specialist in Environmental Law and Civil Rights “Is Piketon's Disastrous Past a Prelude to Even Worse?"
Following the presentations, the public will be invited to speak about health issues and environmental concerns. _______________________________________
In person, on livestream at https://bit.ly/portsforum, and recorded on the Ohio Nuclear Free Network YouTube Channel.
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Carolyn Harding with Tracey and Sean Barnes, flower farmers facing, not one but two imminent asphalt plants on either side of Alexandria, and next to their farm in St Albans Township.Tracey Barnes is a mother and flower farmer with a deep love for the natural world. Along with her husband and three children, she lives and works full time on their flower farm in Alexandria, Ohio. Before she began farming in 2016, Tracey worked connecting people with plants, as a Volunteer Coordinator and Horticulturist in public gardens. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from The Ohio State University. Tracey's love of travel has taken her around the country and abroad, but the place she loves the best is her home, in Alexandria. Sean Barnes has always loved being in nature. His interest in plants drew him to Horticulture, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture from The Ohio State University. He has worked mainly in public gardens, but got his start working in greenhouses and nursery production. In addition to flower farming with his wife since 2016, he is also a certified Arborist, with an endless passion for trees and forestry. When Sean is not farming, he is usually spending time with his kids, or finding time to travel to the places where he is most at peace, in the woods. Last night’s Township Trustee Meeting was packed, but the Trustees did Not want a repeat of the heated BZA meeting, so they told folks to ask their questions online…..and the packed house waited to hear more information….Several pieces of literature with information were passed around - One paving company has history of violating EPA permits -water & air; Large scale manufacturing operation; Production of 3,000,000 tons/year w/ surface area 15 acres; * Runs 24/7, 300 days/year; Requires 385 trucks/day to haul out asphalt continuously; Water for dust suppressant, what source; Noisy, bright, smoky, heavy industrial operation; A bag house will collect particulate from mixer, but no other air pollutants, Sulfer Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxide, Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon Monoxide; No capture of blue smoke from silos of hot asphalt;* quarry pond used for industry and run-off returned, enroute to acquifer and private well water.https://www.facebook.com/groups/904509544135710GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Joe Motil & Adrienne Hood, Mayor and City Council candidates running for the PEOPLES’ vote in Columbus, Ohio on November 7, 2023.Mayoral Candidate Joe Motil was born the 7th of 11 children and grew up in Clintonville, Ohio. He graduated from Bishop Watterson High School, attended Youngstown State University where he played college basketball, and in his 20’s, aspired to be a professional jazz musician. Married for 37 years, he raised two children while working in the commercial construction industry as a union Laborer of Local 423 for 24 years, and worked as a construction safety professional before retiring. Since 1995, Joe ran for City Council and State Representative, and has been active in citizen driven ballot initiatives on voting rights, tax levies, and development projects that negatively impacted the environment. He fights structural racism, and advocates for our unsheltered, for police reform/community policing, for historic preservation, for creating affordable housing, parkland protection, and for strengthening public education through his long-standing fight against the city’s tax abatement policy. www.joemotil.comColumbus City Council Candidate Adrienne Hood was born in Columbus and raised in the Linden area. She has dedicated her life service to God, family, community, and country. She is the mother of three and a grandmother to four. She is running for Columbus City Council District 4 to advocate for equitable public safety, quality mental healthcare, affordable housing, and public education. Ms. Hood graduated from Independence High School in Columbus, University of Phoenix, with a bachelor’s in Criminal Justice Administration, and she completed her master’s in Human Services at Liberty University. Ms. Hood retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2020 as a Master Sergeant and has used these leadership skills to serve in her church and on the boards of local grassroots organizations. She is passionate about the changes that we need to make in Columbus which will protect everyone regardless of their zip code.www.adriennehood.comYou’ve both been active in the Columbus Justice community for years. You’re both running on issues you have profound commitment to. And you’re both Democrats running against incumbent, and possibly endorsed, Democrats on the November 7, 2023 Columbus, Ohio ballot. We have a lot to cover. Ready?GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dave Noble of Red Beard Bees. Dave Noble began his professional beekeeping career at OSU's Honey Bee Research Lab in the mid-1990’s. He has been training beekeepers and teaching about bees since the early 2000’s. Currently Dave runs and operates Red Beard Bees where he continues to breed bees, harvest honey, educate people about honey bees, and train beekeepers in partnership with the Columbus Garden School. Dave employs a bee-centered philosophy to guide his beekeeping, bee-breeding, and educational endeavors. He believes that a better understanding of bee behavior and bee biology creates better beekeepers. “Listen to the bees and let them guide you.” -Brother Adam"Bees Knees", "None of your Beeswax" and of course the "Birds and the Bees - almost every thing comes down to BEES. And If you are like me, you may have only an inkling of what a Bee keeper does - Dave Nobel is steeped in Bees - let’s find out more! www.redbeardbees.comGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jess Grim, Ted Wolner and Judy Smucker, organizers with Third Act Ohio, a branch of the national climate action organization for seniors, Third Act.Jess Grim is Co-facilitator of Third Act Ohio. She's been involved in activism of various stripes for many years. Third Act - "over-60's" working to protect our climate and our democracy - came into existence at just the right time, as she recently retired and was looking for opportunities to engage actively with the fight to end fossil fuels and save our planet! Jess lives near Oberlin, in NE Ohio.Ted Wolner is Chair of the Environmental Concerns Committee, at Kendal retirement community in Oberlin, Ohio. He’s Co-lead, of the Citizens Climate Lobby, Lorain County Chapter; and a member of the Coordinating Committee of Third Act OH.Judy Smucker is a grandma who’s very concerned about the future our grandchildren are facing, and she has found it easy to find lots of “Good Trouble”. She feels lucky and very happy to have connected with Jess and Ted, when they were active at the Manchin Coal Baron Blockade. And when she heard they were starting a ThirdAct OH group, it sounded like a great idea. She’s fortunate to have friends who share her love the earth, and do all they can to protest the crimes against nature that are occurring. Judy is from Athens, Ohio.You All took part in the Tuesday, March 21, 2023, “Rocking Chair Rebellion”, according to the NYTimes, where more than 100 climate actions were staged across the country by Third Act, a protest group for people aged 60 and older, co-founded by Bill McGibbon, the writer and climate campaigner. Why You? Why Now?thirdact.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dave Noble of Red Beard Bees. Dave Noble began his professional beekeeping career at OSU's Honey Bee Research Lab in the mid-1990’s. He has been training beekeepers and teaching about bees since the early 2000’s. Currently Dave runs and operates Red Beard Bees where he continues to breed bees, harvest honey, educate people about honey bees, and train beekeepers in partnership with the Columbus Garden School. Dave employs a bee-centered philosophy to guide his beekeeping, bee-breeding, and educational endeavors. He believes that a better understanding of bee behavior and bee biology creates better beekeepers. “Listen to the bees and let them guide you.” -Brother Adam"Bees Knees", "None of your Beeswax" and of course the "Birds and the Bees - almost every thing comes down to BEES. And If you are like me, you may have only an inkling of what a Bee keeper does - Dave Nobel is steeped in Bees - let’s find out more! www.redbeardbees.comGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Bill Good and Helen Jaccard, volunteer and organizer with the Veterans for Peace - Golden Rule Project.Bill Good is a veteran, local activist and educator. He has worked on numerous issues pertaining to the environment, human rights, education, and labor at local, state, and federal levels. He’s been sailing for 15 years, and when the opportunity came to sail on the historic Golden Rule - he jumped on board.Helen Jaccard is the lead organizer for the Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project. She spreads the word about the continuing dangers of nuclear power, and the poisoning of our air, water and soil from the entire nuclear cycle, from uranium mining to the disposal of nuclear waste.www.vfpgoldenruleproject.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Lynn Anderson and Silverio Caggiano working to protect Youngstown, Ohio from a toxic industry setting up in the center of town, all in the name of "Recycling".Lynn Anderson is an Organizer for SOBE Concerned Citizens of Youngstown, OH, Treasurer of Youngstown Community Bill of Rights, and Board Member TreezPlease.Silverio Caggiano is a retired Youngstown Ohio Fire Department Battalion Chief and HazMat/WMD Specialist and team member of 39 years. He’s retired from the State of Ohio HazMat/WMD Technical Advisory Committee where he assisted the state build HazMat/WMD teams to quantify and qualify equipment and to educate and advise the state EMA. He trained with US Military 52nd WMD-Civil Support Team. He is the Fire and HazMat WMD Instructor & Paramedic Member of the board of directors for Buckeye Environmental Network, and Member of the Ohio Brine Task Force.https://www.facebook.com/SustainableYoungstownhttps://benohio.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Fridays 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out/Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts can be found at: https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dr. Lauren Beene, MD, a general pediatrician practicing in the Cleveland area. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and is a leader of the non-partisan grassroots coalition Protect Choice Ohio.Dr. Beene is concerned that abortion restrictions will cause a medical crisis in Ohio, and will disproportionally affect the most vulnerable populations, including her teenage patients and people of color. Dr. Beene and Protect Choice Ohio are working diligently toward protecting reproductive freedom via a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment on the November 2023 ballot.https://protectchoiceohio.com/aboutGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Fridays 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out/Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts can be found at: https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Emily Myers and Gary Witte, folks helping Columbus Houseless Folk with food, necessities and love right where they are.Emily Myers is a housing advocate on the far south side. She started Heer to Serve in Sept of 2020 as a way to make sure people who were unsheltered were able to have their basic needs met. She has lived experience in being unsheltered as well as her Aunt Patty freezing to death when she was unsheltered. Emily is passionate about engaging in mutual aid and solidarity while meeting people where they’re at. She’s studied social work and harm reduction. Gary Witte is a Retired United Church of Christ minister involved in Urban ministry all his career. He’s the Former Director of Open Shelter and co-founder of Friends of the Homeless. He Also has worked for the abolishment of the death penalty and feeding programs around Columbus. Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio.It’s the winter solstice, the longest nights of the year, and we’re heading into freezing rain and snow. A few days ago, early morning, I was having coffee and I heard a sound out towards my backyard and neighbors behind us, I thought it could be a Canadian goose or a hurt animal crying or a maybe even person? I opened my door and listened - it was someone crying/weeping. “Do you need help? Silence. Are you ok? Silence. Are you there? I waited. Nothing. I went back to my couch, my candle and my coffee, and I thought of the people you serve- outside, cold, unsheltered, without support, hot coffee, food, comfort.Heer to Serve Face Book page: https://www.facebook.com/heertoserveNeeds for the Camp Residents: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d4aafab22abfd0-heer?useFullSite=true#/Heer to Serve Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3P5XXLAZF7DX2?ref_=wl_share&fbclid=IwAR3VtMeM-kiRUh26kMEa6klR-kSOd3pe1oaKPkC2-VKcdeua6guI4JrsmD4Help the UnHoused Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-unhoused-in-columbus-ohio?utm_campaign=p_cp%20share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer&utm_term=undefined&fbclid=IwAR1wkBmxQ_-z5bObN6RcMJc8YDq2lDlxXuu9ExNbkuwW-QFCWYXZr8n0hBYGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Kyle Herman and Denise Riley from Ranked the Vote Ohio. We’ll talk about Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) and what it can do for Ohio.Kyle Herman is Executive Director for Rank the Vote Ohio, a nonpartisan nonprofit he co-founded as a volunteer in 2020 to help bring Ranked Choice Voting to Ohio. Kyle previously managed pro-democracy programs in Lebanon and Iraq for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; staffed President Obama as a writer in the White House Correspondence Office; and taught high school history and civics in Beirut, Lebanon. Kyle earned degrees focused on public policy from Ohio Wesleyan University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.Denise Riley grew up in North Ridgeville Ohio. She received her bachelor’s from Kent State University in nursing. In 2015 she was elected to the school board of Switzerland of Ohio Local School District, and served for 4 years (2 as board president). Denisejoined Rank The Vote Ohio in December of 2020 as a member of the volunteer mobilization and onboarding team and is now the Team Lead Director. More than a year ago Rank the Vote Ohio launched it’s all volunteer group to educate and organize Ohioans about Ranked Choice Voting. Ranked Choice Voting got a lot of press this last year, especially regarding Alaska’s special & general elections pitting former right wing republican Governor Sarah Palin against moderate democrat Mary Peltola. And Mary Peltola WON, becoming the first indigenous congresswoman from Alaska. Both elections were held via Ranked Choice Voting.rankthevoteohio.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Rachel Coyle. We’ll discuss the good, bad and dangerous Lame Duck Bills at the Statehouse, as we speak.Rachel Coyle, Innovation Ohio’s Communications Director, was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and political science from The Ohio State University and a master’s degree in political communication from American University.Rachel brings a broad range of Ohio political experience to Innovation Ohio. She has held legislative and campaign roles with the Ohio Senate Democrats, directed communications for Joe Schiavoni for Ohio Governor and Cathy Johnson for Ohio Senate, and served as press secretary for the Ohio Democratic Party. She has previous experience with nonprofits as well, having managed grassroots advocacy and mobilization at ACLU of Ohio.In her free time, Rachel operates the popular advocacy training program “How Things Work at the Ohio Statehouse,” which teaches Ohioans how to be effective Statehouse activists.If you're a concerned Ohio citizen, and on Face Book, go today to Rachel Coyle’s, How Things Work at the Ohio Statehouse, page. You’ll find imperative information and guidance to help you take action at the State House to protect the issues you're fighting for, or against.https://innovationohio.org/https://www.facebook.com/InnovationOhiohttps://www.facebook.com/groups/howthingsworkohGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Pat Marida and Lee Blackburn coordinators of the Ohio Nuclear Free Network. They are highly concerned with the current Ohio HB 434, and we’ll learn what it’s about and what we can do about it.Pat Marida has been an antinuclear activist since the 1980s, when she was a Board Member of the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. For 25 years she held volunteer positions with the Sierra Club, working on environmental issues and chairing the Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee. She is currently a Coordinator with the Ohio Nuclear Free Network.Lee Blackburn is one of the founding members of the Ohio Nuclear Free Network and is currently working to oppose Ohio House Bill 434, a senseless bill that provides no benefits but could saddle the State with billions in losses. He is a former Chief Investment Officer for a major real estate concern that invested some $3 billion in low to moderate income housing under his purview. He became concerned about radioactive materials and its deadly legacy after becoming familiar with the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in southern Ohio where uranium was initially enriched to weapons-grade. Beginning in 1991, until its relegation to Cold Standby in 2001, PORTS, or the A-plant as it’s locally known, supplied low-enriched uranium for nuclear reactors. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Senator Sherrod Brown, The Department of Energy was required in 2008 to establish a community-based Site Specific Advisory Board to make recommendations to the Department Of Energy on clean-up efforts at the Site. Mr. Blackburn served as one of the founding members and still attends Board meetings to provide testimony as a private citizen.Ohio HB Bill 434 is relatively short, only 14 pages and YET this Bill is “Massive in Scope” - What’s in it, and why you are so concerned?https://onfn.blogspot.comhttps://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-summary?id=GA134-HB-434GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jo Anne and Steve Grossman, advocates and champions of curbside composting in the Columbus suburb, Bexley, Ohio.Jo Anne and Steve Grossman have worked to create Bexley's Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee, where Jo Anne currently leads the Food Waste recycling group.Jo Anne was Project Coordinator for the League of Women Voters when they hosted an education program to a Ukrainian delegation on the American rule of law. She was the Volunteer Coordinator for Jewish Family Services for the Resettlement of people from the previous Soviet Union, Coordinator for the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, Outreach Coordinator for the Holocaust Education Council, and President of the Board of Temple Beth Shalom. As a Bar/Bat Mitzvah Tutor at Temple Beth Shalom, during a 28 year period, Jo Anne prepared over 250 students during a nine-month period for their B'nai Mitzvah.Together with her husband Steve, they created Temple Beth Shalom’s Green Team that provides their religious community with the tools, guidance and ongoing support needed to create a culture of conservation, sustainability and environmental awareness.Prior to retiring in 2017, Steve Grossman was the Executive Director of the Ohio Water Development Authority (OWDA) where he oversaw the financing to local governments for projects related to water pollution control, water supplies, solid waste and brown-fields remediation. In his 29 years with the Authority, Steve presided over awarding approximately $13 billion dollars of loans.Before joining OWDA in 1988, he was the Assistant Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency where he was responsible for overall agency planning, budgeting and administration. Working with the Mid Ohio Regional Planing Commission, Steve has created the Resident Based Environmental Sustainability Forum where a number of cities in Franklin and Delaware Counties are coming together to share successes and ideas.https://bexley.org/food-waste/GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Shelly Corbin, Roxanne Groff & James Yskamp. Petitioners & legal counsel to Revoke Primacy of Ohio Class II oil & gas Injection Wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.Shelly Corbin(Takóni Kókipešni) is Itazipco/Mnicoujou, Lakota and a member of the Cheyenne River Reservation. She has served over 15 years in the military and continues to serve in the Ohio Air National Guard. Currently, as the Campaign Representative for the Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign at Sierra Club she focuses on oil and gas infrastructure and waste related issues of the fracking industry across Ohio. Shelly is committed to connecting with the land, relationships and herself to strengthen community, connection & unity with the living world.As a founding member of the grassroots group, Save Our Rural Environment, Roxanne Groff fought the permitting of strip mines in Athens County. Her interest in state law and the lack of implementation of rules by the regulatory agencies, led her to run for public office, first for Township Trustee, then for the County Commissioner. She participates in campaigns to raise awareness and challenge industry abuses that will affect the health and wellbeing of citizens. Roxanne works with Buckeye Environmental Network and the Ohio Brine Task Force, to stop dangerous bills in the Ohio General Assembly, regarding toxic radioactive oil and gas waste as a commodity, inadequate rules for injection wells and oil and gas waste facilities, and the current Petition to revoke primacy of Class II injection wells from ODNR.James Yskamp is a senior attorney at Earthjustice in the Fossil Fuels Program, where he works on matters involving oil and gas and petrochemical infrastructure in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley. Since 2014, James has been representing clients in Ohio and Pennsylvania in a variety of environmental civil matters, including cases involving water rights, citizen suit litigation, air quality permitting, water quality permitting, mineral rights, pipeline challenges, and land use and zoning. James also teaches a course in environmental law at the University of Akron School of Law.On Oct 11, 27 Ohio grassroots and non-profit environmental organizations, delivered a petition to the the US EPA, “to Determine by Rule that Ohio’s Class II Injection Well Permitting Program No Longer Represents an Effective Program to Prevent Underground Injection that Endangers Drinking Water Sources and Fails to Comply with the Requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.” Sierra Club Ohio Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign webpage: https://www.sierraclub.org/ohio/fighting-oil-and-gasTake Action on Petition: https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/tell-the-us-epa-that-ohioans-had-enough-no-more-radioactive-waste-in-our-communities?_ga=2.165206204.227122745.1667409785-1269332763.1654095636&_gl=11c0gf9v_gaMTI2OTMzMjc2My4xNjU0MDk1NjM2_ga_41DQ5KQCWV*MTY2NzQwOTc4NC41MS4xLjE2Njc0MTA0NzcuMC4wLjA. Ohio Brine Task Force webpage: https://www.ohbrinetaskforce.orgBuckeye Environmental Network webpage: https://benohio.orgEarthJustice law: https://earthjustice.orgGrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!Fridays 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming @ WGRN.orgWe air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured...Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8Photo by Ted Auch of FracTracker Alliance
Carolyn Harding with James Quilligan and Greg Pace, leaders with Economic Democracy Advocates, focusing on our Common Resources, our Water, Food and Energy Resources, for the good of all people.James Quilligan has been an analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975.He has served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterrand, Julius Nyerere, Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, Jimmy Carter, and Prince El Hassan. He has been a monetary consultant for government agencies in Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Tanzania, Kuwait, India, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. In addition, Quilligan has served as an advisor for many United Nations programs and international organizations. He is presently Managing Director of Economic Democracy Advocates.Greg began his advocacy in 2005 studying the peak oil phenomenon with the Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE). In 2008, he attended the Convention for the Global Commons in Berlin, Germany, as his focus became centered around commons-based solutions for resource management. As the hydrofracking boom came to Ohio in 2011, Greg became involved with holding the industry accountable in Ohio and eventually joined Carolyn Harding in helping to create ‘Columbus Community Bill of Rights’,where he remains as webmaster and treasurer. In 2019, Greg also became part of the executive committee as treasurer of Economic Democracy Advocates, where he also is engaged with the state legislation team. He has been active in educating local high school students on sex trafficking through Shared Hope International, as well as being a member of the Friends Committee on National Legislation Central Ohio Advocacy Team where members of Congress are lobbied for issues FCNL selects each year to focus on.https://sustaineda.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Maggie Scotece, Interim Executive Director of the Abortion Fund of Ohio.Maggie Scotece, JD is a long-time abortion advocate, doula, and former AFO volunteer & Board Member currently serving as the organization’s Interim Executive Director. Since transitioning to this role in February 2022, Maggie has demonstrated her dedication to uplifting the stories of those most impacted by the barriers in Reproductive Justice spaces. She is a licensed attorney in Ohio with six years of experience in civil-rights law and direct, short-term legal assistance. Maggie has worked to make civic engagement and public policy conversations more accessible through her tenure on the Fair Districts Mapping Competition Advisory Committee and the Ohio Democratic Disability Caucus. They bring deep-rooted connections to Disability Justice organizing to their work at AFO, including their experience as a disabled activist and co-founder of the Supported Decision Making Network of Ohio. Over the last decade, Maggie has played an active role in community organizing spaces, including her involvement with the Ohio Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild where she began volunteering on their Protestor Jail Support and Legal Helpline in 2020. Maggie continues to work with local clinic escort programs, Racial Justice organizing, criminal justice reform, and movement lawyering. Welcome.When Row v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022. What was the Abortion Fund of Ohio focused on before the ruling, and what has changed since then?abortionfundofohio.orgGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/Check us out on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!https://facebook.com/events/s/grassroot-ohio-radio-abortion-/635421758167449/
Carolyn Harding with Stephen Goldmeier and Patrick Hoffman, organizers with the Columbus chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Their Housing Priority campaign’s work currently centers on city policy which they say is contributing to the housing crisis through huge tax breaks to real estate developers and lackluster protections for tenants. Stephen Goldmeier is an attorney and consultant whose work centers on criminal justice, data, research, and technology. Patrick Hoffman has been active in DSA since 2017; his introduction to Columbus DSA was organizing with renters in Whitehall who were facing unsafe living conditions. Website: https://www.columbusdsa.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/columbus_dsa/ Interest form: https://actionnetwork.org/.../columbus-dsa-housing... GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! See less Social issues
Carolyn Harding with David Harewood and Matina Bliss, organizers with First Collective, working to protect, and ensure homes for, Columbus Houseless residents.
David S. Harewood is an Artist, Advocate, and Community Organizer (https://www.davidsharewood.com/). He is a Co-Founder, with FIRST Collective (https://bit.ly/3HBFMHn), Co-Chair of the Columbus Police Accountability Project (https://c-pap.info/), and Executive Committee member of the Columbus Coalition for Rent Control (http://columbusrentcontrol.info/).
Matina Bliss serves as the volunteer organizer and treasurer for FIRST Collective. Matina started volunteering with FIRST Collective during the winter months of 2022 while they were operating an overnight warming station and has been a leading organizer for camp operations. She is also a leading organizer for the FIRST Collective's stop the sweeps efforts.
Press Release Sunday, August 28, 2022, stated
“FIRST COLLECTIVE TO HOLD A SERIES OF DEMONSTRATIONS ON BEHALF OF HOUSELESS CAMP
COLUMBUS, OH-- Members of the FIRST Collective will hold demonstrations at the homes of several elected officials this afternoon regarding the forthcoming September eviction of Camp Shameless, located at 897 E Mound Street. Camp Shameless is a houseless encampment established on the near east side of Columbus this past spring. This afternoon we will be holding space at multiple locations demanding the following:
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Cancel the eviction for 897 E Mound Street. (asks are edited for word count)
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Move all homelessness matters out of the jurisdiction of the Department of Development and to the Department of Public Health.
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End the Environmental Remediation Contract associated with encampment sweeps.
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Create a committee to review and revise practices and policies around homelessness. This committee must be inclusive of mutual aid and community organizations that work with this population, as well as folks currently experiencing homelessness.
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Make space and funding available for an overnight warming center during cold months.
The camp grew from a warming center we created in order to supplement the woeful inadequate resources for warming centers and inhumane conditions in the homeless shelters across the city. Access to buildings that might be used for warming centers from late fall to early spring would greatly increase the well-being of our most vulnerable populations.
Contact: FIRST Collective
Email: firstcollective614@gmail.com
Social: https://www.facebook.com/FIRSTCollective614"
www.first-collective.org
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GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with every-day People working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Carolyn Harding with Jonathan Beard and Noel Williams, co-organizers with the Columbus Coalition for Rent Control.
Jonathan Beard is a member of the Coalition's Executive Committee, and a community development professional with long-time exposure to fair housing issues: his father, Charles A. Beard, testified in the landmark 1973 housing discrimination case United States of America vs. City of Parma, where the court found Parma liable of violating the Fair Housing Act. After moving to Columbus to receive a Masters in Public Administration from what is now known as the Glenn School at OSU, from 1995 - 2017 Jon served as President and CEO of Columbus Compact Corporation, where he raised more than $40 million to invest in the redevelopment of Columbus's most distressed neighborhoods. In that role, Jon financed and engaged directly in new construction and rehabilitation of single-family and multifamily housing as he led the city's largest comprehensive community development initiative since the 1970's.. Jon has been a landlord for more than 25 years as both a private citizen and president of the Columbus Compact, a nonprofit corporation, and has signed more than 100 leases as landlord over that period. As a public policy expert, real estate developer, banker and landlord Jon has in-depth knowledge of issues related to housing.
Noel has been advocating for people's rights via labor and community organizations for over 20+ years. Noel is the past president of the Columbus NAACP, past president of labor group which is part of Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (OCSEA) and is currently the VP President for the BREAD organization which stands for Building Responsibility Equity and Dignity. BREAD is made up of 44 diverse congregations which are racially, geographically, socially and economically diverse. BREAD holds officials accountable to implement proven solutions to community problems such as disrupting the school to prison pipeline by pushing Columbus City Schools to implement a program called Restorative Practices.
In my recent canvassing in Columbus Ohio, I asked folks what are their most concerning issues right now. They answered, reproductive rights, affordable housing and gun violence. Jonathan and Noel, you are leading out with a citizen-led ballot initiative for the city of Columbus, Ohio, to give citizens the right to affordable rent.
Website: http://columbusrentcontrol.info Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/groups/361249442629320/
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Carolyn Harding and today I’m talking with Dr. Alice Faryna and Bob Krasen with SPAN Ohio, an organization working for improved Medicare for All in Ohio! Dr. Alice Faryna, M.D. served in private practice in Marion, OHio, at the Neighborhood Health Center; VA hospitals and in Academic medicine at Wright State University. Her last full time job was as medical director for Part B Medicare in Ohio and West Virginia. That is what convinced her that the Medicare program should be expanded to cover all ages, but with improvements to eliminate co-pays and deductibles which can be done at a cost less that our current privatized system. Bob Krasen is a former clergyman in Cleveland; he worked for non-profits in Columbus, including United Cerebral Palsy; American Red Cross Blood Services; and Vision and Vocational Services; until retirement in 2006. He has been involved in SPAN Ohio ever since, and is now Coordinator in Central Ohio, promoting Medicare for All on the National and State levels. I’m turning 65 in November and since last November I’ve been getting a lot of mail, emails and texts about Medicare. I’m confused, I assumed Medicare was an automatic enrollment, but I’m hearing it’s not that easy. I need help. So let’s break this down for everyday folks- and for those of us skeptical of the spin and possible booby traps. How does one best sign up for Medicare? SPANOhio.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Lisa Jackson and Sarah Teale, documentary film makers of Patrimonio, a story of a small coastal town in Mexico and its 3-year battle against an American mega-development, along with Bill Lyons of the Ohio Community Rights Network. Lisa F. Jackson (Producer /Director / Cinematographer) has been producing documentaries for over 35 years and has won 2 Emmys, a Sundance Jury Prize and the Muse Award from NYWIF. Credits include Sex Crimes Unit (HBO 2011) a portrait of prosecutors in the Manhattan DA’s Office; The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (HBO 2008 Sundance Special Jury Prize, 2 Emmy nominations) Meeting with a Killer (2001 Emmy Nominee) and The Secret Life of Barbie (ABC, 1999 Emmy Winner). It Happened Here, about sexual assault on college campuses, aired on Pivot in January 2015. Grazers: A Cooperative Story premiered at DOCNYC in 2014 and is being distributed by Collective Eye. She recently received the first ever Legacy Award from the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival. Sarah Teale (Producer) was a Producer/Director of Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections (aired: HBO March 26th, 2020. Emmy nominated for Outstanding Investigative Documentary 2021). She was also a Producer/Director on the HBO series The Weight of the Nation, nominated for a Prime Time Emmy. Other HBO films she produced and directed include Dealing Dogs, (Emmy nomination Outstanding Investigative Documentary); Hacking Democracy, (Emmy nomination Outstanding Investigative Documentary); Death on a Factory Farm; Bellevue: Inside Out, a year inside the locked psychiatric wards at Bellevue Hospital; and Mumia Abu Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt?, HBO Cable Ace Award nomination. She has also produced and directed documentaries for the BBC, A&E and Discovery. Teale also produced and directed the feature documentaries Grazers: A Cooperative Story with Lisa F. Jackson distributed by Collective Eye and Passion River and Patrimonio, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and Full Frame and is distributed by First Run Features Bill Lyons is a co-organizer of Columbus Community Bill of Rights, a group that is working to protect the water of the Columbus metro area from toxic and radioactive fracking waste. Bill is also the president of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) whose mission is to establish a network of just communities in Ohio working to advance community rights and rights of nature. Bill teaches mathematics at Columbus State Community College and has taught mathematics and science on 4 different continents. http://www.patrimoniofilm.com https://www.ohiocrn.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Laura Robertson-Boyd and Terri Black, advocates with Moms Demand Action. A national non-profit to end gun violence. Laura Robertson-Boyd has been a grassroots volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America since 2016, and she currently volunteers as the Columbus Local Group Lead. In addition to her efforts to prevent gun violence in Ohio, Laura has spent many years as a grassroots activist around elections, redistricting reform, and LGBTQ+ equality and anti-discrimination protections. Terri Black is a very proud mother of two teens. She works as a Grant Manager for a Univ in Cleveland. She resides in the Columbus area and has lived in Ohio the majority of her life. Terri is the spokesperson for Columbus Moms Demand Action. Last week we attended a Vigil at the Ohio Statehouse in honor of the children and teachers slain in Uvalde, Texas. Moms Demand Action Ohio, Brady United Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Survivor network hosted the vigil. Everyone knows we have a growing crisis, an epidemic of gun violence in the US, and we are All, looking for answers and action. MomsDemandAction.org GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! See Less See less
Carolyn Harding with Dion Green, son of Derrick Fudge, who was shot the night of August 4, 2019 in the mass shooting in Dayton Ohio. Dion has taken his pain and trauma and started the Fudge Foundation in honor of his Father.
Mr. Dion Green is the Founder/CEO of FUDGE Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that helps survivors through traumatic experiences with resources and support. The Foundation seeks to support individuals on their journey of grief and healing through the delivery of support service and advocacy at both a local and national level. Mr. Green has his MBA from Keller’s Graduate School in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science from DeVry University in Business Administration. Mr. Green is a Certified Peer Support Specialist with the State of Ohio. Mr. Green is a survivor, he speaks around the country and in communities that have been impacted by gun violence. In addition, he serves on the Board of Felons with a Future, Upturn Ohio and numerous other community initiatives and support networks across the country. Mr. Green is the published author of his memoir, Untitled: Act of God/Act of Man. He is a 2021 graduate of Leadership Ohio, and recipient of multiple awards and recognitions from local officials and Governors. Mr. Green is a mentor, leader and change agent for the community, working to help communities heal.
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Carolyn Harding with Rita Hallaveld and Carissa Roberts, organizers for the DSA, (Democratic Socialists of America) Central Ohio Childcare for All initiative. Rita Hallaveld (she/her) is passionate about community building and organizing with an eye toward addressing the root causes of issues. With a background in social work, she previously worked as a mental health therapist for a decade, first in community based work then in private practice. A single parent of a preschooler, Rita currently dedicates her spare time to organizing with Columbus DSA's Child Care Campaign and volunteers on the board of a summer camp. She is an outdoor enthusiast, with hiking and rock climbing among her favorite activities. Carissa Roberts (she/they) grew up in Upper Arlington and attended The Ohio State University, studying Spanish Linguistics. As a childhood trauma and relationship abuse survivor with chronic mental health issues, she is passionate about pursuing collective solutions to systemic issues that impact our individual lives. Carissa joined the Columbus DSA Child Care Campaign to advance feminist, racial, and economic justice through prioritizing the needs of children, parents, and early childhood educators at a local level here in Central Ohio. Outside of the Child Care Campaign, she is also a dedicated volunteer with the Central Ohio Housing Action Network, helping to connect tenants facing eviction in Franklin County with legal resources. Last week at the Ohio Education Association march, I met Rita and asked her why she was marching. She shared her Childcare for All campaign with me, and I think we all will benefit to learn more about this Need and their campaign’s proposed solutions. May 14th Coalition kickoff registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0sduCrqTsjEt2vwgdGPPHv4J9GB... Sign-up to be involved or stay in the loop: https://tinyurl.com/mw5frp69 And DSA's website for the local chapter: www.columbusdsa.org GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! See less
Carolyn Harding with Sherry Fleming and Susan Catterall, water protectors of the Michindoh Aquifer. According to epa.gov “In 2007, the city of Bryan, Ohio applied to U.S. EPA to designate the Michindoh Aquifer as a "sole-source" aquifer. That designation means the aquifer is the only source of drinking water for people in a nine-county area that includes parts of three states. Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Sherry Fleming is the chairperson for the Williams County Alliance, a grassroots 501c3 citizen group, promoting a sustainable future through education and citizen action. The Alliance has been involved with issues such as factory farms, tire pyrolysis, fracking and water privatization. Sherry graduated from OSU with a degree in animal science production. She and her husband Ted live on a small homestead in Williams County. Sherry also serves on the board of the Ohio Community Rights Network and is coordinator for the Bryan Food Co-op.
Susan Kipfer Catterall was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and currently resides in Hamilton, Indiana. She is married with five adult children. Susan is a direct support professional employed by Full Potential, Inc., and she’s the DSP of her two adult sons on the autism spectrum. Advocating for her disabled children led her to activism. She is an organizer for United Activist of Fort Wayne. She volunteers at the local animal shelter, Literacy for Companionship, and serves as the treasurer for Feline Fixers. Susan serves as the precinct chair of her township with the democratic party in Steuben County, and is an active member in The Green Party of northeast Indiana. Sherry lives over the aquifer in Indiana, and in 2018 she created the Michindoh Water Warriors FB page after she became aware there was an effort to sell water from the aquifer to the Toledo area. Susan’s worked to raise the awareness of the people and electeds in Indiana.
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GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Greg Coleridge and Sandy Bolzenius organizers with Move to Amend, a movement to Amend the US Constitution to codify that Corporations are not People & Money is not speech.
Greg Coleridge is Co-Director of Move to Amend. He worked for more than three decades with the American Friends Service Committee in Ohio where he educated, advocated and organized on a range of justice, peace, environmental and democracy issues -- including helping coordinate Move to Amend activities in the Buckeye state. He is the author of The Depth of Change: Selected Writings and Remarks on Social Change (2022), Citizens over Corporations: A Brief History of Democracy in Ohio and Challenges to Freedom in the Future (2003), writer of the documentary CorpOrNation: The Story of Citizens and Corporations in Ohio (2003), and contributed several articles to the anthology Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy - A Book of History and Strategy (2001). He currently maintains and distributes via email a weekly REAL Democracy History Calendar and Monetary History Calendar.
Sandy Bolzenius is a longtime resident of Columbus where she has volunteered for Move to Amend for ten years. She is an Army veteran and a former international teacher with a doctorate in History from the Ohio State University. Specializing in Gender and African American studies, she is the author of Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army during World War II (University of Illinois Press, 2018). Sandy's interest in the dynamics of gender, race, class, and public policies, drew her to Move to Amend. Additionally, local environmental concerns drew her to the Columbus Community Bill of Rights for which she also volunteers.
I first heard about Move to Amend 8 years ago when I was getting started in protecting Ohio’s water, air and soil regarding fracking. I was new to activism, pretty idealistic and Move to Amend seemed nebulous to me. I liked what I heard, but I wasn’t sure what the game plan was. Fast forward to Now, and this proposed 28th Amendment is more clear to me.
Move to Amend https://www.movetoamend.org/ https://www.movetoamend.org/motion https://www.movetoamend.org/corporate-constitutional-rights https://www.movetoamend.org/organizations https://www.movetoamend.org/resolutions-in-support
Others - related https://createrealdemocracy.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/the-depth-of-change/ https://realdemocracyhistorycalendar.wordpress.com/ https://monetarycalendar.wordpress.com/
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/03/02/to-reclaim-ohioans-historical-power-first-energys-corporate-charter-should-be-revoked/?fbclid=IwAR0d9WFZjw4WJyKqGsogLFdd4O_Ps6erG_6-WYHe9lnonRbuldeXwsO1n00
University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p083334
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Carolyn Harding with Tish O’Dell, a powerful voice for justice in Ohio, the US and Globally.
Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privatization, industrial scale energy development, and others addressing worker’s rights, homeless rights, immigrant rights, fair election issues and nature’s rights, including the first in the nation law recognizing the rights of a specific ecosystem, the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in 2019. Tish is a founding board member of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), organizing and assisting county chapters to build a movement of community rights organizing throughout the state to culminate in constitutional change that will guarantee people’s rights to local self-governance and the rights of people and nature over corporations.
From the Columbus Dispatch, "Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday removing training, background check and permitting requirements to carry a concealed weapon in Ohio….Prior law required them to undergo eight hours of training, a background check, and an application through their local sheriff….”
“In 2006 the legislature passed a law preemptively blocking Ohio cities from passing any gun restrictions stricter than those established by the state. The law was used to squash lawsuits from Ohio cities including Clyde, Cleveland and Cincinnati seeking to regulate guns within their borders.”
State legislators have been very busy writing and passing preemptive laws. According to a Cincinnati.com article, “The Ohio Municipal League has a tally of 17 laws passed since 2003 and another 21 pending bills that usurp local control.” Plastic bag bans, traffic cameras, minimum wage proposals, to HB 278 (125GA) – which preempted municipal authority over permitting, location and spacing of oil and gas wells on municipal property.
Welcome Tish, congratulations on your book, Death by Democracy!
celdf.org
https://celdf.org/2017/08/blog-ceiling-preemption-weapon-democracy/
https://www.lsc.ohio.gov/documents/reference/current/membersonlybriefs/133Municipal%20Home%20Rule.pdf
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Home_rule_in_the_United_States
https://columbusbillofrights.org/rights-of-nature-workshop/
https://celdf.org/2022/01/new-book-death-by-democracy/
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Carolyn Harding with Esther Flores and Molly Cruz, on the front-lines of human trafficking in Columbus, Ohio.
Esther Flores founded 1DivineLine2Health, a 501c3 public charity, gathering medical supplies for local and international clinics. In Columbus she operates two safe houses that serve survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, and addiction. Her team supports sex workers on the streets by feeding and providing first aid, Narcan, clothes and she operates the Love Drop-In Center. In January 2021, she opened the first full-time Drop-In Center for women, their children, and transgender folks caught in the dark world of human trafficking. She created the Hilltop Butterfly community garden and in the summer produces the Camping in the Hood is Good event. Flores received her bachelor’s degree in Nursing from The Ohio State University, a bachelor’s degree in Physical Anthropology, Biology and Chemistry from Lehman College, and an MBA in Health Care Administration from the University of Phoenix. She is an advocate for the Ohio Health Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio and a certified Trauma Informed and Responsive Trainer by Tristate Trauma Network.
Molly Cruz is a certified peer supporter and a survivor using her lived experience to help other woman in crisis. She’s currently studying to get her bachelor’s in addiction recovery services through Clark State including her Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant (CDCA). She has been working at 1divineline2 health for 5 months and it has been the most rewarding and simultaneously heartbreaking work she’s ever been a part of.
Just yesterday a Columbus man was indicted for five felony counts, human trafficking in persons, rape, compelling prostitution, promoting prostitution and commercial sexual exploitation of a minor. Last weekend was the Arnold Sports Festival which spikes human trafficking in Central Ohio, and in October, 2021, “Ohio Knows” the largest human trafficking sting in Ohio history, a net 161 (including a city councilman, a fire fighter, a college professor) arrested for attempting to buy sex.
You work is on the front lines of this crime. Your work is a bright light of hope, help and belonging for the victims of human trafficking.
What do you need? How can we help?
1dl2h.org
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Carolyn Harding with Bill Lyons and Susie Beiersdorfer, Ohio community rights activists and co-writers of the new book, “Death by Democracy”.
Bill Lyons is a co-organizer of Columbus Community Bill of Rights, a group that is working to protect the water of the Columbus metro area from toxic and radioactive fracking waste. Bill is also the president of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) whose mission is to establish a network of just communities in Ohio working to advance community rights and rights of nature. Bill also teaches mathematics at Columbus State Community College and has taught mathematics and science on 4 different continents.
Susie Beiersdorfer is a teacher, geologist, community activist and tree planter who has lived in Youngstown, Ohio for 28 years. Growing up in Bakersfield, California, her family owned an oil tool service company. After getting a BS in Geology from University of California at Davis, Susie worked as a mudlogger in the oil and gas fields of California. Susie taught elementary school in California, homeschooled her twin daughters, and taught Geology and Environmental Sciences at Youngstown State University. She co-founded Frackfree Mahoning Valley and the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights Committee, qualifying 10 citizen initiatives for the ballot between 2013-2018. She is secretary for the Ohio Community Rights Network and president of the National Community Rights Network.
Death by Democracy - pretty dramatic title! Let’s talk about your work and why you each have a chapter in this book.
Susie, I’ve known you for nearly 12 years. I first met you in Youngstown at a fracking workshop held in the Unitarian Church, and the time we delivered petitions to Governor John Kasich’s office to end toxic oil & gas fracking. Bill, we’ve worked together almost that long. We first met at the radioactive waste alert presentation of Mark Jacobson from Stanford University, and his comprehensive plan for global renewable energy.
Susie, tell us about your work in Youngstown.
Bill, tell us about your work in Columbus.
OHIOCRN.org
CELDF.org
ColumbusBillofRights.org
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Carolyn Harding with Craig Ness and Stephanie Pasamonte, bike lane advocates in the Columbus Metro region.
Craig Ness is a transit advocate who resides in Bexley, Ohio. He has been a member of the Bexley Bike Plan Steering Committee since 2019 and uses cycling as a primary means of transportation. Craig holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Wake Forest University and is currently employed as a user experience designer. He is a member of a local collective called Safe Routes Bexley which promotes traffic calming and transit alternatives.
Stephanie Pasamonte is a transit and mobility advocate living in Columbus, Ohio. Their work is informed by their lived experience in cities and small towns across the country. After immigrating from the Philippines in the early 90s, Stephanie and their family have largely depended on public transportation to get around. Their primary focus is on increasing mobility options as a means of achieving racial and economic equity and building sustainable communities in the era of climate change. Stephanie is the Vice Chair of Transit Columbus and a volunteer transit organizer with the Ohio Sierra Club.
Last week I attended the Bexley city council meeting. There was a presentation of two redevelopment options for Drexel Avenue, Bexley’s main artery from Broad Street to Main Street, which is Bexley’s civic, business, and university district. Plan B included a designated bike lane, Plan A did not. As a resident, a city biker, and an environmental advocate, I went to the council mtg to learn. And I left the meeting, realizing that changing infrastructure is complicated, controversial and galvanizing. So, let’s look at this more deeply.
https://transitcolumbus.org/ Transit Columbus champions an integrated public transportation system for the people of Central Ohio to improve the safety, health, environment and economic vitality of the entire Columbus region.
https://www.facebook.com/SafeRoutesBexley/.
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When Christopher Austin asked to interview me for GrassRoot Ohio, I said YES to to my fellow actor/activist friend - this is Chris’ show & I’m in the hot seat! Shout out to Curtain Players Performance - The Laramie Project! Carolyn Harding with Christopher Austin, fellow artist/activist and colleague. Christopher Austin graduated from Otterbein University with a major in Theatre and received his Master’s Degree in Pastoral and Professional Counseling from Methodist Theological School. He has received awards for his theatrical performances and completed his first feature film “Things Are Tough All Over,” directed by local film maker Chris Bournea. Christopher has worked in the field of counseling and social work for 6 years and has received recognition and awards for his work in the field. He is active in the Columbus community with the goal helping people find their voice of empowerment through the arts, volunteering in religious and community outreach, and social activism. In June, 2020, I interviewed Chris on GrassRoot Ohio. His petition to take down the Christopher Columbus statue in front of the Columbus City Hall, was the straw that broke the camels back, after years of activists’ work to bring this symbol of trauma down. But I first got to know Chris from our other shared world - the Arts. In November, 2012, we were in a theatrical production of To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Mark Mann. Chris played the role of Tom Robbins, the man falsely accused and convicted of rape by a white woman. I played Ms. Stephanie, the nosey neighbor of Atticus Finch- white, privileged, complicit, racist. In July, 2019, Chris was cast as the lead character in “Things are Tough All Over”, an independent feature film by Chris Bournea, and I was cast as the school principal, this time an ally. Two months ago Chris asked me if he could interview me for GrassRoot Ohio. I was taken back, a bit flummoxed, with everything going on in our world…. But I said yes to Chris and so here we are. This is Christopher Austins’ show, and I’m in the hot seat. Friday 5 pm broadcast on WGRN.org, GrassRoot Ohio now airs on Sunday’s, at 2pm on WCRSFM.org, 92.7/98.3 FM Columbus, and at 4pm on WEJP-LP, 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV. You can also find us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube, Face Book & Instagram. Thanks for joining us.
Carolyn Harding with Morgan Harper, Democratic candidate running to represent Ohio in the United States Senate.
Morgan Harper was born at The Ohio State University Hospital, living in a foster home for the first 9 months of her life before being adopted and raised on the east side of Columbus by a Public Schools teacher. After receiving financial aid with help from the Ron Brown Scholar Program, Morgan went on to graduate from Tufts (BA), Princeton (MA) and Stanford (JD). After graduating, Morgan clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, worked as a paralegal at the Federal Trade Commission, and served as a Senior Advisor at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under the Obama Administration protecting consumers against predatory corporations. Most recently, Morgan was Director of Policy & Advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project and also co-founded Columbus Stand Up! a grassroots community organization that mobilized volunteers across Central Ohio in response to the pandemic and 2020 election. Morgan is now running to represent Ohio in the U.S. Senate to get political and economic power back on the side of working people.
5 months ago, you kicked off your US Senate campaign in front of the Ohio State House. You’re a woman, 38 years old, a progressive Democrat running against the establishment Democrat candidate, Congressman, Tim Ryan. Why you, Why now?
MorganHarper.org
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Carolyn Harding with Louise Valentine and Mikayla Lee, organizers with Women LEADing Ohio, part of the non-profit, Lead Ohio. Their mission is to make a difference in communities across Ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.
Louise Valentine has been the Deputy Director for LEAD Ohio since February 2019. Louise was a graduate of the 2018 LEAD Ohio LEADership Academy, which helped prepare her to run for Ohio Senate in district 19. The skills she learned and the relationships she built in the program helped propel her to the highest ever vote total for a Democrat in Delaware County. Louise is a lifelong resident of Ohio, born and raised in Elyria and attended The Ohio State University. Before her life in politics, Louise spent over 12 years in various roles in corporate retail in Central Ohio.
Mikayla Lee is a recent graduate from The Ohio State University where she studied Economics and Public Affairs. Mikayla is passionate about electoral politics and progressive and inclusive government. She most recently managed State Representative Jessica Miranda’s successful re-election campaign in Cincinnati, Ohio, and previously interned on federal campaigns, at the Ohio Statehouse, and on Capitol Hill. Mikayla has joined LEAD Ohio as a Communications and Research Associate.
With Ohio’s recently drawn gerrymandered district maps, currently being sued before the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, we see that there is one woman to six men in the redistricting commission that created these discriminatory maps.
Will more (progressive) women in seats of power make Ohio more fair, more equitable, more democratic?
Leadohio.org
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Carolyn Harding with Mia Lewis, Associate Director of Common Cause Ohio and a leader of Indivisible Ohio District 12. She comes from an organizing and educational background, and is passionate about protecting and expanding the right to vote.
As Activists, we’re always looking for the Answer, the Silver bullet, the Fix, and we both know, there’s no such thing. When it comes to Voting……Gerrymandering is the Blatant Blockade to Fair Democratic Elections.
Mia, you’ve spent a great deal of time and energy organizing to end Ohio’s “In Your Face” Gerrymandering. Is there an Answer, a Silver bullet, the Fix to end this Discrimination?
https://www.commoncause.org/ohio/
https://www.fairdistrictsohio.org
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Carolyn Harding with Roxanne Groff and Chief Sil, in the thick of Ohio oil & gas rule making, updating the Ohio Class II injection well regulations, written by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and slated for a hearing of the State House JCARR committee (Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review) as early as Monday, December 6.
I got my start in activism ten years ago, raising the alarm of the radioactive waste stream of fracking, and conventional oil and gas waste. You both have been integral in this fight to protect Ohio citizens from indiscriminate, dangerous regulations and laws, most of which favor the oil & gas industry, allowing the massive radioactive waste stream to be dumped into our watersheds, landfills, injection wells, and spread on our roads and highways, as ice and dust control, aka brine. Buckeye Environmental Network benohio.org RadioactiveWasteAlert.org JCAAR Committee Contacts https://www.jcarr.state.oh.us/about/jcarr-committee GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice and Jennifer Fish, Ohio water guardians who helped create the incredible Central Ohio Greenways Project, connecting the Central Ohio region with over 230 miles of trails for everyone to explore parks, neighborhoods, rivers. They are a commitment to science and protecting our most vital natural resources - clean and safe water and soil. http://centralohiogreenways.com https://www.rapid5.org https://www.franklinswcd.org https://www.ohbrinetaskforce.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
We The People vs. Agent Orange w/ Carol Van Strum, Alan Adelson, Kate Taverna & Bill Lyons by Carolyn Harding
For the second segment of GrassRoot Ohio, We get the update of the current Anti-Protesting Bills (HB 22, HB 109, and SB 41). Bills that would fine, create penalties or even felonize peaceful protests, and chill our First Amendment Rights of speech and assembly. Kristen Beireis and Joan VanBecelaere, organizers with Our Voices Together and Unitarian Universalist Justice Ohio, are here to update us and tell us how we can help Stop These Bills - to register and get more information: https://www.facebook.com/UUJusticeOhio & http://www.uujo.org/
I’m Carolyn Harding and today I would like to share my take, my personal opinion on an Ohioan with an infamous past, my great great uncle, Warren G. Harding.
It’s been just over 100 years since his election and inauguration and I’ve been doing some deep diving, reading books, talking with family, trying to prepare myself to deal with an upcoming event in Marion Ohio, where my extended family will gather together: my elderly parents, my sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins I haven’t seen for years, and some I have never met - most folks with very different politics than my own.
When I saw the line up of speakers for the dedication, I was aghast - I’ve protested most of them, many times!, with signs, fists, petitions, testimonies, rallies, marches, GrassRoot Ohio shows, and at the ballot box!
So what do I do? Do I show up as a family member or do I show up as an activist…..
I’ve decided to show up here as an activist, and show up there as family…. if I can.
For today’s show: Warren G. and Me. I’m going to share an opinion piece I’ve been working on from my lens, my perspective, of my great great uncle, Warren G. Harding. Then I’ll play the testimony I gave in 2018 opposing Ohio SB 250, the precursor of the current anti-protest bills in the Ohio legislature (HB 22, HB 109, and SB 41), bills if passed will felonize our right to peacefully protest, our First Amendment right!
Both the op ed and the Senate Judiciary Committee testimony are fueled by my relationship with Warren G. Harding.
Thanks for joining me today.
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Carolyn Harding with Whitney Shanahan, Founder of ProChoice with Heart, a growing organization that focuses on holding protests across the country fighting for women's rights! They wear red as a symbol of women's oppression, inspired by Margaret Atwood’s book and hulu show, Handmaid's Tale.
According to Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, “On September 1st one of the most extreme abortion bans went into effect — Texas’s S.B. 8 will ban abortion at six weeks of pregnancy and encourages private citizens to act as abortion bounty hunters — allowing anyone to sue any Texan who they believe provided an abortion, or even helped a patient get an abortion, after six weeks.” Can you lay out what just happened in Texas, with the six-week abortion ban.
What does that mean for the everyday Texan woman, their loved ones, and health care providers?
What does this mean for everyday Ohioan women, their loved ones and health care providers?
https://prochoicewithheart.com
photo by Paul Becker
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Mike Ferner and Markie Miller, advocates and activists for the health and well being of Lake Erie.
Mike Ferner is coordinator of Lake Erie Advocates, a grassroots citizens’ group that educates and organizes to build awareness and public pressure to stop the assault on Lake Erie by factory "farms" and other polluters. He lives with Sue Carter, his wife of 35 years, and an ever-changing number of cats, with Lake Erie as their front yard, in Toledo.
Markie Miller is a volunteer organizer for Toledoans for Safe Water, and the Ohio Community Rights Network. She is an ambassador for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights and the Rights of Nature, speaking at the United Nations, appearing on The Daily Show, and numerous local, national and international media outlets.
Mike I just read your AUGUST 27, article in Counterpunch, "There is No “Fixing” This Industry: the Third Battle for Lake Erie", with the visual of a huge billboard Saying “Lake Erie is Not a Toilet”-
Markie, you and Julian Mack were my First GrassRoot Ohio guests 2 1/2 years ago, just after Toledo citizens voted to enact The Lake Erie Bill of Rights.
The Objective is the same - a clean, safe, healthy lake. With everything that has gone on since that glorious day - What have you learned and what are your new tactics to protect Our Great Lake on Ohio’s North shore?
lakeerieadvocates.org Lake Erie Bill of Rights: LakeErieAction.org https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/27/there-is-no-fixing-this-industry-the-third-battle-for-lake-erie/
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Dominic Detwiler and Amanda Erickson, activists and advocates promoting lived and legal equality for LGBTQIA+ Ohioans, young and old.
Dominic Detwiler (he/him/his) is a graduate of Ohio University where he studied Sociology with Minors in Psychology, Political Science, and Music. As Public Policy Strategist, Dominic works primarily on advancing Equality Ohio's objectives at the Ohio Statehouse, including passing the Ohio Fairness Act and protecting minors from so-called "conversion therapy". Dominic has worked with Equality Ohio in various capacities since 2017 and has served as Public Policy Strategist since January 2020. Dominic is excited to be a part of the Equality Ohio team and work with lawmakers and other public officials to promote lived and legal equality for LGBTQ Ohioans.
Equality Ohio: https://equalityohio.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equalityohio Twitter: http://twitter.com/equalityohio Insta: http://instagram.com/equality.ohio
Amanda Erickson (she/her) is the Director of Education and Outreach at Kaleidoscope Youth Center. Since 2017 she has focused on advocating for LGBTQIA+ youth across Ohio through professional development and education for youth-serving professionals including teachers, social workers, and more. Amanda has a Bachelor of Science in Education from Bowling Green State University, and spent two years post-college as a Peace Corps Volunteer educating teachers in the South Pacific. Since returning to the US, she has worked in education and programming in the Columbus nonprofit sector.
Kaleidoscope Youth Center website: http://www.kycohio.org @kycohio on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KYCOhio @kycohio on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/kycohio @kycohio on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kycohio
Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio.
On July 2, 2021, News5 cleveland.com headlined, Ohio's budget has a provision allowing medical providers to refuse care for LGBTQ community -Gov. DeWine said people could just find another provider.
And on July 7, Rolling Stone headlined, Ohio Allows Doctors to Deny LGBTQ Health Care on Moral Grounds - The new provision, snuck into a last-minute amendment to the budget, was signed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
This flies directly in the face of this portion of the Hippocratic oath, “I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.”
What’s going on Right Now regarding LGTBQIA+ Rights in Ohio?
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! See Less
Carolyn Harding with Jonathan Beard and David Harewood, organizers with the Columbus Police Accountability Project, “To provide information for empowered citizens to learn more about how to exercise our collective power to ensure police accountability. Finally..”
Jon Beard's life goal is to help make the world a better place. He now works in the field of career technical education after working for 22 years in community-led redevelopment of distressed neighborhoods. He has helped lead multiple citizen ballot initiatives to reform Columbus City Council and regulate campaign contributions, coached and then ran a youth baseball league, and volunteered with many social welfare associations in his 30 years in Columbus.
David S. Harewood is an advocate and artist who’s spent the last decade in Columbus to give voice to the voiceless and help shorten the ”long arc of history” toward justice with every project and campaign. Having forged alliances and friendships with multiple organizations addressing, and victims of, police abuse, he joined with the Columbus Police Accountability Project as a way to provide protection for and a voice to those long afraid to speak out about the wrongs committed against them in the name of “law and order”.
This is from the Columbus Police Accountability Website:
“We are a collection of African American community leaders and involved citizens and our allies who are calling for the federal protection from a rogue division of police that has a pattern and practice of violating our community’s rights under the Constitution of the United States of America and the country’s various federally-ensured civil rights. We seek federal protection because for the past decades city political leadership has failed in that task. We will support our call for federal oversight by providing collecting and the testimony of Columbus residents who have experienced such lawless policing since the DOJ last investigated Columbus in 1998.”
Columbus is a dangerous city, the Columbus Division of Police’s violence and killing of our Black and People of Color citizens is next to that of New York City and Chicago.
What is going on in Columbus with the Division of Police?
https://c-pap.info
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.
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Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Claudia Sheehan, Anne Sparks, and Judy Smucker, three Athens County elders who traveled to northern Minnesota this week to support Indigenous women-led water protectors who are resisting construction of an enlarged tar sands pipeline that would take a new route through tribal lands, Enbridge Line 3.
“We stand in support of all who are trying to stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline because it would greatly increase flow into the U.S. of Canadian tar sands, a sludge with the same carbon-heavy crude oil as the recently canceled Keystone XL pipeline would have carried. This new section of pipeline will go under more than 200 waterways and cross Mississippi River headwaters twice. Construction, as well as likelihood of leaks, endangers resources, including wild rice, that are critical to survival of the region’s tribal communities.”
You are there at Line 3 in Northern Minnesota right now, tell us where this is and what is going on now......
THREE ATHENS COUNTY WOMEN TO STAND WITH INDIGENOUS WATER PROTECTORS IN MINNESOTA Read Press Release at: http://www.acfan.org/?fbclid=IwAR09M1ZysPYfswOHF6YOKW6y9U51THewaMvcCv5wK93kFcBpAYf1hrrlc-Q
honorearth.org https://www.facebook.com/giniwcollective/ stopline3.org Cover Art by Christi Belcourt https://www.facebook.com/christibelcourt
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
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Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
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There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Ohio Representative Erica Crawley, District 26. She recently put her name in for the Franklin County Commissioner spot vacated by former Commissioner Marilynn Brown. The Franklin County Central Committee will vote within the month, amongst 6 or more candidates, many of whom are highly qualified, to take on this Consequential political Position.
Erica Crawley is a State Representative for Ohio’s 26th House District, which is East/Southeast Franklin County, first elected in November 2018. Rep. Crawley is a mother, veteran and advocate. Her career has primarily been in the non-profit sector advocating on behalf of children and families. In the legislature, Erica has worked on maternal and infant health, pay equity, prison reform, early childhood and K12 issues as well as veteran’s housing and employment. She is passionate about community engagement, economic development, and ensuring that all children have the tools that they need to be successful in life. Representative Crawley is a proud Navy Veteran and currently serves as the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Finance committee- the first Black woman to ever hold this position. She is the mother of 16 year old twin girls, Hope & Faith.
Welcome to GrassRoot_Ohio radio/podcast. You’re in the progressive Hot Seat. We have 28 minutes and 17 questions. You Ready?
https://ohiohouse.gov/members/erica-c-crawley
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190217/new-ohio-lawmaker-erica-crawleys-difficult-life-is-familiar-to-her-columbus-constituents
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Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
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Carolyn Harding with Teresa Mills and Roxanne Groff, founders of the Ohio Brine Task Force, educating and organizing the people of Ohio regarding Oil & Gas liquid waste or, “Brine”, which is currently spread on our roadways for dust and ice control, sounding the alarm that this Brine is far more than salty water, in fact it’s dangerous - it’s Radioactive.
For almost 30 years Teresa Mills has worked as a grassroots leader to help communities to find their voices, analyze data and develop strategic plans. She began her activism career by shutting down the Columbus trash Incinerator, which was polluting her neighborhood and was later defined as the largest emitter of dioxin in the country. Teresa is the Executive Director of the Buckeye Environmental Network, a statewide coalition of grassroots-focused groups. Today she works with Center for Health and Environmental Justice to train and assist grassroots leaders across the country. Teresa also coordinates CHEJ’s small Grants Program
Roxanne Groff graduated from Ohio University and made Athens County her home. In 1978 she co-founded Save Our Rural Environment (S.O.R.E.), a grass roots group protesting the permitting of strip mines in eastern Athens County. Her interest in state law and the lack of implementation of rules by the regulatory agencies, led her to run for and win Bern Township Trustee and then Athens County Commissioner. Recently Roxanne has been working with Athens County Fracking Action Network (ACFAN), and Buckeye Environmental Network, opposing permitting toxic radioactive injection wells in Ohio and opposing the sale of mineral parcels on public lands, especially the Wayne National Forest in Ohio. She has lived off the grid for 45 years on her pastoral homestead in rural Athens County.
Two radioactive Brine Bills are before the 134th Ohio General Assembly, as we speak, Ohio House Bill 282 and Senate Bill 171, both written to establish conditions for the sale of Brine as a commodity. One such product, currently marketed under the name AquaSalina, was tested by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Results from the test revealed that this product contains high levels of Radium-226 and Radium-228.
OHBrineTaskForce.org
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Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
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Carolyn Harding with Bill Lyons and Terry Lodge, organizer and legal council for the Columbus Community Bill of Rights and the Ohio Community Rights Network, fighting to protect the water, air, soil & rights of Columbus Metro and communities facing environmental, social, racial & economic harms throughout Ohio.
Bill Lyons is a mathematics and science teacher who has taught nearly 40 years on four different continents at the high school and college levels. He is a co-organizer of the Columbus Community Bill of Rights group and is president of the Ohio Community Rights Group. He has been an activist since 2015 when he got involved in the community rights and rights of nature movements because he is passionate about local democracy and social and environmental justice.
Terry Lodge has 50 years’ experience as an activist and civil and environmental rights lawyer. As a field attorney for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund since 2014, he’s worked to gain ballot access for grassroots initiatives proposing controversial local laws such as the rights of nature and control of the commons. In court, he’s opposed nuclear power and weapons, corporate welfare, mountaintop removal mining, fracking, and has supported free speech and diversity in the workplace. He’s been recognized by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, has received an Access to Justice Award, and is a past Ohio Civil Liberties Union Champion.
On April 16, 2021, The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, or CELDF, issued a press release stating, “A lawsuit demanding the temporary suspension of a unique Columbus City Charter petition rule was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio on April 14, 2021. Petitioners seeking to ban harms from the fracking industry within Ohio’s capital city and surrounding watershed filed the lawsuit in June 2020, arguing a June 2020 deadline on signature gathering was unconstitutional during the Covid-19 pandemic and should be extended. The deadline effectively killed ballot access for the initiative, according to the lawsuit. The rule places a one-year timeline on ballot initiative petition gathering. The group has met these requirements in the past, and had it not been for state shutdown orders, were in position to meet the deadline.”
So in effect the US judge Denied the Columbus Community Bill of Rights their Right for Direct Democracy.
ColumbusBillofRights.org
OhioCRN.org
CELDF.org
CELDF Democracy School - online: https://celdf.org/celdf-services/education/democracy-school/democracy-school-online-2/
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There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Cynthia Brown, Sabrina Jordan and Donald Wiggins, organizers and legal advisor for the newly submitted state-wide ballot initiative to End Qualified Immunity in Ohio.
Cynthia Brown is a Political Humanitarian, Advocate, Organizer, Strategist, Visionary. She is from Youngstown, Oh, where she studied Media @ Communication, & Africans Americans Studies at Youngstown, Ohio, and continued her studies in Public Policy at Mesa Community College. She received the Slanczka Achievement Certificate for Diplomacy and the Distinguished Diplomate award for The Model United Conference 65th Far West in San Francisco. She is the Executive Director @ CEO of Heartbeat Movement Inc, and Committee Chair for Accountability Now Ohio.
Sabrina Jordan is the founder/chair of Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality, Inc. OFUAPB. She is the proud mother of Jamal Mcshann who was 22 years old when he was killed on October 15, 2013 due to gun violence, and Jamarco Mcshann who was killed when he was 23 years old on October 20th 2017 by the hands of Moraine, Ohio police officers. In February 2018, she had no choice but to stand up, and speak up about gun violence and police brutality, so she began building OFUAPB, “to fight against police brutality and make legislative changes in order to save lives, and to support our extended families, who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.”
Donald Wiggins began his career in local government and politics in New York City working on public housing and public safety matters. He relocated to Columbus, OH to pursue a Master of Public Administration degree at The Ohio State University—John Glenn College of Public Affairs. He went on to obtain a Juris Doctorate, from Capital University, to further his ability to assist a diverse range of communities and individuals in their quest to remedy challenges caused by ineffective, or nonexistent government policy. After completing law school, he pursued his passion for environmental law and policy, and worked to improve Ohio’s, and the Nation’s, safety net surrounding drinking water sources. In January 2019 he began to practice law with a focus on appellate law and constitutional law, and in 2020, Donald founded a Civic-Tech company, Initiate Change, LLC., with a vision to develop the software and tools which help free societies flourish by improving citizens civic understanding and access to the levers of legislative and policy change.
AccountabilityNowOhio.com
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Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding w/ Rebecca Ness and Kevin Doenges - Love Your Alley! "Love Your Alley is about collaboration, sustainability, creativity and beauty. It is transforming our underutilized alleys into extended living space for everyone to enjoy, while creating our own Homegrown National Park in Bexley with native plants that support our pollinators and biodiversity. These events and speakers are scheduled throughout the month of May to help participants learn about planting native plants, enhancing gardens for pollinators, and much more! Registration is required and ends 3 hours prior to the start of the event.
Rebecca Ness is the Vice Chair for Green Bexley. She’s spearheading Love Your Alley, a revitalized and expanded Bexley initiative. Love Your Alley is aimed at transforming our underutilized alleys into extended living space filled with native plants and artwork for everyone to enjoy. She also organizes kids’ green boot camps to help children learn about and appreciate the natural world. She facilitates the Green Bexley Parent’s Facebook Group. Rebecca is an Acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist and recognizes the strong correlation between the planet’s health and human health. She moved to Bexley from San Francisco mid-2017 with her husband, two young boys and small dog.
Kevin Doenges is an amateur naturalist with a passion for gardening with Ohio native plants and studying insects. He is an active member of the South Eastmoor Civic Association located on Columbus's mideast side. While working with this association, he has assisted with organizing plant swaps and helping to create and maintain a native plant garden in Brownlee Park. Using the pollinator garden, Kevin and other volunteers plan to host small classes to educate citizens of the importance of native plants.
See more information on the Love Your Alley Program & Register Here:
https://bexleyoh.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29954&AdminPreview=1
https://bexley.org/loveyouralley/?fbclid=IwAR2oBnU4v68xe67e_GRjAX_XSW6oqHwjkY97012wzlAJNdM8HFG25Kx9j1U
https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
https://www.nativesinharmony.com/
https://sciotogardens.com/
https://www.columbusgardenschool.com/
https://columbus.wildones.org/events/may-22nd-annual-native-plant-sale/
South Eastmoor Civic Association Plant Swap. All are invited. May 8th 10am to noon Brownlee Park. Located two blocks north of the intersection of Kenwick Rd and Livingston Avenue. Attendees do not have to show up with plants to swap to participate. There will be plants available to simply give away including some Ohio native plants.
www.instagram.com/doengeskevin
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/south-eastmoor-nature-watch
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding w/ Our Voices Together - an alliance of organizations working to protect our first amendment right to peaceful protest amidst a barrage of anti-protest laws in the Ohio Legislature.
Rev. Joan VanBecelaere is the Executive Director of UU Justice Ohio. This past election season, she also directed Ohio UU the Vote and was Chair of the Registration Team of the Nonpartisan Ohio Voter Outreach Committee (NOVOC). Before working for UUJO, she worked as UUA staff and was vice president for student services at Iliff School of Theology, Denver CO. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her spouse, Jerry, and 4 felines all named after Hebrew Bible prophets and royalty.
Kristen Beireis is the Community Organizer at UU Justice Ohio. Last election season she organized 26 congregations to participate in Ohio UU The Vote and helped activists acclimate to the digital version of voter advocacy. Kristen has worked as Program Coordinator in school based non-profit programs and has a long history in online marketing. She volunteers as a Hike Leader in local Metro Parks, sings in choirs and musical theater, leads a Facebook group of almost 1000 activists and has been organizing since 2016. Kristen and her Husband live in the Dayton, Ohio area with their feline friend, Hobbes.
www.uujo.org click on the Our Voices Together Box on the front page.
Protest While You Can Saturday Protest https://www.facebook.com/events/925833758230492
Rapid Action List Sign up - http://bit.ly/ourvoicestogetheralerts
Web Page - http://bit.ly/ourvoicestogetherinfo
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding (Host)w/ Justin Wells and Elizabeth Gentner - discuss Rank Choice Voting & Rank the Vote Ohio
Rank the Vote Ohio is a Non-partisan grassroots movement working to educate Ohio about the benefits and implementation of ranked choice voting. We are a non partisan, non-profit made up of Ohioans of all stripes across the entire political spectrum.
Justin Wells is a recent graduate from Cleveland State University, where he studied mechanical engineering. He has been the boots on the ground for Our Revolution and is now using his knowledge of canvassing and volunteer organization as the Co-Executive director for Rank the Vote Ohio.
Elizabeth Gentner, Co-Executive Director of Rank the Vote Ohio, believes, "Ranked Choice Voting presents a unique and compelling way to inject kindness, empathy and collaboration into American Politics. Everything about this method of voting encourages the candidates and the voters to find points of agreement. The systemic negativity, cynicism and polarization can be effectively removed from American Politics by reframing our voting around the question: "What do we have in Common?""
rankthevoteohio.org
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Chuck Lynd and Lynn Stan with Simply Living, "a community organization that celebrates and connects people to learning opportunities that promote community sustainability, environmental awareness and our local economy through educational outreach and partnerships within our community."
SimplyLiving.org
Chuck Lynd is an educator, environmentalist, activist, an advocate for locally owned businesses, and co-leader of the Ohio Coalition for Public Banking. He is a founding board member of Simply Living, serves on the board of the Ohio Sustainable Business Council and the Advisory Committee for Elevate Northland. Chuck is married to Sheila Fox and together they volunteer and contribute to grassroots movements working to make our community more resilient and less dependent on the interests of corporate monopolies.
Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio Lynn Stan has always felt lucky to wear these tags: a twin, an Olde Towne East resident, an Eastmoor High School graduate, business & arts administrator, local entrepreneur, connectician, and the one who married Charlie Einhorn who was part of the energy that created ComFest and the Hot Times Festival. Lynn is a Board Member for Simply Living and her 2021 mantra is Assets, Alliances & Actions all help make a compassionate & sustainable community.
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Abbie Sigmon and Donny Murray, of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Abbie Sigmon is the Citizens' Climate Lobby - Columbus Chapter co-liaison to Congresswoman Joyce Beatty's office. A proud native Ohioan, she has recently moved back to Ohio after living in Oregon, California, Pennsylvania, and China (but hopes to make Columbus her "forever home"). While living this rootless lifestyle, she has volunteered and worked for Save the Bay, Sierra Club, the Institute for Natural Resources, and various colleges and universities as an educator. In her spare time she is a music and soccer enthusiast. Donny has been a long time advocate for the environment and has served in volunteer roles for Green Columbus and the Sierra Club. He also helped lead the successful effort to #SaveTheCrew. Over the past two years he's co-led the Columbus Chapter of Citizens' Climate Lobby. During the 9 to 5 hours he works at Nationwide Insurance as an Internal Auditor. He lives in Merion Village with his wife and son. As an environmental activist, I know there are many fronts to sustainability, and just as many tactics. I’ve been rubbing shoulders with Citizens’ Climate Lobby volunteers for a good while, and we’re looking forward to learning what you are up to. GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Morgan Harper, Columbus native, lawyer and founder of the grassroots organization, Columbus Stand Up! She also serves as a Senior Advisor to the American Economic Liberties Project, an anti-monopoly advocacy organization. Previously, she was a candidate to represent Ohio's Third Congressional District. Morgan was also a Vice President at Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's largest community development financial institution, and worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a Senior Advisor to the first Director. Welcome back Morgan, great to have you on GrassRoot Ohio. Last week, on Thursday, February 25, Morgan Harper testified before Congress, the House Judiciary's Antitrust Subcommittee, on the unchecked power of Big Tech. https://fb.watch/40En4nQl1n/ https://www.economicliberties.us https://columbusstandup.org GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Rev. Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith. Rev Dr. Smith is an ordained minister, musician, writer, and activist living in Columbus, Ohio. She has written for the Washington Post and Huffington Post, as well as her blog, Candid Observations. She currently serves as one of the tri-chairs for the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She also serves as national scribe for the African American Ministers’ Leadership Council (AAMLC), as communications consultant for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, and is the founder of Crazy Faith Ministries. She is a graduate of Occidental College and Yale Divinity School, and earned a D.Min from United Theological Seminary. She has written many books, Crazy Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives; Crazy Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives and most recently, With Liberty and Justice for Some -The bible, the constitution, and Racism in America. I see Rev. Dr. Smith speaking, leading out at rallies for social Justice throughout Columbus, and I attended an incredible Freedom Choir concert at the Summit United Methodist Church on the OSU campus, at her direction. Join us for our conversation. GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
GrassRoot Ohio with Michael Doody and Emily Frechette, founder and organizers to save Kossuth Street Garden in Columbus Ohio. Why would the city of Columbus want to zone away the right for a well established-15 years old community garden to exist? What are these folks are doing to Save it?
Michael Doody is a Life long resident of Columbus. He’s lived in his house near the Kossuth Street Garden since 1996. He graduated in Journalism from OSU and has volunteered with Comfest, Hot Times Community Festival, for progressive candidates and is currently the block watch coordinator for Southern Orchards, bringing good dialogue between the Columbus Police Department and nearly 4,000 people in Southern Orchards. He is Founder/Director of Kossuth Street Garden and in 2007 he helped re-start Earth Day Columbus - and that first year's theme was “Start A Community Garden" which they did.
Emily Frechette is the Kossuth Street Garden manager, along with her husband. She grew up near Dayton Ohio and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a double major in Environmental Studies and Creative Writing. They moved to the Southern Orchards area in 2012, lived and worked on a 1-acre microfarm near Deshler Park for several years, moved to another area of town and volunteered at KSG, then moved back to Southern Orchards in 2016 when they bought their house, which is right across the street from KSG - the reason they moved here. In 2018 Emily was elected President of the Central Ohio Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, a national conservation group.
Kossuth Street Garden is a one acre organic community garden located at E Kossuth Street and S. 17th Street - just south of Nationwide Children's Hospital and just east of German Village.
https://www.facebook.com/KossuthStreetGarden
Write: Nicole Harper- Council Person Priscilla Tyson's assistant at: nnharper@columbus.gov & please cc: kossuthgarden@gmail.com when you do. Save Kossuth Garden.
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 photo by Paul Becker
Carolyn Harding and today I’m talking with Kiara Yakita, Jessica Smiley and Brynette Turner, activists and founders of the Black Liberation Movement Central Ohio.
Kiara Yakita is the Founder of grassroots non-profit corporation Black Liberation Movement and CEO of The UnBossed Network, a local Black media network. She developed herself as an activist, starting with protests for the LGBTQ+ community and Black Lives Matter for Trayvon Martin. She fights for Black Liberation through frontline activism, protesting, community outreach, anti-racism education, speeches and community events. Kiara spreads a message of equality, unity, justice, and the eradication of racism and hate.
Jessica Smiley, grassroots organizer and activist for over 10 years, is a Black lesbian and mother to a 13 year old daughter. Her passion lies with both the BLM movement and LGBTQIA+ rights and protections. She was a distributed/national organizer of the Women’s March, helping women nationwide become community organizers for equality and to defeat Trump in 2020. She organized rallies at Goodale Park and the Ohio Statehouse, submitted written testimonies for and attended virtual city council meetings to voice her support for legislation to end no-knock warrants, to form citizens review boards, to demilitarize CPD and to address CPD presence in our schools. Jess was a field volunteer for Obama’s two presidential campaigns, and for Bernie, 2020.
Brynette Turner, Ohio native/Columbus resident is an author and retired federal employee who has also been a community advocate, political activist, and organizer of a variety of community events. Whether working on political campaigns, registering and educating voters, lobbying politicians, or actively protesting against social injustices and human rights violations, Brynette has been driven by a deep love for people, democracy, and the ideal of equal opportunity. She fully believes this country has the ability to live up to its promises to all people and its responsibility to be good stewards of this land and its many resources.
Columbus is an epicenter for Police Violence on people of color. Families and communities are heartbroken, devastated from the recent murders of Casey Goodson and Andre Hill. The Columbus Police chief has been demoted, Officer Coy has been indicted. A new Chief will be hired, and the newly won Citizen Review Board will be formed.
It’s been an intense six months since our first conversation. In your perspective what is foremost in the hearts and minds of Central Ohio BLM activists?
Bail Bond Information: https://www.pretrial.org
photo by Paul Becker GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Alex Cole and Megan Hunter, activist/advocates protecting the Ohio River and supporting communities fighting an ODNR (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) permit to allow the Colorado-based Powhatan Salt Co., (New York private equity funded), to drill into natural salt caverns along and under the Ohio River to store highly flammable and explosive natural gas liquids. Alex Cole is a native of Fraziers Bottom WV on the Kanawha River. He has lived his whole life in the Chemical Valley and knows first hand what it is like to live on a river that is polluted beyond repair. Alex now works as a community organizer for The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition fighting the proposed Appalachian Storage Hub, trying to prevent what happened to the Kanawha from happening to the Ohio River, and protect the drinking water source for 5 million people from the petrochemical industry. Here is the link to the letter writing campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/.../tell-the-odnr-to-reject... Megan Hunter is a staff attorney with Earthjustice. Her work focuses on challenging new oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley. Before joining Earthjustice, Megan was staff attorney and outreach director at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services and partner at her own firm, Hunter & Hunter LLC. In this capacity, she worked with communities in Ohio living with the ills of rapidly expanding oil and gas development, proposed petrochemical buildout, and legacy coal and steel mill pollution. She has represented individuals in defending their land and health from pipeline and well pad development, and she successfully litigated a Clean Water Act citizen suit that ended the practice of oil and gas produced water discharge to the Mahoning River. Megan graduated with honors from Vermont Law School, where she served as senior managing editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and she holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Cornell University and Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Policy from Barnard College. Here is the link to the letter writing campaign: https://actionnetwork.org/.../tell-the-odnr-to-reject... https://www.concernedohioriverresidents.org OHVEC.org GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Pat Marida and Mary Olson, advocates for the United Nations Treaty banning Nuclear Weapons, Enters into Force Today, Friday, January 22, 2021. Pat Marida has worked to stop the threats posed by nuclear weapons since the 1980s, as a volunteer with the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and the Sierra Club. She served as an Executive Committee Member of the Ohio Sierra Club and is currently a Core Team Member of the national Sierra Club’s Nuclear Free Campaign. As a pharmacist, she well understands the deadly effects of ionizing radiation on people and other life forms. Pat lives in Columbus. Mary Olson is Acting Director of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project. She served as Staff Biologist and Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Analyst at US-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Her work on radiation education lead her to the question of whether biological sex is a factor in radiation harm. Her paper, ‘Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women’ was featured at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons; the UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review; the International Committee of the Red Cross Asia meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia and many other conferences. She is currently raising funds to support a 2021 project to define a new, gender-inclusive basis for radiation protection standards to help prevent unnecessary radiation exposure and reduce radiation harm.
https://www.genderandradiation.org
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We just witnessed the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to take the leadership and unify the United States of America. And today, January 22, 2021 The United Nations Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, a landmark Treaty, Enters into Force. GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding w/ Ohio Dr. Ean Bett and Dr. Kate Kelley discuss the need for and path to #MedicareForAll!
Dr. Ean Bett is a family medicine physician practicing in Columbus, Ohio with a particular interest in achieving universal, affordable, and high-quality healthcare for all Americans. He believes through appropriate drug pricing, the use and integration of technology in clinical practice, and most importantly a shared vision of American values, our country will improve its health and wellness.
Dr. Kate Kelley, MD, MPH is a resident family physician at MetroHealth in Cleveland, OH. Prior to her career in medicine, she worked in public health and health communications in Washington, DC. She serves as the co-chair of Doctors for America's Health for All committee, and is a member of USA Healthcare. She is committed to a values-based, principled, and practical approach to universal health care through health system reform.
https://www.spanohio.org https://www.healthcare-now.org
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Ohio Organic/Regenerative Farmers, Mick Luber and Emily Pek. Mick Luber is a founding member of OEFFA (Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association) and has been operating the certified organic Bluebird Farm for forty years, raising vegetables and fruit. They raise five acres of produce on their 61 acre farm in Eastern ohio- their specialties are lettuces and garlic. They participate in farmer's markets in Ohio, PA and WV. In 2016 they also fought an oil & gas pipeline that was to run through their main production area, and had the route changed off their property. https://www.facebook.com/mick.luber Emily Pek operates Frayed Knot Farm, a small hand scale farm, located in Newbury township of Geauga County which is 30 miles from downtown Cleveland. Indigenous to the Erie and Mississugua nations. Frayed Knot Farm, the enterprise focuses on cut flower production, offered in a CSA style subscription service throughout the summer season, as well as providing blooms and foliage for celebratory arrangements and workshops. Frayed Knot has also been host to The Cleveland Flax Project. Frayed Knot uses regenerative agricultural techniques that honor the land and its stewards and provide nourishment to the surrounding ecosystem. Website: frayedknotfarm.com Facebook: Frayed Knot Farm Instagram: @frayedknotfarm It’s a New Year, 2021, and you are active members of Ohio’s #1 industry - agriculture. Everyone is thinking about resolutions and goals, making better choices in diet and lifestyle - - - So here we are- Mick you run a certified fruit and veggie organic farm, and Emily you run a regenerative flower farm - one farm’s been around for 40 years, one almost 5, one farmer has to go to the top of the hill for internet, the other taps into it daily. You BOTH chose the road less traveled, for your farm - Why certified organic? Why regenerative agriculture? GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with musicians Alan Harrell, Isabel Trautwein and Mark Dumm of The Cleveland Orchestra. 250 years ago Ludwig Van Beethoven was born, December 16, 1770. And to honor his timeless musical genius and bring the world together, the #GlobalOdeToJoy was conceived. Groups from all over the world created and submitted musical videos celebrating Beethoven’s 9th symphony, Ode to Joy, and you, members of the Cleveland Orchestra are one of the few North American, and as far as I can tell, the only Ohio group to take part. In this time of Covid-19, isolation, death, divisive, destructive politics, racism, police violence, hunger and fear, we need connection, humanity, generosity, love and yes, JOY. globalodetojoy.com https://youtu.be/N8eZHh9wkSw clevelandorchestra.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligenstadt_Testament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4N9v92T50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyv6-t272w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJncBCN2tY
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/arts/music/beethoven-hearing-loss-deafness.html?referringSource=articleShare
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with three medical workers on the front-lines of the covid-19 crisis. We have all been impacted by this deadly pandemic virus, yet these folks are on the front lines, tending, treating, nursing, comforting our most vulnerable in their deepest need. They facing life and death head-on daily. They are Heroes. One of our guests is a traveling nurse, one is an ER medical technician, one an Urgent care MD. Two of our guests choose to remain anonymous. Traveling Nurse is a registered nurse based in Central Ohio. She has worked as a travel nurse in a variety of specialties in the hospital setting for the past 5 years. In January 2020 she started [an] 8 week contract, then covid hit- she’s been extending and extending and extending to this day. She’s been assigned to three different facilities over the course of the Covid pandemic, and has most recently been assigned to a Covid ICU unit in a facility that is under surge due to the Covid crisis. ER Tech is an Emergency Department Technician in a small, independent, not-for-profit hospital in SE Ohio with less than 300 beds. As a technician, she takes vitals, assist nurses by drawing blood, running errands to lab cleaning, stocking, performing EKG's, transporting, and do compressions on patients. . Brad Cotton is an MD, ER physician for 40 years. He started off as a paramedic in Cleveland, studied Nursing at Kent State and then Medical School at OSU. He's active in Ohio SPAN (single payer action network). GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Melissa McFadden, author of the newly released memoir, Walking the Thin Black Line - Confronting Racism in the Columbus Division of Police. Last Friday, December 4, a 23 year old, young black man, Casey Goodson Jr. was shot and killed by the hands of a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, deputy Jason Meade, as Casey arrived home from the dentist, where his grandma, little brother and extended family were waiting. This heart breaking atrocity is not an isolated incident here in Columbus, Ohio. No, recent years we have lost Henry Green (23), Tyree King (13), Kareem Ali Nadir Jones (30) and Julius Tate (16) to police gun violence. We are all asking Why? “Lieutenant McFadden can not comment on Casey Goodson’s investigation as she is still an active police officer with the Columbus Division of Police.” But her story can help us understand what set the culture and climate within law enforcement in Central Ohio, and in her experience, the Columbus Division of Police. Melissa McFadden is an activist and author who’s spent 24 years as a police officer in the Columbus, Ohio Division of Police. McFadden was born and raised by her mom in the coal country of southern West Virginia, with a strong sense of justice. She always wanted to be an officer. She entered the US Air Force right out of high school to gain the training she thought would give her a shot at realizing her dream. Even as a trained military special police officer, the Black girl from the hillbilly state had to fight her way into the Columbus Police Academy in 1996. She immediately saw discrimination and bigotry she had never experienced before. She didn’t know it wasn’t her job to fix it. But with her belief in God, her military training, and her love of learning she set out to right decades of wrongs perpetrated by Columbus police against the Black community, which as she quickly found out, included Black officers. GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Rachel Coyle of How Things Work at the Ohio State House and Lisa Voigt advocate for gun safety and higher education. Rachel Coyle is from Toledo, Ohio. She has a bachelor's degree in Psychology & Political Science from OSU and a Masters in Political Communication from American University. She has spent many years in Ohio politics and government: Deputy Communications Director for the Ohio Senate Democrats, Communications Director for candidates Cathy Johnson for Ohio Senate, and Joe Schiavoni for Ohio Governor. Rachel served as Press Secretary for the Ohio Democratic Party, managed the grassroots advocacy program at ACLU Ohio. And Currently is Campaign Director for the Ohio Senate Democrats and Creator of the Uber helpful for Activists face book page: How Things Work at the Ohio State House. https://www.facebook.com/groups/howthingsworkoh Lisa Voigt is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. Since the Lame Duck session of 2016, she has advocated at the statehouse for gun safety and higher education issues through meetings with legislators and testifying in committee hearings. She has also presented testimony as a member of two organizations, the American Association of University Professors, for which she serves as Secretary of the Ohio Conference, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, for which she is an active volunteer in the Ohio Chapter. https://www.facebook.com/MomsDemandActionOH Oppose Stand Your Ground in Ohio: https://tinyurl.com/Oppose-SYG-Ohio Get notified about hearings on gun bills: Request to join the google group, https://groups.google.com/.../moms-demand-action-ohio... Join Moms Demand Action: https://momsdemandaction.org/act/ or text READY to 64433 It’s Lame Duck Session at the Ohio State House. Learn what Bills need our Help to Pass and which ones Need our Actions to be Stopped. GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding (host) with Kim Mann and Jonathan Welle, organizers of the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, a multi-racial, multi-class cooperative business that finances solar projects. It allows local residents with as little as $50 make an investment in solar, joining with fellow community members to envision, develop, and own the project. CSC promotes an energy system built, guided, and owned by those who use it.
Kim Mann is a retired air traffic controller, Membership Director of the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, Vice-president of the Fairview Park Democratic Club, and Precinct Leader and Executive Committee Member for the Cuyahoga County Democratic Central Committee. Kim is active in local grassroots resistance and environmental organizations such as Indivisible CLE and West Shore FaCT. She and her husband Jeff aspire to get their 70-year-old home to “net-zero energy” and convert their yard to a permaculture food forest.
Jonathan Welle is the Governance Director of Cleveland Solar Cooperative and is an organizer at Cleveland Owns, a nonprofit that incubates cooperative businesses. He works with groups of neighbors and workers who are using collective ownership of solar finance companies, a food cooperative, and a purchasing cooperative to demand their fair share of prosperity and grow a post-capitalist democratic economy. https://www.clevelandsolar.org/
Cooperatives that have inspired #ClevelandSolarCooperative: https://www.peoplepowersolar.org/ https://www.cooperativeenergyfutures.com/ https://www.cooppower.coop/
GrassRoot Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with nine activists, GrassRoot_Ohio guests I’ve interviewed over the past year and a half.
Feeling barraged by the election debacle, the surge in covid-19 infections and deaths, our innumerable causes, work, family….I struggled to find this week’s show.
I needed to embrace Gratitude. It helps me. And no matter how, or if, you celebrate Thanksgiving, it's healing to find the good, the Wins in our work, feel it and share it.
So I invited our GrassRoot Ohio guests to join us - to give us a brief update on their work, and to share their gratitude.
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Karyn Deibel - Bike Commuters/All Seasons/All Weather; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-bike-commutersall-seasonsall-weather-02-21-20
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Eric Bellomy - Gun Violence Survivor Network; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-gun-violence-survivor-network-03-04-20 https://www.facebook.com/gunviolencesurvivornetwork
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Kelly Porter Escobar - Love Without Lines- Amor Sin Lineus; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-love-without-lines-amor-sin-lineus-kelly-p-escobar-kelly-weber-10-18-19 https://Facebook.com/LoveWithoutLines
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Zerqa Abid - Interfaith Alliance - My Project USA; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-interfaith-alliance-zerqa-abid-cantor-chomsky-051019 https://www.myprojectusa.org
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Dontavius Jarrells - State of Black Mental Health Forum; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-0hio-w-state-of-black-mental-health-forum-organizers-5-3-19 http://www.africancouncil.us/?fbclid=IwAR1LrOdN--KObtcF-IFsAkEWWODWIKigZ87pdo2_sBjHNLa9f-RCTq4Fuxg
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Kaia Woodford - Bexley Anti-Racism Project; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-bexley-anti-racism-project-070320 https://bexleyarp.org
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Doug Fowler - What’s in Youngstown’s Water; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/whats-in-youngstowns-water-now-the-science-lynn-anderson-doug-fowler-john-stolz-phd https://thrivingearthexchange.org/project/youngstown-oh/
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David Harewood - Everyday People for Positive Change; https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-everyday-people-for-positive-change-jonathan-beard-david-harewood-11-22-19 everydaypeoplecolumbus.us/
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Teresa Mills - Oil & Gas Brine & Freedom Demands Action-Stop OHSB33. https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-oil-gas-brine-w-teresa-mills-greg-pace-03-13-20 https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753/grassroot-ohio-freedom-demands-action-stop-ohsb33-teresa-mills-nick-teti-083019 Info@BENOhio.org
Me? I’m grateful for You, and all the activists and volunteers here in Ohio - worldwide - your work, courage, your commitment to a more just and sustainable world - You give me great hope and get me out of bed in the morning, and I’m grateful for You, our listeners, from the bottom of my heart - to the top. Be well, be safe, share your gratitude.
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Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
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GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
GrassRoot Ohio broadcasts this timely interview a few days after the 2020 election. Morgan Harper, of Columbus Stand Up and Our Revolution Ohio, hosts Zach Malitz, co writer of The Count: A Practical Guide to Defending the Constitution in a Contested 2020 Election. From the introduction: The premise of this guide is that we should take Donald Trump’s threat that he won’t accept the results of the election at face value and prepare for a protracted conflict after Election Day. This is a guide to the constitutional crisis we’ll face if Trump follows through on his threats and Republicans back him, and a strategy for how ordinary people and Democratic elected officials can stop an attempted coup. http://ourrevolutionohio.com https://www.facebook.com/OurRevolutionOhio https://columbusstandup.org https://www.facebook.com/columbusstandup
https://www.thecountguide.com
GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/
Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/
If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding, host, with Linda Jakes and Rachelle Martin, advocates for Issue 24, the Franklin County ADAMH levy to fund mental health services, and drug and alcohol treatment. With the trauma and uncertainty of COVID-19, education and work upheavals and the ongoing protests for justice, most of us are in need of some help, emotionally. Lets talk about what this levy, if passed will do for central ohio folks.
Linda Jakes has been a staff member of Concord Counseling Services for 33 years and is now the Executive Director. The programs Linda manages at Concord incorporate support and community integration to increase community living days, highlighted in John Kasich’s’ book, Courage Is Contagious. She received her Masters degree in Social Work at Ohio State University, has taught at Columbus State Community College, in the Department of Mental Health and Substance Addictions. She is sought out to speak about severe and persistent mental illness from a service delivery perspective. She has been recognized in her field and Honored by her life-long service in mental health.
Rachelle Martin has over 30 years of public service in the health care field, including coordination of health care systems nationally and internationally. Currently she’s the Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Franklin County (NAMI) . She was formally the Director of Training and Prevention Network Services Manager for the ADAMH Board of Franklin County and the co-founding partner of the Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee and the Suicide Prevention Foundation and where she chaired the Advisory Committee for over four years. Rachelle was Project Coordinator for the HIV Outreach Demonstration Support Project, and team leader for the Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Project, sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
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GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding, host, with Morgan Harper, Micah Mitchell and Kwesi Low, organizers for the new grassroots organization, Columbus Stand Up! What are they doing to help get out the Vote! Morgan Harper is the founder of the new grassroots organization, Columbus Stand Up!, and, most recently, was a grassroots candidate to represent Ohio's Third Congressional District. Previously, she was a Vice President at Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's largest community development financial institution. Morgan also worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a Senior Advisor to the first Director. Micah Mitchell is a graduate student at The Ohio State University studying social work and public administration. He has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Micah is passionate about activism, advocacy, and direct service. He aspires to work in policy reform divesting from the prison industrial complex and investing in community care. Kwesi is a Columbus native and long time advocate for social justice in his city. He is the former Ohio director for the League of Young Voters and most recently served as campaign staff for Morgan Harper for Congress. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Ohio State. Kwesi continues to fight for justice as he seeks to connect the Columbus movement to a larger national narrative. GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
GrassRoot Ohio with Lynn Anderson, Doug Fowler, and John Stolz PhD, activists and scientists researching the impact of unconventional shale gas (fracking) extraction in and around Youngstown and the findings of their research entitled, “Assessing the Water Chemistry of Tributaries in the Mahoning River Watershed”. Lynn Anderson is an artist and activist from Youngstown, Ohio. In 2011 she began protecting her community against the toxic trespass of fracking waste brought in for disposal into injection wells that former Governor Kasich and his administration’s ODNR permitted to be drilled in and around Youngstown. When small earthquakes started on March 17, 2011 and culminated in a 4.0 earthquake on Dec. 31, 2011, Lynn and other members of Occupy Youngstown raised the alarm and began to fight to get the D&L injection well closed down. They continued fighting the oil & gas onslaught from 2012-2013 from fracking wells to pipelines. She spoke out, organized others and helped mount a citizen ballot initiative for nine election cycles to try to keep the land and water safe from fracking waste in her community and Ohio. Lynn is a Founding member of the Youngstown Community Bills of Rights, a Member of Frackfree Mahoning, Board member of TreezPlease and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund-celdf, supporter. http://www.protectyoungstown.org frackfreemahoning.blogspot.com/ https://thrivingearthexchange.org/project/youngstown-oh/ CELDF press release about Youngstown Community Bill of Rights https://celdf.org/.../press-release-mahoning-board-of.../
Doug Fowler has been a teacher for most of his working life. He retired from the University of Wisconsin in 2014 where he lecturered in astronomy and physics. In the mid 70s Fowler studied geology at the University of Montana, and in the fall of 2018 he taught the mineralogy at Youngstown State University. With this background, combined with a longtime interest in wild places, backpacking and mountaineering, he considers himself a natural historian. Fowler continues an association with UW by working with geology and astronomy students using Lunar samples on loan from NASA as part of their educational program and he watches the night sky on a regular basis.
John Stolz is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Director of the Center for Environmental Research and Education at Duquesne University. He received his BS degree from Fordham University in 1977 and earned his PhD at Boston University in microbial ecology and evolution. He was an NRC Post doctoral fellow at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Department of Geology and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His main research interests are in microbial diversity; the microbial metabolism of metals and metalloids including arsenic, selenium, and nitrate; and water quality impacts of unconventional shale gas extraction. Dr. Stolz has published 94 journal articles, 40 book chapters, and author-edited three books. stolz@duq.edu
GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Fridays 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 All GrassRoot Ohio interviews can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding (host) with Kayla Merchant and Cathy Cowan Becker, advocates for Issue 1, Community Choice Aggregation for Columbus, Ohio, November 3, 2020 and on the ballot as we speak.
Kayla Merchant is a community organizer and resident of the South Side of Columbus. She served on the Schumacher Place Civic Association's executive board, the Columbus South Side Area Commission, and recently left the corporate world to do full-time campaign work. She has worked with Yes We Can, #RepYourBlock, and currently is an executive committee member of the Franklin County Democratic Party, and a board member for the non-profit, All Aboard Ohio - working to diversify public transit options across Ohio, w/ a focus on passenger rail.
Campaign website: www.yesforissue1.com City website: www.cleanenergycolumbus.org
Cathy Cowan Becker chairs the Sierra Club’s Ready for 100 in Ohio. So far 168 cities, including Cleveland and Cincinnati, have committed to 100% renewable energy. Cathy has led the campaign in Columbus since 2017, as well as a statewide group supporting Ready for 100 efforts in Dayton, Toledo, and other cities. She is a trained Climate Reality leader, got arrested with Sunrise Movement and Fire Drill Fridays, and started the Columbus chapter of Citizens Climate Lobby. In her professional life, Cathy has a 25-year career in journalism, communications, and public relations. She recently earned a master’s in public administration and environment and natural resources from The Ohio State University.
https://www.sierraclub.org/ohio/central-ohio/readyfor100columbus
GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
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GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
GrassRoot_Ohio with Allen Schwartz and Mona Abhari, kicking off a series of webinars entitled “A Green New Deal that Works for Us”, starting this Saturday, October 3, at 10am, with three more following on consecutive Saturdays, Oct 10, 17 & 24.
Allen Schwartz is a people’s artist and musician. He is a founder of the Newark Think Tank on Poverty in Licking County. There are now associated think tanks on poverty in three, going on four, central Ohio counties. He has had a fifty year career as a community organizer and educator in Seattle, Chicago, and Ohio.
Mona Abhari is a youth organizer in Columbus and Newark, Ohio and an artist. Her personal experiences as a working-class, Palestinian American woman fuel her art, movement work, and relational organizing, and helps ground her in building a better world.
ThinkTanksonPoverty.com
GrassRoot_Ohio, Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, and on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Look for #GrassRoot_Ohio soon on WCRS FM 92.7/98.3.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
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GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured...
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
GrassRoot_Ohio host #CarolynHarding with #AtticusGarden and #DuckBardus - Street Medics, the first responders that are there for You and Me, for anyone who may get hurt during a Street Protest.
Atticus Garden resides in Columbus, on the South side where he is serving his 2nd term as Area Commissioner, representing the wonderful, beautiful, and diverse neighborhood of Southern Orchards (District 2). Atticus was first introduced to Street Medics during his time at Standing Rock reservation in 2016, where he spent 2 months at the Oceti Sakowin Camp providing medical aid during the historic gathering of tribes, allies and people from all walks of life standing in solidarity to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. Inspired by these events and people, Atticus has spent the past 4 years providing medical aid at protests, demonstrations, and community events all over the US- North Dakota, Los Angeles, D.C., New York City, and predominantly Columbus where he has supported over several hundred events.
Duck Bardus has spent many years in grassroots politics in Ohio. They received training in the winter of 2016 at Standing Rock and have volunteered to provide first aid at countless protests since, notably during the George Floyd protests in Columbus and in the Autonomous Zone at the George Floyd Memorial in Minneapolis. Duck also volunteers on the board of Frontline Wellness, an NGO that coordinates medical care for high-risk activists. duckbardus@gmail.com
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Look for #GrassRoot_Ohio soon on WCRS FM 92.7/98.3.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/
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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cpqnxi166DY
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Photo by @maddiemcgarvey
GrassRoot Ohio host Carolyn Harding with Charlotte Owens, Alaina Swope and Katie O’Neil, SE Ohio progressive women candidates Running to WIN.
Charlotte Owens is the Democrat running for Ohio House District 78, which includes all or part of 6 counties extending from Circleville to South Zanesville. In order to serve the people, and not big money, she's pushing for an end to the corruption under Republican leadership at the state level. She supports and will work for workers, families and small businesses to survive the pandemic. She stands for affordable access to healthcare, supporting and improving public education, and bridging the digital divide. www.owensforoh78.com
Katie O’Neil is grateful to be the democratic candidate for Ohio House District 94 on the centennial year of the 19th Amendment to our United States constitution. She has a bachelor of history and the environment, master of energy regulation and law, and juris doctor of law. She is dedicated to a plan that creates 100% renewable energy, economic sustainability, restorative justice and a clean and healthy environment. She was raised in a public service family in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and believes that you help those in need, care for those who are sick, and work for the greater good with integrity. “My family always believed that once I moved to Athens, Ohio I would stay for a lifetime and they were right.” www.ohiohouseoneill.com
Alaina Swope is a working-class progressive running for State Representative in OH-97. She is a published researcher, organizer, and educator and she's running to give this seat back to the people of Muskingum & Guernsey counties. For decades, her district has been represented by men who are completely out of touch with the people and it shows. The 97th is facing an affordable housing crisis, they haven't seen any economic growth in decades, and a third of the people are living in poverty. When elected, Alaina will fight for higher wages, affordable housing for all, and campaign finance reform. www.Swope2020.com.
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured?view_as=subscriber
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
GrassRoot_Ohio radio/podcast w/ Debera Diggs, Tiffany Sigler Rumbalski and Maria Ramirez, Central Ohio "Get Out the Vote" advocates and activists. It's going to take all of us to Vote Trump Out. Join us for Ideas, Inspiration and Action.
Debera Diggs humbly serves City of Columbus residents to provide essential NEEDS (necessary equipment every day to suceed). She believes Voting is one tool individuals could and should use, and the people who make the rules do NOT live OUR lives. However they make rules that govern OUR lives, “What WE tolerate WE encourage. Voting can, does and will make a difference.” Debera is a Lifetime member of the Franklin County Democratic Women's Club; South Side Progressive; Elected to represent Ward 3 on Central Committee for Franklin County Democratic Party; recently elected as Third Vice Chair for the Franklin County Democratic Party.
Maria Ramirez lives in Worthington and has been a member of Indivisible OH 12 for the last four years. She is currently focused helping people navigate the coming election. Her favorite voter registration moment was helping her then 17 year old son register to vote. She represents Worthington Ward 2 in the Franklin County Democratic Party Central/ Executive Committee and is a member of the Worthington Community Relations Commission.
TiffanyRumbalski is a Columbus activist and voter rights advocate. She's a mom to Emma who just started BGSU and will be voting mail-in absentee and a mom to Paul who just started high school and is not sure he ever wants to vote. She's a creator of Vinny Voter, her inflatable TRex, who also has his own instagram account. And a monarch butterfly enthusiast.
To check your registration, update your information, register to vote and more go to: VoteOhio.gov
Indivisible OH 12 is doing voter registration and needs more volunteers! Sign up here: bit.ly/OH12VRSIGNUP
To track absentee applications and absentee ballots go here: bit.ly/OHtrackballot
This is training from OPAL (Ohio Progressive Action Leaders) on 9/5 to for a virtual phone bank to help voters who may need an extra push get ready to vote https://www.mobilize.us/opalmissionvote/event/315792/
Here is a map of all of the absentee ballot application boxes, some provided by individual, most provided by Common Cause were folks can pick up absentee ballot applications or voter registration forms: http://oh12votes.org/vrboxes/
USE This website: https://protectthevote.net/�866-OUR-VOTE DO NOT use this website: ProtecttheVote.com - it's Republican
Debera Diggs: mommadiggs@yahoo.com
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
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GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured?view_as=subscriber
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
A Sisterhood for Black Lives has taken a nightly stand in Columbus Metro for #BlackLivesMatter since George Floyd’s murder. Kiara Yakita, Jessica Smiley and Brynette Turner are committed to Justice for All.
Kiara Yakita is a Cincinnati native and has lived in Columbus for 2 years. She's an artist and activist passionate about uplifting black women. She's been an active participant in the BLM movement since the murder of Trayvon Martin. She's created marches, rallies, and community events. She created the Black Lives Matter Central Ohio social media pages and formed the Sisterhood for Black Lives. She works full time in human resources and is finishing her bachelor's degree. She works to provide platforms to Black entrepreneurs, elevating black artists and educating and empowering people to vote and participating in democracy.
Jessica Smiley has been a grassroots volunteer/organizer for 13 years. She canvassed for President Obama and volunteers with the Ohio Democratic Party, Our Revolution, and other progressive organizations. As a Black lesbian and mother to a 12 year old daughter, her passion lies with both the BLM movement and LGBTQIA+ rights and protections. She has lived her life through the experiences of racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression simply because of who she is and who she loves. These factors drive her passion and keeps the fire in her belly lit. Recently, she has organized and attended protests and rallies at Goodale Park and the Ohio Statehouse. She creates social media, writes emails and attends virtual city council meetings to voice her support for legislation to: * end no-knock warrants, form a citizens review board, to demilitarize CPD, and to address CPD presence in our schools.
She completed the inaugural Women’s March Feminist Organizing School and Supermajority’s Majority Leaders program and is part of a nationwide network of feminists and others working to defeat Trump and Trumpism.
Brynette Turner is an Ohio native who currently lives in Columbus. She’s an author and retired federal employee who has also been a community advocate, political activist, and organizer of a variety of community events. Whether working on political campaigns, registering and educating voters, lobbying politicians, or actively protesting against social injustices and human rights violations, Brynette has been driven by a deep love for people, democracy, and the ideal of equal opportunity. She fully believes this country has the ability to live up to its promises to all people and its responsibility to be good stewards of this land and its many resources.
Black Lives Matter Central Ohio - https://www.facebook.com/BLMCentralOhio/
Here is the link to The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act: https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fact_sheet_justice_in_policing_act_of_2020.pdf
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/
Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/
If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured?view_as=subscriber
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Pam Libby, Julia King and Lindsay Layland. Two are born and raised Ohioans, one Alaskan. Two migrate to Bristol Bay every June/July, one lives there year round. Two are my biological sisters, one is an activist organizer sister. All three are commercial salmon fishermen or women in the Bristol Bay, and all three stand to Stop Pebble Mine.
Pam Harding Libby was born and raised in Worthington, Ohio. She moved to Alaska in May, 1978 when she married Jim Libby, a life-long commercial salmon fisherman from Bristol Bay. She’s spent the last 42 summers commercial salmon setnet fishing on Ekuk Beach in the Nushagak district of Bristol Bay. Next year marks the 60th anniversary of the Libby family fishing together from mid June - mid July, harvesting 1,000s of pounds of salmon, even in the midst of this world-wide pandemic! At 66, she considers herself a “bad ass fisher grandma”! She’s grateful to be part of her 4 generation family fishing business and is optimistic that the fight will prevail!
Julia King grew up in Worthington, Ohio spending summers at Lake Erie. In 1983, after spending a year teaching in the South Pacific, she flew home through Alaska and worked on the Slime Line at a salmon processing plant in Dillingham where her sister spent her summers fishing. The next year she went back and crewed on a commercial salmon drift boat for the summer and has spent the last 30 years, minus a few, sett netting on the beach with Pam and family. She received her Masters in Education from the Ohio State University and started teaching in Southern California, in Corona, where she continues to teach today. Fishing has been her summer job of passion.
Lindsay Layland is from Dillingham, Alaska. She is a life-long fisherman with a great respect for the waters, lands, and cultures of the Bristol Bay region. She is committed to community engagement and preparing and encouraging our future generations to lead empowered, sustainable, productive lives. She is the Deputy Director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay. UTBB.org
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/
Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/
If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured?view_as=subscriber
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Laurel Hobden and DaMarcus X, Artist/Designers of the Green New Deal Bandaner. A work of Art, Graphic Design, Activism on a Bandaner! Something you can wear as a headband, a scarf, on your backpack, your car, your dorm or house window, basically anywhere, with the clean message “Green New Deal Now”. It’s clear, earthy, attractive and when you look at it closely, you find all kinds of info how we can help save our planet and communities working for a Green New Deal. All Green New Deal Now Bandaner profits will go to SunriseMovement.org and can be purchased at Bandander.com
Laurel Hobden has been concerned about the environment since her college days as an art student in the 1980s. A recurring theme in her work is the earth bleeding at man's hand. As a student she ran a Peace & Justice Anti-Nuclear Test group and has worked on campaigns for progressive & environmentally active candidates. She started painting banners in 2013, and attended a climate rally in D.C.with her first banner which says "Demand Clean Energy for a Livable Future". Since then she has painted many banners to get the word out on various issues. Deeply worried about the future, Laurel wanted to find a way to have as much impact as possible using her talents as an artist activist. That's how she came up with the idea for the Green New Deal bandaner. (ban-dan-er), a bandana that's a banner. A multi-use, portable & stylish educational poster to make your voice heard & to rally others to the cause. She is now selling her bandaners at the website bandaner.com & is donating all the profits to the Sunrise Movement which works to elect progressive candidates that support the Green New Deal. Bandaners.com https://www.instagram.com/bandaner_daily/ SunriseMovement.org
DaMarcus X was born in Cleveland and grew up in both Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Marc X is a yoga instructor in training, Designer, and CEO & Creative Strategist of Know Identity Global, an earth-centric advertising agency and lifestyle brand. KNOW stands for Kindly Navigating Our World. In Marc X’s words, “Designers, creatives, and engineers play a significant role in developing ideas into reality. We hold the responsibility to craft ideas into form and must be acutely aware of the underlying purpose and production of our creations in respect to the needs of the Earth and humanity. 24 years old he recognizes the ability to respond to issues within our society using creative problem solving and building with brands of the future striving to create progressive global impact. KnowIdentityGlobal.com
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org
We now air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.
Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.
Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/
Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/
If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753
GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grassroot-ohio/id1522559085
This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured?view_as=subscriber
Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
GrassRoot Ohio host Carolyn Harding with Pat Marida and Lee Blackburn, fighting corrupt legislation to bail out failing nuclear and coal based power and fighting for renewable energy here in Ohio.
Pat Marida is the Chair of the Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee. She works on nuclear issues nationwide with the Sierra Club and other groups. In the 1980s, she worked on the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and served as chair of the Central Ohio Sierra Club, when the Club took legal action against the City of Columbus for their sanitary sewer overflows, and won, forcing Columbus to fix the problems. She’s a retired pharmacist, and graduate of the Ohio State University.
Lee Blackburn’s activism began in high school, where his name appears in the Congressional Record for the first Earth Day. Having testified in both the Ohio House and Senate against HB 6, the nuclear bailout bill, he is currently preparing testimony for the Ohio Senate against HB 104, another badly written nuclear bill. Lee is a retired businessman who spent the better part of his career providing housing for low to moderate income individuals.
GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!
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Carolyn Harding with Becca Pollard, Central Ohio Sierra Club, Vicky Abou-Ghalioum, GradRoots, OSU Grad environmental org. and Jan Nespor, OSU professor, advocates for Clean Energy/ fighting the multimillion Fracked Gas Power Plant slated to be built in the middle of the Ohio State University Campus.
What will the impact be on the students, faculty, the equine facility nearby, the community? Who are the hidden players in this huge build up? What can we, the Davids do to Demand Clean Renewable Sustainable energy in the heart of our City, when the Goliaths Want Fracked Gas?
Becca Pollard is an Organizer with the Sierra Club and a founding member of Keep Wayne Wild. She lives in Columbus and works with activists around the state.
Victoria Abou-Ghalioum is a PhD student in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. She is the chair of SENR's graduate student organization, GradRoots, and studies environmental social science. Her research interests center on racial justice in sustainability, where she critically analyzes the deliberate suppression of the voices of People of Color in the environmental movement and in current discourse around sustainable development/living.
Jan Nespor has been a professor is in the Department of Educational Studies at OSU for the past 12 years. He’s currently doing research on virtual schooling and international policy mobility, but tries to keep up on issues related to climate change and environmental degradation.
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GrassRoot Ohio radio/podcast - Fridays, 5pm EST, 94.1FM Columbus & streaming worldwide @ wgrn.org Carolyn Harding w/ Dana Kuhnline, and Allison Beer McKenzie, Ohio Front-line Mask Maker Sheros. When COVID-19 hit Ohio in March, I followed Dana’s posts about making masks for front line workers. She shared info and links from Sew Masks 4 Cincy - patterns for seamstresses to make masks that work for workers. Where are we now with the resurgence of COVID cases and with school starting up soon?
Dana Kuhnline began sewing as a young child. Her quilts have won numerous prizes, including a blue ribbon for People's Choice at the Ohio State Fair. She is also busy as an environmental advocate and has worked as a non-profit consultant for over a decade. She enjoyed sewing as an escape from this frequently stressful work. She never thought her fun sewing hobby would be used to save lives. Since March, she has sewn over 600 masks for adults and is currently working to sew as many more for children as schools start up again. She is also planning a scrap quilt from all her leftover scraps from mask making.
Allison is an architect at SHP in Cincinnati by day and the Director of Sewing for Sew Masks 4 Cincy on evenings and weekends. Allison is responsible for working with the mask users to develop the patterns for sewists and answering questions about sewing from volunteers. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Allison has completed roughly 1000 masks for friends, family and donation. She saw the need and rose to the challenge.
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Carolyn Harding with Dawn Knickerbocker, Jheri Neri and Guy Jones, indigenous leaders and organizers in SW Ohio.
The Federal Court's decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline for a complete environmental impact assessment, and what's the impact on Ohio Indigenous and ally Water Protectors - across the nation and beyond.
Dawn Knickerbocker belongs to the Anishinaabe people and a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from the Ottertail Pillager band of Indians. She is an environmentalist, activist, and indigi-feminist working on culturally-based sustainable development issues and decolonization in her own community on Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Dawn is a current board member of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition, co-leader of Mothers Out Front of Ohio, co-founder of W.A.R.N. Ohio (Women of All Red Nations). She’s the former elected Chair of the Advisory Commission on Diversity for the State of Washington and is a published nonfiction writer, poet, and speaker and has a master's degree in human rights practice.
Jheri Neri belongs to the Indie Diné people. He works as the Executive Director with the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition. He is a published writer, artist, activist and water protector. Jheri has worked with Tribal leaders all over the Nation and the World on issues from sovereignty, ceremony, sustainable development, and more. He was a part of Standing Rock from start to finish.
Guy Jones of the Hunkpapa Lakota, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. He is the founder and current leader of the Miami Valley Council for Native Americans in Dayton, Ohio, and the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition. Guy has served as an advisor to the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, the Minority Arts Task Force of the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Dayton Race Relations Task Force, and the Bias Review Council of the Ohio Department of Education.
https://gcnativeamericancoalition.com https://unicornriot.ninja https://www.ienearth.org https://www.lakotalaw.org http://www.honorearth.org https://www.sierraclub.org http://www.tmvcna.org/2contact.htm
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Grassroot Ohio radio, Fridays, 5pm EST on 94.1FM and streams @ WGRN.org GrassRoot Ohio, Carolyn Harding w/ with Austin Smith and Kaia Woodford of the Bexley Anti-Racism Project (BexleyARP). Bexleyarp.org From your website: "Our mission is is to actively combat racial inequality through education, mobilization, and amplification in order to support people of color in the Bexley community and nationwide". On Saturday June 6, BexleyARP led a #BlackLivesMatter march from Bexley to the State House. My family and I marched with you. Bexley showed up. It was huge and it was Powerful. We'll get to know the organizers, what made them come together and lead, and what is up ahead.
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5:00pm EST GrassRoot Ohio radio, 94.1FM & streaming at wgrn.org, Host Carolyn Harding w/ Christopher Austin, the originator of the petition to take down the Statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the Columbus City Hall. http://chng.it/brNFFqVm72
Christopher Austin graduated from Otterbein University with a major in Theatre and received his Master’s Degree in Pastoral and Professional Counseling from Methodist Theological School. He has received awards for his theatrical performances and completed his first feature film “Things Are Tough All Over,” directed by local film maker Chris Bournea. Christopher has worked in the field of counseling and social work for 6 years and has received recognition and awards for his work in the field. He is active in the Columbus community with the goal helping people find their voice of empowerment through the arts, volunteering in religious and community outreach, and social activism.
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 25), George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and was aided and abetted by officers J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao. Since then there has been no peace in Minneapolis, all over the states and around the world. Here in Columbus there are rallies, protests and marches daily and nightly. The Columbus Police have used aggression and violence -pepper spray, mace, wooden and rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades on those exercising their First Amendment Rights. People are being injured, harmed: A young woman has died from complications after being sprayed by chemical agents, a double amputee protestor was roughed up and left on the ground, 3 prominent African American politicians were pepper sprayed while standing in solidarity with protestors. During this #BlackLivesMatter movement, there has been a nationwide demand to remove the statues of perpetrators of Racial cruelty, discrimination and Injustice. And here, in our city, Christopher Columbus is coming down.
Christopher you wrote an online petition to do just this, take down the statue of Christopher Columbus.
Black Lives Matters - policy, protests, rallies, marches, why the statue?
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GrassRoot Ohio radio, 94.1FM & streaming at wgrn.org w/ Bill Lyons, Columbus Community Bill of Rights organizer, Dir. of Ohio Community Rights Network & Tish O’Dell of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, celdf.org- when all legal recourses are denied, what can citizens do to protect their drinking water from radioactive frack waste!
ColumbusBillofRights.org Ohiocrn.org Celdf.org
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Carolyn Harding with Mary Aguilera and Anthony Whitmore, both Ohio leaders in the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival.
If you are working in activist circles or in faith-based circles, you’ve probably heard about Reverend Barber and the Poor Peoples’ Campaign. I run into many folks who work on environmental, social, racial, economic justice issues and they also work with the Poor Peoples Campaign.
Mary Aguilera is a Coordinating Committee member of the Ohio Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She volunteers as a community organizer in Cincinnati to mobilize, organize, register and educate for the Poor People's Campaign. “Mary knows that this work builds capacity for a beloved community.” Mary has worked as a para professional for Cincinnati Public Schools for twenty years. Her work recently has been focused around the threats to the Ohio River from petrochemical plants. She has a degree in Organizational Leadership from Union Institute & University.
Anthony B. Whitmore, President of Whitmore Enterprises, provides economic and community development, educational, diversity and inclusion consultation both nationally and abroad. He's a retired executive of the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority. His focus was on legislative and community relations efforts at the regional, state and federal level. He served as the Governor’s Regional Director for Region IV. He was responsible for facilitating economic growth in 9 counties. A Dayton resident, Whitmore served Governors Voinovich and Taft administrations in several capacities. While serving on several county, state and national boards, he is clear in his faith while giving glory to God and remains a servant to his community.
PoorPeoplesCampaign.org
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Carolyn Harding with Greg Pace and Teresa Mills, activists with extensive research, experience and action regarding Oil & Gas BRINE, and why we should not use this on our roads for ice or dust!
Ohio HB 545 - A bill has been introduced that allows Oil and Gas Management to determine the safety of AquaSalina and other "conventional" brine products for use as a de-icer. Meet two intrepid activists raising the science and alarm to this radioactive BRINE - Ohio and many other states spread on our roads!
Greg Pace is co-founder of the Columbus Community Bill of Rights- he’s webmaster, treasurer, and puts out the 600 subscriber newsletter. He’s an advocate with ‘StopBrineSpreading’, the Ohio grassroots group educating the public on the danger of conventional oil and gas brine disposal on our roads, and working to create legislation to ban Brine disposals in the state of Ohio. Greg works with Clintonville Energy Collaborative to install solar on homes with a volunteer workforce, and works with Economic Democracy Advocates, educating the public on what resource democracy could look like.
For over 20 years Teresa has worked as a grassroots leader to help communities to find their voices, analyze data and develop strategic plans. She began her activism career by shutting down the Columbus Incinerator, which was polluting her neighborhood and was later defined as the largest emitter of dioxin in the country. Teresa also founded Buckeye Environmental Network, a statewide coalition of grassroots-focused groups. Today she works with Center for Health and Environmental Justice to train and assist grassroots leaders across the country. Teresa also coordinates CHEJ’s small Grants Program.
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RadioactiveWasteAlert.org
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Carolyn Harding (host) with Erick Bellomy and Bobbi McCalla, founder and Board members of the local non-profit Group, Gun Violence Survivor Network. With the primary in full swing, and the Coronavirus taking headlines, Gun violence isn’t on the Front page, but this violence and trauma happens daily and those that have been harmed are dealing with it today, tomorrow, it’s a part of them forever.
Erick Bellomy has been a resident of South Columbus since he was a child. When he graduated from South High School in 2013, he started volunteering in Non-Profit work. When his father was killed, Erick took action and organized the March For Our Lives in Columbus and later founded the Gun Violence Survivor Network where he is the Executive Director. Erick graduated from United Way’s Leadership Academy in 2019, and was awarded the 2020 Change Maker of The Year. Bellomy's newest project is "Gun Safety; Put a Lock on it!". He is a Community Activist, Volunteer, Community organizer, a Commissioner for the Far South Columbus area, and prominent voice in social justice issues.
Bobbi McCalla is a survivor of gun violence by the hands of the Columbus police department. She’s the sister of Donna Castleberry (Dalton)
Bobbi has been involved in Gun Violence Prevention because she wants to help other families who have been through similar tragedies, whether it’s from the hands of the police, or community violence. Bobbi Is in the process of turning her pain into her passion and she looks forward to helping others who are also survivors of gun violence.
You both have had extreme gun violence within your families - murder. I honor that you are here today and willing to talk with us, and willing to go even further to organize and work for solutions to the current escalating gun violence crisis.
GunViolenceSurvivor.org
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Carolyn Harding (host) with 3 Indivisible Ohio District 15 activists/ organizers, Leah Hackleman-Good, Tina Cottone and Jim Kennedy, working on Buckeye State Rural. From website: “Our mission is to change the conversation in rural Ohio to promote progressive policies and candidates."
The election of Trump and its aftermath of dangerous threats to democracy fuels Leah Hackleman-Good’s daily actions and activism. As part of Indivisible Ohio District 15's leadership team, she’s traveled all over the district to connect with activists, and to help organize rallies, events, and activities. She’s made terrific connections with people outside the urban areas—"people that their current congressman doesn't care about”. She works on many campaigns, including her own, in 2018 for county commissioner. She manages the IndivisibleCOLUMBUS.com website and earns a living through her information design business.
Tina Cottone found her place in Indivisible Ohio District 15 in January of 2017 and she’s been an active participant/leader since. She’s involved in outreach to all 12 counties in Ohio 15th Congressional District. In 2018 she worked for the D15 Congressional candidate, and canvassed for the Ohio Coordinated Campaign from June through November 2018. She was a neighborhood canvassing trainer for 2018 GOTV. She is the new Ohio Regional Organizing Coordinator for Swing Left.
Jim Kennedy, MSW, is a retired Information Technology consultant, a trained and certified social worker, and an experienced social services planner and researcher. The common thread of his varied career is a concern for the wellbeing of, and opportunities for, children and families. His involvement with BSR is a natural outgrowth of his experience in managing child welfare service agencies, developing information technology to make social services agencies more efficient and effective, and performing strategic planning and program evaluations for a variety of social services sectors (including Head Start, Juvenile Justice, and child welfare services). He works with the BSR Advisory Group to craft relevant messages to better inform the voters in the rural areas of central Ohio.
https://buckeyestaterural.com
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Who are these intrepid commuters? Rain, Snow, Heat, Dark & Traffic? They aren’t deterred. We’ll talk with several committed Ohioan bike commuters and find out some of the secrets, tricks, inspiration & gear needed for this hard core commitment.
Carolyn Harding (host) with four Central Ohio Bike Commuters, Karyn Deibel, Steve Palm-Hauser, Jerry Ulibarri and Catherine Girves. Not only on sunny, mild winter days, like we’ve been having this week, but on icy, wet, miserable, or hot, humid, bad air days and even nights, these folks face the elements, the traffic, the aches and pains to bike instead of drive. They inspire me…..
Karyn Deibel is a certified Senior Trager Practitioner, an active member of Simply Living and Compassionate Communication of Central Ohio, An INELDA trained End of Life Death Doula, and an activist with Columbus Community Bill of Rights. Karyn is a lover of the earth who actively pursues ways to lighten her carbon foot print and to raise awareness that we and the earth are one.
Steve Palm-Hauser is a technical writer and a free-lance journalist with the Columbus Free Press. “Besides protecting the environment and getting physical exercise, biking also boosts serotonin levels, which is good for my mental and emotional well-being”. He is a member of Socialist Alternative.
Jerry Ulibarri is a Mural Artist & Design business owner. His company, Kobolt Studios, located in Franklinton, started as a small art shop providing hand-painted murals and custom faux finishes. Now it’s grown and expanded into all aspects of the design world. He’s the father of four boys/young men and he bikes to and from work every day.
As a kid, Catherine Girves rode a bike for fun with friends, and to get places. Once she turned 15 ½, and got a drivers permit, she didn't ride til she was nearly 40. And then, she needed a bike for transportation, for economic reasons. She’s been a year round bike commuter for 15 years now. She’s the Executive Director of Yay Bikes!, a non-profit organization helping people lawfully and joyfully get from one place to another by bicycle. The staff and volunteers of Yay Bikes! engage thousands of people annually, teaching folks to ride roads, and advocate for people who ride their bikes for transportation.
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Carolyn Harding (host)with Marquis Jones, Vicky Abou-Ghalioum and Michelle Hendricks, all first time candidates for the Franklin County Democratic Central Committee for their respective Wards. Running with the Franklin County Grassroots Democrats’ campaign RepYourBlock2020.
Marquis Jones - is a University District resident, Ward 16. He wants to be a progressive voice for his community. He will advocate for environmental justice, a living wage, and racial justice.
Vicky Abou-Ghalioum - is from the Clintonville community, Ward 20. She will advocate for political reform for environmental and social sustainability, infrastructure, education and affordable housing. She sees a future in Franklin County where the quality of life is greatly improved for all, not only the wealthy.
Michelle Hendricks is a lifelong Democrat who has lived in Ward 84 for over 15 years. She graduated from Capital University with an MBA. She’s a working mother of two. She envisions investments in stronger schools, safer communities, living wages, and renewable energy. Michelle loves volunteering with her kids and driving her electric Chevy, and is the executive director of a charitable non-profit organization for kids.
In full disclosure, I’m also running with RepYourBlock2020 in my neighborhood, Bexley Ward 2. And we all are on the ballot for this coming March 17 Primary election.
RepYourBlock2020.org
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GrassRoot Ohio host Carolyn Harding with Justin Nobel. Justin writes on issues of science and the environment for Rolling Stone and other US magazines, investigative sites and literary journals. His work has been published in Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Science and Nature Writing. A book he co-wrote with a New Orleans death row exonoree, "The Story of Dan Bright," was published in 2016 by UNO Press. He is presently working on a book about oil and gas radioactivity to be published with Simon & Schuster and titled, "Petroleum 238 - Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It."
His explosive, hot-off-the-press Rollingstone article, America’s Radioactive Secret - is the culmination of 20 months research and interviews with oil & gas workers, regulatory agents, scientists, industry watchdogs and local activists in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, communities where fracking and the Frack Waste Stream is pervasive and growing.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/
Thanks to the Economic Hardship Reporting Project: http://economichardship.org/
RadioactiveWasteAlert.org
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Carolyn Harding with Seal Russell and Sean Fabb-Soto, both “Ohio State University students and organizers for the local hub of the Sunrise Movement here in Columbus. Through youth-led activism, Sunrise is working on the local, state, and national levels, with climate experts, progressive lawmakers, and community leaders to work towards a livable future for all. The Green New Deal aims to put an end to climate change while creating just transitions for those whose livelihoods have been decimated by the increasing threat that the climate crisis has posed. Here in Columbus, We are working on projects to inform and expand the electorate, as well as getting members of the community engaged in the environmental activism, through actions like strikes and protests. One such action is the Earth Day Climate Strike, coming up this April 22nd. We would love to get an even bigger turn out than we did for our December Strike.” Sean Fabb-Soto
https://www.facebook.com/sunrisecolumbusoh/
sunrisecolumbusoh@gmail.com
sunriseMovement.org
Green New Deal Presenters at OSU:
Cathy Cowen Becker - #Readyfor100 becker.271@gmail.com
Joel Wainwright - #OSUGeographyDepartment. wainwright.11@osu.edu
Fadhel Kaboub - associate professor of economics at Denison University and president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity http://www.global-isp.org/ And on Twitter @GISP_TWEETS
Morgan Harper - 3rd District Ohio Congressional candidate. Morganharper.org
Xavier Carrigan - 5th District Ohio Congressional candidate. https://www.mxc2020.com/
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Carolyn Harding with Randi Pokladnik and Dustin White, both working to raise awareness and build coalitions to fight the huge plastics petrochemical hub build-up along the Ohio River, euphemistically referred as the #AppalachianStorageHub.
Randi Pokladnik was born and raised in the Ohio Valley in Toronto Ohio, a small town just north of Steubenville Ohio. She has degrees in Environmental engineering, chemistry, and a masters and doctorate degrees in Environmental studies. She is a retired research chemist and educator. She writes and volunteers for Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. Her main concerns are clean air, water and climate change and getting plastics and toxic chemicals out of our lives.
Dustin White, a project coordinator with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (or OVEC) which is headquartered in Huntington WV. Dustin grew up in Southern WV’s “coal fields” and has roots to the area going back 11 generations. He began his work with OVEC as a volunteer and later on staff fighting Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. In 2014, he worked to get emergency relief to communities impacted by the WV Water Crisis when the petrochemical company, MCHM burst from its holding tank above the public water intake in Charleston, WV, leaving 300,000 residents in 9 counties without water for weeks.
Now, he works on what is the newest threat to Appalachia’s health, safety, and vitality – a proposed petrochemical mega-complex, known as the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub, in the upper Ohio River Valley, that would impact air quality and threaten the drinking water of over 5 million people all for the primary purpose of manufacturing new single use plastics.
https://ohvec.org/
http://www.peopleoverpetro.org/
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Carolyn Harding w/ Paul Sherlock and Molly Martin, both advocates for the Homeless in Cleveland, Ohio.
Paul is a long-time Environmental, Anti-war, and Social Justice activist. He took part in the great march for climate action, spent 4 1/2 weeks at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, took part in protests for Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and he’s been arrested multiple times for protesting fracking and the trump health care cuts.
Paul is an Advocate for the homeless-15 years of weekly outreach, meeting the homeless where they live. For the past 8 years, he’s been involved with The Metanoia Project, a non-profit organization that runs an overnight hospitality center for shelter resistant homeless, serving for 4 1/2 of those years as board president. He is Involved in the current fight Metanoia is having with the City of Cleveland. https://metanoiaproject.org
Molly Martin is the Development and Communications Coordinator for the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless. She grew up in Cleveland and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She lived in Nashville, working for the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission and The Contributor, a street newspaper sold by people experiencing homelessness. She recently received a Master of Public Policy at the University of Virginia, focused on policy strategies for community wealth building and racial equity. At NEOCH, she is responsible for development, communications, assists in advocacy and organizes special initiatives. https://www.neoch.org
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Carolyn Harding with Jen Mendoza and Drew Dielman, both activists in Cincinnati working with STAND.earth on the campaign to expose Proctor & Gamble’s use of endangered Boreal forest wood to make toilet paper.
Jen Mendoza is a Cincinnati based organizer. She was the lead organizer in the Stop Wage Theft legislative campaign, winning an ordinance in the city of Cincinnati. She has also worked on campaigns to stop nuclear bail outs, coal fired plant production, and to enact stricter regulations on injection wells in Ohio. She spent 6 months in Standing Rock as a orientation facilitator and a cook during the DAPL Dakota Access Pipe Line resistance and is now working on the forest defense campaign with Stand.earth and the NRDC in Cincinnati which aims to move P&G to more sustainable sourcing practices.
Drew Dielman is a UC University of Cincinnati, student and an artist activist involved in several organizing projects on and off campus. A member of Socialist Alternative, Drew builds intersectional coalitions within Cincinnati based movements. He has been a team member of the Cincinnati affinity group under Stand.Earth supporting the lobbying and research efforts of the campaign to stop coal fired plants, and to push for stricter regulations on injection wells.
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Carolyn Harding w/ Adrienne Hood. Adrienne is a life long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Her son, Henry Green V was murdered by two Columbus Police officers on June 6, 2016. That day she joined the involuntary club that changed her life forever. At that point she believed she had one of two options, sink, suffer and die silently, or fight. She has chosen the latter.
“It is a terrible system that we must fight against, but it is a fight that we must do nonetheless! I have two other children and three grandchildren and their protection/safety along with the rest of my community is important to me.”
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Carolyn Harding with local women organic farmers. Kate Hodges, of Foraged & Sown organic farm, and Katie Hawkins, of Happy Toes homestead. Both women got started as urban farmers, one is certified organic and the other is in the transition to organic certification.
Since 2015, Kate Hodges has farmed two certified organic acres of herbs, vegetables, and berries on multiple growing sites around Central Ohio. She is a first-generation, female farmer committed to environmentally- and socially-just practices. Kate is the flavor finder of Foraged & Sown. She has been gardening her whole life and foraging for much of it. She finds herself enamored equally with cultivated and wild flavors. As farmer, you'll find her building perennial systems and carefully harvesting to ensure plant vigor. As forager, you'll find her traversing different terrains in search of greens, berries, nuts and roots. foragedandsown.com
Katie Hawkins of Happy Toes Homestead, grew up gardening and fell in love with cooking from scratch for friends and family in college. Her passion for making tasty, sustainable food inspired her to create Happy Toes Homestead, LLC. in 2017. Before digging into farming, she studied Environmental Studies at Denison University and, over the years, she worked on a variety of local (and a few not-so-local) small-scale farming operations and farmers markets. Happy Toes Homestead, LLC. is her (and her husband, Jacob's) home, and she believes in using farming practices that not only produce absolutely delicious vegetables, fruits, and herbs and breathtakingly beautiful flowers, but that also help her local community enjoy healthy and green lifestyles. happytoeshomestead.com
And a shout out to: Emily Pek, founder of Frayed Knot Farm. Thirty miles east of downtown Cleveland, Emily grows over 50 varieties of annual and perennial flowers, many of which are heirloom seeds on less than an acre. Using hand scale and regenerative farming practices, the farm has transformed from mowed grass and heavy clay soil to a thriving ecologically diverse ecosystem. Flowers and foraged botanicals are cut for CSA bouquet subscriptions, weddings & events and workshops. https://www.frayedknotfarm.com/
And a shout out to: Annie Warmke - BlueRockStation.org WomenGrowOhio -https://www.facebook.com/womengrowohio/ photo of Kate Hodges at Foraged & Sown Organic Farm
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GrassRoot Ohio radio/podcast with Stefanie Penn Spear- Cleveland resident/environmentalist on her upcoming journey with #eXXpedition - the two year all-women sailing trip around the world studying the devastating impacts plastic pollution in the Oceans. We will also get an update from Bev Reed of Concerned Ohio River Residents, working to raise awareness and stop the PTTGlobal Cracker Plant in Belmont County, Ohio.
Stefanie Spear works with people and organizations leading the charge for change. She has more than 30 years experience as an entrepreneur and leader in the grassroots environmental movement with a special focus on communications and marketing. She is the founder of EcoWatch, Expedite Renewable Energy and Stellar Consulting, the company she currently runs. Her main focus throughout her career has been uniting and amplifying the voices of the grassroots environmental movement to mobilize millions of people to engage on the most important issues impacting people and planet. In January 2020, Stefanie will be joining the crew of eXXpedition, an all-women crew sailing around the world to raise awareness about the devastating environmental and health impacts of single-use plastics, for the leg from Panama City to the Galapagos Islands. When Stefanie is not working, she’s likely paddleboarding her beloved Lake Erie or some other body of water. Follow Stefanie on Twitter at @StefanieSpear and Instagram at cle.sup.
Bev Reed is a lifelong resident of the Ohio River Valley. She is a registered nurse but currently works for her family business and for Freshwater Accountability Project, a nonprofit based in Ohio. She helps with Concerned Ohio River Residents, working to educate the community on and organize around the proposed PTT Global ethane cracker (plastics) plant and associated petrochemical build-out of the Ohio River basin.
Bev is an avid mountain biker and enjoys the beautiful, rich mountains and valleys that Appalachia has to offer for recreation. She is also a youth mountain bike coach for a team based in Wheeling, West Virginia.
https://www.facebook.com/ConcernedOhioRiverResidents/ https://www.nocrackerplantov.com
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Carolyn Harding with Jonathan Beard and David Harewood, organizers for Everyday People for Positive Change, a citizen ballot initiative committee seeking to improve Columbus City Council. (from website) “We believe our city council and our elections should be structured in such a way so that council members are accountable to ordinary citizens. We believe in fair and competitive elections for a responsive and representative council.”
Jonathan Beard serves as Treasurer of Everyday People for Positive Change. He has participated with three such groups since 2013, calling for reforms in the structure of city council and campaign finance reform, including serving as co-chair of Represent Columbus, the only citizen-led charter amendment initiative to make it to the ballot in the charter's 100 year history (2016). Beginning in 1996, Beard served for 22 years as President and CEO of Columbus Compact Corporation the nonprofit organization charged with developing and leading community strategies for areas of Columbus that met federal statutory criteria for "pervasive poverty and social distress." In this role, he organized and led a wide variety of grassroots economic development and neighborhood improvement initiatives. He has served as a little league coach and Board Chairman for the Driving Park Youth Baseball League, served as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Central Ohio, Ohio Dominican University, and on community advisory groups including with COTA, MORPC, PNC and Huntington National Bank, and has volunteered with numerous civic groups. Beard received a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Ohio State University. He is married with two children, and a resident of the Near East Side of Columbus.
David S. Harewood moved to Columbus in the summer of 2011, working to protect collective bargaining rights for the state's union employee population. He spent the next few years working with groups like Working America and the NAACP to register voters and promote progressive causes in the greater Twin Cities, Detroit, and Philadelphia areas, then returned to Columbus to focus on more local matters. A founding member of the People's Justice Project, former Ohio field director of the National Association for Civil Discourse, David is a progressive organizer who strongly believes that good government is possible so long as it's responsive to the needs and desires of its people.
http://everydaypeoplecolumbus.us/
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GrassRoot Ohio radio/podcast with Mia Lewis (Ohio District 12) and Meryl Neiman (Ohio District 3) will share what these grassroots groups are doing for DEMOCRACY in Central Ohio.
Mia Lewis works for Common Cause Ohio and is one of the leaders of Indivisible: Ohio District 12. Indivisible OH12 has been busy standing up to the Trump agenda since January 2017, registering and turning out voters, recruiting and supporting candidates, and holding elected officials accountable. They are looking forward to having all hands on deck for 2020 and helping everyone find a way to get involved and make a difference.
Meryl Neiman is a recovering attorney turned entrepreneur and writer who now spends a lot of her time as an activist and organizer. She's a leader with Indivisible Columbus District 3 and with Ohio Progressive Action Leaders ("OPAL"), a coalition of Indivisible and other group leaders state-wide. OPAL's Mission Vote 2020 Vision campaign is focused on defeating Trump in Ohio in 2020 and flipping two additional Ohio Supreme Court seats to ensure fair redistricting.
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