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Is This My Punishment?

Judge Janet Washington took a sip of her coffee as she read the messages that were starting to pile up on her desk. Since the murder of her son, she wasn’t on top of her game. She wasn’t returning calls in a timely manner. She missed a few important meetings entirely and arrived late at others. People who felt her compassion in the past, now felt her discontent. She wasn’t sleeping well and had gained ten pounds from eating junk food throughout the night. People gave her a pass due to feeling sorry for her losing her only child, but she knew it was only a matter of time before that grace period was over.

Monday, February 26, 12:30pm, Nationwide Insurance Headquarters, One Nationwide Plaza, W. Nationwide Blvd.

Tell Nationwide: “Insure Our Future, Not Fossil Fuels”

In 2023, the United States experienced a record number of weather-and climate-related disasters that each caused $1 billion or more in damages: 28 severe storms, floods, wildfires, winter storms, hurricanes, and droughts, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The insurance industry stands on the front lines of this climate crisis. Every time a climate-related fire, flood, or storm damages or destroys an insured person’s home or business, they expect their insurance policy to help foot the bill for repairs and rebuilding.

Please register for this event using this form so we can keep you informed of any last-minute changes in plan such as weather delays or street closures. Thank you!

Save Ohio Parks statement on court’s decision to dismiss appeal

Save Ohio Parks is disappointed that our appeal of the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission’s (OGLMC) decision to approve fracking lease nominations in our state parks and wildlife areas was dismissed. But we will continue to advocate for the protection and future of our public lands and public trust.

Ohio statute says it is state policy to use our natural resources responsibly. There is nothing responsible about how water, one of our most precious natural resources, is used in the fracking process. Fracking permanently pulls millions of gallons of water out of our water supply, laces it with toxic, cancer-causing chemicals, injects this mix at high pressure deep into the earth, pulls it back up, and then injects the radioactive waste that results from it into another series of wells—wells that can leak and endanger our water supply.  

Save Ohio Parks statement on court’s decision to dismiss appeal

Save Ohio Parks is disappointed that our appeal of the Oil and Gas Land Management Commission’s (OGLMC) decision to approve fracking lease nominations in our state parks and wildlife areas was dismissed. But we will continue to advocate for the protection and future of our public lands and public trust.

Ohio statute says it is state policy to use our natural resources responsibly. There is nothing responsible about how water, one of our most precious natural resources, is used in the fracking process. Fracking permanently pulls millions of gallons of water out of our water supply, laces it with toxic, cancer-causing chemicals, injects this mix at high pressure deep into the earth, pulls it back up, and then injects the radioactive waste that results from it into another series of wells—wells that can leak and endanger our water supply.  

Sunday, February 25, 7-9pm, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 30 W. Woodruff Ave.

The Faith in Life Committee of the Diocese of Southern Ohio [The Episcopal Church] will offer “Two Truths in One Heart; Two Peoples in One Land,” a presentation by Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Noor Awad, leaders of Roots/Shorashim/Judur, a local Palestinian Israeli initiative for understanding, nonviolence, and transformation. This presentation will take place in the sanctuary; a reception will follow.

Hosted by Faith in Life Committee of Diocese of Southern Ohio [The Episcopal Church].

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Saturday, February 24, 6:30pm, Tap Shop, 2326 Summit St.
https://tapshop.org/location/
There is street parking along Summit, Maynard, and Wyandotte.

Join us for a night of music dancing. Suggested $5 donation will support Honesty for Ohio Education. Can’t make it? You can still support Honesty for Ohio Education here.

Come learn about Honesty's mission to protect honest education across Ohio AND join an Honesty Team in your community!

doors 630
Redbuds 7-745
YBW! 8-845
KFH 9-945

Hosted by Will Klatt, Laura Fyfe Smith, Allie Smith Boyer, Ed Sauer, and Joseph Klatt.

Tune in/Stream GrassRoot Ohio radio FRIDAY, Feb 23, 5pm EST at 91.9FM Columbus-streams WGRN.org & SUNDAY, Feb 25, 2pm at 92.7/98.3FM-streams WCRSFM.org.

Carolyn Harding with Judge Terri Jamison, candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court.

Thursday, February 22nd at 7pm at Enarson Classroom Building Room 206 or online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting 

Discussing next steps for building support for Palestine at OSU.

The genocide continues while organizers locally are trying to build necessary support for the movement. In particular, OSU Divest and SJP OSU are running a campaign to call on OSU to divest from Israeli Apartheid, and Ohio Youth for Climate Justice, CORS, and many individuals are resisting attempts by Zionists and OSU to crack down on them and they need your help!

We welcome anyone who wants to organize for Palestine on campus, including members of other student groups, to join us to discuss next steps for organizing.

The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission (OGLMC) will meet Monday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m.-but a Franklin County judge may stay its decisions to award oil and gas bids to frack Salt Fork State Park and Valley Run and Zepernick wildlife areas.

EarthJustice and Ohio Environmental Council announced yesterday they filed an emergency stay to suspend and delay OGLMC orders to frack, pending a decision on the appeal by Save Ohio Parks, Buckeye Environmental Network, and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers of OGLMC's Nov. 15 decision to approve nominations of these areas for fracking.

A decision by Court of Common Pleas Judge Jaiza Page on the emergency stay was requested by Friday, Feb. 25.

When it comes to the last boomtown in the Midwest, certain Columbus neighborhoods make for unusual destinations for future residents to call home. And at first glance, the Far South Side near the Great Southern Shopping Plaza doesn’t seem like a prime location for Intel and Honda employees.

But according to a South Side activist, the future of the Far South Side could be radically altered if City officials and developers get their way, which as many already know, is a sure thing for all parts of Columbus.

“Tony Celebrezze [Deputy Director for the Department of Building and Zoning Services in Columbus], in a conversation, told me that they want to – and this is a verbatim quote – they want to make the Far South corridor the next Short North or the next off-campus, as far as the way they look,” says Bruce Miller, president of the Scioto Southland Civic Association. Miller also sits on the Far South Columbus Area Commission, a City-affiliated and strictly advisory body for the community when it comes to City-approved development.