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In December 2022, during the Christmas holiday season and lame duck session – with no public input - the Ohio General Assembly stuffed a poultry bill with amendments and passed a law requiring fracking under Ohio’s state parks and public lands for gas and oil.

HB 507 also falsely defined gas as a “green energy,” despite climate scientists’ warnings that methane gas emissions related to gas and oil production are 80 percent more potent than carbon dioxide and accelerate climate warming.

Ohio public lands include state parks, forests, wilderness and wildlife areas, public colleges and universities, and Ohio Department of Transportation rights of way.

Save Ohio Parks, the statewide, all-volunteer group concerned about the effects of fracking on human health, the environment, its fresh water, and planet warming, lists in a Candidate Accountability document the legislators who voted yes on H.B. 507 and are running for office in 2024: 13 for Ohio Senate seats and 35 for the Ohio House.

Thursday, October 10, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Join us for the launch of our Co-op Circle – a space for learning, collaboration, and community-building around cooperative enterprises.
Whether you're a seasoned co-op enthusiast or just curious about how co-ops can transform our community, this event is for you!  
More details to come – stay tuned!  Let’s fuel the cooperative fire in Central Ohio!  Location: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters, 1126 Parsons Ave, Columbus 43206.  

October 11-13, 2024
Madlab Theater, 227 N. Third St., Columbus OH 43215
Have you ever searched for something all of your life, and when you finally find it:  you realize THAT'S what you'd been looking for? Only to have the thing you finally found, that you had been searching for all of your life, get stolen from you in an instant?
A Crime of Forgiveness is about an unlikely friendship between two people who find forgiveness, healing, and reconciliation through a tragic incident.  
A bond of friendship and a journey of healing develop that aren't readily welcomed with open arms-- and that reach far beyond the grave.
Based on a true story.
Friday, Oct 11 - 8pm
Sat, Oct 12 - 1pm, 8pm
Sun, Oct 13 - 4pm
Tickets - $20.00

Black immigrants have been methodically making their mark in Ohio with little notice or fanfare for decades, until Haitian-Ohioans in Springfield were unwittingly thrust into the national political conversation. “Black Immigrants in Ohio: A Demographic Data Brief” is the latest installment from “Behind Closed Doors: Black Migrants and the Hidden Inj

Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Over the weekend, Hurricane Helene caused widespread devastation in the Southeast and left more than 100 people dead and communities reeling. From record-breaking climate disasters to rising threats from extremist plots like Project 2025 -- it's a lot to hold all at once. The climate crisis, driven by the continued burning of fossil fuels, is causing weather events like this one to be more frequent and more intense.  We must take bold climate action.  Join us for a livestream with Sierra Club experts to make sense of the moment, learn what this means for the climate and our future, and find out how to get involved.  

If there is anyone who can protect Central Ohio’s water supply from Intel, it is the grassroots environmental group the Columbus Community Bill of Rights (CCBOR).

For years they have warned that toxic radioactive fracking wastewater has been leaking out of 13 storage chambers located above the region’s watershed. And even if the proof is not definitive, it is likely an unknown amount of this fracking “brine” has moved down through the area’s five major rivers.

The oil and gas industry is not to be trusted, but on the horizon is perhaps the Columbus CCBOR’s greatest challenge. Intel’s massive New Albany campus which will be sucking 1.5 million gallons or more of water per day out of the Hoover Reservoir – a major source of water for the City of Columbus – beginning in 2027. Apparently this is needed to make their advanced microchips, as the tech giant demands.

Tuesday October 8th, 7:00 - 8:00 pm.  

Our planet is choking on plastic and it is imperative that we change how we produce, use and dispose of plastics.  But Big Oil & Gas along with the Petrochemical Industry, driven by greed are doing their best to confuse consumers so this doesn’t happen.  We’ll hear from plastic experts from Athens based Rethink Plastic and Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services on the problem with plastics and the new greenwashing threat of “Advanced Chemical” recycling during our plastics 101 teach-in.  

Link for October meeting.  

For Gaza We Rise. Sunday, October 6, 2024, 3:00 PM. Commenorating 1 year of resistance.  Sponsored by OSU Students for Justice in Palestine. 

Watch video here.
Video by Scot Lacy, Milopictures

This is the first event in a series of a Week of Rage.

As a full year of genocide approaches, the zionist regime’s ruthless aggression has only intensified. With over 300,000 martyrs in Gaza and apocalyptic scenes unfolding in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, the occupation’s fascism continues to be laid bare before our eyes. 

It has never been more vital to show a unified front against the ongoing genocide in Palestine. We urge everyone to join us at every event to honor all our martyrs and continue the fight for liberation. As long as Palestine, Lebanon, and other countries stand steadfast in their resistance against the zionist entity, so do we. We will remain fearlessly until liberation is achieved. 

“Ohio Students Unite to Reject Project 2025 and Rally Against Hate,” hosted by Ohio Student Association, Thursday, October 3, 4pm, outside of Greater Columbus Convention Center, 400 N. High St.

Watch video here
Video by Scot Lacy, Milopictures

Monday, October 7, 2024
Register today - or check your registration - today is your last chance to register to vote in the November election.

How to register and update your registration

Start or update your registration online on Ohio’s election website.

You can also register to vote by mail or in person on Ohio’s election website.

Voter registration deadlines

Voter registration deadlines are for the November 05, 2024 election. Find state and local election dates.