Action Alerts
Tuesday, March 29, 2:30pm, Ohio Statehouse
We finally have a chance to support pre-trial reform in front of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee as the sponsors introduce the substitute language for S.B. 182.
That committee is typically scheduled to begin at 3:15pm, so you can meet us there or meet us beforehand at 2:30pm over at the AFP office in the KeyBank Building, 88 E. Broad St., on the 11th floor.
Because we know this is a Statehouse hearing that could be canceled or moved [right up until the last second], we’ll have a substitute event ready to go, so you know you can make the trip to Columbus and still be doing something to drive Criminal Justice Reform!
We’ll have food set up in our conference room where we can get together and run through a number of vital actions that we can take to support Criminal Justice Reform and learn about our exciting plan for Ohio, The Buckeye Blueprint! Expect it to be a casual and enjoyable time.
Additional Opportunities:
Our State Director Donovan O’Neil will be speaking on a great panel in the Statehouse Atrium on “Economic Opportunity” that will begin at 4:30pm.
Monday, March 28, 2022, 6:30 PM
Location: Columbus City Hall, 90 W. Broad St., Columbus 43215.
The B.R.E.A.D. organization is coordinating a series of three actions to raise awareness of the shortage of affordable housing for people with low income. The current required set-asides for housing developers do not serve people with income at or below 80% of the Area Median Income. People with lower income are just left out of the equation, and most often can't afford rent without assistance.
Sunday, March 27 4-6pm EDT
LINK: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceuhrzsvHdymeeZRwb-i7X50FJa-HMR4
Music, speeches, roundtable, networking, and strategizing on issues: media, election protection, 5G, Solartopia/No Nukes, Housing/Justice.
Mimi Kennedy, Eric Roberts, Danny Sheehan, Sara Nelson, Dorothy Reik
Tatanka Bricca, Andrea Miller, Menna Demessie, Jan Goodman,
Joel Segal, Alan Minsky,
Christian Nunes, Rev. Donald Whitehead, Molly Basler,
Julie Levine, Tatanka Bricca, Myla Reson, Ankara Patel many more….
Music by Lili Haydn, Keaton Simon.
Moderated by Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman
Sunday, March 27, 2022, 1:00 - 3:00 PM
What are rights of nature? What are the opportunities for enacting rights of nature legislation and what will the next fifty years look like if we don’t? Ohioans must move away from our current exhausting and discouraging destruction agenda for one that relates with the natural world. We can secure nature's rights to sustainable existence, and we must.
Presenter: Tish O’Dell, CELDF Organizer, Ohio Community Rights Network board member, and co-founder of Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods who has conducted workshops around the country, appeared in the documentary We the People 2.0, The Thom Hartmann Show, The Daily Show, on NPR, and in many podcasts and webinars.
April is many things each year but it is also when there is fundraising for reproductive organizations in Ohio, especially Women Have Options - Ohio, which collects and distributes funds to women needing abortion assistance - for travel, for abortions, for whatever the fund is available to provide to support a woman facing the choice of an abortion in this very unfriendly and reproductively unjust times. It is the annual FUNd-a-thon!
Donate on behalf of Social Workers for Reproductive Justice.
Please go to the BLUE DONATE HERE button >> to join the WHO-O 2022 online fundraising event and support Social Workers for Reproductive Justice today! DONATE HERE
Wednesday, March 23, 10:30AM - 12:00PM COLUMBUS WORKER RALLY & PRESS CONFERENCE
WHERE: U.S. Senator Rob Portman’s Office, 37 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH
WHAT: Ohio GE Workers Rally with Picket Signs and Banners for Press Conference at Sen. Portman office in Columbus, Deliver Petition Calling for Action to Stop Oho Job Cuts
SPEAKERS:
Carl Kennebrew, President of IUE-CWA national labor union
Tim Burga, President, Ohio AFL-CIO
Will Evans, President, IUE-CWA Local 84704
Barb Basore, GE Lighting Bucyrus plant worker whose family has provided a combined 500 years of service to the company
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 2:00 pm EDT
Cleveland State University Student Center SC 313, 2121 Euclid Avenue 44115
Sunday, March 20, 2022, 5:30 PM. Sunday, March 20, 2022, 5:30 PM. Evening Event.
Location: jacob’s porch, 45 E. 13th Ave., Columbus. More information on the Facebook Event Page.
Join in-person or live stream.
Saturday, March 19, 6-8pm, Parkview United Methodist Church, 344 S. Algonquin Ave.
1DivineLine2Health is a 501(c)3 public charity based on the West Side of Columbus, Ohio. 1DL2H provides Christ-centered care to the sick who have no access to healthcare. We are compassionate messengers who deliver healing to the broken mind, body, soul, and spirit.
Our mission is to end human trafficking through collaborative and grassroots efforts. We love, respect, and connect directly with our street family. The “Love Bug Street Outreach” is a critical provider for hygiene supplies, Narcan, first aid, infection control measures, and emotional support. The “Love Drop-In Center” is the stationary “Love Bug” whereby the women shower, rest, receive clothes, eat a warm meal, and connect to services. They also have access to wound care and harm reduction supplies.
For us to continue our work, we rely on the generous support of our community neighbors, businesses, and organizations.
We recently helped pass the Postal Service Reform Act, which ended unnecessary expenses that had been designed to bankrupt the U.S. Postal Service.
But Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, appointed by Donald Trump, is still hard at work trying to run the USPS into the ground.
He's made plans to buy 148,000 mail delivery trucks from weapons dealer Oshkosh Defense, a company that's moved from Wisconsin to South Carolina to exploit low-wage non-union workers. Ninety percent of the trucks would burn gasoline at a rate of 8 miles per gallon.
Click here to tell Congress: Make the USPS contract require at least 75% electric trucks!