Action Alerts
Senate Bill 293 is a harmful voting bill that would do away with the four-day grace period for postmarked ballots arriving after election day. The bill also contains a grab bag of unfunded provisions including citizenship verification and data checks that will drastically increase the number of provisional ballots, and place a burden on elections officials.
If the bill is signed into law, mail ballots will have to arrive by 7:30pm on election day or they won’t be counted. That will result in thousands of legally cast ballots being left uncounted because of delays in the US postal service!
Tell Governor DeWine to veto the bill. When he signed another voter suppression bill in 2023, DeWine said Ohio’s elections were already good and didn’t need more changes:"I believe with the enactment of the new election integrity provisions in House Bill 458, this matter should be settled, and I do not expect to see any further statutory changes to Ohio voting procedures while I am Governor."
On December 10 every year, the world observes Human Rights Day, commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, according to the official UN website.
URGENT!!! HELP NEEDED!
This week, every state insurance commissioner including Ohio’s Judith French will meet in Hollywood, Florida, for their quarterly national gathering. If a corporate insurance lobbyist is a shark, this meeting is a feeding frenzy. And the sharks have been eating well.
Insurance commissioners across the country are abdicating their public duty by giving in to corporate lobbyists that want to profit from insuring fossil fuel projects and investing in fossil fuel companies – while leaving ratepayers holding the climate crisis bag.
In Ohio, insurance premiums have climbed 36.1% over the last six years, while nonrenewal rates went up 31% from 2022 to 2023. Big insurance companies blame the climate crisis – yet they insure and invest in the very fossil fuel companies that are driving the climate crisis – including in companies fracking Ohio’s state parks and public lands.
Sunday, December 7, 3:30pm
Whetstone Library, 3909 N. High St.
Register here
All over the country, ICE agents are targeting immigrants in and around Home Depot, attacking and terrorizing workers, customers, and surrounding communities. The raids are terrifying, chaotic, and sometimes deadly.
These atrocities are happening on Home Depot’s watch, on its properties, with its silence. The Home Depot company has not resisted or condemned these raids. It has not publicly demanded that the Administration stop assaulting and abducting people on and outside its properties. As far as we know, it hasn't even asked.
We will write postcards to Central Ohio Home Depot store managers and to Home Depot corporate leaders demanding an end to their complicity and promising not to shop at Home Depot until they stop allowing ICE to conduct raids on its properties.
Saturday, December 6, 2025 - 12:00pm
EN Broadway and N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio
AND
12noon at Goodale Park Gazebo, 12o W. Goodale
Bring a sign!
Make your voice be heard
Thursday, December 4, 7pm
Zoom
Hear how leaders across the country are working together to stop executions and advance bipartisan strategies to repeal the death penalty.
This is a free opportunity to learn about current strategies to stop executions—and how you can get more involved in the fight.
Register here
Hosted by @us_cedp with our own @furonda moderating!
#EndTheDeathPenalty #AbolitionNow #USCEDP #FreeWebinar #NooseToNeedle
Mohan Karki is a Bhutanese-Nepali refugee from Ohio who has been held in detention at the St. Clair County jail for over six months and is at risk of an imminent deportation currently scheduled for Tuesday, December 2nd. See this article for more information about Mohan’s story and his likely fate if he is deported to Bhutan and expelled into statelessness.
Priority Actions:Click here to send an email to the ICE Field Office Director Kevin Raycraft
Call the Detroit ICE Field Office at 313-771-6601
Congress may soon be voting on a war powers resolution on Venezuela, and has a responsibility to vote Yes -- to reiterate what is found in the U.S. Constitution, the UN Charter, and other laws: it is illegal to attack another country.
Your representative needs to publicly insist that the Speaker of the House comply with the War Powers Resolution by holding the vote that he has been illegally refusing to hold.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Ohio Statehouse, Rotunda
Retired pastor Lea Austin will lead with a Litany for the Eulogy of Policy Violence.
We refuse to accept policy violence as normal or inevitable.
House Bill 42 would require certain agencies, including school districts, to collect and report data concerning the citizenship or immigration status of persons with whom they come into contact. An amendment requires law enforcement agencies to collect and maintain citizenship status from “those detained” to “those arrested.” It is being heard in the House Government Oversight Committee – calls to our legislators are needed!