Action Alerts
Monday, January 8, 2024, 4:30 PM
This is the first of a weekly vigil. Cardboard signs, hot tea and handwarmers, safe community, and calls to action will be provided. This action will be led by progressive Palestinian and Jewish community members. All are welcome.
Location: Outside Senator Brown’s office, 200 N. High St.
For more information you can email to hello@barriertoentrypac.com
On November 18th, 2023 in Oxford, Ohio, 20-year-old Devin Johnson, a student at Miami University, was arrested and charged with assault, resisting arrest, underage drinking and criminal trespassing. After the arrest the Oxford Police Department claimed it was investigating the use of force, while immediately affirming the use of force was certainly justified. This false narrative immediately planted by the Oxford police department could not be further from the truth.
In recently released videos from the patio, you see the true version of events. Not only is there a stark contrast from the aggressor the department has painted Devin Johnson as, but you also see there was no need for the use of force he received. While being held on the ground by multiple people, Oxford officer Matthew Blauvelt almost immediately began punching Devin as he was held down by other officers.
Saturday, January 6, 9am
Ohio Statehouse, Broad and High Streets Columbus
Calling on community members and groups to counter demonstrate against the hate and bigotry of mulitple racist groups planning a rally at the statehouse.
Wednesday, January 3, 2024, 12:00 PM
Learn the ins and outs of collecting signatures for the Citizens Not Politicians ballot initiative. Register here.
Global challenges are grounded in local places. The health and vitality of every single community, every single child, every single acre of land, every single tree is important to creating a livable future. Every single local effort to do so is significant.
This is why I personally intervene to protect communities and people’s quality of life. Here, in Cleveland, I’m working with local homeowners to save a grove of mature, legacy trees from being destroyed by the local school board, even though a deed restriction protects the trees and the parkland on which they stand.
Today, as we prepare for a new, more hopeful, peaceful, New Year, I appeal to you on behalf of the Cudell community residents in Cleveland, Ohio, for public help in funding the court case to save the trees.
My wife, Elizabeth, and I paid the bond to halt the cutting down of 50 trees in the Cudell neighborhood park. We have attended each several court hearings in support of the people. The people trying to save their park and the trees have one lawyer. The school board has six!
Our organization Central Ohio Revolutionary Socialists has been suspended from OSU following our December 7th teach-in titled “Intifada, Revolution, and the Path to a Free Palestine.”
We’ve now released our full statement which you can read here.
We’re also asking our supporters to sign our Petition of Reinstatement which can be found here.
Thursday, December 28, 2023, 6-8pm
Brewcadia, 467 N. High St.
Looking for something to do with friends and family in town this month? Green Drinks Trivia is back! Join us on 12/28 from 6-8 PM at Brewcadia to celebrate the upcoming new year and get through the post-holiday slump together 
Bring your own team or come solo, just be prepared to test your environmental knowledge either way! See you there.
Invite your friends on Facebook here!
With fracking, and proposed CCS and Carbon Capture Use and Storage projects, Ohio is becoming a sacrifice zone for the fossil fuel industry.
As we close out 2023, many Ohioans are still unaware of the negative effects fracking under our state parks and public lands will have on our health, the
environment and the planet from the oil and gas industry's greenhouse and methane gas emissions, as well as toxic fracking wastewater.
Science tells us that fresh water purity and supply; air quality; destruction of plant, animal and insect habitats; as well as increased
illness for people who live near parks and public lands to be fracked are likely.
Attached are two Save Ohio Parks documents. One offers examples of comments and one with more information.
Saturday, December 23 - 8pm
Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St. Columbus OH 43202
Ace of Cups is hosting a benefit show to raise funding for Columbus based mutual aid groups.
MASS Ohio (Mutual Aid Street Solidarity) and Heer To Serve
These organizations help provide harm reduction supplies to the community as well as resources to those experiencing houselessness.
The show will feature local friends in
The Mer-tini's
Trachete
Adios Beaches
Forever Strange
$10 suggested donation/pay what you can
All ages
We will provide direct links to donate to these organizations, their wishlists, and will have a spot to donate supplies.
The supplies they are most in need of are
Winter gear (especially socks)
Rain gear
Hand warmers
Propane tanks
Volunteers from Heer To Serve will be on site to offer extra information on how to further help and get involved.
The Senate and the White House are narrowing in on a bad deal that could codify Trump-era policies: Mass deportations, family detention, and family separation. That’s in addition to removing crucial transparency and congressional oversight of billion-dollar weapons sales.
Distressingly, the Senate could vote on this deal as soon as this week. These extremist anti-immigrant demands are straight out of Trump and Stephen Miller’s playbook — a laundry list of hateful policies we spent YEARS fighting against.