Saturday, July 1, 2023, 12:00 Noon
Ohio's state parks and public lands are under attack. The oil and gas industry has submitted its first nine applications to FRACK Ohio public land, including three applications to frack an incredible 281 parcels of Salt Fork State Park. Salt Fork is the largest state park in Ohio and widely considered the gem of our state park system. There is no way that surrounding this park with 16 frack pads to frack 281 parcels will leave this park unscathed.

Fracking is incompatible with hiking, camping, swimming, fishing, birdwatching, and any other activity people do in our state parks. Help us fight back!

Join the Rally to Save Salt Fork State Park at Shelter 1, near Camp Beach, at Salt Fork, 14755 Cadiz Rd, Lore City, OH 43755.

Learn how fracking affects climate, health, democracy and more, tell visitors to the park what is happening, and say NO to fracking our precious public lands. 

Thursday, June 29, 6-8pm, All People’s Fresh Market, 945 Parsons Ave.

Join us for an evening of food, live music, and more! All are welcome; this event is free!

Community Development recognizes that wellness is both physical and spiritual. The opening of the Fresh Market is an effort to promote healthy living.

Hosted by Church and Community Development For All People.

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I was reading about bumble bees recently — specifically, their looming demise, thanks to human greed and ignorance — and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We should have eaten from it!

Well, we did, but then apparently upchucked everything we learned and, in the process, fooled ourselves into thinking that technology has allowed us to recreate the Garden of Eden from which we’d been banned. You might call it the Garden of Capitalism, in which humans can take what they want without consequences, forever and ever and ever. This seems to be the myth at the core of dominant global culture.

On Wednesday, June 28, workers at the 1085 W. 5th Ave. Starbucks store will be on an unfair labor practice strike to demand that Starbucks meet the partners at the bargaining table to negotiate a fair contract. The workers are also calling on the Company to end its attacks on LGBTQIA+ workers as part of its relentless union-busting campaign that includes threatening workers’ access to benefits and refusing to let partners put up pride decorations at dozens of stores across the country.