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Our next organizational meeting:
WHAT: Columbus Community Bill of Rights organizational MEETING
WHEN: Monday, January 7th, 2019 at 7:00pm
WHERE: 88 W. Blake Avenue, Clintonville 43202
Ohio Community Rights Workshop -
Saturday, January 12, 9am-5pm, 2019 -
a one-day primer on Community and Nature’s Rights - so We the People can protect our water, air, soil & justice for All. Save the date!
RSVP REQUIRED. To RSVP and purchase your ticket,
click HERE or on the flyer image below.
Flyer below is also attached to this email. PLEASE DOWNLOAD and SHARE WIDELY!!
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
Columbus Community Bill of Rights, with help from Simply Living, have produced a venue for Ed Fallon, of BoldIowa, to have a presentation and a book-signing in Columbus on Tuesday, April 2nd 2019.
Ed will also be available at the Book Loft of German Village on Tuesday, April 2nd, from 3pm to 5pm to autograph copies of his book, 'Marcher, Walker, Pilgrim'. This is located at 631 South Third Street (43206) in German Village.
Click the image below to read about Ed and his book, 'Marcher, Walker, Pilgrim'. This book chronicles a 3,100 mile march in 2014 from LA to Washington D.C. to bring attention to climate action.
Ed is a very active and vocal force in support of the water protectors from Standing Rock.
Click on the image above to visit Bold iowa and to read more
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Statehouse lame duck has been gentle to fractivists,
for now!
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With the flurry of activity during the Ohio Legislature lame duck session this month, environmentalists have been fortunate so far, in that none of the three bills we have been lobbying against have made it through all of the hoops to get enacted.
SB 250 - "increased criminal penalties for civil disobedience against oil & gas infrastructure" - tabled
SB 165 - "brine as a commodity" - was passed in the house as HB393, however it is tabled in the Ohio Senate.
HJR 19 - "increased voter margins and additional criteria for passage of resident-led initiatives" - tabled
This does not mean that new bills with the same language will not crop up in the 2019 legislature: we expect many of them to.
We want to thank ALL OF YOU who contacted your legislators, and especially those of us who made the trip to the statehouse to show support for our side during hearings on these bills. This is what a democracy is made of - PARTICIPATION!
Seen above, are several who attended and spoke at SB250 hearings in December, including Kathie Jones in foreground from the group Sustainable Medina County, and behind her, Karyn Deibel and Carolyn Harding from Columbus
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BOR vs. BOE: Ohio Communities
Champion Local Democracy
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Read the full article on the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) website by clicking on the image below.
[excerpts:]
"Yet no matter how many signatures they gather over and above the required minimum, the BORs keep getting blocked by the BOEs"
"'How is it that these four unelected people can strip over 500,000 registered Columbus voters of their right to vote to protect their water?' asks Bill Lyons, with the group Columbus Community Bill of Rights."
Local Columbus residents chants closed down the business meeting after controversial decision by Franklin County Board of Elections in August.
Click on image above or HERE to read the full CELDF article.
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Lake Erie Bill of Rights Headed to Feb. 26th Ballot
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[excerpts:]
"The board, which had previously voted in opposition, ultimately agreed at the advice of its attorney that it should follow the latest Ohio Supreme Court decision and let the courts sort out the matter later."
"Markie Miller, an organizer for Toledoans for safe Water, the group behind the proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights, said she's excited the group 'at least passed this hurdle'"
TOLEDOANS FOR SAFE WATER
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Click on the image above to watch our video 'We're All Downstream'
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Remember, this is OUR
Participatory Representative Democracy
If we don't use it, we lose it
Toxic Radioactive Waste Doesn’t Belong Here
Protect our Home, our Families, our Rights!
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