Earth Day 2016 at Columbus Commons
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... for Columbus Community Bill of Rights!
We’re over 5,500 signatures—
Let’s keep the momentum going!
Come on out and help build the success!
Some opportunities this week and weekend:
Peoples’ Assembly @ Lane Rd Library, Upper Arlington,
Tuesday, September 24, 6-7:30 pm
We’ll discuss some of the local effects of climate change and different ways groups are taking action in the local area. The event will feature many amazing local organizations such as Move to Amend (ending corporate personhood), Columbus Community Bill of Rights (fighting for our right to clean drinking water, clean air, and clean soil), Sierra Club Ready for 100 (pushing Columbus to commit to 100% renewable energy), and more.
NOTE THE DATE CHANGE - Wednesday, September 25, 2019,
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM. Educate a Legislator Day.
FREEDOM DEMANDS ACTION! Join us for "Educate a Legislator Day." Many of you have told us you want to learn more about what happens after a bill is introduced in the Ohio Legislature. We thought the best way to do that is to hold an educational training event followed by citizens meeting up with their legislators. Educate the legislators that are making the decisions that are dangerous to our health and environment, like those that bring us SB 33, the anti-protest bill, which is one step away from passing the House.) Citizens participating in free speech and peaceful assembly are the sign of a healthy democracy. It is Un-American for elected officials to pass laws that silence their own constituents. They should be encouraging greater participation in our democracy, not less. SB 33 clearly violates the First Amendment of the Constitution. Location: The Sheraton Hotel, 75 East State Street, Columbus, OH. More information and Register here.
Thursday, September 26, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00 PM.
Meet the Candidates – Columbus.
Meet Local Candidates Running in Columbus! Races include: Franklin County Municipal Judges, Columbus City Council, Columbus City School Board, Franklin County Children Services Levy. Hosted by Franklin County Consortium for Good Government and LWV of Metropolitan Columbus. Location: Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1555 S. James Road, Columbus 43227. Facebook.
Saturday, September 28. 2019, noon-3 PM. The 2019 Green Energy Ohio Tour Columbus has one featured site, the Columbus Recreation & Parks Department’s Wyandot Lodge. Designed to be a net-zero facility, Wyandot Lodge has a variety of renewable energy and energy efficiency features that make it a perfect location for the environmental education programs that take place there. 3228 Indian Village Rd, Columbus, OH 43221. For more information: Green Energy Ohio Tour Columbus
Sunday, September 29, 2019, Jazz Concert at Harrison Park West, 1-2:30PM. Harrison Park West, 575 W. 1st Ave, at the gazebo. Come as early as noon, to collect signatures, then stay to enjoy the concert.
Consider taking your petition to events you normally attend, to get signatures from friends and neighbors.
Help out the effort by donating!
We need to print petitions and cards.
Send a check, made out to "CCBOR PAC", and mail it to CCBOR at P.O. Box 14741, Columbus OH 43214.
SPECIAL NOTE:
Due to the new ordinance in the City of Columbus that is changing transparency requirements to expose "Dark Money", as a PAC we are now REQUIRED to list name, resident address, and if a self-employed, name of business for ALL donations no matter how small. Please include this information with your donations!!
Thank you!
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Legislators' Secretive Maneuvers ...
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...Undermine Rights of Nature in Ohio
Bill Lyons had to use public records requests to find out which legislator introduced the amendment to strip access to the courts for any suits to protect the rights of nature. Read about how the Ohio Chamber of Commerce drafted the amendment, which Representative Jim Hoops obligingly submitted.
Read the full article written by Ohio Community Rights Network board member, Lisa Kochiser, in Truthout.org by clicking on the above image or HERE
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Press Release: ODNR Testing Confirms Worst Fears
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Oil and Gas Brine Contains Cancer-Causing Radioactivity
Samples are as high as 1,858 times the EPA drinking water allowable
limit for radium 226, which is water-soluble, bone-seeking, and a
carcingen that, one embedded in one's body, will maintain its
radioactive emissions for the remainder of one's lifetime (1600 year
half-life).
Read the full press release from Teresa Mills of Buckeye Environmental Network, and Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice, geologist/consultant, by clicking HERE.
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Laws That Stop Demonstrations Against Keystone XL Pipeline
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Click on the above image or HERE to read from
Standing Rock Protectors Facebook page
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Pennsylvania is Discharging Radioactive Fracking Waste into Rivers as Landfill Leachate, ...
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... Impacting the Chesapeake Bay & Ohio River Watersheds
[Excerpt:]
In order for a landfill to create and ship leachate, the EPA does require its own NPDES permit. But once the leachate leaves the landfill and is trucked to the sewage authority, a new NPDES permit is approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Envrionmental Protection. This permit doesn't identify the leachate as a component of fracking waste and there's no requirement to test for those contaminants.
The leachate from the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill is now trucked to treatment facilities in Ohio -- something DEP tried to avoid.
"The DEP has known that fracking waste contains highly radioactive elements like radium at concentrations more than 1000 times the drinking water standard. Yet, they have failed to safeguard the public against the impacts of toxic wastwater."
Click HERE or on image above to read the full article in the Public Herald.
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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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