CCBOR core group member, Jaime Pardo (on the left, seen on the Ohio statehouse steps with 2014 Green Party candidate for U.S. Congress, Bob Hart), will be honored with the Free Press Volunteer Award on Monday, November 4th, at the Free Press Awards event at Ace of Cups (see details below)
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Election Day is a huge opportunity ...
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... for Columbus Community Bill of Rights!
We’re crossing the 6K line—
Let’s keep the momentum going!
Come on out and help build the success!
Are you able to spend a couple of hours on Election Day, November 5,
getting signatures at a Columbus polling place?
It is a great way to guarantee that people signing
are registered Columbus voters.
To go to our volunteer sign up sheet, please CLICK HERE or
Some opportunities this week and weekend:
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Community Conversations: Gentrification’s Challenge to History. Join us for a FREE Community Conversation on the topic: Gentrification's Challenge to the King-Lincoln Cultural History. Are online social networks and chat groups among recently arrived residents to the Near East Side a new form of “redlining?” Do they reflect an internet age tactic designed to exclude “the other?” Is it the civic responsibility of community residents, both longtime and new, to learn and preserve the history of the neighborhood they inhabit? To be blunt: Is gentrification the enemy of historic preservation, not only of edifices but also of culture? If these questions intrigue you or affront you, join us for a sure-to-be lively community conversation. Panel Members: Ed Lentz, Director Emeritus – Columbus Landmarks Foundation; Scott Woods, Streetlight Guild Owner, Creative, Writer, Poet; Chelsea Barnett, Account Executive – Bartha, LTA Board Member, Community Advocate. Moderators: Dr. Jack Marchbanks, WCBE Jazz Sunday, LTA founding Board Member; Suzan Bradford, Executive Director – Lincoln Theatre. Learn more: https://www.lincolntheatrecolumbus.com/conversations/. Location: Lincoln Theatre, 769 E. Long St., Columbus. Facebook.
Saturday, November 2, 2019, 5:30 PM. Columbus March for Black Trans Women.
When Black trans women are under attack, what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK. BQIC invites all of Central Ohio to march with us against the anti-Black, transmisogynist violence that is killing our sisters worldwide. The stakes are raising higher and higher for Black trans women, and the rest of us need to do more to protect them. We will be meeting at the intersection of North High St and West Poplar before marching north. Route details and more detailed schedule to come. This march is kicking off our Month of Black Trans Life and Liberation, a series of events uplifting and supporting Black trans people. More info on upcoming events to be announced. This march is for: Dana Martin, Jazzaline Ware, Ashanti Carmon, Claire Legato, Muhlaysia Booker, Layleen Polanco, Michelle 'Tamika' Washington, Paris Cameron, Chynal Lindsey, Chanel Scurlock, Zoe Spears, Brooklyn Lindsey, Denali Berries Stuckey, Kiki Fantroy, Pebbles, LaDime “Dime” Doe, Tracy Single, Bailey Reeves, Bee Love Slater, Itali Marlowe, Brianna “BB” Hill and every Black trans woman who has ever lived, is living, and will live in this world. #BlackTransLivesMatter #SayHerName #organizeCBUS. Join us. Wear all black. Raise your voice. Location: North High St. and West Poplar, Columbus. Facebook.
Sunday, November 3, 2019, 1:00 – 3:00 PM. David Hogg Presentation. David Hogg, a survivor of the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, turned his anger into action by co-founding the March for Our Lives movement against gun violence. He will be speaking at 1 pm at Upper Arlington High School. While tickets are FREE, you need to register for the event, and have proof of registration upon entry. Please register and/or make a donation here: FCchurch.com/davidhoggevent. Questions? Email hoggevent@FCchurch.com. First Community's Gun Violence and Safety Prevention Task Force, The Burkhart Center, UAHS's Students4Change, UAEF, and other donors proudly sponsor this event. Location: Upper Arlington High School Auditorium, 1650 Ridgeview Road, Upper Arlington 43221. Facebook.
Monday, November 4, 2019, 2019, 5:30 PM (doors open, refreshments, music and speakers), 7:00 PM Awards Ceremony. Free Press Awards Event at Ace of Cups. Headline act: Donna Mogavero. Awardees: 2019 Free Press Libby Award for Community Activism, Mary Jane Borden; 2019 Free Press Award for Outstanding Community Organization – Black, Queer Intersections Columbus (BQIC), 2019 Free Press Volunteer Award – Jaime Pardo. $15.00/sliding scale low income. Location: Ace of Cups, 2619 N. High St., Columbus. Parking in the side parking lot or street. For more information contact: 614-253-2571 or colsfreepress@gmail.com. Facebook.
Friday, November 8, 2019, 7:30 PM. 1960’s Folk Music Coffeehouse Recalls Turbulent Era. Bill Cohen will lead a candlelit, musical, year-by-year journey through the era, with live and familiar 1960’s folksongs, “news reports” of sixties happenings, displays of anti-war buttons and posters, and far-out sixties fashions. Plus, Bill will also challenge the audience with sixties trivia questions. Proceeds from the suggested $10 donations (at the door) will go to the Mid-Ohio Food Bank. Refreshments will be available at no extra charge. Free parking is also available in the lots just South and West of the church. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the church basement but get there early for a good seat. The program is suitable for ADULTS and MATURE TEENS. It’s the 34th year of sixties coffeehouses for Bill. He’s performed the show more than a hundred times now at colleges, churches, synagogues, conferences, high schools, and middle schools across Ohio and beyond. For more information, call Bill at (614) 263-3851 or BillCohen@columbus.rr.com. Location: King Avenue Methodist Church, 299 W. King at Neil in Columbus 43201.
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 1:00 – 3:00 PM. Activist Training 101: Statehouse Edition. Are you wanting to get involved on with legislation and policy, but not sure how? That's okay, cause we're still learning too! Join us on November 9th from 1-3:30pm for an ACTIVIST TRAINING lead by some of the most awesome female activists we know (list of speakers coming soon). Primarily lead by Rachel Coyle who's brilliant at explaining How Things Run At The Statehouse, in addition to other speakers. This training will focus primarily on legislation and policy, and how your passion can turn into real change at the Statehouse. Please RSVP using the Eventbrite link on Facebook. By signing up using Eventbrite, you allow us to reach out to you with additional details, the itinerary for the day, as well as follow up materials for how to keep the work going after the event. Location: Capital University, Student Union.
November 9, 2019, 9:00 AM and November 10, 2019, 12:00 PM. Amnesty International USA 2019 Midwest Regional Conference. We stand shoulder to shoulder in Columbus to make a lasting human rights impact. The goal of all Regional Conferences is to create a transformative experience focused on human rights education, skills-building, networking, and inspire action. As activists, we will be challenged to initiate change within our own communities. This will only happen with you – we need you there! www.amnestyusa.org/regionals for more information. More information and registration here. Cost: $30 – 60. Location: Crowne Plaza Columbus North, 6500 Doubletree Ave., Columbus, 43229.
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.
Thank you!
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Ohio big green mischaracterizes frack brine dangers
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Environmentalists are concerned that brine waste from oil and natural gas drilling could raise
levels of radium - a radiioactive metallic element found in brine - in soil and ground water. [file photo]
Columbus Community Bill of Rights and other grass roots groups in Ohio are truly slammed by the statements quoted by an attorney representing the Ohio Environmental Council in this Dispatch article that stated that frack brine spreading is safe for the state of Ohio.
We, under no certain terms, consider spraying frack brine products, including AquaSalina, anywhere as safe. When recently tested using the proper protocol to measure for radium levels, thirteen AquaSalina samples indicated radium 226/228 present at levels that were an AVERAGE of 346 times the EPA drinking water limit, and greater than 14 times the EPA environmental discharge limit for radium.
Please refer to the toxicologist report on AquaSalina that is attached to this newsletter email.
It is our hope that OEC will retract their statement that was stated in the Dispatch:
Chris Tavenor, staff attorney at the Ohio Environmental Council, said current law protects Ohioans from toxic brine waste.
"The products used today should be considered safe and not a risk to the public. Current Ohio law contains a cradle-to-grave approach in managing brine produced by oil and gas operations; meaning, brine waste products are monitored from point of origin to point of disposal," he said.
We are thankful to the Dispatch for publishing the series of articles bringing light to issues that are concerning to residents about oil and gas activity in Ohio. We must point out, however, that an error in the Dispatch article was that the EPA drinking water limit for radium was quoted as “.005” pico-curies per liter, when the actual limit is 5 pico-curies per liter. We don’t like to see erroneous terms like this when it is difficult enough to get scientific data published in mainstream media as it is!
We will keep you updated when we find out how this statement got printed in the article. In the mean time, PLEASE feel free to email Ohio Environmental Council's executive director, Heather Taylor-Meisle, at Heather@theoec.org. Please convey your outrage that one of Ohio's most-funded non-profits that supposedly work to protect our environment and resources has sold the residents of Ohio down the river so that the oil and gas industry can continue to poison our state's air, soil and water with heavy metals, including extremely toxic and persistent radium 226, dispersed into our environment with abandon. Ohio Environmental Council should RETRACT their statement on the safety of frack brine usage.
Click HERE or on the LOGO below to read the full article in the Columbus Dispatch.
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South Dakota Backs Off of Harsh New Protest Law and 'Riot-Boosting' Penalties
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The months of protests over construction of the Dakota Access pipeline spurred a wave a state laws that
ratchet up penalties for protesting or interfering with fossil fuel infrastructure. Many were based on
model legislation promoted by the industry-backed American Legislative Exchange Council.
Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
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The settlement, which makes permanent a temporary ruling issued by a federal judge in September, has immediate implications for opponents of the Keystone pipeline in South Dakota and could challenge the validity of similar laws targeting pipeline and environmental protestors in other states.
Click here or on the image above to read the full article in 'Inside Climate News'.
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Amy Goodman was facing jailtime for reporting on the Dakota Access pipeline. That should scare us all.
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Amy Goodman. (Aditya Ganapathiraju, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Goodman’s arrival at the main protest site was significant. At the time, not a single one of the major American broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) had sent a reporter to cover the Standing Rock mobilization; none had even bothered to mention it on the air. But there was Goodman, standing at the edge of a grassy plain that was in the process of being churned into gullies of dirt, reporting on one of the most significant stories of the day. Clutching a large microphone, she captured the scene as hundreds of protesters tried desperately to stop a crew of bulldozers from tearing up the earth—the earth, they said, that belongs to nobody—only to be confronted by a force of private security contractors wielding attack dogs and pepper spray.
Click HERE or on image above to read the full 'Nation' article.
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The Oil Industry's Carbon Tax Dream is a Climate Nightmare
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The Climate Leadership Council (backed by BP, Exxon Mobil, and Shell) is pushing carbon pricing aggressively in Congress. They know what we know, carbon taxes don’t work. On their face, carbon taxes are a regulatory rollback that will uses taxes instead of emissions limits to regulate greenhouse gases. The tax will be levied on these oil and gas giants, which will push up costs of energy on consumers. Without reasonable alternatives, consumers will be stuck with higher energy bills. This means not only will oil and gas companies get to keep polluting, but they can pass the cost of polluting on to taxpayers.
Click HERE or on image above to read the 'Food & Water Watch' article.
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Participatory Representative Democracy
If we don't use it, we lose it
Toxic Radioactive Waste Doesn’t Belong Here
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