Action Alerts

What if we all took a new pledge?

For you. For me. For the people and for the country that deep down — in spite of its MAGA-heads, in spite of its insanity — we’ve decided to fight for its survival, holding onto a belief that we can make it better, that we can fix it, that we can end the madness and create a true Democracy for which it stands.

I’ve taken the liberty of writing one for us on this day:

I would love to speak these words each morning with all of you!

And then — WE ACT!

We do not have a minute to spare.

Join us to check out these anime-inspired vegan restaurant, so bring your costume if you’d like! They are opening early just for us! Come and enjoy their anime-inspired delicious vegan dishes and mingle and meet fellow vegan and vegan-curious friends!

For more information, here is their menu.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Columbus Vegan Meetup.

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The 50501 Movement denounces the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on communities in Southern California and is mobilizing to protest nationwide in solidarity.

On June 6, ICE undertook warrantless, military-style raids in Los Angeles, detaining at least 44 people as part of Trump’s unconstitutional mass deportation plan. In response, protests erupted across the city. At a protest outside the Roybal Federal Building, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was attacked and injured by federal agents while observing and documenting ICE activity. He was then unlawfully arrested.

Saturday, June 7, 2-4pm, Upper Arlington Public Library [Friends Theater], 2800 Tremont Rd.

DEI stands for “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” In our nation today, there are significant changes taking place within identified DEI programs on all different levels: companies, organizations, universities, schools, government, and more. Whether DEI programs are worthwhile or not is a topic worth learning more about and discussing by using “The Braver Angels Way.”

Some believe that these programs are essential to achieving fairness in our society. Some believe these programs have created more division and even furthered discrimination.

Join us for a discussion on this timely topic. There will be three panelists who will help us understand differing perspectives. A non-partisan panelist will provide a helpful overview of the purpose of and what is involved in DEI. Two other panelists will discuss the pros and cons of DEI programs from their knowledgeable and differing perspectives:

• Cindy Burack, Political Theorist and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio University

Trump is building a giant database of our personal information with the help of tech giant Palantir. 

Trump intends to use the company’s mass data-collection technology to compile master lists of Americans’ personal data, including everything from bank account records to disability status to medical claims, without their consent. Trump could then use these vast datasets to abuse the law, persecute his adversaries, and advance his political agenda.

The Trump administration has already awarded Palantir, founded by Trump mega-donor Peter Thiel, more than $895 million in government contracts. 

Former Palantir employees have warned, “Combining all that data, even with the noblest of intentions, significantly increases the risk of misuse.”

Let’s put a stop to this mass data collection before it’s too late. Tell Congress to oppose Trump’s surveillance scheme and Thiel’s data collection cash grab.

US Solar Industry Continues Growing

The latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, reveals that the mix of renewable energy sources produced over the first three months of 2025, provided nearly a third of the total U.S. electric generation.

Utility-scale solar expanded by 43.9 percent in the first quarter of this year. Small-scale rooftop solar increased by 11 percent compared to the same period in 2024.

The combination of utility-scale and small-scale solar increased by over one third and was 6.8 percent of the total U.S. electric generation for this first quarter, up from 5.3 percent a year earlier.

This means that energy generated from solar surpassed the output of the nation's hydroelectric plants, which was 5.7 percent.  This is a first in our nation's history.

Biofuels Demand More Land than Solar Generation

US Solar Industry Continues Growing

The latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA, reveals that the mix of renewable energy sources produced over the first three months of 2025, provided nearly a third of the total U.S. electric generation.

Utility-scale solar expanded by 43.9 percent in the first quarter of this year. Small-scale rooftop solar increased by 11 percent compared to the same period in 2024.

The combination of utility-scale and small-scale solar increased by over one third and was 6.8 percent of the total U.S. electric generation for this first quarter, up from 5.3 percent a year earlier.

This means that energy generated from solar surpassed the output of the nation's hydroelectric plants, which was 5.7 percent.  This is a first in our nation's history.

Biofuels Demand More Land than Solar Generation

Wednesday, June 4, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Please join us for an in-person and live-streamed event. Together, we’ll hear from key experts—like international tunnel expert Brian O’Mara—about the latest on Line 5 and learn how to take action at this critical moment. The federal administration has fast-tracked the Line 5 tunnel permit, and your voice is more important now than ever!  

Line 5 is an outdated oil and gas pipeline that poses unacceptable risks of a spill, especially as it travels along the lakebed through the Straits of Mackinac in a four-mile section known as the dual pipelines.

Bill McKibben, who has been advocating for a shutdown since the beginning of this movement, will make a virtual appearance with a special message.

More information and registration here. 

Tuesday, June 3, 5:30-7:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join Jason Salley (Investigative Journalist, Ohio Atomic Press) and Terry Lodge (Lawyer, Veterans for Peace) for a discussion highlighting connections between the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS) in Piketon, the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, and the proposed AI drone weapons manufacturer, Anduril, in Pickaway County.

Discussants will outline how these three facilities will likely work together to ramp up new Cold War tensions with Russia, exacerbate environmental injustices in Appalachian Ohio, further militarize Ohio’s police and surveillance state, as well as realize the imperial ambitions of Anduril CEO and virulent Zionist, Palmer Luckey.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Ohio Nuclear Free Network.

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Anti-democracy lawmakers are attacking our rights, and they are moving the legislation forward so fast that Ohioans are barely getting a chance to get the facts and speak up.

Well, here are the facts.

SB 153 and HB 233 are an attack on volunteers who put boots on the ground, collecting signatures for our democracy. These are our grandmothers and grandfathers, our parents, our family and friends and our coworkers, all who spend their weekends and spare time collecting signatures and fighting for workers’ rights and voters’ rights.

Volunteers who collect signatures would be forced to sign away their 5th Amendment constitutional rights, potentially subjecting them to politically motivated investigations. “Compensated” circulators would be required to wear badges, but “compensated” is defined so broadly it even applies to volunteers who receive free pizza or a t-shirt.

Those are the facts.

SB 153 and HB 233 are an attack on our democracy and our freedoms.