Action Alerts

Sunday, June 1, 1-4pm
School of Rock Columbus, 949 W. Third Ave.

The Tri-Village Family Fun Fest will be a free street festival located on Dover Ave. (right next to School of Rock Columbus), where we will have live music, food trucks, vendors, face painting, free music lessons, and so much more. This is an event for the community for all ages.

Featured vendors: Sadie Baby Sweets, Clay Cafe, Chick Happens Food Truck, Hook and Ladder Ice Cream, Bricks and Minifigs, Discovering You Portraits, Flocal Co., Ballooning with Izzy, Funatics4u Face Painting, and more!

Saturday May 31st, 2025 @10 AM - 12 PM
Linden Tree Nursery, 1142 East 17th Avenue Columbus, OH, 43211

To prepare for another successful year of tree giveaways, help us plant trees in pots at our Linden tree nursery location! We will need help planting trees, organizing rows, marking pots, placing stakes, and getting the nursery ready for the growing season. Bring your friends! We need all the help we can get to prepare 3,000 trees for our fall giveaway. Green Columbus would not be able to give away free trees each year without the help of our wonderful volunteers. Come out for the morning and enjoy the outdoors with us! The link to sign up is below.

Click Here to Sign Up!

US House Reconciles Legislation That Handicaps Renewable Energy Projects

The Republican controlled House of Representatives passed reconciliation legislation that effectively will eliminate nearly every renewable energy incentive that is currently in place.

The bill will end the 30 percent residential solar investment tax credit by the end of this year and the applicability of residential solar leases for tax credits.

The Investment Tax Credit (ITC) and the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for commercial and utility scale projects would go away completely for any project not placed in service by the end of 2028. 

There are a couple of poison pill provisions put into this legislation that are designed to prevent any renewable energy projects from moving forward. 

Wednesday, May 28, 12:30-1:30pm
John W. Bricker Federal Building, 200 N. High St.

All hell is breaking loose in the country and our members of Congress are missing, especially Bernie Moreno!

We will not stand down. Let’s hold him accountable to the people and taxpayers of Ohio. His office is at 200 N. High St. with lots of public visibility! We demand to be seen and heard, just like his rich donors.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

This event will be repeated each week until Wednesday, June 25.

Hosted by OPAL [Ohio Progressive Action Leaders].

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The Ohio Senate Finance Committee will hold four public hearings on the state budget next week:

We are at a perilous time, when our most basic freedoms are at risk.

It is vital that we not hand President Trump even more power to wreck our democracy than he already has. Among other things, that means not confirming anyone he nominates to be a federal judge.

In early May, Trump announced the first group of judicial nominations of his second term. One is for the Sixth Circuit, which covers Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. The other four are for district courts in Missouri. Senators on the Judiciary Committee are poring over the nominees’ records in preparation for a hearing expected in early June.

Senators are right to look at a nominee’s record. But in these unprecedented times, the most important record for them to look at is that of the president making the nomination. And Donald Trump’s record shows that he’s dangerously unqualified to be appointing lifetime judges to the bench.

Fair and independent courts are a vital part of our checks and balances. And with the Republican-controlled Congress so far unwilling to stop Trump’s ongoing abuses of power, the courts are more important than ever.

12PM NOON - MAY 25, 2025

DEEDS POINT METROPARK, 510 Weber St

On May 25, people from across the country will gather in Dayton to protest NATO’s assembly and hold a counter-summit -- the People's Assembly for Peace and Justice. For over 75 years, NATO has been a dealer of destruction in places like Afghanistan and Libya and threatened the entire world with devastating global conflict. The march and counter-summit will demand that our taxpayer dollars be used to meet the needs of working people instead of lining the pockets of executives at weapons manufacturers. 

Buses and carpools are being organized from as far away as New York City along with Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cleveland, Akron, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Toledo, and Louisville.

Saturday, May 24, 11:30am
Dayton Main Library, 215 E. Third St, Dayton, OH 45402

Speakers and march starting at 1:30pm to protest the NATO Summit happening in Dayton this week. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.

A key first step in restoring the executive branch of the U.S. government to what was supposed to be a branch of government for executing the will of Congress would be to abolish an agency that, unlike various agencies recently abolished or cut back, does only evil.

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) kidnaps people off the street with no warrants, and no identification, and ships them to a foreign prison. In recent days, ICE smashed a couple's car window and dragged them out of the car, snatched people from a courthouse, burst into a house in the middle of the night and forced the inhabitants outside while confiscating their possessions, snatched a man from a gas station and left his children behind in his truck, and held a young girl's face to the ground as she screamed.

Click here to tell Congress to abolish ICE.

The Case Against ICE

•          ICE was created in 2003 as part of a shameful and disastrous "war on terror," at which time warrantless spying, arrests, and "renditions" were widely deemed outrageous and shocking.

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Renewable Energy Leads New Generation

Solar and wind accounted for almost 98 percent of all of the new electrical generating capacity added to the U.S. grid in the first quarter of 2025 and were the only sources of new generating capacity in the month of March.

According to recent data from FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, March 2025 was the 19th consecutive month where solar was the largest single source of electrical generating capacity on the U.S. grid, dating back to September of 2023.

For the first quarter of this year, solar accounted for 72.3 percent of new generating capacity. Generation from wind turbines provided nearly 25 percent of the nation's new electrical resources.

Generation from wind accounts for 11.8 percent of the nation's electricity, followed by solar with 10.7 percent.