Action Alerts

On January 22, the Ohio Student Association disrupted Ohio Senator Jerry Cirino’s press conference announcing SB 1, a regurgitated version of the widely unpopular SB 83. OSA members showed up loud and proud on day one at the Ohio Statehouse to defy this attempt to dismantle Ohio’s higher education system. The re-introduced bill aims to centralize control over Ohio’s public higher education system, threatens academic free speech, and the state’s ability to attract and retain top students and educators.

Students gathered in the atrium holding signs and graduation caps reading “Listen to Students” and “R.I.P. my degree” before marching to the hallway outside the Harding Press Room. Students chanted as incoming Chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Kristina Roegner, took the stage, her speech overshadowed by the booming chanting of college students: “Higher ed will be dead”. 

Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 6:00 PM
OHCRN - the Ohio Community Rights Network invites you for a conversation with Susan VonderHaar and Jim Shenk of Cincinnati about creating intentional community. Susan is the Director of the Cincinnati Permaculture Institute and will introduce the practice of Permaculture and present how the ethics and principles of the natural world should inform us how we create human-built systems. Jim is author of "Creating an Urban Ecovillage; a Model for Revitalizing our Cities." He will discuss the interconnectedness of Ecology and Community in their EcoVillage experience.  

To prepare for a rich discussion, we ask you to view the following video segments:  Introduction to Social Permaculture and Interviews from Los Angeles Ecovillage.  

Register here. 

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 7:30 PM
Bill Fletcher Jr. has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college, he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO.  

Join the meeting here.  Passcode: 325849. 

A couple hundred people gathered at Goodale Park Saturay afternoon, January 18 for a rally and march to the Ohio Statehouse.

See video here.

The organizers stated the message: "This is our time. Our time to make it clear: we will not be pushed aside, ignored, or silenced. On January 18, we march together—as women, as LGBTQIA+ individuals, as BIPOC communities, as immigrants, as allies. We stand united to demand a world where equality is not a threat, but a reality.
WE MARCH BECAUSE: Every person deserves a life free from fear and filled with opportunity. Our LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC siblings deserve the freedom to love, live, and be their true selves without discrimination or threat of safety.
 Immigrant families have the right to safety, dignity, and respect, without fear of losing their homes or loved ones. Women’s voices, bodies, and futures will be in OUR hands—not controlled by anyone else.
THIS IS OUR MOMENT. It’s not enough to hope for change. We are the change. Every step we take, every voice we raise, every hand we hold shows that we are ready to rewrite the future.

Olivia Rowland, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation said, “Trump is a billionaire, was elected with the help of other billionaires, and runs the government on behalf of the billionaire class. Like all the politicians – Democrat or Republican – Trump will say anything to get elected. He ran a campaign promising to stand up for working people against the powerful elite. But the policies Trump is planning to implement, and the people who he is appointing to implement them, show that his real agenda is to redistribute even more wealth from the bottom to the top.” 

Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
Trinity Episcopal Church, 125 E. Broad St., Columbus
The January 20th Protest is ON! The Fight Back coalition has shifted to an indoor rally in order to ensure attendees are safe from the cold while still mobilizing to fight back.

MLK’s legacy of struggle lives on as we unite to battle poverty, racism, and war. 

Sponsored by the ANSWER Coalition, PSL Columbus, JVP Central Ohio, Columbus DSA, the Gateway Film Center union, Black Men Build Columbus, and more, this action aims to fight for our people’s rights on Day 1 of this new presidency. 

Los Angeles is now being destroyed by fire.

Next will be the “Big One” earthquake everyone knows is coming.

And then---unless we take immediate action---Diablo Canyon’s radioactive cloud will make this region a radioactive dead zone. 

My family is now besieged by four fires raging less than four miles away.  We don’t know how long our luck will hold.

We are eternally grateful to the brave fire-fighters and public servants who are doing their selfless best to save us all.

We are NOT grateful that Gavin Newsom has recklessly endangered us by forcing continued operation at two unsafe, decrepit nuclear power plants perched on active earthquake faults, set to pour radioactive clouds on us from just four hours north of here.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s resident site inspector---Dr. Michael Peck---after five years at Diablo warned that it cannot withstand the earthquakes we all know are coming.  

The new Congress took office this past week, both houses now with an anti-environment majority. Tomorrow Trump will return to the White House. We’re facing an unprecedented attack on our environmental protections.

The new administration and its Big Oil allies have detailed plans to roll back clean energy protections and tear down the critical safeguards that defend our planet.

Tell the new Congress to oppose attempts to undo climate protections!

January 18, 2025, 2pm jazz sax player from Cleveland, 3pm - conversation
Old First Presbyterian, 1101 Bryden Road. 43205
“Third Space” project, join the conversation and hear great music. Plans for 2025 organizing.

Saturday, January 18, 2025, 12:00 – 3:00 PM
Goodale Park, 120 W. Goodale St., Columbus - march to the Ohio Statehouse at 1pm
This is our time. Our time to make it clear: we will not be pushed aside, ignored, or silenced. On January 18, we march together—as women, as LGBTQIA+ individuals, as BIPOC communities, as immigrants, as allies. We stand united to demand a world where equality is not a threat, but a reality.   

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