Hi, I’m Carolyn Harding, producer/host of GrassRoot Ohio, conversations with everyday people, working on important issues, here in columbus and all around Ohio. For the past five years I’ve been honored to interview guests working for a better world in their communities, state, country, and, quite frankly, the world, in all areas of justice - environmental, social, racial and economic. My first guests were young activists working to pass the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, one of the first Rights of Nature laws ever to pass in the US, giving the citizens of Toledo legal rights to protect the health of their main drinking water source. I got to interview Ohio activists working on: Women’s Reproductive Rights; Black lives matter; folks making home-made protective masks for health care workers at the top of the pandemic; common sense gun reform; running for public office, even when the party pre-selects/endorses and funds “winners” before the primaries; protecting LGBTQIA+ rights at the State house; ranked choice voting; curbside composting; safe streets; organic farming; protecting the Columbus Metro water supply from oil & gas production and radioactive waste, etc. I interviewed city-wide and state-wide ballot initiative organizers with campaigns to: give Columbus citizens the legal right to protect their water from oil and gas production; End Qualified Immunity; Ensure $15 an hour to Ohio workers; End Gerrymandering; and Inshrine Women’s reproductive rights into the Ohio Constitution. I interviewed writers, doctors, musicians, housewives, attorney’s, nurses, film makers, teachers, bee keepers, retired fire fighters … People who felt the call to protect their communities, nature, rights - to stand up and fight back, in oh so many ways. Throughout these five years we Won and we Lost. And we got back up, adjusted, shifted and are working to create a better world for everyone and all life on this planet. I want to thank each GrassRoot Ohio guest, who shared your cause, your work and your unique stories with us. Thank You. You challenge and inspire us to do better. I want to thank the production teams at wgrn.org and wcrsfm.org for helping me get started and supporting me all along. I want to thank you, my listeners on air, podcasts and viewers on YouTube. I hope you gained as much insight, courage and gratitude as I have. GrassRoot Ohio is ending in its current form. I’m taking a hiatus. I’m curious to know what the next chapter of my life and work will be. So, It’s a wrap my friends- In solidarity for Equality, Sustainability & Justice for All. Thanks for Joining Me. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8
Carolyn Harding with Randy Cunningham, Ohio activist and author of the new book, Where We Live, Environmental Activists’ Fight to Save Their Communities. Randy Cunningham is a Cleveland writer/activist. He has been active in a wide variety of issues for the past fifty years. His first book, Democratizing Cleveland: The rise and fall of community organizing in Cleveland, Ohio 1975-1985 (Belt publishing 2018) is a must read for a new generation of Cleveland activists. His second book, Where We Live: Environmental Activists’ Fight to Save Their Communities (Pilgrim Press, 2024) is based on interviews he conducted with environmental activists in Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Since completing Where We Live, he has launched an online weekly newsletter called Randy’s Rants that has become popular in Cleveland. To subscribe email Randy at: randino49@gmail.com. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streams worldwide at www.WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams at www.WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Mia Lewis from Common Cause Ohio. She helped organize the volunteer signature gathering effort for the Citizens Not Politicians amendment, with the goal of finally ending gerrymandering. Mia Lewis is Associate Director of Common Cause Ohio. She joined Common Cause during the push to pass 2018’s anti-gerrymandering Issue 1, coordinating teams across Ohio to push for a “Yes” vote. She comes from an organizing and educational background, and is passionate about protecting and expanding the right to vote. On July 3, 731,306 petition signatures were turned in to the Ohio Secretary of State’s office, for the Citizens Not Politicians constitutional amendment ballot initiative, where the signatures will be validated by the Ohio Secretary of State and Ohio boards of elections, in order to be placed on the November 5, 2024 ballot. As a lead organizer of the state wide ballot initiative, Citizens Not Politicians, which would create an independent redistricting commission- talk about where we are today? citizensnotpoliticians.org fairdistrictsohio.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, & Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Mariah Ross, Ballot Initiative Director at One Fair Wage, Ohio. Mariah Ross has worked in progressive politics for the past 10 years. Growing up on the east side of Cleveland in Glenville, she has a passion for economic justice, foreign policy and education. She focuses her work on turning out young voters and communities of color. Currently she is the Ballot Initiative Director at One Fair Wage, leading the campaign to raise the minimum wage and end subminimum wages for tipped workers, workers with disabilities, and youth. The Raise the Wage Ohio ballot committee is working to put an initiative on the ballot for the November 2024 election in Ohio. The initiative would raise the state minimum wage to $15/hour, and end subminimum wages for tipped workers, workers with disabilities, and youth. The initiative is being driven by a large coalition of organizations, led by One Fair Wage, Ohio Organizing Collaborative, Red Wine and Blue, and many more groups at the intersection of community, labor and faith. You are very busy- Talk about the Raise the Wage ballot initiative you are leading out right now. raisethewageoh.org mariah@onefairwage.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding w/ Ginger Tornes and Margo Wakefield advocates for Friends and Families for Safe Streets Columbus. Ginger Tornes was born and raised in Columbus. She moved to Alaska, where she managed a commercial salmon fishing business and worked with the state legislature. Ms. Tornes became involved in safe street/safe systems advocacy after the 2017 hit and run death of a good friend on a street with no sidewalks. She formed Friends and Families for Safe Streets, Columbus, and World Day of Remembrance, a global event supported by the UN. Ms. Tornes is a member of the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission attributable funds committee, and various other organizations. Margo Wakefield holds an advanced degree in the Performing Arts. As a writer and choreographer, she uses her Art to communicate the human condition. Her Baha'i' spiritual training inspires her active participation in efforts and organizations that support Survivors of Human Trafficking, promote access to Mental Health care without stigma, and movements for Transportation Justice and Safer Streets. According to NBC4i.com, on Thursday, May 30th, at 9:24pm a young man was struck twice by separate vehicles in north Columbus. Unable to survive his injuries he died that night. And On Tuesday, May 28, at 9:15pm, a Pedestrian was killed while attempting to cross West Broad Street in Columbus. According to the Columbus Dispatch, On Friday, April 19, at 1:00am a male pedestrian died after being struck by two vehicles that both fled the scene on East Broad Street on the city's Far East Side. These recent deaths, are a result from pedestrians simply trying to cross a street in Columbus. Talk about these, all too common, tragedies happening in Columbus today. https://www.facebook.com/SafeStreetsColumbus GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jenny Morgan, Anton Krieger, and Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice, producers of the upcoming Sunday, June 2, Central Ohio Concert Book-Tour Event: FrackStock w/ Justin Nobel. Jenny Morgan is a singer/songwriter and an environmental public health activist from Columbus, Ohio. Jenny’s songs have been used for independent documentaries, for nature programs, in school classrooms, at political rallies and more. Along with being a singer/songwriter, Jenny is also a preschool teacher and founder of The Leave No Child Inside Central Ohio Collaborative and Citizen Pollution Watch. She also sits on the steering team of Save Ohio Parks, and is a long time member of the Ohio Brine Task Force, a group working to ban radioactive gas and oil deicers and dust suppressants from our Ohio roads. Anton Krieger started as an environmental justice organizer at Buckeye Environmental Network in 2021 and manages the oil & gas waste program. He received his Master of Public Administration from Cleveland State University with a dual specialization in economic development and city management. He serves as the secretary on the Board of Supervisors for Cuyahoga County's Soil and Water Conservation District. Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice is the Sr. Scientist for the local engineering firm of Bennett & Williams who specialize in the installation and management of public water supplies and the protection of our water, soil and air. She hold a BSEdu in Earth Science Education, a MS in Geology and PhD in Soil Science, all from Ohio State. Dr. Julie Weatherington-Rice has a deep and wide knowledge of the geology of Central Ohio, the effects of the oil & gas industry on our region, and Ohio’s regulatory system as it pertains to both. She has been an invaluable guide and resource to many organizations working to protect Ohio’s water, air and soil. On Sunday, June 2, FrackStock w/ Justin Nobel takes Place. It’s advertised as A night of Love, Justin and Music. What is FrackStock? Where? Why? Justin Nobel's (environmental journalist) 2020 RollingStone magazine story, “America’s Radioactive Secret,” won an award for longform writing with the National Association of Science Writers and inspired his newly released book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It. Justin’s writing has helped lead to lawsuits, public dialogue and been taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health. Sign Up for Your Free Ticket/s HERE: https://events.humanitix.com/frackstock-w-justin-nobel Find Out More about Justin Nobel HERE: https://petroleum-238.blogspot.com/ Producers and Sponsors: GrassRoot Ohio: facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Buckeye Environmental Network: benohio.org Jenny Morgan Music: jennymorganmusic.com First Universalist Unitarian Church of Columbus: firstuucolumbus.org Columbus Community Rights Network: ColumbusBillofRights.org Save Ohio Parks: saveohioparks.org Third Act Ohio: ThirdActOhio.org Ohio Brine Task Force: ohbrinetaskforce.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Justin Nobel, writer on science and environment for US magazines, investigative sites, and literary journals. Justin Nobel’s work has been published in Best American Science and Nature Writing and Best American Travel Writing. A book he co-wrote with a death row exonoree, The Story of Dan Bright, was published in 2016 by University of New Orleans Press. His 2020 RollingStone magazine story, “America’s Radioactive Secret,” won an award for longform writing with the National Association of Science Writers and inspired his book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It. Justin’s writing has helped lead to lawsuits, public dialogue and been taught at Harvard’s School of Public Health. Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio Justin. You’re coming to Ohio in May and early June, 2024 to present your soon to be released book, Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It - which began as an investigation with Rolling Stone magazine that examined the radioactivity brought to the surface in oil and gas production and the various pathways of contamination posed to the industry’s workers, the public and communities, and the environment. The book will be published April 24, 2024. This book is the culmination of 7 years of investigation in Ohio, Virginia, PA, and other oil & gas regions through out the US. JUSTIN NOBEL'S BLOG - FIND HIS UPCOMING BOOK TOUR DATES HERE: https://petroleum-238.blogspot.com/ GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Elaine Robertson and Bryn Bird, concerned citizens working to protect their rural communities next to the mega Intel microchip fabrication industrial buildup in New Albany, Ohio. Elaine Robertson is a founding member of the citizen's action group, Clean Air and Water for Alexandria and St. Albans township. She and about a dozen residents formed the group in 2023 in response to two proposed asphalt plants- one on each end of the town - only 1 mile apart. Due to their effort, in part, neither asphalt plant has permission to operate. Some of the Clean Air and Water for Alexandria and St. Albans Township volunteers have begun working with the CHIPS Communities United with a goal to bring responsible and equitable implementation of the CHIPS Act. The alliance includes labor, environmental, social justice, civil rights, and community organizations representing millions of workers and community members nationwide. Elaine currently teaches elementary music for Columbus City Schools Bryn Bird hails from a dirt road outside of Granville, Ohio growing up on her family's produce farm. After an undergrad at Miami University, she finished her masters degree in public health from The George Washington University. Bryn spent her early career as an epidemiologist working at the Navy and Marine Corp Public Health Center before organizing at Rural Coalition and Rural Organizing. Bryn spearheaded the development of the Canal Market District and Enterprise Hub. Bryn was elected Granville Township Trustee in 2018 and re-elected in 2021. Her passion for just and equitable rural policymaking stems, not only from her own experiences as a family farmer, but the desire for all rural Americans to thrive. She serves on the Board of the Ohio Farmers Union, Buckeye Valley Family YMCA and Rural Organizing. She is co-owner of her family's farm supporting the marketing and direct sale of produce through local markets, CSA's and wholesale accounts. Bryn and her husband Brian are also the proud parents of three daughters 10, 8, and 5! Bryn is currently a candidate for Licking County Commissioner on the November 5th ballot. It’s an election year and President Joe Biden (D), Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D) and Governor Mike DeWine (R) are All In with the Intel mega industrial build outs. And according to a March 20, 2024 Reuters news article - “Intel is planning a $100-billion spending spree across four U.S. states to build and expand factories after securing $19.5 billion in federal grants and loans.... The centerpiece of Intel's five-year spending plan is turning empty fields near Columbus, Ohio, into what CEO Pat Gelsinger described to reporters on Tuesday as "the largest AI chip manufacturing site in the world", starting as soon as 2027.”” You both live in communities that comprise these “empty fields near columbus” - Tell us what’s going on in your communities, regarding Intel. Clean Air and Water for Alexandria and St. Albans Township: https://www.facebook.com/groups/904509544135710 https://chipscommunitiesunited.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Judge Terri Jamison, candidate for the Ohio Supreme Court. Judge Terri Jamison began her work history in social work with the West Virginia Department of Welfare. She became a trailblazer when she was one of few women to join the United Mine Workers of America. She moved to Columbus, Ohio when mass layoffs shut the mines down. As a single parent, she worked a variety of jobs before becoming a small business owner for more than 16 years. She became a nontraditional student at Columbus State Community College, ultimately graduating cum laude from Franklin University with a Bachelor of Science degree. She enrolled in Capital University Law School where she obtained her juris doctor degree. As an attorney, she stood beside families in crisis, not corporations, representing them in various courts around Ohio and in U. S. District Court, in administrative hearings, and later being hired to preside over unemployment compensation claims. She comes to this campaign with more than a decade as a judge, having served on the Franklin County Court Domestic Relations and Juvenile Branch, and now on the Court of Appeals, Tenth District. Judge Jamison has often been quoted, “when the law is not on your side, you deserve to be heard, treated with dignity and respect.” Welcome to GrassRoot Ohio. When everyday folk go to the polls, most voters have an idea of who the candidates are, what party they represent, and if they are engaged, they have some idea of the candidates’ platforms. But even engaged voters, get a bit overwhelmed when it comes to judges. There are usually many judges on the ballot - and very few opportunities to hear what each candidate hopes to bring to the table. Ohio early voting started Feb 21 and primary election day is March 19, and my hope is that each voter does their own due diligence for all the candidates on their ballot, and this November- All Ohioans will vote for the open seat on the Ohio Supreme Court. www.votejudgejamison.com GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jolene Strieter, trans woman, founder & CEO of the non-profit advocacy organization,Trans Humanity. Jolene Strieter (She/Her/Hers/Ladywoman) please share your bio with our listeners. “From my earliest memories, I always knew I was created uniquely and wonderfully different. The hidden secret was... I am a Girl. I grew up with great inner turmoil between two worlds, on one side The Far-Right Evangelical Church led by religious zealots bent on narcissistic control of my life. On the other hand, a hidden life of discovering my True Identity knowing I was different than what society's black and white binary viewpoints had attempted to control my life to be, and I struggled greatly.... Eventually publicly coming out at age 18 I went through the chutes and ladders of life from being alienated by my own family and outcasted as a recluse, institutionalized, abandoned driven to Cleveland Ohio's homeless shelter by my own father, demon exorcised, attending Conversion Therapy in the deep south of the United States and even drugged up, molested and raped. My upbringings became almost an impossible nightmare where I grew up house hopping from partner to partner just to try to find some security unfortunately never having done so and greatly unprepared for life. I was torn between The Religious Control of my Transphobic upbringing and independently setting a new course for my destiny away from the burden of bigotry and regret. So, I purged and detransitioned to promote Conversion Therapy for 5 years as a poster child for detransitioners. Afterwards having stumbled upon undeniable fact which validates Transgender and Gender Variant Identity I re-transitioned at age 33 at the tail end of 2020. Today I advocate because of the undeniable truth I have found and have established Trans Humanity to promote the equality of all genders. I believe we're on the verge of a mass New Renaissance in the transgender world and since Felicity Huffman, Jenner, Jaz and Bono Transgender exposure has gone mainstream this has become a verge of success for so many. I would like to see what the future holds in store for us all.” We first met at the Ohio statehouse on January 24, 2024, the day the Ohio Senate Voted to overrule Governor Mike DeWine’s Veto of HB68, which, according to the Ohio Capital Journal, will block gender-affirming care for trans youth and prevent transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. The bill prohibits transgender youth from starting hormone therapy and puberty blockers…. Gender-affirming care is supported by every major medical organization in the United States. Talk about HB 68 and how it will impact Ohio trans girls/boys and their families? Talk about your story. https://www.facebook.com/groups/202511045351389 GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Zerqa Abid, Columbus community leader and Candidate for US Congress, Ohio District 15. Zerqa Abid is a small business owner, an award-winning nonprofit leader, and a women’s rights advocate. She is running as a Democrat for US Congress out of Ohio’s 15th congressional district against incumbent Mike Carey. She is the Founder, President and Executive Director of the largest Muslim Social Services Organization in Ohio, MY Project USA. She served as the Greater Hilltop Area Commissioner and as the Public Safety Chair and has served more than 300,000 Ohioans and has saved thousands of children. The impact of her work in the district is about $38 million. She has received the national AARP Purpose Prize 2023 Award, the Benefit Mutual’s Philanthropist of the Year Award 2023, The Columbus Foundation’s Outstanding Philanthropist 2021 Award and Everyday Hero 2019 Award from the Dispatch Media Group for her outstanding work. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of North Carolina State University. Talk about your community work on the West side of Columbus. You’ve worked hard in your Community. Talk about why you are running to represent Ohio Congressional District 15 in Washington DC. www.zerqaabid.com GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jaelle Terrell, a Ohioan trans writer and humorist who is currently living in Akron with her chosen family. Excerpts from her novel "The Tales of Victoria" can be found at www.statestreetnews.com. On January 24, 2024, the Ohio Senate Voted to overrule Governor Mike DeWine’s Veto of HB68, which will, according to the Ohio Capital Journal, "block gender-affirming care for trans youth and prevent transgender athletes from playing women’s sports. The bill prohibits transgender youth from starting hormone therapy and puberty blockers…. and Gender-affirming care is supported by every major medical organization in the United States. Children’s hospitals across Ohio, the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, and the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians all opposed HB 68. No Ohio children’s hospital performs gender-affirming surgery on patients under 18 currently." You were there at the Senate Session with your adopted trans daughter and partner. We heard the myopic statements of State Sen. Kristina Roegner, R-Hudson, “There are men and there are women and there are boys and there are girls and they are different…Gender is not fluid. There is no such thing as a gender spectrum....” And they passed HB 68, 24-8. It will go into affect, likely on April 23, 2024. And here you are Jaelle.... talk about your experience that day. Tell us your story. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with visual artist/activist Andrea Bowers and Lauren Leving, curator at Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, or commonly called moCa. On December 21, 2023, Andrea, you posted on Face Book, “A line from the Lake Erie bill of rights will be shining over Lake Erie on the science center across from the rock and roll hall of fame!” with photos and video clip from the installation of your work of Art, which is now hundreds of feet high installed on the Great Lakes Science Center, next to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in downtown, Cleveland, Ohio. Congratulations! That’s a big and very public work of Art. Let’s Talk about this huge Glowing Sign that says “Lake Erie has the Right to Exist, Flourish and Naturally Evolve” in Red, Green, Blue and Yellow Neon. Ohio-raised Andrea Bowers is a Los Angeles-based artist who has been recording and amplifying the work of activists present and past for more than two decades. Her multi-media practice includes drawing, video, sculpture, and installation work that foregrounds the experience of the people who dedicate their time and energy to the struggle for gender, racial, environmental, labor, and immigration justice and those who are directly affected by systemic inequality. Over time, her different bodies of work have become a document of the changing language, prerogatives, and dynamics of social justice movements. In 2021, a major mid-career survey of Bowers’s work curated by Michael Darling and Connie Butler opened at the MCA Chicago and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2022. Other recent solo exhibitions include Grief and Hope, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany and Light and Gravity, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany. In September 2022, Bowers opened a solo exhibition including both new and existing work at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Milano as part of an exhibition program organized by the Fondazione Furla. Bowers is represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Kaufmann Repetto, and Jessica Silverman Gallery. Lauren Leving (she/her) is a curator and writer based in Chicago, IL and Cleveland, OH. Her work explores how creative practice can expand institutionally-rooted understandings of access. Currently, she is Curator-at-Large at the Museum of Contemporary Art (moCa) Cleveland; Associate Curator for the Orange County Museum of Art’s 2024 California Biennial; and Co-Curator of Everlasting Plastics, originally presented in the U.S. Pavilion during the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Since joining moCa in 2019, Leving has organized projects including the Getting to Know You residency, which supported the production of Messages to Authorities (Go Away!), a largescale textile commission by Aram Han Sifuentes and Don’t mind if I do, a group exhibition stewarded by Finnegan Shannon. She holds an MA in Museum & Exhibition Studies from the University of Illinois–Chicago and a BA from Tulane University. https://www.mocacleveland.org/exhibitions/andrea-bowers-exist-fourish-evolve Celdf.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Kyle Herman and Lee Crumrine, Ohioans working to establish Ranked Choice Voting in our State. Kyle Herman co-founded Rank the Vote Ohio in 2020, volunteering in different capacities until he was hired to serve full-time as Executive Director, with the help of their national partner Rank the Vote USA, in December 2022. Before his work with Rank the vote Ohio, Kyle managed pro-democracy programs in Iraq and Lebanon, worked for the White House Office of Presidential Correspondence, and taught high school history and civics. Kyle was just sworn in as a Stowe Ohio city council member. A proud son of Stow, Ohio, Kyle earned degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. H. Lee Crumrine is a public sector law attorney and currently serves as an assistant law director providing legal services to a northeast Ohio municipality. He earned his Bachelors of Arts in History and Political Science from Ohio University and his Juris Doctor from William & Mary Law School. He is a resident of University Heights, Ohio, and previously served on the 2022-23 University Heights Charter Review Commission, during which time he proposed an amendment to the city's charter to adopt ranked choice voting for city elections. He is now the chair of Rank University Heights, a local ballot issue committee comprising several former members of the commission, that supports the adoption of ranked choice voting in University Heights with the goal of getting a charter amendment on the ballot in 2024. Happy New Year. 2024. It’s a big one for our communities, our State & Country. And Ranked Choice Voting is gaining momentum here and all around the Country. RanktheVoteOhio.org RankUH.org Rank the Vote Ohio Linktree: https://linktr.ee/rtvohio SB 137 Petition: https://www.rankthevoteohio.org/sb137petition Rank Choice Voting History: https://www.rankthevoteohio.org/history Proportional representation and election reform in Ohio / Kathleen L. Barber ; with a foreword by John B. Anderson: http://olc1.ohiolink.edu:80/record=b16307191~S0 Fair Vote: https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/ GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding sharing this Sprouts episode from one of GrassRoot Ohio shows featuring Tish O’Dell on State Preemption Laws and Nature’s Rights. It was an honor to work with Pacifica Radio to bring this to you. Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privatization, industrial scale energy development, and others addressing worker’s rights, homeless rights, immigrant rights, fair election issues and nature’s rights, including the first in the nation law recognizing the rights of a specific ecosystem, the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in 2019. Tish is a founding board member of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), organizing and assisting county chapters to build a movement of community rights organizing throughout the state to culminate in constitutional change that will guarantee people’s rights to local self-governance and the rights of people and nature over corporations. Tish co-founded the grass-roots organization MADION, Inc (Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods) in her hometown of Broadview Heights, Ohio that successfully campaigned to adopt the first Home Rule Charter amendment in Ohio creating a Community Bill of Rights banning new gas drilling, fracking and injection wells in 2012. Tish has also been featured in the documentary We the People 2.0, appeared on the Thom Hartmann Show and The Daily show and is one of the editors of the 2021 book, Death by Democracy: Protecting Water and Life - Frontline stories from Ohioans fighting corporate and state power. celdf.org ohiocrn.org pacificanetwork.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Sharon Scott, co-founder and general manager of the Low Power Community Radio Station ART FM/ WXOX 97.1 FM in Louisville, KT. WXOX is a noncommercial radio station committed to providing access to the airwaves for creative and experimental use. Ms. Scott’s radio advocacy has been covered by sources such as the New York Times, The Hill and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Sharon Scott has just published the book and primer “Low Power FM for dummies”. In October, we both attended the 2023 Grassroots Radio conference in Charleston, West Virginia, hosted by community radio station, WTSQ 88.1LP-FM. This was my first conference, and I was inspired by meeting new community radio folks, the excellent presentations, exhibits, performances, and the opportunity to hear Amy Goodman from Democracy Now. You were attending, presenting and introducing your newly published book, “Low Power FM for dummies” - artxfm.com LPFMresources.com Commonfrequency.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Adrienne Hood, Columbus City Council candidate for the People, on the November 7, 2023 ballot. Adrienne Hood is a mother of three and has four grandchildren. She retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2020 as a Master Sergeant, and is a Columbus native who grew up in Linden. Adrienne graduated from Columbus City Schools and has her bachelor's in criminal justice administration and her master's in human services. A servant leader at her core, she serves in her church and has served on several grassroots boards over the years. Adrienne is passionate about the changes that need to take place in our city which will protect everyone regardless of their zip code. She is most passionate about public safety, mental healthcare, affordable housing, and public education. Adrienne Hood for Columbus City Council is endorsed by ElectBlackwomen, New Politics New Power, Our Revolution - Ohio, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in AmericaCandidate, Ohio Working Families Party and The Matriots. Welcome Adrienne. Your campaign is in the final stretch, less than two weeks to election day. If elected Columbus City Council member, what will you do first for the People of Columbus? AdrienneHood.com GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 91.9FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: GrassRoot Ohio Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Joe Motil, Columbus Ohio Mayoral candidate for the November 7, 2023. Joe Motil was born the 7th of 11 children and grew up in the Columbus Clintonville neighborhood. He graduated from Bishop Watterson High School, attended Youngstown State University where he played college basketball, and in his 20’s, aspired to be a professional jazz musician. Married for 37 years, he raised two children while working in the commercial construction industry as a union Laborer of Local 423 for 24 years, and worked as a construction safety professional before retiring. Since 1995, Joe ran for City Council and State Representative, and has been active in citizen driven ballot initiatives on voting rights, tax levies, and development projects that negatively impacted the environment. He fights structural racism, and advocates for our unsheltered, for police reform/community policing, for historic preservation, for creating affordable housing, parkland protection, and for strengthening public education through his long-standing fight against the city’s tax abatement policy. Your website states you are the “People’s Mayor” and your Facebook page calls you the “Mayor of the People and for the People”. If you are elected in less than three weeks, what’s the first action you will do as Mayor for the People of Columbus? joemotil.com GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 91.9FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Dr. Lauren Beene, a general pediatrician practicing in the Cleveland area. She is co-founder and Executive Director of Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights and co-leader of the non-partisan grassroots coalition Protect Choice Ohio and the Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights alliance. Dr. Beene is concerned that abortion restrictions will cause a medical crisis in Ohio, and will disproportionally affect the most vulnerable populations, including her teenage patients and people of color. Dr. Beene with Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights, Protect Choice Ohio & Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights are working diligently toward protecting reproductive freedom via the citizen-led ballot initiated constitutional amendment on the November 2023 ballot. Welcome back to GrassRoot Ohio. This is our third episode together focused on this momentous campaign to Codify Womens’ Reproductive Rights into the Ohio Constitution at the ballot - Issue 1. Folks are voting now through November 7, 2023. Where are we Today Dr. Beene? https://ohioansunitedforreproductiverights.win GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 91.9FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!
Carolyn Harding with Jason Orabella and Josephine Duffy, volunteers with Redbird Books to Prisoners. Redbird Books to Prisoners has been packing books in Columbus since 2011. They send books free of charge to prisoners incarcerated in both Ohio and West Virginia. They also have an extensive catalog of zines (pamphlets on various subjects) that prisoners can also request. Jason Orabella is an Ohio State University alumni who has been volunteering with Redbird for over a decade now. Outside of his passion for prison activism, Jason enjoys gardening, hiking and identifying wildlife native to Ohio. Josephine (JD) Duffy is a student at the Ohio State University pursuing a Masters in environmental science. She began volunteering with prison book programs during her time as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, where she spent 3 years working with Books-to-Prisoners Urbana-Champaign to provide free books to incarcerated readers throughout Illinois. Determined to stay involved with the mission after moving to Columbus, she started volunteering with Redbird and has been involved with the organization for over a year. https://www.facebook.com/redbirdbookstoprisoners Book Packing Volunteer Sessions: 1st & 3rd Sundays every month, 5-7pm @ Third Hand Bike Co-op 979 E. 5th Ave. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!