GrassRoot Ohio

Carolyn Harding with Shelly Corbin, Roxanne Groff & James Yskamp. Petitioners & legal counsel to Revoke Primacy of Ohio Class II oil & gas Injection Wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Shelly Corbin(Takóni Kókipešni) is Itazipco/Mnicoujou, Lakota and a member of the Cheyenne River Reservation. She has served over 15 years in the military and continues to serve in the Ohio Air National Guard. Currently, as the Campaign Representative for the Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign at Sierra Club she focuses on oil and gas infrastructure and waste related issues of the fracking industry across Ohio. Shelly is committed to connecting with the land, relationships and herself to strengthen community, connection & unity with the living world.

As a founding member of the grassroots group, Save Our Rural Environment, Roxanne Groff fought the permitting of strip mines in Athens County. Her interest in state law and the lack of implementation of rules by the regulatory agencies, led her to run for public office, first for Township Trustee, then for the County Commissioner. She participates in campaigns to raise awareness and challenge industry abuses that will affect the health and wellbeing of citizens. Roxanne works with Buckeye Environmental Network and the Ohio Brine Task Force, to stop dangerous bills in the Ohio General Assembly, regarding toxic radioactive oil and gas waste as a commodity, inadequate rules for injection wells and oil and gas waste facilities, and the current Petition to revoke primacy of Class II injection wells from ODNR.

James Yskamp is a senior attorney at Earthjustice in the Fossil Fuels Program, where he works on matters involving oil and gas and petrochemical infrastructure in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley. Since 2014, James has been representing clients in Ohio and Pennsylvania in a variety of environmental civil matters, including cases involving water rights, citizen suit litigation, air quality permitting, water quality permitting, mineral rights, pipeline challenges, and land use and zoning. James also teaches a course in environmental law at the University of Akron School of Law.

On Oct 11, 27 Ohio grassroots and non-profit environmental organizations, delivered a petition to the the US EPA, “to Determine by Rule that Ohio’s Class II Injection Well Permitting Program No Longer Represents an Effective Program to Prevent Underground Injection that Endangers Drinking Water Sources and Fails to Comply with the Requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.”

Sierra Club Ohio Beyond Dirty Fuels Campaign webpage: https://www.sierraclub.org/ohio/fighting-oil-and-gas

Take Action on Petition: https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/tell-the-us-epa-that-ohioans-had-enough-no-more-radioactive-waste-in-our-communities?_ga=2.165206204.227122745.1667409785-1269332763.1654095636&_gl=1*1c0gf9v*_ga*MTI2OTMzMjc2My4xNjU0MDk1NjM2*_ga_41DQ5KQCWV*MTY2NzQwOTc4NC41MS4xLjE2Njc0MTA0NzcuMC4wLjA.

Ohio Brine Task Force webpage: https://www.ohbrinetaskforce.org

Buckeye Environmental Network webpage: https://benohio.org

EarthJustice law: https://earthjustice.org

GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio!

There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!

Fridays 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming @ WGRN.org

We air on Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.

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Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8

Photo by Ted Auch of FracTracker Alliance

Carolyn Harding with James Quilligan and Greg Pace, leaders with Economic Democracy Advocates, focusing on our Common Resources, our Water, Food and Energy Resources, for the good of all people.

James Quilligan has been an analyst and administrator in the field of international development since 1975.He has served as policy advisor and writer for many international politicians and leaders, including Pierre Trudeau, François Mitterrand, Julius Nyerere, Olof Palme, Willy Brandt, Jimmy Carter, and Prince El Hassan. He has been a monetary consultant for government agencies in Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Ivory Coast, Algeria, Tanzania, Kuwait, India, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. In addition, Quilligan has served as an advisor for many United Nations programs and international organizations. He is presently Managing Director of Economic Democracy Advocates.

Greg began his advocacy in 2005 studying the peak oil phenomenon with the Central Ohio Relocalization Effort (CORE). In 2008, he attended the Convention for the Global Commons in Berlin, Germany, as his focus became centered around commons-based solutions for resource management. As the hydrofracking boom came to Ohio in 2011, Greg became involved with holding the industry accountable in Ohio and eventually joined Carolyn Harding in helping to create ‘Columbus Community Bill of Rights’,where he remains as webmaster and treasurer. In 2019, Greg also became part of the executive committee as treasurer of Economic Democracy Advocates, where he also is engaged with the state legislation team. He has been active in educating local high school students on sex trafficking through Shared Hope International, as well as being a member of the Friends Committee on National Legislation Central Ohio Advocacy Team where members of Congress are lobbied for issues FCNL selects each year to focus on.

https://sustaineda.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.

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GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on 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 Maggie Scotece, Interim Executive Director of the Abortion Fund of Ohio.

Maggie Scotece, JD is a long-time abortion advocate, doula, and former AFO volunteer & Board Member currently serving as the organization’s Interim Executive Director. Since transitioning to this role in February 2022, Maggie has demonstrated her dedication to uplifting the stories of those most impacted by the barriers in Reproductive Justice spaces. She is a licensed attorney in Ohio with six years of experience in civil-rights law and direct, short-term legal assistance. Maggie has worked to make civic engagement and public policy conversations more accessible through her tenure on the Fair Districts Mapping Competition Advisory Committee and the Ohio Democratic Disability Caucus. They bring deep-rooted connections to Disability Justice organizing to their work at AFO, including their experience as a disabled activist and co-founder of the Supported Decision Making Network of Ohio. Over the last decade, Maggie has played an active role in community organizing spaces, including her involvement with the Ohio Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild where she began volunteering on their Protestor Jail Support and Legal Helpline in 2020. Maggie continues to work with local clinic escort programs, Racial Justice organizing, criminal justice reform, and movement lawyering.

Welcome.

When Row v. Wade was overturned on June 24, 2022. What was the Abortion Fund of Ohio focused on before the ruling, and what has changed since then?

abortionfundofohio.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.

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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on 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!

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Carolyn Harding with Stephen Goldmeier and Patrick Hoffman, organizers with the Columbus chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Their Housing Priority campaign’s work currently centers on city policy which they say is contributing to the housing crisis through huge tax breaks to real estate developers and lackluster protections for tenants.

Stephen Goldmeier is an attorney and consultant whose work centers on criminal justice, data, research, and technology.

Patrick Hoffman has been active in DSA since 2017; his introduction to Columbus DSA was organizing with renters in Whitehall who were facing unsafe living conditions.

Website: https://www.columbusdsa.org/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/columbus_dsa/

Interest form: https://actionnetwork.org/.../columbus-dsa-housing...

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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/

Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8

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Social issues

Carolyn Harding with David Harewood and Matina Bliss, organizers with First Collective, working to protect, and ensure homes for, Columbus Houseless residents.

David S. Harewood is an Artist, Advocate, and Community Organizer (https://www.davidsharewood.com/). He is a Co-Founder, with FIRST Collective (https://bit.ly/3HBFMHn), Co-Chair of the Columbus Police Accountability Project (https://c-pap.info/), and Executive Committee member of the Columbus Coalition for Rent Control (http://columbusrentcontrol.info/).

Matina Bliss serves as the volunteer organizer and treasurer for FIRST Collective. Matina started volunteering with FIRST Collective during the winter months of 2022 while they were operating an overnight warming station and has been a leading organizer for camp operations. She is also a leading organizer for the FIRST Collective's stop the sweeps efforts.

Press Release Sunday, August 28, 2022, stated

“FIRST COLLECTIVE TO HOLD A SERIES OF DEMONSTRATIONS ON BEHALF OF HOUSELESS CAMP

COLUMBUS, OH-- Members of the FIRST Collective will hold demonstrations at the homes of several elected officials this afternoon regarding the forthcoming September eviction of Camp Shameless, located at 897 E Mound Street.

Camp Shameless is a houseless encampment established on the near east side of Columbus this past spring. This afternoon we will be holding space at multiple locations demanding the following:

1. Cancel the eviction for 897 E Mound Street. (asks are edited for word count)

2. Move all homelessness matters out of the jurisdiction of the Department of Development and to the Department of Public Health.

3. End the Environmental Remediation Contract associated with encampment sweeps.

4. Create a committee to review and revise practices and policies around homelessness. This committee must be inclusive of mutual aid and community organizations that work with this population, as well as folks currently experiencing homelessness.

5. Make space and funding available for an overnight warming center during cold months.

The camp grew from a warming center we created in order to supplement the woeful inadequate resources for warming centers and inhumane conditions in the homeless shelters across the city. Access to buildings that might be used for warming centers from late fall to early spring would greatly increase the well-being of our most vulnerable populations.

Contact: FIRST Collective

Email: [email protected]

Social: https://www.facebook.com/FIRSTCollective614"

www.first-collective.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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on 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! See less

GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with every-day People working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Carolyn Harding with Jonathan Beard and Noel Williams, co-organizers with the Columbus Coalition for Rent Control.

Jonathan Beard is a member of the Coalition's Executive Committee, and a community development professional with long-time exposure to fair housing issues: his father, Charles A. Beard, testified in the landmark 1973 housing discrimination case United States of America vs. City of Parma, where the court found Parma liable of violating the Fair Housing Act. After moving to Columbus to receive a Masters in Public Administration from what is now known as the Glenn School at OSU, from 1995 - 2017 Jon served as President and CEO of Columbus Compact Corporation, where he raised more than $40 million to invest in the redevelopment of Columbus's most distressed neighborhoods. In that role, Jon financed and engaged directly in new construction and rehabilitation of single-family and multifamily housing as he led the city's largest comprehensive community development initiative since the 1970's.. Jon has been a landlord for more than 25 years as both a private citizen and president of the Columbus Compact, a nonprofit corporation, and has signed more than 100 leases as landlord over that period. As a public policy expert, real estate developer, banker and landlord Jon has in-depth knowledge of issues related to housing.

Noel has been advocating for people's rights via labor and community organizations for over 20+ years. Noel is the past president of the Columbus NAACP, past president of labor group which is part of Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (OCSEA) and is currently the VP President for the BREAD organization which stands for Building Responsibility Equity and Dignity. BREAD is made up of 44 diverse congregations which are racially, geographically, socially and economically diverse. BREAD holds officials accountable to implement proven solutions to community problems such as disrupting the school to prison pipeline by pushing Columbus City Schools to implement a program called Restorative Practices.

In my recent canvassing in Columbus Ohio, I asked folks what are their most concerning issues right now. They answered, reproductive rights, affordable housing and gun violence. Jonathan and Noel, you are leading out with a citizen-led ballot initiative for the city of Columbus, Ohio, to give citizens the right to affordable rent.

Website: http://columbusrentcontrol.info

Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/groups/361249442629320/

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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/

If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on 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 and today I’m talking with Dr. Alice Faryna and Bob Krasen with SPAN Ohio, an organization working for improved Medicare for All in Ohio!

Dr. Alice Faryna, M.D. served in private practice in Marion, OHio, at the Neighborhood Health Center; VA hospitals and in Academic medicine at Wright State University. Her last full time job was as medical director for Part B Medicare in Ohio and West Virginia. That is what convinced her that the Medicare program should be expanded to cover all ages, but with improvements to eliminate co-pays and deductibles which can be done at a cost less that our current privatized system.

Bob Krasen is a former clergyman in Cleveland; he worked for non-profits in Columbus, including United Cerebral Palsy; American Red Cross Blood Services; and Vision and Vocational Services; until retirement in 2006. He has been involved in SPAN Ohio ever since, and is now Coordinator in Central Ohio, promoting Medicare for All on the National and State levels.

I’m turning 65 in November and since last November I’ve been getting a lot of mail, emails and texts about Medicare. I’m confused, I assumed Medicare was an automatic enrollment, but I’m hearing it’s not that easy. I need help.

So let’s break this down for everyday folks- and for those of us skeptical of the spin and possible booby traps.

How does one best sign up for Medicare?

SPANOhio.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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on 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 Lisa Jackson and Sarah Teale, documentary film makers of Patrimonio, a story of a small coastal town in Mexico and its 3-year battle against an American mega-development, along with Bill Lyons of the Ohio Community Rights Network.

Lisa F. Jackson (Producer /Director / Cinematographer) has been producing documentaries for over 35 years and has won 2 Emmys, a Sundance Jury Prize and the Muse Award from NYWIF. Credits include Sex Crimes Unit (HBO 2011) a portrait of prosecutors in the Manhattan DA’s Office; The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (HBO 2008 Sundance Special Jury Prize, 2 Emmy nominations) Meeting with a Killer (2001 Emmy Nominee) and The Secret Life of Barbie (ABC, 1999 Emmy Winner). It Happened Here, about sexual assault on college campuses, aired on Pivot in January 2015. Grazers: A Cooperative Story premiered at DOCNYC in 2014 and is being distributed by Collective Eye. She recently received the first ever Legacy Award from the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival.

Sarah Teale (Producer) was a Producer/Director of Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections (aired: HBO March 26th, 2020. Emmy nominated for Outstanding Investigative Documentary 2021). She was also a Producer/Director on the HBO series The Weight of the Nation, nominated for a Prime Time Emmy. Other HBO films she produced and directed include Dealing Dogs, (Emmy nomination Outstanding Investigative Documentary); Hacking Democracy, (Emmy nomination Outstanding Investigative Documentary); Death on a Factory Farm; Bellevue: Inside Out, a year inside the locked psychiatric wards at Bellevue Hospital; and Mumia Abu Jamal: A Case For Reasonable Doubt?, HBO Cable Ace Award nomination. She has also produced and directed documentaries for the BBC, A&E and Discovery. Teale also produced and directed the feature documentaries Grazers: A Cooperative Story with Lisa F. Jackson distributed by Collective Eye and Passion River and Patrimonio, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and Full Frame and is distributed by First Run Features

Bill Lyons is a co-organizer of Columbus Community Bill of Rights, a group that is working to protect the water of the Columbus metro area from toxic and radioactive fracking waste. Bill is also the president of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN) whose mission is to establish a network of just communities in Ohio working to advance community rights and rights of nature. Bill teaches mathematics at Columbus State Community College and has taught mathematics and science on 4 different continents.

http://www.patrimoniofilm.com

https://www.ohiocrn.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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

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If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on 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 Laura Robertson-Boyd and Terri Black, advocates with Moms Demand Action. A national non-profit to end gun violence.

Laura Robertson-Boyd has been a grassroots volunteer with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America since 2016, and she currently volunteers as the Columbus Local Group Lead. In addition to her efforts to prevent gun violence in Ohio, Laura has spent many years as a grassroots activist around elections, redistricting reform, and LGBTQ+ equality and anti-discrimination protections.

Terri Black is a very proud mother of two teens. She works as a Grant Manager for a Univ in Cleveland. She resides in the Columbus area and has lived in Ohio the majority of her life. Terri is the spokesperson for Columbus Moms Demand Action.

Last week we attended a Vigil at the Ohio Statehouse in honor of the children and teachers slain in Uvalde, Texas. Moms Demand Action Ohio, Brady United Against Gun Violence and Gun Violence Survivor network hosted the vigil.

Everyone knows we have a growing crisis, an epidemic of gun violence in the US, and we are All, looking for answers and action.

MomsDemandAction.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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/

If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/

Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8

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Carolyn Harding with Dion Green, son of Derrick Fudge, who was shot the night of August 4, 2019 in the mass shooting in Dayton Ohio. Dion has taken his pain and trauma and started the Fudge Foundation in honor of his Father.

Mr. Dion Green is the Founder/CEO of FUDGE Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that helps survivors through traumatic experiences with resources and support. The Foundation seeks to support individuals on their journey of grief and healing through the delivery of support service and advocacy at both a local and national level.

Mr. Green has his MBA from Keller’s Graduate School in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science from DeVry University in Business Administration. Mr. Green is a Certified Peer Support Specialist with the State of Ohio.

Mr. Green is a survivor, he speaks around the country and in communities that have been impacted by gun violence. In addition, he serves on the Board of Felons with a Future, Upturn Ohio and numerous other community initiatives and support networks across the country. Mr. Green is the published author of his memoir, Untitled: Act of God/Act of Man. He is a 2021 graduate of Leadership Ohio, and recipient of multiple awards and recognitions from local officials and Governors. Mr. Green is a mentor, leader and change agent for the community, working to help communities heal.

FudgeFoundation.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.

Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/

Check us out on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/

If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753

GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085

GrassRoot Ohio interviews can also be found on 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!

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