GrassRoot Ohio

Carolyn Harding with Morgan Harper, Columbus native, lawyer and founder of the grassroots organization, Columbus Stand Up! She also serves as a Senior Advisor to the American Economic Liberties Project, an anti-monopoly advocacy organization. Previously, she was a candidate to represent Ohio's Third Congressional District. Morgan was also a Vice President at Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the nation's largest community development financial institution, and worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a Senior Advisor to the first Director.

Welcome back Morgan, great to have you on GrassRoot Ohio.

Last week, on Thursday, February 25, Morgan Harper testified before Congress, the House Judiciary's Antitrust Subcommittee, on the unchecked power of Big Tech.

https://fb.watch/40En4nQl1n/

https://www.economicliberties.us

https://columbusstandup.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!

Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org

We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, 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/user/cinublue/featured...

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

Carolyn Harding with Rev. Dr. Susan K. Williams Smith. Rev Dr. Smith is an ordained minister, musician, writer, and activist living in Columbus, Ohio. She has written for the Washington Post and Huffington Post, as well as her blog, Candid Observations. She currently serves as one of the tri-chairs for the Ohio Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. She also serves as national scribe for the African American Ministers’ Leadership Council (AAMLC), as communications consultant for the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, and is the founder of Crazy Faith Ministries. She is a graduate of Occidental College and Yale Divinity School, and earned a D.Min from United Theological Seminary. She has written many books, Crazy Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives; Crazy Faith: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives and most recently, With Liberty and Justice for Some -The bible, the constitution, and Racism in America.

I see Rev. Dr. Smith speaking, leading out at rallies for social Justice throughout Columbus, and I attended an incredible Freedom Choir concert at the Summit United Methodist Church on the OSU campus, at her direction. Join us for our conversation.

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!

Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org

We now air on 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/user/cinublue/featured...

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

GrassRoot Ohio with Michael Doody and Emily Frechette, founder and organizers to save Kossuth Street Garden in Columbus Ohio. Why would the city of Columbus want to zone away the right for a well established-15 years old community garden to exist? What are these folks are doing to Save it?

Michael Doody is a Life long resident of Columbus. He’s lived in his house near the Kossuth Street Garden since 1996. He graduated in Journalism from OSU and has volunteered with Comfest, Hot Times Community Festival, for progressive candidates and is currently the block watch coordinator for Southern Orchards, bringing good dialogue between the Columbus Police Department and nearly 4,000 people in Southern Orchards. He is Founder/Director of Kossuth Street Garden and in 2007 he helped re-start Earth Day Columbus - and that first year's theme was “Start A Community Garden" which they did.

Emily Frechette is the Kossuth Street Garden manager, along with her husband. She grew up near Dayton Ohio and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a double major in Environmental Studies and Creative Writing. They moved to the Southern Orchards area in 2012, lived and worked on a 1-acre microfarm near Deshler Park for several years, moved to another area of town and volunteered at KSG, then moved back to Southern Orchards in 2016 when they bought their house, which is right across the street from KSG - the reason they moved here. In 2018 Emily was elected President of the Central Ohio Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, a national conservation group.

Kossuth Street Garden is a one acre organic community garden located at E Kossuth Street and S. 17th Street - just south of Nationwide Children's Hospital and just east of German Village.

https://www.facebook.com/KossuthStreetGarden

Write: Nicole Harper- Council Person Priscilla Tyson's assistant at:

& please cc: [email protected]

when you do.

Save Kossuth Garden.

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!

Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org

We now air on 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/user/cinublue/featured...

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

photo by Paul Becker

Carolyn Harding and today I’m talking with Kiara Yakita, Jessica Smiley and Brynette Turner, activists and founders of the Black Liberation Movement Central Ohio.

Kiara Yakita is the Founder of grassroots non-profit corporation Black Liberation Movement and CEO of The UnBossed Network, a local Black media network. She developed herself as an activist, starting with protests for the LGBTQ+ community and Black Lives Matter for Trayvon Martin. She fights for Black Liberation through frontline activism, protesting, community outreach, anti-racism education, speeches and community events. Kiara spreads a message of equality, unity, justice, and the eradication of racism and hate.

Jessica Smiley, grassroots organizer and activist for over 10 years, is a Black lesbian and mother to a 13 year old daughter. Her passion lies with both the BLM movement and LGBTQIA+ rights and protections. She was a distributed/national organizer of the Women’s March, helping women nationwide become community organizers for equality and to defeat Trump in 2020. She organized rallies at Goodale Park and the Ohio Statehouse, submitted written testimonies for and attended virtual city council meetings to voice her support for legislation to end no-knock warrants, to form citizens review boards, to demilitarize CPD and to address CPD presence in our schools. Jess was a field volunteer for Obama’s two presidential campaigns, and for Bernie, 2020. 

Brynette Turner, Ohio native/Columbus resident is an author and retired federal employee who has also been a community advocate, political activist, and organizer of a variety of community events. Whether working on political campaigns, registering and educating voters, lobbying politicians, or actively protesting against social injustices and human rights violations, Brynette has been driven by a deep love for people, democracy, and the ideal of equal opportunity. She fully believes this country has the ability to live up to its promises to all people and its responsibility to be good stewards of this land and its many resources.

Columbus is an epicenter for Police Violence on people of color. Families and communities are heartbroken, devastated from the recent murders of Casey Goodson and Andre Hill. The Columbus Police chief has been demoted, Officer Coy has been indicted. A new Chief will be hired, and the newly won Citizen Review Board will be formed.

It’s been an intense six months since our first conversation. In your perspective what is foremost in the hearts and minds of Central Ohio BLM activists?

Bail Bond Information: https://www.pretrial.org

photo by Paul Becker

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!

Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org

We now air on 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/user/cinublue/featured...

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

Carolyn Harding with Alex Cole and Megan Hunter, activist/advocates protecting the Ohio River and supporting communities fighting an ODNR (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) permit to allow the Colorado-based Powhatan Salt Co., (New York private equity funded), to drill into natural salt caverns along and under the Ohio River to store highly flammable and explosive natural gas liquids.

Alex Cole is a native of Fraziers Bottom WV on the Kanawha River. He has lived his whole life in the Chemical Valley and knows first hand what it is like to live on a river that is polluted beyond repair. Alex now works as a community organizer for The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition fighting the proposed Appalachian Storage Hub, trying to prevent what happened to the Kanawha from happening to the Ohio River, and protect the drinking water source for 5 million people from the petrochemical industry.

Here is the link to the letter writing campaign:

https://actionnetwork.org/.../tell-the-odnr-to-reject...

Megan Hunter is a staff attorney with Earthjustice. Her work focuses on challenging new oil, gas, and petrochemical buildout in the Appalachian Ohio River Valley. Before joining Earthjustice, Megan was staff attorney and outreach director at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services and partner at her own firm, Hunter & Hunter LLC. In this capacity, she worked with communities in Ohio living with the ills of rapidly expanding oil and gas development, proposed petrochemical buildout, and legacy coal and steel mill pollution. She has represented individuals in defending their land and health from pipeline and well pad development, and she successfully litigated a Clean Water Act citizen suit that ended the practice of oil and gas produced water discharge to the Mahoning River. Megan graduated with honors from Vermont Law School, where she served as senior managing editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, and she holds a Master of Science in Applied Economics from Cornell University and Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Policy from Barnard College.

Here is the link to the letter writing campaign:

https://actionnetwork.org/.../tell-the-odnr-to-reject...

https://www.concernedohioriverresidents.org

OHVEC.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

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 Pat Marida and Mary Olson, advocates for the United Nations Treaty banning Nuclear Weapons, Enters into Force Today, Friday, January 22, 2021.

Pat Marida has worked to stop the threats posed by nuclear weapons since the 1980s, as a volunteer with the Ohio Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and the Sierra Club. She served as an Executive Committee Member of the Ohio Sierra Club and is currently a Core Team Member of the national Sierra Club’s Nuclear Free Campaign. As a pharmacist, she well understands the deadly effects of ionizing radiation on people and other life forms. Pat lives in Columbus.

Mary Olson is Acting Director of the Gender and Radiation Impact Project. She served as Staff Biologist and Senior Radioactive Waste Policy Analyst at US-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Her work on radiation education lead her to the

question of whether biological sex is a factor in radiation harm. Her paper, ‘Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women’ was featured at the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons; the UN Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review; the International Committee of the Red Cross Asia meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia and many other conferences. She is currently raising funds to support a 2021 project to define a new, gender-inclusive basis for radiation protection standards to help prevent unnecessary radiation exposure and reduce radiation harm.

https://www.genderandradiation.org

icanw.org

https://www.hiroshimanagasaki75.org/partners

We just witnessed the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to take the leadership and unify the United States of America. And today, January 22, 2021 The United Nations Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty, a landmark Treaty, Enters into Force.

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 w/ Ohio Dr. Ean Bett and Dr. Kate Kelley discuss the need for and path to #MedicareForAll!

Dr. Ean Bett is a family medicine physician practicing in Columbus, Ohio with a particular interest in achieving universal, affordable, and high-quality healthcare for all Americans. He believes through appropriate drug pricing, the use and integration of technology in clinical practice, and most importantly a shared vision of American values, our country will improve its health and wellness.

Dr. Kate Kelley, MD, MPH is a resident family physician at MetroHealth in Cleveland, OH. Prior to her career in medicine, she worked in public health and health communications in Washington, DC. She serves as the co-chair of Doctors for America's Health for All committee, and is a member of USA Healthcare. She is committed to a values-based, principled, and practical approach to universal health care through health system reform.

https://www.spanohio.org

https://www.healthcare-now.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

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 Ohio Organic/Regenerative Farmers, Mick Luber and Emily Pek.

Mick Luber is a founding member of OEFFA (Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association) and has been operating the certified organic Bluebird Farm for forty years, raising vegetables and fruit. They raise five acres of produce on their 61 acre farm in Eastern ohio- their specialties are lettuces and garlic. They participate in farmer's markets in Ohio, PA and WV. In 2016 they also fought an oil & gas pipeline that was to run through their main production area, and had the route changed off their property.

https://www.facebook.com/mick.luber

Emily Pek operates Frayed Knot Farm, a small hand scale farm, located in Newbury township of Geauga County which is 30 miles from downtown Cleveland. Indigenous to the Erie and Mississugua nations. Frayed Knot Farm, the enterprise focuses on cut flower production, offered in a CSA style subscription service throughout the summer season, as well as providing blooms and foliage for celebratory arrangements and workshops. Frayed Knot has also been host to The Cleveland Flax Project. Frayed Knot uses regenerative agricultural techniques that honor the land and its stewards and provide nourishment to the surrounding ecosystem.

Website: frayedknotfarm.com

Facebook: Frayed Knot Farm

Instagram: @frayedknotfarm

It’s a New Year, 2021, and you are active members of Ohio’s #1 industry - agriculture. Everyone is thinking about resolutions and goals, making better choices in diet and lifestyle - - - So here we are-

Mick you run a certified fruit and veggie organic farm, and Emily you run a regenerative flower farm - one farm’s been around for 40 years, one almost 5, one farmer has to go to the top of the hill for internet, the other taps into it daily.

You BOTH chose the road less traveled, for your farm -

Why certified organic?

Why regenerative agriculture?

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 with musicians Alan Harrell, Isabel Trautwein and Mark Dumm of The Cleveland Orchestra.

250 years ago Ludwig Van Beethoven was born, December 16, 1770. And to honor his timeless musical genius and bring the world together, the #GlobalOdeToJoy was conceived. Groups from all over the world created and submitted musical videos celebrating Beethoven’s 9th symphony, Ode to Joy, and you, members of the Cleveland Orchestra are one of the few North American, and as far as I can tell, the only Ohio group to take part.

In this time of Covid-19, isolation, death, divisive, destructive politics, racism, police violence, hunger and fear, we need connection, humanity, generosity, love and yes, JOY.

globalodetojoy.com

https://youtu.be/N8eZHh9wkSw

clevelandorchestra.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heiligenstadt_Testament

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il4N9v92T50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyv6-t272w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJncBCN2tY

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/arts/music/beethoven-hearing-loss-deafness.html?referringSource=articleShare

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 with three medical workers on the front-lines of the covid-19 crisis.

We have all been impacted by this deadly pandemic virus, yet these folks are on the front lines, tending, treating, nursing, comforting our most vulnerable in their deepest need. They facing life and death head-on daily. They are Heroes.

One of our guests is a traveling nurse, one is an ER medical technician, one an Urgent care MD. Two of our guests choose to remain anonymous.

Traveling Nurse is a registered nurse based in Central Ohio. She has worked as a travel nurse in a variety of specialties in the hospital setting for the past 5 years. In January 2020 she started [an] 8 week contract, then covid hit- she’s been extending and extending and extending to this day. She’s been assigned to three different facilities over the course of the Covid pandemic, and has most recently been assigned to a Covid ICU unit in a facility that is under surge due to the Covid crisis.

ER Tech is an Emergency Department Technician in a small, independent, not-for-profit hospital in SE Ohio with less than 300 beds. As a technician, she takes vitals, assist nurses by drawing blood, running errands to lab cleaning, stocking, performing EKG's, transporting, and do compressions on patients. .

Brad Cotton is an MD, ER physician for 40 years. He started off as a paramedic in Cleveland, studied Nursing at Kent State and then Medical School at OSU. He's active in Ohio SPAN (single payer action network).

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!