GrassRoot Ohio

GrassRoot Ohio host Carolyn Harding with Charlotte Owens, Alaina Swope and Katie O’Neil, SE Ohio progressive women candidates Running to WIN. Charlotte Owens is the Democrat running for Ohio House District 78, which includes all or part of 6 counties extending from Circleville to South Zanesville. In order to serve the people, and not big money, she's pushing for an end to the corruption under Rep...

#GrassRoot_Ohio radio/podcast w/ Debera Diggs, Tiffany Sigler Rumbalski and Maria Ramirez, Central Ohio "Get Out the Vote" advocates and activists. It's going to take all of us to Vote Trump Out. Join us for Ideas, Inspiration and Action. Debera Diggs humbly serves City of Columbus residents to provide essential NEEDS (necessary equipment every day to suceed). She believes Voting is one tool indiv...

A Sisterhood for Black Lives has taken a nightly stand in Columbus Metro for #BlackLivesMatter since George Floyd’s murder. Kiara Yakita, Jessica Smiley and Brynette Turner are committed to Justice for All. Kiara Yakita is a Cincinnati native and has lived in Columbus for 2 years. She's an artist and activist passionate about uplifting black women. She's been an active participant in the BLM movem...

Carolyn Harding with Pam Libby, Julia King and Lindsay Layland. Two are born and raised Ohioans, one Alaskan. Two migrate to Bristol Bay every June/July, one lives there year round. Two are my biological sisters, one is an activist organizer sister. All three are commercial salmon fishermen or women in the Bristol Bay, and all three stand to Stop Pebble Mine. Pam Harding Libby was born and raised...

Carolyn Harding with Laurel Hobden and DaMarcus X, Artist/Designers of the Green New Deal Bandaner. A work of Art, Graphic Design, Activism on a Bandaner! Something you can wear as a headband, a scarf, on your backpack, your car, your dorm or house window, basically anywhere, with the clean message “Green New Deal Now”. It’s clear, earthy, attractive and when you look at it closely, you find all k...

GrassRoot Ohio host Carolyn Harding with Pat Marida and Lee Blackburn, fighting corrupt legislation to bail out failing nuclear and coal based power and fighting for renewable energy here in Ohio. Pat Marida is the Chair of the Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee. She works on nuclear issues nationwide with the Sierra Club and other groups. In the 1980s, she worked on the Ohio Nuclear Weapons...

Carolyn Harding with Becca Pollard, Central Ohio Sierra Club, Vicky Abou-Ghalioum, GradRoots, OSU Grad environmental org. and Jan Nespor, OSU professor, advocates for Clean Energy/ fighting the multimillion Fracked Gas Power Plant slated to be built in the middle of the Ohio State University Campus. What will the impact be on the students, faculty, the equine facility nearby, the community? Who ar...

GrassRoot Ohio radio/podcast - Fridays, 5pm EST, 94.1FM Columbus & streaming worldwide @ wgrn.org Carolyn Harding w/ Dana Kuhnline, and Allison Beer McKenzie, Ohio Front-line Mask Maker Sheros. When COVID-19 hit Ohio in March, I followed Dana’s posts about making masks for front line workers. She shared info and links from Sew Masks 4 Cincy - patterns for seamstresses to make masks that work for w...

Carolyn Harding with Dawn Knickerbocker, Jheri Neri and Guy Jones, indigenous leaders and organizers in SW Ohio. The Federal Court's decision to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline for a complete environmental impact assessment, and what's the impact on Ohio Indigenous and ally Water Protectors - across the nation and beyond. Dawn Knickerbocker belongs to the Anishinaabe people and a citizen of t...

Grassroot Ohio radio, Fridays, 5pm EST on 94.1FM and streams @ WGRN.org GrassRoot Ohio, Carolyn Harding w/ with Austin Smith and Kaia Woodford of the Bexley Anti-Racism Project (BexleyARP). Bexleyarp.org From your website: "Our mission is is to actively combat racial inequality through education, mobilization, and amplification in order to support people of color in the Bexley community and nation...

5:00pm EST GrassRoot Ohio radio, 94.1FM & streaming at wgrn.org, Host Carolyn Harding w/ Christopher Austin, the originator of the petition to take down the Statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the Columbus City Hall. http://chng.it/brNFFqVm72 Christopher Austin graduated from Otterbein University with a major in Theatre and received his Master’s Degree in Pastoral and Professional Counselin...

GrassRoot Ohio radio, 94.1FM & streaming at wgrn.org w/ Bill Lyons, Columbus Community Bill of Rights organizer, Dir. of Ohio Community Rights Network & Tish O’Dell of Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, celdf.org- when all legal recourses are denied, what can citizens do to protect their drinking water from radioactive frack waste! ColumbusBillofRights.org Ohiocrn.org Celdf.org GrassRoot...

Carolyn Harding with Mary Aguilera and Anthony Whitmore, both Ohio leaders in the Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. If you are working in activist circles or in faith-based circles, you’ve probably heard about Reverend Barber and the Poor Peoples’ Campaign. I run into many folks who work on environmental, social, racial, economic justice issues and they also work with the P...

Carolyn Harding with Greg Pace and Teresa Mills, activists with extensive research, experience and action regarding Oil & Gas BRINE, and why we should not use this on our roads for ice or dust! Ohio HB 545 - A bill has been introduced that allows Oil and Gas Management to determine the safety of AquaSalina and other "conventional" brine products for use as a de-icer. Meet two intrepid activists ra...

Carolyn Harding (host) with Erick Bellomy and Bobbi McCalla, founder and Board members of the local non-profit Group, Gun Violence Survivor Network. With the primary in full swing, and the Coronavirus taking headlines, Gun violence isn’t on the Front page, but this violence and trauma happens daily and those that have been harmed are dealing with it today, tomorrow, it’s a part of them forever. Er...

Carolyn Harding (host) with 3 Indivisible Ohio District 15 activists/ organizers, Leah Hackleman-Good, Tina Cottone and Jim Kennedy, working on Buckeye State Rural. From website: “Our mission is to change the conversation in rural Ohio to promote progressive policies and candidates." The election of Trump and its aftermath of dangerous threats to democracy fuels Leah Hackleman-Good’s daily actions...

Who are these intrepid commuters? Rain, Snow, Heat, Dark & Traffic? They aren’t deterred. We’ll talk with several committed Ohioan bike commuters and find out some of the secrets, tricks, inspiration & gear needed for this hard core commitment. Carolyn Harding (host) with four Central Ohio Bike Commuters, Karyn Deibel, Steve Palm-Hauser, Jerry Ulibarri and Catherine Girves. Not only on sunny, mild...

Carolyn Harding (host)with Marquis Jones, Vicky Abou-Ghalioum and Michelle Hendricks, all first time candidates for the Franklin County Democratic Central Committee for their respective Wards. Running with the Franklin County Grassroots Democrats’ campaign RepYourBlock2020. Marquis Jones - is a University District resident, Ward 16. He wants to be a progressive voice for his community. He will adv...

TUNE into Grassroot Ohio every FRIDAY, 5:00pm EST, streams @ WGRN.org, and airs at 94.1FM Columbus, OH. GrassRoot Ohio host Carolyn Harding with Justin Nobel. Justin writes on issues of science and the environment for Rolling Stone and other US magazines, investigative sites and literary journals. His work has been published in Best American Travel Writing, and Best American Science and Nature Wri...

Carolyn Harding with Seal Russell and Sean Fabb-Soto, both “Ohio State University students and organizers for the local hub of the Sunrise Movement here in Columbus. Through youth-led activism, Sunrise is working on the local, state, and national levels, with climate experts, progressive lawmakers, and community leaders to work towards a livable future for all. The Green New Deal aims to put an en...

Carolyn Harding with Randi Pokladnik and Dustin White, both working to raise awareness and build coalitions to fight the huge plastics petrochemical hub build-up along the Ohio River, euphemistically referred as the #AppalachianStorageHub. Randi Pokladnik was born and raised in the Ohio Valley in Toronto Ohio, a small town just north of Steubenville Ohio. She has degrees in Environmental engineeri...

Carolyn Harding w/ Paul Sherlock and Molly Martin, both advocates for the Homeless in Cleveland, Ohio. Paul is a long-time Environmental, Anti-war, and Social Justice activist. He took part in the great march for climate action, spent 4 1/2 weeks at Standing Rock protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, took part in protests for Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and he’s been arrested multiple times for prot...

Carolyn Harding with Jen Mendoza and Drew Dielman, both activists in Cincinnati working with STAND.earth on the campaign to expose Proctor & Gamble’s use of endangered Boreal forest wood to make toilet paper. Jen Mendoza is a Cincinnati based organizer. She was the lead organizer in the Stop Wage Theft legislative campaign, winning an ordinance in the city of Cincinnati. She has also worked on cam...

Carolyn Harding w/ Adrienne Hood. Adrienne is a life long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Her son, Henry Green V was murdered by two Columbus Police officers on June 6, 2016. That day she joined the involuntary club that changed her life forever. At that point she believed she had one of two options, sink, suffer and die silently, or fight. She has chosen the latter. “It is a terrible system that we m...

Carolyn Harding with local women organic farmers. Kate Hodges, of Foraged & Sown organic farm, and Katie Hawkins, of Happy Toes homestead. Both women got started as urban farmers, one is certified organic and the other is in the transition to organic certification. Since 2015, Kate Hodges has farmed two certified organic acres of herbs, vegetables, and berries on multiple growing sites around Cent...