GrassRoot Ohio

Carolyn Harding w/ Our Voices Together - an alliance of organizations working to protect our first amendment right to peaceful protest amidst a barrage of anti-protest laws in the Ohio Legislature. Rev. Joan VanBecelaere is the Executive Director of UU Justice Ohio. This past election season, she also directed Ohio UU the Vote and was Chair of the Registration Team of the Nonpartisan Ohio Voter Ou...

Carolyn Harding (Host)w/ Justin Wells and Elizabeth Gentner - discuss Rank Choice Voting & Rank the Vote Ohio Rank the Vote Ohio is a Non-partisan grassroots movement working to educate Ohio about the benefits and implementation of ranked choice voting. We are a non partisan, non-profit made up of Ohioans of all stripes across the entire political spectrum. Justin Wells is a recent graduate from C...

Carolyn Harding with Chuck Lynd and Lynn Stan with Simply Living, "a community organization that celebrates and connects people to learning opportunities that promote community sustainability, environmental awareness and our local economy through educational outreach and partnerships within our community." SimplyLiving.org Chuck Lynd is an educator, environmentalist, activist, an advocate for loca...

Carolyn Harding with Abbie Sigmon and Donny Murray, of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. Abbie Sigmon is the Citizens' Climate Lobby - Columbus Chapter co-liaison to Congresswoman Joyce Beatty's office. A proud native Ohioan, she has recently moved back to Ohio after living in Oregon, California, Pennsylvania, and China (but hopes to make Columbus her "forever home"). While living this rootless lifesty...

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,...

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...

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 sin...

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+ communit...

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 Col...

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 an...

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...

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 partici...

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,...

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...

Carolyn Harding with Melissa McFadden, author of the newly released memoir, Walking the Thin Black Line - Confronting Racism in the Columbus Division of Police. Last Friday, December 4, a 23 year old, young black man, Casey Goodson Jr. was shot and killed by the hands of a 17-year veteran of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, deputy Jason Meade, as Casey arrived home from the dentist, where his...

Carolyn Harding with Rachel Coyle of How Things Work at the Ohio State House and Lisa Voigt advocate for gun safety and higher education. Rachel Coyle is from Toledo, Ohio. She has a bachelor's degree in Psychology & Political Science from OSU and a Masters in Political Communication from American University. She has spent many years in Ohio politics and government: Deputy Communications Director...

Carolyn Harding (host) with Kim Mann and Jonathan Welle, organizers of the Cleveland Solar Cooperative, a multi-racial, multi-class cooperative business that finances solar projects. It allows local residents with as little as $50 make an investment in solar, joining with fellow community members to envision, develop, and own the project. CSC promotes an energy system built, guided, and owned by t...

Carolyn Harding with nine activists, GrassRoot_Ohio guests I’ve interviewed over the past year and a half. Feeling barraged by the election debacle, the surge in covid-19 infections and deaths, our innumerable causes, work, family….I struggled to find this week’s show. I needed to embrace Gratitude. It helps me. And no matter how, or if, you celebrate Thanksgiving, it's healing to find the good, t...

GrassRoot Ohio broadcasts this timely interview a few days after the 2020 election. Morgan Harper, of Columbus Stand Up and Our Revolution Ohio, hosts Zach Malitz, co writer of The Count: A Practical Guide to Defending the Constitution in a Contested 2020 Election. From the introduction: The premise of this guide is that we should take Donald Trump’s threat that he won’t accept the results of the...

Carolyn Harding, host, with Linda Jakes and Rachelle Martin, advocates for Issue 24, the Franklin County ADAMH levy to fund mental health services, and drug and alcohol treatment. With the trauma and uncertainty of COVID-19, education and work upheavals and the ongoing protests for justice, most of us are in need of some help, emotionally. Lets talk about what this levy, if passed will do for cent...

Carolyn Harding, host, with Morgan Harper, Micah Mitchell and Kwesi Low, organizers for the new grassroots organization, Columbus Stand Up! What are they doing to help get out the Vote! Morgan Harper is the founder of the new grassroots organization, Columbus Stand Up!, and, most recently, was a grassroots candidate to represent Ohio's Third Congressional District. Previously, she was a Vice Presi...

GrassRoot Ohio with Lynn Anderson, Doug Fowler, and John Stolz PhD, activists and scientists researching the impact of unconventional shale gas (fracking) extraction in and around Youngstown and the findings of their research entitled, “Assessing the Water Chemistry of Tributaries in the Mahoning River Watershed”. Lynn Anderson is an artist and activist from Youngstown, Ohio. In 2011 she began pro...

Carolyn Harding (host) with Kayla Merchant and Cathy Cowan Becker, advocates for Issue 1, Community Choice Aggregation for Columbus, Ohio, November 3, 2020 and on the ballot as we speak. Kayla Merchant is a community organizer and resident of the South Side of Columbus. She served on the Schumacher Place Civic Association's executive board, the Columbus South Side Area Commission, and recently lef...

#GrassRoot_Ohio with Allen Schwartz and Mona Abhari, kicking off a series of webinars entitled “A Green New Deal that Works for Us”, starting this Saturday, October 3, at 10am, with three more following on consecutive Saturdays, Oct 10, 17 & 24. Allen Schwartz is a people’s artist and musician. He is a founder of the Newark Think Tank on Poverty in Licking County. There are now associated think ta...

#GrassRoot_Ohio host #CarolynHarding with #AtticusGarden and #DuckBardus - Street Medics, the first responders that are there for You and Me, for anyone who may get hurt during a Street Protest. Atticus Garden resides in Columbus, on the South side where he is serving his 2nd term as Area Commissioner, representing the wonderful, beautiful, and diverse neighborhood of Southern Orchards (District 2...