GrassRoot Ohio

11/05/2025

PIONEER, Ohio — The proposed AquaBounty Farms Ohio plant site on the east side of Pioneer quietly has received the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency ...

10/29/2025

As governments and corporations tighten their grip, activism itself is being criminalized. In his latest Biocentric essay, Wilbert—CELDF organizer, author, and lifelong defender of land and life—offers reflections and resources on how movements can stay safe while continuing the fight for justice.

Read “Activism is Being Outlawed. Here’s How to Keep Ourselves Safe While Continuing the Fight” by Max Wilbert:

https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/activism-is-being-outlawed-heres
Support CELDF’s work defending communities and ecosystems on the frontlines: https://celdf.org/donate/

10/29/2025

On October 24th, city leaders in Marietta made it clear they’re not waiting around for change. After the City Council’s unanimous vote earlier this month, they took their call for clean water straight to the Governor’s Office. The resolution they hand delivered asks the state to pause Class II...

10/27/2025

From Cynthia Eugenia Cox Ubaldo -
Good morning Friends:
Please share, We are looking for volunteers in Franklin County, The OCEQI needs 43,000 signatures in Franklin County. Urge your family and friends to volunteer and donate. America and Ohio is in a constitutional crisis.

Amending The Ohio Constitution To End Qualified Immunity & Hold Government Accountable Learn More Qualified immunity is a legal loophole that makes it almost impossible to hold our government accountable through the civil courts when it violates our constitutional rights. Why End Qualified Immunity?...

10/26/2025

ATTENTION ALL OHIOANS!
Your Right to initiate & referendum law is on the block! Testify this Tuesday (read how to help here)!

“Ohio’s SAVE Act is a direct attack on Ohio’s citizen-led ballot initiative process
It places petition committee members and petition circulators in legal jeopardy
It purposefully increases harassment of petition circulators
It invents more reasons to invalidate petitions and signatures
Ohio’s SAVE Act would require anyone who circulates a ballot initiative petition to sign away their Fifth Amendment rights
Anyone who circulates a petition would be consenting to come in and testify about the ballot initiative if requested
Anyone who circulates a petition would be consenting to potentially be investigated by the state Attorney General about the ballot initiative
Per ACLU Ohio, under this law, “anyone who circulates a ballot initiative petition would be guilty until proven innocent”
Per the Fair Districts Coalition, this bill “threatens petition committee members and circulators with politically motivated investigations”
Ohio’s SAVE Act purposefully increases harassment against petition circulators
This bill would require compensated (paid) circulators to wear identifying badges, which would lead to trackers, harassment, and other scare tactics used against petition circulators
“Compensated circulators” would even apply to volunteers if they receive free food or a t-shirt at campaign events.
Ohio’s SAVE Act would greatly increase the number of petitions and signatures that would be invalidated
One example — Ohioans could no longer register people to vote and get their petition signature at the same time.
Every signer’s voter registration would have to be current before they sign the petition.”

Find this resource useful? Support our work! Help Stop Ohio's SAVE Act Updated Saturday 10/25/25 at 3:10 pm It’s hard to explain how dangerous Ohio’s SAVE Act is. This bill (SB 153 and its identical twin HB 233) is Ohio’s version of the federal SAVE Act. It would stop tens of thousands (pote.....

10/25/2025

Our work isn’t easy. We’re directly challenging corporate power and raising up grassroots communities fighting to protect the natural world. And we need your support. A generous CELDF supporter has challenged us to raise $20,000 by year’s end — and every dollar you give will be matched 1:1.

Your gift supports communities on the frontlines of corporate and ecological destruction — people standing up to defend their water, forests, and future. Together, we’re advancing Rights of Nature and Community Rights in the name of Community Resistance + Resilience, challenging a system that treats nature as property and people as obstacles.

This is how we build real democracy — from the ground up.
And we can’t do it without you.

💚 Give today and help us unlock the full match: https://celdf.org/donate/

10/21/2025

“It’s a Rigged System” — New Episode Out Now 🎙️Why are so many communities blocked from protecting their own health, water, and land?

Because the system isn’t broken — it’s rigged and its working exactly as it was designed.

In CELDF’s latest Truth & Reckoning podcast episode, we break down how laws meant to “protect” actually serve corporate interests — and how people across the country are building local power to change this.
True democracy begins when communities have the authority to decide what happens where they live.

🎧 Listen here: https://celdf.substack.com/p/its-a-rigged-system-community-rights

10/15/2025

This Saturday, October 18, we’re exercising our right to dissent and taking to the streets.

Prepare for No Kings protests with our virtual Know Your Rights training Wednesday, October 15 at aclu.org/october15-training

10/15/2025

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Can't attend the Ohio Natural Resources Committee meeting Oct. 15 for sponsor testimony on proposed HB 399 and 439-- anti-fracking and toxic, radioactive, waste brine-spreading legislation?

Watch it on Ohio Channel: https://bit.ly/3W0Hwlz

Tristan Rader State Representative Christine Cockley Monica Robb Blasdel for State Representative The Ohio Environmental Council

Image: Salt Fork SP with oil and gas in background.