12/28/2024
Youngstown "Mayor Jamael Tito Brown, who accepted the honor for the city, said, 'This award is a testament to the power of listening to our community and prioritizing their health and well-being[ ]" which included a long drawn-out conversation w/ Sustainable Youngstown/SOBE Concerned Citizens & other residents beginning over 4 years ago and eventually Mayor Brown stated: "In , we believe that every energy decision we make should serve our residents equitably and be made in the best interest of the next generation.'” "Brown was recognized for his efforts to fight SOBE Thermal Energy's efforts to move a waste-to-energy plant into downtown Youngstown."
https://www.wfmj.com/story/52016793/youngstown-mayor-receives-energy-justice-champion-award-for-fighting-sobe-project via 21 WFMJ
https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2024/12/clean-energy-group-honors-city-for-sobe-moratorium/ via /Tribune Chronicle, Warren OH
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
via Power a Clean Future Ohio & Ohio Mayors Alliance
Congratulate City Hall:
Mayor Jamael Tito Brown
Phone: (330) 742-8701
Email: [email protected]
City Council President
Thomas Hetrick
Phone: (330) 506-6646
Email: [email protected]
cc: City of YOUngstown Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation Youngstown City Health District City of Youngstown Parks and Recreation Dogs of Youngstown Youngstown CityScape Lit Youngstown
12/19/2024
mend it!
Keep that favorite item longer.
via Plastic Pollution Coalition
👗 The average American disposes of 81.5 pounds of clothing every year. Rather than discarding garments at the first sign of wear or damage, try mending! 🪡 Mending extends the lifespan of clothing, which reduces waste and minimizes the demand for new production.
🧵Repairing and repurposing fabric discourages fast fashion and promotes a culture of care and appreciation for clothing. Engaging in mending practices also cultivates skills that empower individuals to take control of their wardrobes.
👕 A great example is Peace House Studio who makes children’s clothing and offers a buy-back program for their garments to be kept in circulation.
12/18/2024
We’re excited to say that we will have another FOOD GIVEAWAY tomorrow December 18th from 11- until it’s gone at 611 Belmont Avenue
Please 🚨 bring your own bags or box United Returning CitizensDjJocko Wlliams @
12/05/2024
"... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obediently filling our jails full of petty thieves while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." ~ Howard Zinn 1922 - 2010 via Pro Planet People
12/05/2024
"Just in case you didn’t know what different parts of fighter jet are called..." via Pro Planet People
12/05/2024
"When an evil is attacked, the evil mobilizes, although it may have been weak and unorganized before, and therefore the attack gives it validity and strength. When there is no attack, but instead good influences are brought to bear upon the situation, not only does the evil tend to fade away, but the evildoer tends to be transformed. " via Pro Planet People
“In my work I have chosen the positive approach. I never think of myself as protesting against something, but rather as witnessing for harmonious living. Those who witness for, present solutions. Those who witness against, usually do not—they dwell on what is wrong, resorting to judgment and criticism and sometimes even name-calling.
Naturally, the negative approach has a detrimental effect on the person who uses it, while the positive approach has a good effect. When an evil is attacked, the evil mobilizes, although it may have been weak and unorganized before, and therefore the attack gives it validity and strength. When there is no attack, but instead good influences are brought to bear upon the situation, not only does the evil tend to fade away, but the evildoer tends to be transformed.
The positive approach inspires; the negative approach makes angry. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.”
~ Peace Pilgrim
12/05/2024
"Human rights groups are calling on President Biden to grant Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier clemency. 'It’s time to give him a chance to spend his last days with his family and with his community.'"
via Democracy Now! & United Activists - Cleveland
Amnesty Int'l Calls on Biden to Free Leonard Peltier
With just weeks left in President Joe Biden's term, we speak with Amnesty International USA executive director Paul O'Brien, who has written to the outgoing president urging him to “change course on critical human rights” before the end of his term in o...
11/21/2024
Arms industry to return to downtown ?
Youngstown Business Incubator requested $1.35 million dollars from city council last nite to establish The Youngstown Innovation Hub for Aerospace and Defense Using Advanced Technologies...it will allow a space available for Denver-based Ursa Major : https://www.wfmj.com/story/51834355/youngstown-council-extends-pyrolysis-moratorium
Ursa Majors explosive products: https://www.ursamajor.com/defense
Solutions for Defense: Ursa Major puts hardware in the hands of the warfighter—faster.
"Ursa Major manufactures rocket propulsion components, and is expanding its Mahoning Valley footprint with a $14.5 million investment...development technology for liquid rocket engines and solid rocket motor power platforms that are essential for America’s security, including high-performance munitions, hypersonic weapons, in-space propulsion systems and space launch... Ursa Major is expanding its R&D efforts to meet a rapidly growing portfolio of U.S. Department of Defense development contracts... including developing metallic alloys for solid rocket motors and development of copper and nickel alloys for liquid rocket engines.
Propulsion for today's critical national security needs and tomorrow's emerging threats..
The U.S. supply of rocket engines and solid rocket motors is constrained, while allied nations are asking for more. To meet demand, the industrial base needs to expand with innovative manufacturing methods that re-establish the U.S.’s leadership in space, hypersonic, and defense."
Campaign Against Arms Trade
Responsible Statecraft
Ursa Major Plans $14.5M Expansion in Boardman
Ursa Major, which manufactures rocket propulsion components, is expanding its Mahoning Valley footprint with a $14.5 million investment.
11/21/2024
"There will be rebels.
They will live in the
shadows. They will be
the renegade painters,
sculptors, poets, writers,
journalists, musicians,
actors, dancers,
organizers, activists,
mystics, intellectuals
and other outcasts who
are willing to accept
personal sacrifice.
They will not surrender
their integrity,
creativity, independence
and finally their souls.
They will speak
the truth."
Chris Hedges, 2016, Truthdig, https://www.truthdig.com/articles/waiting-for-the-barbarians/
via Occupy Australia, Occupy Wall St.
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Occupy Warren (Ohio)
Occupy Wall Street
OccupyWallSt.org
Occupy Wall Street : Issue Education and Solution Debate
Occupy Bergen County
11/18/2024
Intellectual Freedom and Libraries on Monday, November 18, 2024.
When: Monday, November 18, 2024
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
Online via Zoom: https://secure.everyaction.com/B_EVneNOt0mRKp4PC3e71A2
Description:
Intellectual freedom has been under attack in Ohio. From bills censoring academic freedom and interfering with honest education in classrooms from Ohio’s colleges and universities to public PK-12 schools, we have stood up against and pushed back on bills aimed at scapegoating educators and pitting communities against public education only to keep us from coming together to demand that the state fully and adequately fund public education in Ohio. Recently, public and school libraries have been targeted with extreme legislation that would significantly and negatively impact these critical institutions.
Ohio Education Association(OEA)’s partners at Honesty for Ohio Education are hosting a webinar on Monday, November 18, 2024, via Zoom at 7:00 PM to talk about the challenges facing public and school libraries and how they are pushing back against this newest attack on academic and intellectual freedom and the freedom to read.
To sign-up for the webinar:
https://secure.everyaction.com/B_EVneNOt0mRKp4PC3e71A2
11/18/2024
Urge your senators to push for a vote on the Social Security Fairness Act to fully repeal both the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO)
Repeal Unfair Social Security Penalties | NEA
Pass the Social Security Fairness Act to fully repeal GPO/WEP.
11/15/2024
This Toledo Mennonite Church pastor is forging former shotguns into a gardening tools. Shenk is a part of a national movement, called RAWtools, Inc., that takes fi****ms and transforms them into means for cultivation. Guns, donated from community members and from the police department, are turned into spades, hoes and mattocks."
ALSO SEE: https://rawtools.org/
Meet the Ohio pastor turning guns into garden tools
Joel Shenk is a part of a national movement to forge donated fi****ms into tools for cultivation.
11/11/2024
Performance back in August of _The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus and Gaza Gray Lady Cantata_ by Bread and Puppet Theater
Read more: https://breadandpuppet.org/
11/11/2024
"What is Cheap Art?" via Bread and Puppet Press
Bread and Puppet Theater
Only $5 - yay zines!
https://breadandpuppetpress.org/products/what-is-cheap-art
10/24/2024
Keep it simple.
Vote for whomever you would leave your pets or kids with
for a week.
10/21/2024
TUESDAY OCT 22 at 3 PM
Akron-based People Over Polymers (POP) is hosting their 2 year anniversary protest against Alterra CONTINUING to operate DESPITE their expired permit!
1070 Chesapeake Dr., Akron, Ohio 44306
Email [email protected]
SEE https://benohio.org/issues/pyrolysis/akron/ Buckeye Environmental Network
https://actionnetwork.org/groups/people-over-polymers-2
Akron NAACP, The Freedom BLOC, The Big Love Network
10/10/2024
Join us! TODAY THURS Public TownHall Oct 10 - a call for permanent end of plans downtown next to YSU - help renew City Council Moratorium Ordinance 23-470.
Pizza, refreshments.
Speakers from Kramer Environmental Law Clinic, Case Western Reserve University, FaCT Ohio, Moms Clean Air Force, Youngstown City Council Climate Committee, & People Over Polymers
6pm UUYO, 1105 Elm St., Ytown, Ohio 44505
INFO & zoom link: https://www.stop-sobe.com/post/youngstowntownhallstoppingpyrolysis
FB EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/share/mdpN1iaYELB7KMaX/
09/15/2024
How to give your old sneakers a second life
More than 300 million pairs of shoes end up in U.S. landfills each year. Your worn-out sneakers could have more value than you think.