We the People by Anneke Campbell

Author:Anneke Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2016-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

Organizing in Ohio

In Ohio, as in Oregon, community rights work has spread with relative speed. In 2012, three municipalities adopted Community Bills of Rights, namely Broadview Heights, Yellow Springs, and Mansfield. Oberlin passed their ordinance through initiative in 2013, and Athens in 2014. Five other communities are in various states of the process: Bowling Green, Gates Mills, Niles, Kent, and Youngstown, the latter now on its sixth try to pass their Community Bill of Rights. In addition there are five counties organizing to pass countywide community rights home rule charters, with two counties already in the signature gathering phase for the 2016 election cycle.

Unlike in Oregon, where a number of different issues are driving the activism, all these communities began organizing to protect themselves against the same threat, that of hydraulic fracturing, its compressor stations, its wastes, and the pipelines that service the industry. Pipelines may be deceptively sold as “utilities” to the public; in reality they are used to transport fossil fuels for export and profit. And far from safe as touted, federal records in 2014 showed pipeline leaks, spills, and incidents at the rate of nearly one a day.

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