Free The Planet(!) at OSU

Get ready, Powershift Ohio 2009 is being held November 6, 7, 8th at Oberlin College (it was recently announced that the dates changed, moving the event to November now)!

Young people from around Ohio will gather for the first ever Regional Power Shift. Join us as we converge for a weekend of training, networking, and action to help shift the political power in the Ohio and send a strong message to the nation and the world as we head into Copehnagen.

The Power Shift Ohio Summit will be the largest gathering of environmentally motivated college students, activists, union workers, elected officials, and citizens in Ohio's history. This is your chance to inject your values and ideas into the political process, and meet environmental activists from across the state. It's time for us to organize and start enacting real change! I was disappointed in the lack of organizing after Power Shift last spring, so I'm asking you all now to join us at Oberlin College from November 6th to 8th to discuss Green Jobs, Environmental Justice, Climate Legislation, Community Planning, Clean Energy and start organizing for real change in Ohio.

Register for $20 before the price jumps on October 23rd. Registration includes weekend housing, transportation (a bus is going from Cbus to Oberlin), food, and traning/activities.

For more info and to register, see: http://ohio.powershift09.org/

The Beehive Design Collective and Free the Planet! at OSU present:
The True Cost of Coal
mountaintop removal and the fight for our future

October 13th, Tuesday at 7:30 pm in Lazenby Hall room 21

Come let The Bees take you on an interactive visual tour of the connections between: mountaintop removal, climate change, the "American Dream," and the struggle for justice in Appalachia and throughout the world!

Witness huge portable murals of collaboratively-produced illustrations, over two years in the making, that weave an engaging narrative. The Beehive Collective's picture-lecture and workshop is to be understood by anyone--not just the experts.

JOIN IN as they deconstruct the complex and overwhelming issues that are shaping our world, using bio-regionally accurate depictions of animals and insects as metaphors to link cultural and ecological diversity. Their research comes from interviews with the experts and those directly affected!

If you are interested in going, but want to learn more about WHY you should, please feel free to contact us at: freetheplanetosu@gmail.com

Beehive Collective website: http://www.beehivecollective.org/

This will be a presentation unlike any other--see you Tuesday! Food and beverage provided.

Hi All,
Free the Planet! will be meeting sporadically through-out the summer, if you are in and around Columbus and would like to be invovled with us, please e-mail us at freetheplanetosu@gmail.com

Over the summer though we are crafting our 2nd edition of the Disorientation Guide to distriubte this fall. Anyone interested in helping edit and compile the guide should get in contact!

(*)We will be having regular, weekly meetings once OSU fall quarter begins.

Hello Everyone
Thanks for all those who helped out with the Earth Day event, and to all those who were able to track us down with the threatening rain/rain location changes!
To those who are interested in becoming involved with FTP!, please read more about our current AMP-Ohio campaign and contact us if you'd like to get involved. We are planning to relay our concerns of the proposed coal-fired power plant for Meigs County, OH. to American Municipal Power (AMP) sometime in the near future!

Sarah

Earth Day Celebration 2009!
Join us in celebrating our Mother Earth as well as get to know people within the community.

There will be a keynote speaker, on-going public artworks, bands, vegan food and pizza, yoga, tabling from groups, poetry/open mic, and more. Stayed tuned for more detailed time line of events.

The keynote speaker will be Elisa Young from Meigs County, Ohio at 2:30 (in Women's Field House) who will give a presentation titled, “The Myth of Clean Coal.” Her community is directly impacted by 4 up and running coal-fired power plants. American Municipal Power-Ohio is planning to build another plant there. Come out and hear her story and what is being done in reaction to coal, the community, and the environment.

Bands include: The Timeless Bandits, Red Sun, Stringpocalypse, Jimmy and the Life Scouts, Fo Mo Deep

Bands and on-going public art project will begin at 4:30

Yoga will be held outdoors at 6:30 in the South Oval and will be a mixed class for all levels and experience.

Our group is organizing to prevent a proposed, additional AMP-Ohio coal-fired power plant from being constructed. Why? Many reasons, but here are a few: This would be the FIFTH plant within an 11.5 mile radius; the cost estimate has skyrocketed from $1.2 billion in 2005 to $3.4 billion-plus in 2008 (this is not a final estimate, and does not include the cost of financing); it would lock member communities into a 50-year contract to buy coal-fired power, at a time when alternatives are becoming more and more attainable--and alternatives would create significantly better jobs in greater quantity; the negative health effects of Orwellian "clean coal" on local people and our Planet are staggering; and all taxpayers in Ohio could be paying for this plan, because they've admitted they need state & local subsidies to build it. Talk about a dirty deal! (Especially during this time of recession.)

For more information:

The Ohio Student Environmental Coalition
Website: http://oh-sec.org/
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=7461526853

Ohio Citizen Action
Website: http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/coal/amp_ohio.html
Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=65410845659
Office: 513-221-2100

Are you interested in making a difference?

Then come to FTP's weekly meeting & join our Facebook group below. Our newly-approved campaign focuses on how Ohio State's community can directly advocate for specific, responsible choices from governmental decision makers--and illuminate Big Coal's wanton cycle of oppression for Ohio, disenfranchised communities, future generations, and our warming Planet.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=62367277775&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=...

Its time to be the change.

~Glenn