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Re-Imagine YOUR University

Posted on May 24

by Shelby Stults

Posted in: Ohio Student Environmental Coalition

Do you like pizza....AND voting rights? Student suffrage and smooth jams? Last week at Ohio State University, a coalition of student activists held an event titled, “Re-Imagine the University” challenging students to evaluate the current power structure in place in public universities.

Looking for the youth Vote Mr. President?

Posted on May 8

by Katie McChesney, OSEC

Posted in: Ohio Student Environmental Coalition

Students at OSU birddogged the President with their message.

President Obama kicked off his re-election campaign in Columbus, Ohio this weekend... coincidence? I think not. He is acknowledging the youth vote that won him the election, starting with the largest University in one of the most important swing states. Two main messages were clear: “I believe in you. I’m asking you to keep believing in me.” & “Corporations are not people.”

.. and for the most part, WE AGREE. Corporations are not people. Students are outraged that student debt has reached 1 TRILLION DOLLARS in a society plagued with unemployment and where corporations get bailed out to keep financing decisions that only benefit them.

Ohio Fractivists Storm Statehouse Over Stonewalled Fracking Bills

Posted on April 19

by Katie McChesney, OSEC

Posted in: Ohio Student Environmental Coalition

Dressed as citizen referees, activists “blew the whistle” on the gas industry’s influence over the Ohio legislature. Students, farmers, and concerned citizens from central Ohio overwhelmed an Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee hearing yesterday, frustrated with the deliberate stonewalling of six bills to slow or halt fracking and injection waste and the repression of the public’s voice on this critical issue.

In what activists deemed to be an effort to quell resistance, the Ohio House pushed back the hearings of the six bills for hours until many activists could no longer stay. Activists believe the delay on hearings of these bills is directly linked with the $2.8 million the Gas Industry has poured into the Ohio Legislature, including $213,000 in campaign contributions allotted to Governor Kasich.