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Hi, I'm Carolyn Harding, producer/host of GrassRoot Ohio, conversations with everyday people, working on important issues, here in columbus and all around Ohio. For the past five years I've been honored to interview guests working for a better world in their communities, state, country, and, quite frankly, the world, in all areas of justice - environmental, social, racial and economic. My first guests were young activists working to pass the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, one of the first Rights of Nature laws ever to pass in the US, giving the citizens of Toledo legal rights to protect the health of their main drinking water source. I got to interview Ohio activists working on: Women's Reproductive Rights; Black lives matter; folks making home-made protective masks for health care workers at the top of the pandemic; common sense gun reform; running for public office, even when the party pre-selects/endorses and funds “winners” before the primaries; protecting LGBTQIA+ rights at the State house; ranked choice voting; curbside composting; safe streets; organic farming; protecting the Columbus Metro water supply from oil & gas production and radioactive waste, etc. I interviewed city-wide and state-wide ballot initiative organizers with campaigns to: give Columbus citizens the legal right to protect their water from oil and gas production; End Qualified Immunity; Ensure $15 an hour to Ohio workers; End Gerrymandering; and Inshrine Women's reproductive rights into the Ohio Constitution. I interviewed writers, doctors, musicians, housewives, attorney's, nurses, film makers, teachers, bee keepers, retired fire fighters … People who felt the call to protect their communities, nature, rights - to stand up and fight back, in oh so many ways. Throughout these five years we Won and we Lost. And we got back up, adjusted, shifted and are working to create a better world for everyone and all life on this planet. I want to thank each GrassRoot Ohio guest, who shared your cause, your work and your unique stories with us. Thank You. You challenge and inspire us to do better. I want to thank the production teams at wgrn.org and wcrsfm.org for helping me get started and supporting me all along. I want to thank you, my listeners on air, podcasts and viewers on YouTube. I hope you gained as much insight, courage and gratitude as I have. GrassRoot Ohio is ending in its current form. I'm taking a hiatus. I'm curious to know what the next chapter of my life and work will be. So, It's a wrap my friends- In solidarity for Equality, Sustainability & Justice for All. Thanks for Joining Me. GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8

Carolyn Harding sharing this Sprouts episode from one of GrassRoot Ohio shows featuring Tish O'Dell on State Preemption Laws and Nature's Rights. It was an honor to work with Pacifica Radio to bring this to you. Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privatization, industrial scale energy development, and others addressing worker's rights, homeless rights, immigrant rights, fair election issues and nature's rights, including the first in the nation law recognizing the rights of a specific ecosystem, the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in 2019. Tish is a founding board member of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), organizing and assisting county chapters to build a movement of community rights organizing throughout the state to culminate in constitutional change that will guarantee people's rights to local self-governance and the rights of people and nature over corporations. Tish co-founded the grass-roots organization MADION, Inc (Mothers Against Drilling In Our Neighborhoods) in her hometown of Broadview Heights, Ohio that successfully campaigned to adopt the first Home Rule Charter amendment in Ohio creating a Community Bill of Rights banning new gas drilling, fracking and injection wells in 2012. Tish has also been featured in the documentary We the People 2.0, appeared on the Thom Hartmann Show and The Daily show and is one of the editors of the 2021 book, Death by Democracy: Protecting Water and Life - Frontline stories from Ohioans fighting corporate and state power. celdf.org ohiocrn.org pacificanetwork.org GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local LP-FM community radio station. Face Book: www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! @user-42674753 Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!

In 2019, after a decade-long campaign, voters in Toledo Ohio voted to approve the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, effectively giving the lake personhood. It drew an incredible amount of attention. This wasn't San Francisco hippies or Brooklyn hipsters talking about rights of nature, this was middle-aged moms in the Rust Belt, and that absolutely terrified any extractive industry. Agrichemical companies turned out in force against the bill, BP spent a fortune to try to stop it, and almost as soon as it passed it was being questioned in court. Then in 2020 the state smuggled a ban against rights-of-nature legislation into its annual budget bill. Similar preemptive bans on rights of nature have since been passed in Florida and Missouri. As one Ohio campaigner put it, “You know what you're doing is working if they're going around the country trying to preempt it.” In this ep we look at where the rights of nature movement is today, how the fossil fuel industry has responded, and what's next.

Carolyn Harding with Tish O'Dell, a powerful voice for justice in Ohio, the US and Globally. Tish has been a Community Organizer for CELDF (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund) since 2012 assisting residents to organize rights based initiatives in their communities in order to help them “make real” the just and sustainable communities they envision for the future. CELDF has assisted hundreds of communities across the country to develop “first in the nation” laws banning fracking, factory farming, sludging, water privatization, industrial scale energy development, and others addressing worker's rights, homeless rights, immigrant rights, fair election issues and nature's rights, including the first in the nation law recognizing the rights of a specific ecosystem, the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in 2019. Tish is a founding board member of the Ohio Community Rights Network (OHCRN), organizing and assisting county chapters to build a movement of community rights organizing throughout the state to culminate in constitutional change that will guarantee people's rights to local self-governance and the rights of people and nature over corporations. From the Columbus Dispatch, "Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday removing training, background check and permitting requirements to carry a concealed weapon in Ohio….Prior law required them to undergo eight hours of training, a background check, and an application through their local sheriff….” “In 2006 the legislature passed a law preemptively blocking Ohio cities from passing any gun restrictions stricter than those established by the state. The law was used to squash lawsuits from Ohio cities including Clyde, Cleveland and Cincinnati seeking to regulate guns within their borders.” State legislators have been very busy writing and passing preemptive laws. According to a Cincinnati.com article, “The Ohio Municipal League has a tally of 17 laws passed since 2003 and another 21 pending bills that usurp local control.” Plastic bag bans, traffic cameras, minimum wage proposals, to HB 278 (125GA) – which preempted municipal authority over permitting, location and spacing of oil and gas wells on municipal property. Welcome Tish, congratulations on your book, Death by Democracy! celdf.org https://celdf.org/2017/08/blog-ceiling-preemption-weapon-democracy/ https://www.lsc.ohio.gov/documents/reference/current/membersonlybriefs/133Municipal%20Home%20Rule.pdf https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Home_rule_in_the_United_States https://columbusbillofrights.org/rights-of-nature-workshop/ https://celdf.org/2022/01/new-book-death-by-democracy/ GrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio. Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org, Sundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/ Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8 There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!

If corporations can be legal persons, why can't Mother Earth?  In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, and recognized that the Himalayan Glaciers have a right to exist. In 2019, the city of Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with 61 percent of the vote, but then a year later, a federal judge struck it down. As Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney who represented Lake Erie, explains, the problem stems from a 500-year history of Western property law. Our legal system grants rights to property owners, but not to property itself.  “If we're treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately, we as property owners have the right to destroy our property and that fundamentally has to change,” Schromen-Wawrin says. Rebecca Tsosie, a law professor focused on Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples' human rights, says there are other rights frameworks to consider. “If we go into Indigenous epistemology, many times it's a relational universe that comes with mutual responsibility.” Guests: Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney, formerly with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund  Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law at the University of Arizona; Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy Program Carol Van Strum, author of A Bitter Fog, activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If corporations can be legal persons, why can't Mother Earth?  In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, and recognized that the Himalayan Glaciers have a right to exist. In 2019, the city of Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with 61 percent of the vote, but then a year later, a federal judge struck it down. As Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney who represented Lake Erie, explains, the problem stems from a 500-year history of Western property law. Our legal system grants rights to property owners, but not to property itself.  “If we're treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately, we as property owners have the right to destroy our property and that fundamentally has to change,” Schromen-Wawrin says. Rebecca Tsosie, a law professor focused on Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples' human rights, says there are other rights frameworks to consider. “If we go into Indigenous epistemology, many times it's a relational universe that comes with mutual responsibility.” Guests: Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney, formerly with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund  Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law at the University of Arizona; Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy Program Carol Van Strum, author of A Bitter Fog, activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If corporations can be legal persons, why can't Mother Earth?  In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, and recognized that the Himalayan Glaciers have a right to exist. In 2019, the city of Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with 61 percent of the vote, but then a year later, a federal judge struck it down. As Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney who represented Lake Erie, explains, the problem stems from a 500-year history of Western property law. Our legal system grants rights to property owners, but not to property itself.  “If we're treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately, we as property owners have the right to destroy our property and that fundamentally has to change,” Schromen-Wawrin says. Rebecca Tsosie, a law professor focused on Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples' human rights, says there are other rights frameworks to consider. “If we go into Indigenous epistemology, many times it's a relational universe that comes with mutual responsibility.” Guests: Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney, formerly with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund  Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law at the University of Arizona; Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy Program Carol Van Strum, author of A Bitter Fog, activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carolyn Harding with Mike Ferner and Markie Miller, advocates and activists for the health and well being of Lake Erie. Mike Ferner is coordinator of Lake Erie Advocates, a grassroots citizens' group that educates and organizes to build awareness and public pressure to stop the assault on Lake Erie by factory "farms" and other polluters. He lives with Sue Carter, his wife of 35 years, and an ever-changing number of cats, with Lake Erie as their front yard, in Toledo. Markie Miller is a volunteer organizer for Toledoans for Safe Water, and the Ohio Community Rights Network. She is an ambassador for the Lake Erie Bill of Rights and the Rights of Nature, speaking at the United Nations, appearing on The Daily Show, and numerous local, national and international media outlets. Mike I just read your AUGUST 27, article in Counterpunch, "There is No “Fixing” This Industry: the Third Battle for Lake Erie", with the visual of a huge billboard Saying “Lake Erie is Not a Toilet”- Markie, you and Julian Mack were my First GrassRoot Ohio guests 2 1/2 years ago, just after Toledo citizens voted to enact The Lake Erie Bill of Rights. The Objective is the same - a clean, safe, healthy lake. With everything that has gone on since that glorious day - What have you learned and what are your new tactics to protect Our Great Lake on Ohio's North shore? lakeerieadvocates.org Lake Erie Bill of Rights: LakeErieAction.org https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/27/there-is-no-fixing-this-industry-the-third-battle-for-lake-erie/ GrassRoot Ohio w/ Carolyn Harding - Conversations with every-day people, working on important issues here in Columbus and all around Ohio! There's a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back! Every Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org We now air on Sundays at 2:pm, EST on 92.7/98.3FM & streams @ WCRSFM.org & 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, streams @ http://67.163.237.198:8000, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM. Contact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station. Check us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/ Check us out on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/ If you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753 GrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085 This GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cinublue/featured... Intro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8

If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth?  In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India also recently granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, and recognized that the Himalayan Glaciers have a right to exist. In 2019, the city of Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with 61 percent of the vote, but then a year later, a federal judge struck it down. As Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney who represented Lake Erie, explains, the problem stems from a 500-year history of Western property law. Our legal system grants rights to property owners, but not to property itself.  “If we’re treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately, we as property owners have the right to destroy our property and that fundamentally has to change,” Schromen-Wawrin says. Rebecca Tsosie, a law professor focused on Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples’ human rights, says there are other rights frameworks to consider. “If we go into Indigenous epistemology, many times it’s a relational universe that comes with mutual responsibility.” Guests: Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney at Shearwater Law, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund  Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy Program Carol Van Strum, author of A Bitter Fog, activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If corporations can be legal persons, why can’t Mother Earth?  In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India also recently granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, and recognized that the Himalayan Glaciers have a right to exist. In 2019, the city of Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with 61 percent of the vote, but then a year later, a federal judge struck it down. As Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney who represented Lake Erie, explains, the problem stems from a 500-year history of Western property law. Our legal system grants rights to property owners, but not to property itself.  “If we’re treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately, we as property owners have the right to destroy our property and that fundamentally has to change,” Schromen-Wawrin says. Rebecca Tsosie, a law professor focused on Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples’ human rights, says there are other rights frameworks to consider. “If we go into Indigenous epistemology, many times it’s a relational universe that comes with mutual responsibility.” Guests: Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney at Shearwater Law, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund  Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy Program Carol Van Strum, author of A Bitter Fog, activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If corporations can be legal persons, why can't Mother Earth?  In 2017, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the full legal rights of a person. India also recently granted full legal rights to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, and recognized that the Himalayan Glaciers have a right to exist. In 2019, the city of Toledo passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights with 61 percent of the vote, but then a year later, a federal judge struck it down. As Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, an attorney who represented Lake Erie, explains, the problem stems from a 500-year history of Western property law. Our legal system grants rights to property owners, but not to property itself.  “If we're treating ecosystems as property, then ultimately, we as property owners have the right to destroy our property and that fundamentally has to change,” Schromen-Wawrin says. Rebecca Tsosie, a law professor focused on Federal Indian law and Indigenous peoples' human rights, says there are other rights frameworks to consider. “If we go into Indigenous epistemology, many times it's a relational universe that comes with mutual responsibility.” Guests: Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin, attorney at Shearwater Law, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund  Rebecca Tsosie, Regents Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, Indigenous Peoples' Law and Policy Program Carol Van Strum, author of A Bitter Fog, activist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Lake Erie Bill of Rights, or LEBOR ballot initiative didn’t get very far after it was passed by Toledo voters in 2019, thanks to the fast action of Wood County farmers Mark Drewes. Drewes filed a lawsuit to thwart the attempt to give legal rights to Lake Erie and give Toledoans authority to sue farmers on behalf of the lake. The result of Drewes’ lawsuit was a U.S. District Court judge ruling, decisively, that LEBOR was invalid. On this Our Ohio Weekly we will get a behind the scenes look at the case and what its result means for Ohio farmers. 00:00 - Leah Curtis, policy counsel for Ohio Farm Bureau and Tom Fusonie, an attorney with the law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. 23:50 - Meet educator Becky Cropper and hear how she is positively impacting young lives in southwest Ohio classrooms "To the Beat of Agriculture". 32:20 - Jack Irvin, vice president of public policy with Ohio Farm Bureau gives the details on Governor DeWine's budget proposal for 2021-2022 and what it means for agriculture. 42:20 - Maggie Good, Director of Member Engagement for American Farm Bureau, shares info about Ag Safety Awareness Week.

Joe DeMare interviews Mike Ferner about a recent favorable court decision defending the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. Joe reviews David Attenborough's "A Life on Our Planet." Rebecca talks about marsh lands in Great Britain; the letter from the Future and more!

In this episode, we will be discussing the USDA's Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, the USDA taking the first steps on the Food Box Distribution Program, the Navigable Waters Protection Rule published in the Federal Register, a temporary change in the H-2A rules, a federal court invalidating the 2018 School Lunch Nutrition Rule, the USDA updating state hemp production plan data, and an appeal in regards to the Lake Erie Bill of Rights being found unconstitutional.   Hosted by Audry Thompson with Brook Duer Edited by Erin Lieberman This material is based upon work supported by the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Music is “Caazapá (Aire Popular Paraguayo)” by Edson Lopes is licensed under CC BY 3.0.

In this episode, we will be discussing the PA Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Order, USDA approval of more state hemp production programs, a two-year enforcement delay on two-state hemp production plan requirements, Ohio opening 2020 hemp license application period, an Ohio federal court finding the Lake Erie Bill of Rights unconstitutional, and some federal felonies committed by Trickling Springs Creamery.  Hosted by Audry Thompson with Brook Duer Edited by Erin Lieberman This material is based upon work supported by the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Music is “Caazapá (Aire Popular Paraguayo)” by Edson Lopes is licensed under CC BY 3.0.

Joe DeMare picks the Superbowl winner using eco-statistics. Markie Miller joins us again to talk about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights court appeal. Joe and Rebecca Wood make witty observations. We read a letter from a listener as well as the Letter From The Future!

Can you give a natural feature a bill of rights? You sure can! Nancy Larson is a retired social worker and community activist running for Ohio State House of Representatives in the 47th District. We sat down for a passionate, fun, and informative hour with Nancy and her campaign manager, Quinn Albright, that you won't want to miss. Topics include:The Lake Erie Bill of RightsMaking Compelling Pro-Choice ArgumentsProtecting Our Rights to Vote and Participate in DemocracyFlipping a Narrow Red DistrctHow Medicare4All Can Save Everyone MoneyGet Involved with Nancy's Campaign:https://www.nancyfor.ushttps://twitter.com/NancyForOhiohttps://secure.actblue.com/donate/nancyforus 

Environmental personhood, the Heartbeat movement, and the fall of Roe | The Mark Harrington Show| 1-16-20As we approach the 47th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision America is as divided as ever. Despite extremists in the Democrat party, there are concrete signs of the public moving ever so slowly to the pro-life side.On today’s show, Mark interviews the activist behind the Heartbeat Bills that are sweeping across the country (and now internationally). Heartbeat LAWS have now passed in 9 states, including Ohio, where it all began. Janet Porter, of Faith2Action, shares how the Heartbeat movement is taking Michigan and other states by storm.In the weird and whacky file Mark shares a story about climate extremists who have successfully conferred rights of personhood to Lake Erie! That’s not a misprint. Remember the saying, “Be a hero save a whale, save a baby go to jail.” Well, a referendum that recently passed in the city of Toledo has gone one step further. In Toledo, preborn babies lack legal protections against murder but bodies of water are now treated as people! The Lake Erie Bill of Rights is part of what’s being called the Rights of Nature legal movement, and as crazy as it sounds, is gaining steam.• Read more about this bizarre story here: https://bit.ly/2tYyn3dAnimism is the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena. As America becomes more secular moral confusion will be the result.In Genesis 1 God makes distinctions between the Creator, the creation, and humans. Human beings are made in the image of God not Lake Erie and are given dominion and stewardship over creation. As we depart from the Christian worldview, we will worship the creation over the Creator (Rom 1:25).Mark also shares some war stories from past protests of pro-abortion events as Created Equal travels to Washington, DC to counter the pro-abortion Women’s March, and display our Jumbotron at the March for Life.Join us in the battle for life by supporting Created Equal financially. You can give at: https://www.createdequal.org/donateYou can watch The Mark Harrington Show on Mark’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts. Mark’s show is also broadcast over Salem radio stations every Saturday in Detroit (WLQV), Columbus (WRFD), and Cleveland (WHKW).Facebook Personal - https://www.facebook.com/MarkCreatedEqualFacebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/TheMarkHarringtonShow/Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/…/UC2kM_Q0sgCk9…Twitter - https://twitter.com/mharringtonliveiTunes – https://itunes.apple.com/…/…/id827982678Google Play - https://play.google.com/music/listen…Website - https://markharrington.orgPodbean - https://createdequal.podbean.com

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On this episode, we feature Toledo-based activist Markie Miller - the key leader who spearheaded Toledoans for Safe Water, a grassroots campaign that lead to the passing of the Lake Erie Bill of Rights this past February. Since then, she has spoken about the Rights of Nature movement all over the country. On Earth day 2019, she spoke to the United Nations as part of the Ninth Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with Nature. She was even featured on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah. For this interview, we're taking you into the crowd of the 2019 Water is Life Festival, held in Mackinaw City Michigan last August, where Seth Bernard interviewed Markie. So let's pretend we're enjoying a beautiful late-summer afternoon at a festival in Northern Michigan, honoring the water and celebrating those who protect it! /// State of Water is a program of the Michigan-based non-profit organization Title Track, and is powered by the Clean Water Campaign for Michigan. The podcast is made possible through a generous contribution from the Esperance Foundation. /// EPISODE 10: / Markie Miller interviewed by Seth Bernard / Produced, edited and mixed by Dan Rickabus / Narrators - Alex Smith, Ben Darcie, Dan Rickabus, Rachel Marco-Havens / Music - Mike Savina, Seth Bernard

Markie Miller is the driving force behind the Bill of Rights ballot initiative for Lake Erie to reduce the toxic pollution to this Great Lake. Opposed by both major political parties and outspent in advertising forty to one, Markie successfully led the fight and helped this Great Lake win by a landslide. A modern-day David and Goliath story of passion and perseverance.

Markie Miller is the driving force behind the Bill of Rights ballot initiative for Lake Erie to reduce the toxic pollution to this Great Lake. Opposed by both major political parties and outspent in advertising forty to one, Markie successfully led the fight and helped this Great Lake win by a landslide. A modern-day David and Goliath story of passion and perseverance.

This is a segment of episode #202 of Last Born In The Wilderness “The Match Has Been Struck: Environmental Law & Questioning Unquestioned Beliefs w/ Will Falk.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWfalk2 Read more about the “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” case: http://bit.ly/2JViXAL Purchase Will Falk’s book: ‘How Dams Fall: On Representing the Colorado River in the First-ever American Lawsuit Seeking Rights for a Major Ecosystem’: http://bit.ly/2xYJ2cG In this segment of my episode with lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk, Will explains what must actually be done to halt the pervasive and ongoing destruction of the living systems of the planet. Our government and legal system as a whole will not, and cannot, do it for us. As the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has stated: “Each municipality is a match, and each instance of a law being overturned as violative of these legal doctrines is an opportunity for people to see how the structure actually functions. This does the necessary work of penetrating the denial, piercing the illusion of democracy, and removing the blinders that prevent a large majority of people from seeing the reality on the ground.” As Will elaborates in this interview, the United States legal system is not designed to effectively protect human and non-human communities from ecologically destructive projects. Instead, as Will explains, it exists primarily “to make it near impossible for the citizenry to oppose those projects” through legal means. This assertion can be demonstrated to be true by examining numerous legal cases that have come up in the last several decades in communities around US -- perhaps most dramatically by the community of Toledo, Ohio in their efforts to end the proliferation of toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie — the region’s main source of potable water. In response to this environmental crisis, the community organized to have a “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” on the ballot in their local elections. If enacted, the legislation would effectively grant legal rights to a natural entity (Lake Erie), and would work to protect the lake and the residents of Toledo from the destructive impacts of industrial agricultural runoff (which produces toxic algae blooms as a byproduct). As Will explains in detail, this campaign, in spite of being extremely well organized, well funded, legally and ethically sound, and having gained enough votes in the election, was shut down by the very legal processes that the community of Toledo relied upon for the success their campaign. This case, unfortunately, is not unique. Will Falk is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist. Will graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and practiced as a public defender in Kenosha, WI. He left the public defender office to pursue frontline environmental activism. Will is the author of the upcoming book ‘How Dams Fall: On Representing the Colorado River in the First-ever American Lawsuit Seeking Rights for a Major Ecosystem.' WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

[INTRO: 8:30] In this episode I speak with lawyer and radical environmental activist Will Falk. In this discussion, Will examines the United States legal system, in particular environmental law, and the difficult realities communities around the US continuously face when it comes to protecting natural entities (lakes, rivers, forests, etc.) from ecologically destructive government and corporate projects. As Will elaborates in this interview, the United States legal system is not designed to effectively protect human and non-human communities from ecologically destructive projects. Instead, as Will explains, it exists primarily “to make it near impossible for the citizenry to oppose those projects” through legal means.* This assertion can be demonstrated to be true by examining numerous legal cases that have come up in the last several decades in communities around US -- perhaps most dramatically by the community of Toledo, Ohio in their efforts to end the proliferation of toxic algae blooms in Lake Erie — the region’s main source of potable water. In response to this environmental crisis, the community organized to have a “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” on the ballot in their local elections. If enacted, the legislation would effectively grant legal rights to a natural entity (Lake Erie), and would work to protect the lake and the residents of Toledo from the destructive impacts of industrial agricultural runoff (which produces toxic algae blooms as a byproduct). As Will explains in detail, this campaign, in spite of being extremely well organized, well funded, legally and ethically sound, and having gained enough votes in the election, was shut down by the very legal processes that the community of Toledo relied upon for the success their campaign. This case, unfortunately, is not unique. After expounding on the details of this case, Will explains what must actually be done to halt the pervasive and ongoing destruction of the living systems of the planet. Our government and legal system as a whole will not, and cannot, do it for us. As the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has stated: “Each municipality is a match, and each instance of a law being overturned as violative of these legal doctrines is an opportunity for people to see how the structure actually functions. This does the necessary work of penetrating the denial, piercing the illusion of democracy, and removing the blinders that prevent a large majority of people from seeing the reality on the ground.”* Will Falk is a writer, lawyer, and environmental activist. Will graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and practiced as a public defender in Kenosha, WI. He left the public defender office to pursue frontline environmental activism. Will is the author of the upcoming book ‘How Dams Fall: On Representing the Colorado River in the First-ever American Lawsuit Seeking Rights for a Major Ecosystem.' *http://bit.ly/2JViXAL Episode Notes: - Learn more about Will and his work: http://willfalk.org - Purchase Will’s upcoming book ‘How Dams Fall: On Representing the Colorado River in the First-ever American Lawsuit Seeking Rights for a Major Ecosystem’: http://bit.ly/2xYJ2cG - Support the Toledoans for Safe Water: https://lakeerieaction.wixsite.com/safewatertoledo - Support the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: https://celdf.org - Read more about the "Lake Erie Bill of Rights" case: http://bit.ly/2JViXAL - The song featured is “Computer Face (String Arrangement by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson)” by Flying Lotus from the album Cosmogramma Alt Takes. WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness DONATE: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast DROP ME A LINE: Call (208) 918-2837 or http://bit.ly/LBWfiledrop EVERYTHING ELSE: https://linktr.ee/patterns.of.behavior

The Ohio State University Ag Law Team is made up of Peggy Kirk Hall, Ellen Essman and Evin Bachelor. Listen as they join us for an update on some hot topics hitting agriculture right now. In the first of a 2 part series, we discuss the expectancy of legalizing hemp production for Ohio farmers. Where is congress at in the process and when might it happen? We also go into what has happened with the Lake Erie Bill of Rights since it was passed back in February. Follow the Ag Law Team on their blog and access law resources at farmoffice.osu.edu.

Mari Margil and her team at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund are committed to defending the rights of our environment under the law. Already they have assisted the first places in the world to secure Rights of Nature in law, including in Ecuador, where these rights are now written into the country’s constitution. Recently, the organization was instrumental in advocating for the rights of Lake Erie to be protected against agricultural pollution, which has also been polluting the water of Toledo, Ohio, residents. In February, Ohio voters passed the “Lake Erie Bill of Rights” law, a first-of-its-kind measure that could set a positive precedent for other Rights of Nature laws. Listen in to hear more about how our environment can - and should - have a lawyer. 

The coolness of an unsprayed lawn: wild flowers, edible plants, healthy people. Also, interview with Markie Miller about Ohio State Legislature's attempt to nullify the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in the budget bill. Discussion of Greenwashing, and the Letter from the Future!

There have been many developments on the Lake Erie Bill of Rights (LEBOR) front since the law was passed by Toledo voters. In the latest Legal with Leah, Ty Higgins visits with Ohio Farm Bureau's Policy Council Leah Curtis about the actions being taken by both sides of the issue and why farmers should keep up with LEBOR updates, whether they live in the watershed or not.

Craig speaks with UDM environmental law expert Nick Schroek about the "Lake Erie Bill of Rights" recently passed by voters in Toledo.  And, we talk to Angela Roguenses of Play Works Michigan about the importance of letting kids have time to actually play!  

Markie Miller is our in-studio guest as we talk about what the success of LEBOR charter amendment means for Toledo. Joe talks a little about his experiences at Standing Rock. We discuss DeWine's nuclear obsession and fracking waste being sprayed on the road in front of your house.

Lake Erie Bill Of Rights by Circle Of Blue

Attorneys Peggy Kirk Hall and Evin Bachelor with the OSU Extension Agricultural and Resource Law Program discuss the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, the lawsuit on Lake Erie’s impaired water status along with the noxious weeds law and drainage laws. For access to their law bulletins and blog, visit farmoffice.osu.edu.

We talk about the damage from invasive species and what you can do about it. We review the Lake Erie Bill of Rights and the Green New Deal.Guests: Adrian Lowein (Wood County Park District), Neocles Leontis (BG City Council candidate), and Markie Miller (Toledoans for Safe Water).

The Lake Erie Bill of Rights is an initiative seeking to recognize the inalienable rights of Lake Erie to exist and flourish.Toledoans for Safe Water is a grassroots organization in the Toledo area working to establish a Bill of Rights to protect Lake Erie and the communities that rely on its health and viability.

The crew of Dale Minyo, Matt Reese, and Kolt Buchenroth join Leah Curtis of the Ohio Farm Bureau to get the latest legal updates regarding Ohio agriculture. In addition to the in-depth chat with Curtis about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, the crew also hears interviews with Jon Scheve about the recent USDA market reports, Mark Loux on the growing weed problems, and Victoria Popp on benchmarks for beginning crop producers. All that and more in this podcast, sponsored by AgriGold.

We cover a lot of ground, talking about flooding on the Maumee, LEBOR, the Dem's Green New Deal, insulation, and the letter from the future.

Toledo voters will soon decide whether farmers can be sued by Lake Erie. In this update of the Lake Erie Bill of rights on Legal with Leah, Farm Bureau Policy Counsel Leah Curtis says the court has ruled the measure can be voted on later this month.

You could be sued….. by Lake Erie. Farm Bureau Policy Counsel Leah Curtis explains the scary consequences of the proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights on Legal With Leah.

In this first episode, we talk about the Lake Erie Bill of Rights, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, and Trump's plan to "redefine" high level nuclear waste as low level. Guests are Markie Miller and Diane D'Ariggo of NIRS.

Markie Miller with Toledoans for Safe Water discusses the proposed Lake Erie Bill of Rights