Press Room & Blog Posts
For all media requests, please contact our Communications and Narrative Director Maki Somosot at maki@ohorganizing.org.
2023 Press Releases
We urge legislative leaders to finish what they started, refine the components of the school funding formula, and finally dedicate the resources needed for each and every Ohio student to succeed.
Sub. HB 458 disproportionately attacks voting rights of Black, brown, and naturalized Ohioans
2022 Press Releases
The future of our communities – particularly Black and brown Ohioans – is gravely impacted by this harmful legislation.
We categorically reject Secretary LaRose’s efforts to cheat Ohio voters by proposing a harmful amendment to Ohio’s constitution that would strip us of our power at the ballot.
Real public safety means keeping all of our families safe, not setting up Ohioans to fail.
2021 Press Releases
OOC Expresses Support for New CAIR-Ohio Leadership After Termination of Former Executive Director
We have unwavering confidence in the incoming acting director and will continue to work and serve alongside our Muslim brothers and sisters at CAIR-Ohio through this difficult time.
Ohio’s general assembly should fully represent Ohio’s Black and brown communities, not serve as a power trip for one political party.
Ohioans want a government where we pick our leaders, not corrupt politicians who want to preserve power by rigging our maps and putting up barriers to voting.
“We need to reform cash bail so we can ensure each and every single Ohioan is treated fairly in the criminal legal system, regardless of their skin color or ability to pay.”
“This commission will engage the most marginalized communities to make sure they provide their input. All Ohioans deserve a say in how their districts are drawn and who gets to represent them.”
”We have much further to go. Black and brown families in Columbus deserve to live in communities safe from the terror of police violence.”
”Our lives matter. Our voices matter. And together, by speaking up and supporting each other in spite of our differences, I know we will heal this rot that has festered for too long in our country.”
Audio Series: Living Black History
Black history is American history. Our history. This country would not exist without the historic contribution and leadership of countless Black leaders, inventors, revolutionaries, and trailblazers who have forged a powerful legacy of resistance and paved the way for a multiracial democracy.
Join us as we celebrate Black History from the perspective of Black grassroots organizers living it. Check out our #LivingBlackHistory series here.
“If we are to move forward from this place, if we are to heal the broken soul of America, then we have to be blatantly honest about what fuels the function of what we see.
While white supremacists attempted to seize our Capitol on Wednesday, voters from Georgia chose to send the Black pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s former church and the descendant of Jewish immigrants to the U.S. Senate.
These are historic, hard-won victories, achieved in the face of toxic, all-encompassing narratives of white supremacy, Anti-Blackness and racial injustice that still dominate our public discourse.
