WHEN: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 2:00 P.M.
WHERE: The Ohio Union (facing the South Oval) / 1739 North High Street
WHAT: A coalition of students and Columbus community members will rally at the Ohio Union on Tuesday afternoon to protest The Ohio State University President Walter “Ted” Carter's Administration and his preemptive compliance to far-right policies as well as the state of university’s investments, student housing, repression of campus activism, and the right of staff and faculty to organize. The protest will raise awareness about these issues and encourage President Carter to act on students’ demands.
WHO: Ohio Youth for Climate Justice, Rising Tide Columbus, the Tea, Protect DEI OSU, the Trans Experimental Action (TEA) Party, DEI Defense at OSU, OSU student protesters, Columbus community members.

Ohio Climate Youth for Climate Justice is a youth-led movement organizing radical action to address the climate crisis with the focus and urgency that the issue deserves.

Donald Trump has initiated the destruction of the American democracy in breathtaking speed. In less that two months, the world has changed as America has changed from a Republic with the promise of justice, civil rights, and a government “by the people and for the people” to a budding fascist dictatorship. Now, authoritarian rule has landed squarely on the heads of all Americans so quickly that people have not been able to process the change.

Americans have been conditioned to believe that living under an authoritarian rule is worse than death, thus Russia and China need to be labeled as enemies, and citizens are expected to support wars against them. But the enemy has emerged from within.

We need your help! Green Columbus is facing a funding challenge due to delayed grant reimbursements (Dispatch & NPR have covered the story), making community support more important than ever. One way you can make a direct impact is by volunteering with us at Crew Concessions—where every volunteer shift earns Green Columbus a donation, plus tips!

We need volunteers to work concessions at Columbus Crew home games and concerts. Each shift provides critical funding for our mission to grow and sustain Columbus’s tree canopy.

Although the nations of the world have pledged to respect a system of international law and global responsibility, the recent behavior of several countries provides a sharp challenge to this arrangement.

For over three years, the Russian government has conducted a brutal military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine―the largest and most devastating military operation in Europe since World War II. Defying Russia’s international obligations―including a peace treaty it signed with Ukraine, a ruling by the International Court of Justice demanding Russia halt its military operations in Ukraine, the UN Charter, and repeated UN General Assembly condemnations of Russian behavior by an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations―the Putin regime has stubbornly persisted with Russia’s imperialist aggression against its smaller, weaker neighbor.