Celia C. Peters is an avant-garde director and award-winning screenwriter creating compelling stories of authentically diverse characters. Peters is a member of New York Women in Film and Television and the Writers Guild of America. She was awarded a 2012 residency at Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Midlothian, Scotland. Her psychologically inspired, character-driven screenwriting has been both prize-winning [Godspeed, 2011 African American Women in Cinema Film Festival; Roxë15, 2004 SFBFF] and recognized in competition.

Her filmmaker credits include the experimental performance piece, “Poem in Motion (2011),” the short documentary “Rethinking Beauty (2011),” and “Editing Uptown (2010),” a featurette on the nationally distributed DVD of the indie film, “Uptown.” In 2007, Peters produced a half-hour segment, “The State of Hip-Hop” for WHUT/PBS and her short film “Breakthrough (2006),” was broadcast nationally on BET’s The Best Shorts series.

Kevin DeBroux of Pink Reason proclaimed something to the affect that ‘We Need Harm Reduction Policies in Ohio’ from the Stage at the Summit towards the end of his bands’ rowdy and pulverizing set at the first annual Blackheart Festival.

The Blackheart Festival was event to celebrate the life of Joey Blackheart who played guitar in the Girls! who died in July due a complication with substance usage.

The Blackheart Festival was raising money for to develop Harm Reduction Programs in our area. Harm Reduction helps manage the negative affects of behaviors like recreational drug use and sexual activity by providing access to things like clean needles, opoid replacement, condoms, and designated drivers.

A planet run by King CONG—Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas—cannot be sustained.

But to get beyond it, our Solartopian vision must embrace more than just a technological transformation.  It also demands social, political and spiritual transcendence.

From Fukushima to global warming, from fracking to the Gulf disaster(s), it’s clear the fossil/nuclear industry is hard-wired to kill us all. Its only motivating force is profit; our biological survival has no part in the equation.

The Ohio Student Association held a rally on the Statehouse steps on October 18 to demand an end to police killing of unarmed people of color both in Ohio and around the country. The group has been recently active protesting the police murder of John Crawford III in a Walmart in Beavercreek Ohio. Despite video showing Crawford being gunned down by Officer Sean Williams with virtually no warning, while holding a BB gun he intended to purchase, Williams was not indicted for any crime connected with his death.

From October 6 through 9, the group occupied the Beavercreek police station in order to present their demands to the Beavercreek Chief of Police. The Group had three demands including the firing of Williams and the charging of 911 caller Ronald Ritchie for causing the incident by making false claims to the police. The organizers also demanded better training for police to prevent future incidents. All of their demands were firmly rebuffed by the Beavercreek police chief in two separate meetings.