Columbus Action Network

02/18/2026

Black community leaders in Columbus are submitting a petition to move city council elections to true council districts like the Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires. We have a right to elect candidates who represent us.

01/18/2024

I’ve been meeting with and talking to , the best people in the city here. Big hat tip to my friends Ray Gladys Jones—yesterday I met Ani Mwalimu who knows my sister Hilary Beard from Philadelphia there, after having had a Zoom meeting with retired historic consultant Nancy Recchie and my cousin Brendan Jennings discussing historic Lakeview , Illinois —my mother’s hometown settled by our relatives as a freedman’s community in the 1820’s. This place is where the best conversations go down .

09/12/2023

Franklin Park South and the Near East Side is . I have a few extra yard signs—hit me up if you want one !

09/09/2023

And…we’re back! Still working at the Hot Times in Olde Towne Festival to get petition signatures for fair rents in Columbus. This is likely the last festival for the petition, so come on down, learn more about it, and sign on in support. Everybody who learns about it loves it. (Well… except the wealthy property owners who have our community in a vise and are driving us out.) Come down and sign to help get this on the ballot. We create a safe harbor for landlords offering fair rents. Those who don’t will be heavily taxed, May be sued, May be called a bad name “predator,” and may be driven from the market. Stand up for your neighbors. Come sign today or tomorrow.

07/14/2023

I got my vote on today during lunch, at the Franklin County Board of Elections Early Voting Center on Morse Road. I voted “Hell NO!!” on Issue One, which seeks to enshrine in power forever, the views of a dwindling number of people who do not reflect the future our children want and deserve.

I was glad to see a line out front—people know this ballot issue put on by the rabid, right wing repressive regime in the statehouse is anti-democratic and bad for the people. They tried to sneak this on a low-turnout August ballot—which they had just prohibited for citizen initiatives for that very reason!!!—thinking they could motivate their dwindling population to vote while the majority stayed home unmotivated.

But the people are coming out and blowing the doors off the polling places!! It was 1/2 hour through the line until my ballot was counted. Please do the same—GO VOTE “NO” ON ISSUE ONE!!!

07/13/2023

Just left the city’s housing forum. The same group that presided over the under building of housing over the past 15 years and defunded nonprofit housing development organizations that were actually developing affordable housing doesn’t have a word to say about the fair rent solution proposed by informed citizens. They are consciously allowing rents to go up.

Renters and homeowners are experiencing inflation differently, according to new data from Bank of America — and, unsurprisingly, renters are taking the hit.

06/02/2021

Let people know...please share. We can reform Columbus police when we speak up. Do you know someone with a story to tell?

C-PAP members.Asad Shabazz and David Harewood listen to testimony of abusive policing. If you have been a victim of unlawful or unconstitutional policing (unlawful searches , stopped by police with no probable cause, harassment or racial profiling)...we want to hear your story as we try to bring the federal government to investigate and restrain the Columbus police. Register to testify on Saturday between 1:00 and 4:00 at www.c-pap.info

05/12/2021

We support this effort to restructure Columbus policing and end its overreaches and decades of abusive. Help us by telling your story.

“For decades now, local Black and brown communities have been calling for real, actionable change within the CPD. Our collective efforts have culminated in a formal request that we are releasing to the Department of Justice tomorrow afternoon.” — Attorney Sean Walton, April 28, 2021 Organizati...

04/29/2021

Folk with testimony related to abusive Columbus policing can get their story/testimony submitted to the United States Department of Justice as the Columbus Police Accountability Project seeks a federal investigation of Columbus police, by signing up at www.c-pap.info