Agenda items Include:

1) No on August 8 GOTV: Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Chair Dave Brock will be joining us to explain what you can do to help Get Out The Vote to make sure that State Issue 1 is soundly defeated on August 8.

2) Nationwide UPS Strike: Teamsters Local 407 Secretary – Treasurer Paul Wojnar will be joining us for an update on negotiations, strike preparation and what we can do to help our local Teamsters brothers and sisters if a strike should occur. Their contract expires on July 31 and a strike authorization vote has already been taken.

3) Internet Access in Low – Income Communities. CWA Local 4302 President Joe Snyder will be joining us to talk about CWA’s initiative in this area. 

Please click here to register for the event. After registering you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link.

With summer arriving it’s time to get outdoors and spend some quality time with your fellow progressive activists! CCPC will provide food and drinks but if you would like to bring something to share that would be great. The pavilion has picnic tables but if you’d prefer, bring your most comfortable lawn chair. Aside from the usual short speeches by candidates and elected officials this meeting has no political agenda. The agenda is have fun and enjoy the longest day of the year!

Agenda items so far include:

1) Protect Choice Ohio Cuyahoga County Field Director Troy Greenfield will give an update on the abortion access constitutional amendment signature gathering effort.

2) CWA Local 4302 President Joe Snyder will speak about CWA’s initiative to make internet more accessible in low – income communities

3) Cleveland State University Law Professor Matthew Ahn will speak about Critical Race Theory and how we should talk about it before the upcoming School Board elections this year in many communities.

Our April meeting will focus on statewide issues in Ohio.

Agenda items so far include:

1) Abortion access constitutional amendment signature gathering update, Speaker: Cole Wojdacz, Statewide Field Manager Pro – Choice Ohio

2) What’s likely to be in the Ohio Budget. Speaker: Zach Schiller from Policy Matters

3) Education issues in Ohio. Speaker: Elaine Schleiffer, Communications Manager for Honesty for Ohio Education.

As you may know, the Cleveland Browns have been floating the idea of building a new domed stadium which could cost as much as $2 billion. At our March meeting we’re going to do a cost vs. benefit analysis of public sector dollars going into projects like this. Our special guest is West Virginia University Economics Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research, and renowned stadium finance expert Dr. Brad Humphreys. CCPC will also provide a local activist perspective from our past work on the 2017 Q renovations and referendum effort and the Guardians more recent Progressive Field renovation project. We’d like to hear from you ahead of time. Included in the registration link below is a section where you can share your thoughts on the issue. After registering you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link

At our February meeting we thought it might be best to give some updates on issues and projects we have been working on or will soon be working on. So far they are 1) Constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in Ohio 2) Constitutional amendment to establish a $15 minimum wage in Ohio 3) State Minimum Wage vs Cleveland’s Fair Employment law 4) County – wide Care Response pilot program. As we get closer to the meeting more may be added.

Please join us as we discuss the ongoing Labor disputes with the City of Cleveland and the possibility of a strike. Our guests include Dan Chavez ( Teamsters Local 507 ) who represents the Snow Plow and Sanitation Drivers and Bobby Mendel ( Laborers Local 860 ) representing the Sanitation Workers. Please click here to register for the event. After registering you’ll receive an email with the Zoom link.

Gather at 11:30am at Bernice Pyke Park – St. Charles Avenue entrance in Lakewood.

Long before the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v Wade, anti-choice extremists have been attacking abortion access. One of their tactics is setting up fake “pregnancy centers” that look like medical clinics but don’t practice medicine or follow standardized ethics. There are six fake pregnancy centers in Cuyahoga County, and we need your help to SHUT. THEM. DOWN.

Join us to #ExposeFakeClinics one by one, at our second location, Birthright of Lakewood. We’ll march from the park to the street in front of the center to raise awareness and provide handouts with actual resources for people seeking care. And we won’t be alone — medical professionals and students are standing with us to stop these fake clinics.

What are fake pregnancy centers?

These centers or “clinics” don’t provide comprehensive reproductive health care — instead, they use phony ads to trick pregnant people into making appointments, promising “pregnancy support” or “free ultrasounds.”
Once inside, people are shamed, pressured and lied to about their health decisions, and clinic workers will use stalling techniques to push them past the deadline for seeking legal abortions. Not bound by HIPPA or any standardized ethics, these predatory clinics are funded by our taxpayer dollars and impact people of color, poor people, gender non-conforming folks and transmen the hardest. Help us end this deception by shutting these fake clinics down one by one!