OUR HISTORY

Ohio Organizing Campaign was formed in 2007 to build a coordinated movement for racial, social, and economic justice in Ohio.    

In 2011, Stand Up for Ohio directed the allied outreach work for We Are Ohio, the powerful community-labor coalition that successfully repealed Ohio’s anti-collective bargaining legislation. We have operated under this campaign name, Stand Up for Ohio in our political programs since then. 

We have run multiple social justice campaigns throughout Ohio. In 2023, we helped protect our reproductive freedoms, decriminalize marijuana use, and defend direct democracy in our state. In 2022, we also helped win and secure the seats of Greg Landsman and Emilia Sykes in the U.S. Congress.

OUR WINS

  • Passing Issue 24 in Cleveland, a powerful community safety initiative that would ensure and enforce civilian-led oversight over police discipline and procedures 

  • Passing Issue 2 in Columbus, a criminal justice reform ballot establishing a civilian review board for police misconduct 

  • Passing Issue 11 in Columbus, a local levy that would strengthen and expand public school infrastructure, resources, and staff in Columbus Public Schools

  • Passing Issue 17 in Cincinnati to renew a preschool promise program and winning several important school levies in the Cleveland metro area 

  • Flipping the Franklin County prosecutor seat and electing former defense attorney and progressive Gary Tyack

  • Electing Hamilton County’s first openly queer and progressive sheriff, Charmaine McGuffey, and flipping 11 local judicial seats (including the election of three Democratic female judges who support bail reform)

  • Electing Democrat judge and fair maps champion Jennifer Brunner to the Ohio Supreme Court