Fascists Are Trying to Co-Opt Mutual Aid Organizing in East Palestine, Ohio

After canvassing, phone-banking and holding public meetings, Columbiana County, Ohio, organizers with River Valley Organizing (RVO) released a set of demands from residents of East Palestine and surrounding areas in the wake of Norfolk Southern’s train derailment disaster that led to a controlled burn of toxic chemicals and mandatory evacuations of residents within one mile of the crash site last month.

Thirty-eight of 151 cars on Norfolk Southern’s 32N train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3 after a wheel bearing overheated, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The derailment...