From NEW AMERICAN COMMUNITY
To support his first book, author and organizer Mike Trapp will be visiting Grounds For Thought, 174 S. Main St., Bowling Green, on Wednesday, Oct. 8, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. His book, “The Practical Guide to Building a Better World,” is a memoir-driven how-to that covers nine paths to making the world a better place through activism, social service delivery, politics, and entrepreneurship. He will be reading from his chapter on direct action organizing, including his bridge jumps and other direct action organizing in the region in the 1990s.
Trapp was a leader in the efforts to shut down Fermi 2 and the Ohio SEAC boycott of BP. He will also discuss his current activism in leading the successful fight of a local community to stop an ICE detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas.
Following the reading, there will also be discussion with Bowling Green student activists in coordination with Bowling Green Socialists and Bowling Green Campus Democrats.
Trapp is a native of Monroe and graduate of the University of Toledo. He is the founder of the New American Community, a federal hybrid PAC that supports organizing in rural and hard-to-organize areas and is fighting to stop CoreCivic from reopening a private prison as an ICE detention facility. Trapp is a former three-term city council member in Columbia, Missouri, and was active in northeast Ohio, opposing the Fermi 2 nuclear plant and other environmental issues in Ohio in the 1990s.
There will also be a book reading and signing at SIP Coffee, 3160 Markway Road, Toledo, on Monday, Oct. 6, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Books will be available for purchase at both events.
