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A Message from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Chairman on Leave
November 03, 2021

Ohio Statehouse Nov. 3rd Worldwide Walkout Gathering

Ohio Statehouse Nov. 3rd Worldwide Walkout Gathering

When

11/3/2021    
11:00 am - 3:00 pm

Where

Ohio Statehouse
1 Capitol Square, Columbus, Ohio, 43215

Join Children’s Health Defense Ohio, the Champions of Freedom Defenders listed below and countless other morally courageous Defenders from all across the State for the Worldwide Walkout Kick-Off Gathering at the Ohio Statehouse West Plaza on Wednesday, November 3rd from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST.

Worldwide Walkouts will demand a return to freedom and democratic principles. Citizens around the globe are protesting loss of liberty, illegal mandates and tyrannical government overreach. Every man, woman and child are important to this movement!

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children’s health Defense Board Chair and Lead Counsel, said:

“No government in history has ever surrendered power in the absence of a demand. We need to tell these governments and their friends in the technocracy, the Silicon Valley billionaire boys club, the mainstream media, and the pharmaceutical industry that we will no longer tolerate their trampling of citizens’ rights.”

Please share widely so we can ensure everyone’s voices are heard and represented. It is of utmost importance as this is the Civil Rights Movement of the Century!

Be sure to bring your signs, bullhorns, lawn chairs and patriotic flags to make a statement and ensure your voices are heard during this monumental day, as countless worldwide take a stand and hold the line while peacefully defending fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Visit the following link for additional information and to watch RFK, Jr.’s full message:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/health-freedom/worldwide-walk-outs/

Thank you for your voice and support.  Please contact us directly at oh.chd@childrenshealthdefense.org if you have any questions. We hope to see you there!


Champions of Freedom Defenders

Featured Speakers

Nadera Lopez-Garrity – President, Children’s Health Defense Ohio

Tricia Labuda Bhat MD – Spring House Health Family Physician

Rishanne and Doug Golden – Parents of Vaccine Injured Child, Founders of Haleigh’s Heart

Father Gabriel Lavery – Catholic Priest, God-given Unalienable Rights Advocate

Cris Fellows RN – Pediatric Emergency Room Suture Nurse

Lisa Keller – Delaware City Councilwoman, Former Teacher and Police Officer

Cory McGuire – Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)

Aaron Crater – Service Industry and Professionals Advocate, Founder of Ohio Barhop

Bobby Mitchell – Retired U.S. Air Force Veteran, Church Pastor and Small Business Owner

Micah Aills – Operations Manager, Citizen Advocate Singer/Song Writer

Mitch Marczewski, Esq. – Marczewski Law Offices LLC., Founder, Ohio Medical Freedom Coalition

Ashley Feltz – Founder, The Freedom School

Jeffrey Josiah Lanning – Citizen Advocate and Public Policy Expert

Kathryn Huwig – Beyond the Data and Understanding Ohio COVID-19 Data Founder

Faith Lansche MSN, APRN-CNP –  Frontline Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Andrea Hand – Health Freedom and Patient Advocate

Raina Cornell, Esq. –  Secretary, Children’s Health Defense Ohio

Shannon Kazee – College Student and Health Freedom Advocate

Donna Poppendieck – Founder, Principle Health and Wellness Online, LLC., Educational Psychologist and Addictions Counselor, President, Holistic Chamber of Commerce – Columbus Chapter, Mental Health Adjunct Professor in various universities.

Scott Shoemaker – Vice President, Children’s Health Defense Ohio, President, Health Freedom Ohio


Featured Speakers Bio

Nadera Lopez-Garrity

Headshot - Nadera

Nadera Lopez-Garrity is the President of Children’s Health Defense Ohio. She has a background in both Journalism and Political Science and has long been active in Ohio’s legislative process to ensure Ohioan’s constitutional rights and liberties are protected. She confounded and served as the Vice President of Health Freedom Ohio, a politically active nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness about holistic pathways to health and wellness. Her efforts have formed part of a collective movement of citizens in Ohio that have influenced and prevented the passage of legislation that would have drastically limited Ohioan’s fundamental human rights and freedoms. Additionally, her continuous advocacy has helped put into motion legislation that aims to protect individuals right to choose what is right for them and their families when it comes to their health and overall well-being, free of coercion and discrimination, in addition to the protection and promotion of natural health modalities.

With over a decade of marketing and event planning experience, Nadera has also been instrumental in working with other national and local organizations, coordinating several monumental conferences and fundraising events; whereby, world renowned experts graciously share their expertise so individuals may be empowered to make the best, informed decisions for themselves and their family as it pertains to health and wellness. Drawing hundreds of attendees within the state and across the nation.

She speaks out in various interviews, including the upcoming Framing The World docuseries, “COVIDLAND,” produced by Paul Wittenberger, and often testifies at the Ohio Statehouse in support of parental rights, health freedom, informed consent and other legislation concerning the preservation of Ohioans Constitutional rights, Covid policies, accuracy and transparency.

A native of Venezuela who has traveled and lived all over the world, Nadera has a passion for justice and a genuine desire to empower people, understanding that we are all intrinsically connected and what we do at a local level impacts humanity at large. Advocating to preserve individual’s God-given fundamental human rights and freedoms is an intrinsic part of her calling, born from an innate desire to leave this world a bit better for our children and generations to come.

Her greatest joy, drive and most cherished blessing are her family, whom she lives with in Ohio.


Tricia Labuda Bhat, MD

Dr. Tricia Labuda Bhat has over 15 years of board-certified, full-spectrum family medicine experience in international, rural, urban, and teaching settings. Since 2019 she has been serving patients through Spring House Health, her solo private Direct Primary Care practice in central Ohio. At OWU (Ohio Wesleyan University), she majored in zoology and psychology while minoring in chemistry and playing varsity basketball. After graduating from the Medical College of Ohio (now the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences) she completed her residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

Most recently Dr. Bhat has been advocating for Ohioans’ access to wellness through testifying as a proponent of Ohio’s Substitute House Bill 248 and through providing information summaries to the local school board.

Peer-Nominated Awards

Dr. Bhat was awarded the Jose Flietes Compassion Award in Medical school and was recognized by fellow physicians repeatedly for her excellence in Adolescent Care in the magazine Columbus Monthly.

Organizations and Certifications

Dr. Bhat and her physician husband parent and intermittently homeschool their 2 children and she has many youth-focused volunteer experiences including coaching various sports, facilitating Bible studies and youth-group gatherings, providing foster care, and supporting Bhutanese/Nepali refugees.


Doug and Rishanne Golden

The Goldens

Doug and Rishanne Golden have owned and operated Good As Gold Promotions for 27 years while living in central Ohio. The Golden’s have two daughters, Taylor and Haleigh, who are the joy, light and love in their lives. In 2018, they launched a second business, I Choose Health and Wellness, after Rishanne earned Health Coaching and Nia Instructor certifications.

Rishanne is a certified as Natural Health Practitioner early 2021.  Following the tragic and senseless loss of their vibrant daughter, Haleigh, the Golden family intends to share Haleigh’s message and honor her memory through the foundation, Haleigh’s Heart.  They are also avid supporters of medical freedom and active members of various health freedoms organizations.


Father Gabriel Lavery

Father Gabriel Lavery

Father Gabriel Lavery was born and raised in Ohio, then entered Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, Nebraska in 1998, the seminary for the religious Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen. Father Lavery was ordained in 2003 and served as assistant priest in multiple parishes of that religious congregation around the country before being assigned as pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Akron, Ohio and Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Sulphur Springs, Ohio in 2013 which remains his current assignment.

Father Lavery has proactively advocated for the preservation of God-given inalienable rights and freedoms over the past year. He testified at the Statehouse on various occasions and presented the moral arguments against forced vaccination in his powerful testimony. Beginning with an anecdote about his own COVID-19 infection and subsequent, long-lasting antibody response, Fr. Lavery delved into the morality of the greater good philosophy.

Read Father Lavery’s testimony here:

https://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/…/gabriellaverypro.pdf


Cris Fellows RN

Cris Fellows RN

Cris Fellows is a recently retired pediatric emergency room suture nurse, who worked in the frontlines and is now firmly rooted in UnAbandoned Gardens of Youngstown, Ohio, growing with purpose and intent to regenerate the soil and invigorate the soul – an urban permaculture garden and herbal endeavor.

Fellows is an herbalist, urban permaculture gardener, wife, mother of three grown lovely and eclectic boys and grandmother.  Fellows started her nursing career in adult telemetry and became very concerned at what she felt were unethical practices in prolonging life without quality, poor education of patients and families regarding the truth/risks/outcomes.

Fellows is pro-informed consent, honest transparency and the search for true safe and effective immune supporting modalities.


Lisa Keller

Councilwoman Lisa Keller

Lisa Keller has been a Delaware City Council Representative since 2008, former police officer and high school history teacher.

Keller courageously sponsored legislation in Delaware to ban vaccine mandates, passports and discrimination based on the consumption of pharmaceutical products that are indemnified from liability.

Additionally, Keller successfully defeated a proposed mask mandate in the city of Delaware and has been an ardent supporter of health freedom. She is often found advocating and testifying at the statehouse in her concerted efforts to protect Ohioans Constitutional rights and freedoms.


Cory McGuier

Cory McGuire

Cory McGuire is a Christian, loving husband and proud father of three beautiful young boys. He is a life long resident of central Ohio and works as a dedicated Firefighter and Emergency Medical technician (EMT).

As a first responder, McGuire swore to first do no harm. He provides medical assistance to those in need on a basis of informed consent. McGuire strongly believes that bodily autonomy is one of the simple principles of our God given rights. He stands by these ideals to protect a free state for his wife, sons and all Ohioans.

McGuire’s middle son was vaccine injured and he will never stop fighting for medical freedom.


Aaron Crater

Aaron Crater

Aaron Crater has worked professionally in the bar and restaurant industry for 15 years. He is the founder of Ohio Barhop, advocating for and fighting to save Ohio’s service industry businesses and workers.

Crater is one of the co-hosts of The Post De-Presser, a panel discussion broadcast that airs on social media in response to local, state, national policies and mandates for Covid-19.

Follow Crater’s work on both the Ohio Barhop and Post De-Presser Facebook pages.


Bobby Mitchell PhD

Bobby Mitchell

Dr. Bobby Mitchell has dedicated his life to service because he believes that neighbors helping neighbors is more impactful than relying on government.

Bobby is a Pastor, businessman and Veteran of the United States Air Force.

Mitchell entered the U.S. Air Force at age 17 on a waiver of consent signed by his parents.  He graduated from the Military Police Academy before assignments working to protect our domestic military assets. He earned the Good Conduct, National Defense Service, Air Force Longevity Service, and Air Force Achievement Medals for his service.  He was also recognized for his community involvement when awarded the 2002 Volunteer of the Year, and the 2003 Bruce C. Shultz Citizen of the Year Awards. Mitchell is also a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Contracting Academy and worked in various resource management, contracting and procurement roles. This includes time at the U.S. Department of Defense Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio.

Following his honorable discharge as a Staff Sergeant, Mitchell was selected by the Church of the Living God International as its second male and youngest ever, International Missionary of the Year.  In 2007 he became an ordained Elder and in 2009, started the non-denominational Christian education-based church The Father’s House International.

During this same period, Mitchell earned Associate and Bachelor’s degrees in Business from Franklin University and Bachelor’s, Master’s and a Doctorate of Theology from the Institute of Christian Works Seminary.

Through The Father’s House International church, Dr. Mitchell partnered with the Mid-Ohio Food Bank to start a free farmer’s market which has helped feed over 20,000 people since 2012.  The Father’s Table food pantry is open every Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon.

Mitchell and his wife Janeisha are also entrepreneurs who purchase and rehabilitate homes throughout central Ohio.  They live in Canal Winchester with their two daughters and a son.


Micah Ray Aills

Micah Aills

Micah Ray Aills is an Operations Manager and Citizen’s Advocate. His heart and passion belongs to music, which inspired a song that went viral last year called, “Lock-down Crazy.” He is a songwriter and musician born and raised in Washington Court House, Ohio. From an early age, he had an emotional connection to songs he listened to and at the age of 13 he learned how to play guitar from his dad and immediately started singing, writing songs and recording them. He was Influenced by 70’s and 80’s rock and country while growing up and those genres are most evident in his playing.

 

He first played out in public in a local country band when he was 17 years old and started his first band with his brother Todd when he was 18 years old. This band later became known as Savannah Rose. The band played dance clubs throughout the United States and Canada in the mid to late 1990’s. It was then that Micah grew as a singer, guitarist and songwriter.

 

When Savannah Rose broke up, Micah formed a 3 piece band called The Getaways which played locally in Ohio. This is when he really developed and broadened his writing and musical abilities.

In 2002 Micah auditioned for The Great Divide as a replacement front-man/lead singer/lead guitarist and got the job. He moved from Ohio to Oklahoma in 2003 and traveled and played shows professionally with The Great Divide through the mid 2000’s.


Mitchchell Marczewski, Esq.

Mitch M

Mitchell Marczewski has been a practicing attorney in Zanesville Ohio for over 20 years.  In addition to his private practice, he recently founded the Ohio Medical Freedom Coalition in response to the government’s coercive vaccination mandates and believes that medical freedom is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century.

In Oct 2021, Marczewski testified before the Ohio House of Representatives Commerce and Labor Committee regarding the unfairness and negative consequences that have resulted.

His recent focus has been to conduct legal seminars on vaccination exemptions for laypersons and the general public.  His qualifications include formerly teaching constitutional law at Ohio Christian University in Circleville Ohio and contract law at Zane State College in Zanesville Ohio.  He is past president of the Muskingum County Bar Association (2020) and an affiliate attorney with Liberty Counsel in Lynchburg VA.

Marczewski has been married for 37 years with four adult children and three grandchildren.


Ashley Feltz

Ashley Feltz

Mom of 4 | Wife | Jesus Lover | Serial Entrepreneur | Coach | Small Batch Maker | Health Freedom Advocate | Freedom Fighter.

As founder of The Freedom School, Ashley Feltz is bridging the gaps between the unmet needs of our children in public and private education, and the one-size-fits-all models and mandates that challenge them today. By offering a private solution, she can bring ease to families that are unhappy and exhausted from government overreach and infringement.

Armed with a confidence in faith and a “mama-bear” instinct, Feltz is quick to identify the needs of a community and organize solutions. She can be found chasing her children at a park, slinging elderberry syrup, collaborating with other inspired influencer moms, coaching like-minded people and working towards what she believes is the future of education.

Feltz is a go-getter, problem-solver that can typically be found at her favorite coffee shop with her messy-bun, leggings and Bible. She is a passionate mom who has a heart to fight hard for our personal and health freedoms!


Jeffrey Josiah Lanning

Jeffrey Josiah Lanning

Josiah Lanning — As a native of North Linden, Columbus, Ohio, Josiah is a political outsider and innovative problem-solver who has embraced a lifestyle of a battle-tested champion.  He has spent his entire life defying seemingly insurmountable odds, accomplishing what others have viewed as impossible.

In 2019, Lanning graduated from The Ohio State University’s Glenn College with a Masters’ Degree in Public Administration and Public Policy, becoming one of the first individuals in a wheelchair to achieve this honor. During his time at the Glenn College, he had the opportunity to participate in Hacking4Defense (Rapid Innovation for Public Impact), a nationally renowned course which equipped participants with a unique skill-set needed both effectively lead and solve public problems. Since graduation, Josiah has professionally worked with various public agencies to resolve real world problems which have plagued their organizations, including issues affecting mission-readiness of the Ohio National Guard and Ohio’s never ending covid societal/policy environment.

Currently, Lanning is an independent policy advocate who has focused on the recognition, protection, and advancement of individual rights. Additionally, Lanning recently announced his candidacy for the Ohio House where he plans to both address policy hurdles which inhibit marginalized groups from obtaining their American Dream and become a policy champion for individual rights.


Kathryn Huwig

Kathryn Huwig

Kathryn Huwig attended Case Western Reserve University and Stanford University, double-majoring in Geology and Evolutionary Biology. Her focus was mainly in planetary geology, and her evolutionary biology degree included courses mainly on human evolution and the history and philosophy of science (how we know what we know and how science succeeds and where it fails). It also included graduate level courses on the epidemiology and evolution of human diseases, which focused on the evolutionary principles involved in how infectious diseases and their hosts evolve together and because of each other. It encompassed much of the broader epidemiological concepts but none of the politics and psychology of public health.

After leaving academia, Huwig had her first daughter, who was vaccine-injured and through the course of trying to figure out how to help her daughter, she spent a massive amount of time reading medical journals on her rare disease, as well as learning that medical professionals do not always ‘follow the science’ but rather follow the procedure whether or not it is the best path forward for the patient. Something Kathryn asserts we are watching play out on a grand scale right now.

Huwig gained notoriety worldwide after creating a group on Facebook titled ‘Understanding Ohio COVID-19 Data’ where she would break down many of the flaws in the official Ohio data, created tutorials on how others could download, look at, and understand the data so that they could take that knowledge onwards to their friends, family and representatives.

She also created the Science History Book and produces a video show called “Beyond the Data” where she continues to show the flaws in Ohio’s data, as well as hosts expert guests and activists.


Faith Lansche MSN, APRN-CNP

Faith

Faith Lanshe is Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who has dedicated over 34 years of her life to the same hospital and specializes in Cancer and Blood Disorders. Caring for people is her life but she also honors the tenants of informed consent and bodily autonomy for her as much as her patients.

Lanshe was among the over fifty healthcare workers who gathered with their supporters across the street from the Akron Children’s Hospital this fall, carrying signs and waving flags to protest the hospital’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Lanshe attended Undergraduate and Graduate School at the University of Akron, Ohio.


Andrea Hand

Andrea Hand

Andrea Hand was born and raised in Wadsworth-Ohio. She is a wife and mother of three sweet boys. She is a patient advocate who has witnessed tragic frontline losses. She is a committed advocate for root cause healing and proactive health.

Hand started a small business in 2017 and is studying Holistic Medicine. She also started advocating for birth and  hospital rights in 2018. She is an ardent proponent of informed consent, health freedom and bodily autonomy.

Hand also trains horses and is passionate about regenerate agriculture.


Raina D. Cornell, Esq.

Board Member, Secretary

Raina Cornel

Raina Cornell is Children’s Health Defense Ohio Secretary. She has been an attorney for 27 years, and has successfully operated a full service law firm advocating justice for her clients in many counties throughout the State.  She is a highly organized critical thinker and is adept at research and writing, as well as public speaking.  She has both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University.

Cornell became an advocate for health and wellness more than 20 years ago, after several close family members and friends developed chronic health issues.  She has been active in helping people improve the quality of their lives by eliminating toxins and harmful products from their diets and homes, and seeking more natural approaches to wellness that include looking at underlying causes rather than treating the symptoms of disease.

Cornell was blessed with a daughter with Down syndrome 9 years ago that had many health and medical issues, including but not limited to being vaccine injured.  She was told by doctors that she simply needed to accept her daughter’s chronic illnesses because she had an extra chromosome.  Raina chose not to accept what most doctors told her was the path that her daughter would take medically, and she began her mission to fight and alleviate her daughter’s symptoms of T21 and vaccine injury one at a time.  She has spent thousands of hours researching health, vaccinations, medical and therapeutic interventions for her daughter, and began implementing them.  Today her daughter is a home-schooled fourth grader that is quite “typical” academically and does most everything that other children are able to do.

Cornell is passionate about each individual’s autonomy over their own health choices, with truth and knowledge always being at the forefront as a precursor for making good choices.  She continues to research and seek truth in all matters of health.  She has become involved as of late with helping people try to navigate the challenges and obstacles that are stripping all of us of our freedoms.


Shannon Kazee

Shannon Kazee

Shannon Kazee is a recent high school graduate, college honor student, and long-time volunteer in the health freedom movement. She is an enthusiastic student of nutrition, natural health, and regenerative agriculture. A dancer in many styles for over 14 years, Kazee has been focusing on competitive ballroom and social salsa dancing most recently and is currently pursuing Dance Vision International Dance Association (DVIDA) certification in rhythm and smooth.

Kazee has a heart for encouraging and teaching students with disabilities. She volunteered as a peer for several years in an adapted dance class and helped with an integrative salsa class. She sees herself doing so many things with movement from teaching dance to partnering to leading dance-based fitness classes.

The multi-talented Kazee likes to sing and was lead singer for several rock bands. In her free time, she works in the family’s backyard garden, cooks, and bakes. She has catered several parties for children with special dietary needs. She has a passion for health issues and has given testimony several times at the Ohio Statehouse. Her protest picture was used widely in national coverage of the lock-down protests.


Donna Poppendieck

Donna Poppendieck

Dr. Donna Poppendieck, also known as Dr. P, thinks of herself affectionately as a nerd – she has completed a bachelor’s degree at University of Maryland, Munich campus and Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. She has also completed a Master of Arts in Applied Psychology with the McGregor School at Antioch University, as well as a Master of Science in Education and Allied Professions with University of Dayton. Additionally, she has completed a Master of Arts program in Health and Wellness Coaching through Maryland University of Integrative Health and will soon have another Master of Science in Health Promotion with the same school.

In 2014, Dr. Poppendieck completed a Doctor of Educational Psychology with Capella University; her dissertation topic was A Heuristic Study of Adult Perceptions of Recalled School Experiences, from Kindergarten through 12th Grade, as Children of Addicted Parents. She worked for 16 years with middle-school age kids and their parents in a public-school setting as a counselor and prevention specialist where she interacted with more than 1,000 children aged 12 to 14. During that time, she also began to teach for multiple universities such as University of Phoenix, DeVry University, Ohio Christian University, American National University, Argosy University Online, and Mid-American Christian University. She taught a wide variety of subjects, from behavior, to cognition, personality development, cultural diversity, social psychology, numerous substance use courses, career choices, diagnostic evaluation, motivation leadership, critical thinking and many more. She is also a subject matter expert and has authored numerous college level courses.

More importantly, Dr. Poppendieck lives by what she teaches. She believes that in order to be effective, she has to have a lived experience of what she recommends for others. One of her best traits perhaps is that she genuinely cares about her students.

She has also worked in the field of holistic prevention with the public, both in individual and group formats, and has conducted multiple professional conference sessions in holistic healing and prevention, at the Ohio State University, the Ohio Counseling Association, and Kent State University. ​

Dr. Poppendieck is the Founder, Principle Health and Wellness Online, LLC., and the President of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce – Columbus Chapter.


Scott Shoemaker

Board Member

Scott Shoemaker Photo

Scott Shoemaker is the Vice President of Children’s Health Defense Ohio. He is a parent researcher and the proud father of three children, living just outside of Columbus, Ohio.  He holds a computer engineering degree from The Ohio State University and has a background in information technology management and consulting.  He is a problem solver by nature.  When his son was vaccine-injured and diagnosed with an “incurable neurodevelopmental disorder” at age two and a half, he used his problem solving skills to educate himself in an attempt to get his son back using toxic metal, viral and fungal detox as well as other biomedical interventions.

After successfully recovering his son in a very short time, Shoemaker has been passionate about raising awareness for the last 15+ years about what happened to his family through conferences and media and has educated and helped hundreds of parents from all over the world find resources for the interventions he used so they could help their own children. He documented his son’s progress via video from day one, and his case has become one of the most studied cases of autism recovery in the world.  After his son’s recovery video went viral with a few million views and over 30 thousand shares, Shoemaker’s story and video were censored from search engines and later removed from the social media platforms with no explanation.

Today, Shoemaker advocates alongside an army of parents in Ohio and nationally and also serves as President of Health Freedom Ohio, a nonprofit organization involved in protecting our Constitutional and medical freedom rights through political action and education.

His son’s once viral but now shadow banned before and after recovery video can be seen at http://www.shoemaker.us.


“Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change.”
Robert F. Kennedy