Shaleshock Action Alliance will be hosting a general updates/announcements meeting on Monday, March 1st at 6:00pm at the Shaleshock Outreach Working Group Office in Ithaca, NY. 115 E. MLK St. (the commons) above Autumn Leaves Bookstore.

*Agenda includes:

-Announcements and Updates

-Thankyous

-Discussion/organizing breakout groups

*please contact shaleshockoutreach@gmail.com to add to the agenda in advance if you have a topic you would like to share with the entire group.

(feel free to bring snacks to share)

Join us next Wednesday, February 24, at 7pm in Uris Auditorium for Crude, the next film in CUSLAR and LASP’s Latin American Film Series. After the film, professor Ken Roberts will speak and lead a discussion.

Crude by Joe Berlinger is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet, focused around Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rain forest.

The inside story of the infamous “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama, set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celerity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy film making, exploring a complicated situation from all angels while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

Before and after the film we will be collecting petition signatures for a campaign to encourage Chevron’s new CEO to:
-Clean up Chevron’s toxic legacy in Ecuador, compensate affected communities for health and environmental impacts, and provide affected people real access to health care and potable water.
-Develop a global environment and human rights policy that will prevent similar tragedies in the future.
-Adopt aggressive strategies to provide clean energy to a carbon-constrained world.

facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=310968693811&ref=ts

CONCERNED about
GAS DRILLING?

What can YOU do about it?
Come to the Heights Theater
210 E. 14th St, Elmira Heights
Saturday, February 20th
Breakfast: 8:30 – 9:15 am
Presentation: 9:30 – 11:00 am

Calvin Tillman, Mayor of Dish, Texas
will talk about his small town’s fight to protect the health of its people from the impact of toxic emissions in the gas fields.

Co-Sponsored by People for a Healthy Environment, Shaleshock Citizens Action Alliance, and many others

DISH is located in the epicenter of the Barnett Shale gas play and is home to a megacomplex of compressor stations, as well as pipelines, metering stations, gathering lines and gas wells. The Town of DISH’s air study sampled air at seven locations from August 17 to 18, 2009. The results of this analysis revealed high concentrations of carcinogenic and neurotoxin compounds near and on residential properties. The report also indicated that many of the compounds in the air exceeded the Short-term and Long-term Effects Screening Levels according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality regulations.

Announcing a Shaleshock Open Meeting on Wednesday February 17th at 6pm at the Shaleshock Action Alliance Office: 115 E. Martin Luther King st. Ithaca, NY 14850. e-mail Shaleshockoutreach (at) gmail.com for more details or directions.

2/17/2010 at 115 E. MLK St. (The Commons above Autumn Leaves Bookstore)

5:00pm Shaleshock Orientation for new folks to get up to speed, action groups can use the space to meet.
6:00-8:00pm Shaleshock Open Meeting – ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

Agenda items to be announced on Shaleshock Updates E-mail List.

To join, visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shaleshockupdates/ or send email to shaleshockupdates-subscribe@yahoogroups.com