Shaleshock Strategy Meeting:
Tuesday, January 15th 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Quaker Meeting House
120 3rd Street
Ithaca, NY 14850
“Parking & Entrance is on Madison Street, look for signs”
Over the past several years, the anti-fracking movement in NY has worked hard. We have written letters, researched, attended hearings, marched, protested, written songs and gone door to door. Our movement has reached out, educated, brought the issue of fracking to the national discourse and we have held the fossil fuel industry at bay for years with our collective effort. As the governor’s decision looms ahead, is the playing field changing? How resilient and adaptable are we in our analyses, strategy, and tactics? How can we best tap our collective strengths and creativity? How do we involve people meaningfully when our political context is in flux?
You are invited to explore these questions with other passionate and committed people on Tuesday, January 15th, 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Quaker Meeting House, 120 3rd Street. We will use an innovative facilitation method known as World Cafe to explore these issues as a group. The discussion will also serve as a training in the facilitation of the world cafe method which we have found to be a powerful method for tapping group creativity. Typically used in corporate settings, it was appropriated into activist settings by the wildly successful Transition Town movement in the UK. We feel that the conversation as well as the event format both have a lot to offer our local movement.
Thank you. Thank you for the women’s rights movement. And now, thank you for this hydrofracking attempt. This is amazing. I’m only 17 years old and I am disgusted by humanity. Dare I say that we, as people, haven’t even met a carrying capacity yet? Don’t you see it? Destruction is going to be our determining factor. This has to stop! We’re ruining trees, water, and almost any species you can possibly think of! We need water more than anything and it makes me so upset to see all of these millions of people not caring. What don’t they see? Everyone needs to stop being selfish. We’re lucky we have these fresh lakes around us. And we’re ruining them? Disgusting…
Thank you, for all of your efforts. Bless you in your attempts. I would attend the meeting, if I wasn’t in high-school. Please succeed at what you’re trying to do. You’re doing nothing but good, no matter what anyone says.
Thanks Ally for commenting. I understand the way your feeling, it’s all so overwhelming. You’re not alone.