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Marcellus Challenge Pledge-In

Join Sustainable Tompkins for an evening to learn from local energy experts how you can reduce your energy footprint through conservation, efficiency measures, and investments in renewable energy. Then, learn about and take the Marcellus Challenge.

March 3, 2010 from 6pm to 8pm
Women’s Community Building, Seneca St., Ithaca, NY

Ithaca Area Poets February Challenge: Marcellus

Ithaca Area Poets writes,

I noticed a theme is on many hearts and minds right now – concerns about hydrofracking in Marcellus shale.

SO, next month (February 12th, 7pm) bring your poem or poems about Fracking (and Marcellus region and clean water)! I am going to try to organize prizes for participants, and possibly we’ll videotape the readings to help with the movement for clean water. If you’re too shy to read them on camera or you can’t come, send them to me ahead of time and someone else will read them for you (please tell me if you want us to say your name or you want to be anonymous)! Also, if you’re willing to bring print copies for me, that would be super. Thanks!

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Rally for Water

This just in from Onondaga Creek Conservation Council, Children’s Earth Day, Syracuse Peace Council, Neighbors of Onondaga Nation, and Partnership for Onondaga Creek:

Rally for Water

  • Ban Hydro-Fracking
  • Protect water, land and air from unnecessary and significant harm.
  • Call upon the DEC, EPA, Governor Paterson, and local, state and federal representatives to ban horizontal drilling and hydro-fracking in New York and across the US.

Tuesday Evening 5:30 – 6:00
January 19, 2010

Location:
Thornden Park Water Tower
Holding thousands of gallons of still clean, Skaneateles Lake drinking water.
Top of Thornden Park
Between Westcott St. & Comstock Ave
Thornden, NY

Please let as many people know about this rally as possible.
Thank you
Call (315)470-0778 for more info

Lobby Day: Reserve your seat on the bus to Albany

UPDATE below…

Come to the state-wide rally and lobbying day in Albany on Monday, January 25!  Let the Governor and other policy makers in Albany know of your concerns about hydrofracking.

We have one Swarthout touring bus reserved for 47 people and can get more if we need them.  Here’s the scoop:

Cost: $30 per person, checks payable to “SHALESHOCK” in advance. If this is more than you can afford, pay what you can. If you can afford to pay more than $30, please do so. Sorry, no options for credit card payment.

Reservations due: Tuesday, January 19.  Send check to reserve your place to Sara Hess, 124 Westfield Drive, Ithaca, NY.  There may be last-minute seats available, but don’t count on that.  We have to commit to the size and number of buses on the 20th.

Leaving and Returning time: The bus will leave at 6:00 am from behind the Ramada Inn (in front of Pyramid Mall on Triphammer Road.)  There is a dirt parking lot behind the Ramada Inn where you can leave your car.  We will arrive in Albany around 11 am, and depart at 4:30 pm. Arrival back in Ithaca estimated between 8:30pm.

Bus comforts: The buses are comfortably equipped with bathrooms, recliner seats, DVD players.  You may bring food but NO GLASS.

Contact me with questions at sarahess63@yahoo.com.

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Jan. 10 – Rural Organizing: Listening Project Training January Series

Hope the new year finds you well. 2009 was an exciting year for activists working to protect their communities from exploitative drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Still, one thing that has come up time and again in our work is: “How can we do community organizing in rural areas?”
Continue reading Jan. 10 – Rural Organizing: Listening Project Training January Series

Jan. 17 – Rural Organizing: Listening Project Training January Series

Hope the new year finds you well. 2009 was an exciting year for activists working to protect their communities from exploitative drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Still, one thing that has come up time and again in our work is: “How can we do community organizing in rural areas?”
Continue reading Jan. 17 – Rural Organizing: Listening Project Training January Series

Jan. 24 – Rural Organizing: Listening Project Training January Series

Hope the new year finds you well. 2009 was an exciting year for activists working to protect their communities from exploitative drilling in the Marcellus Shale. Still, one thing that has come up time and again in our work is: “How can we do community organizing in rural areas?”
Continue reading Jan. 24 – Rural Organizing: Listening Project Training January Series