Have you attended the meetings and gotten all your friends and family and coworkers to sign the coalition letter? Itching for something more you can do? Judy Hyman and Mike Levy are hosting a small brainstorming session on Tuesday night to help empower people to push our movement even further. The way we see it, there must be people just like us all over the area: people sick about the current threats to our water, our community and our way of life—and ready to act.
The plan is to enumerate a handful of strategies to help get the word out and get publicity so that we can put pressure on the governor. Then we’ll break up into small groups to come up with action steps and create independent groups to achieve each goal.
This in no way should stop anyone from continuing to get the coalition letter signed. But once that’s done, what’s next?
Where: Autumn Leaves Used Books (upstairs meeting space), 115 The Commons, Ithaca, NY
When: Tuesday, Dec 1 (7:00-9:00)
Some sample ideas include:
• craft letters that individuals can send to officials
• get our voices on national and local radio
• compile a list of state officials to send comments to
• Produce several more screenings of Split Estate and Rural Impacts
• Outreach to other towns and cities in NY that are affected
• Reach out to other groups around NYS
Beginning October 19th at 5:30pm, the Shaleshock 101 Class will expand both the knowledge and capacity of participants. The curriculum covers a wide range of topics related to unconventional shale gas drilling, specifically in the Marcellus shale and in upstate New York. The curriculum is divided into 12 topics which are covered in four class sessions. Participants are required to register for the class*. The class is limited to 16 people.
Session #1: (10/19) Introductions, The Drilling Process, Leasing, landowner rights
Session #2: DEC Regulations, Maps and Georgraphy, Health Risks & Effects, Environmental Risks & Effects
Session #3: Climate Change, Media & “Green” Washing, Defintions & Power
Session #4: Corporations, Linking Struggles, Power and Action
The class will be held above Autumn Leaves Bookstore on the Ithaca Commons in the Shaleshock Office.
*Register by contacting Clover56(at)riseup.net – you will recieve a confirmation e-mail. We will schedule dates for future session at the first class.
Learn more about water,water contamination and gas drilling, and legal issues associated with this- come to this presentation on 11/18, Wed., 7pm, at the Binghamton Unitarian Universalist church, 183 Riverside Drive, Binghamton 13905, across from Lourdes Hospital.
Helen Slottje, Attorney at Law,Harvard Law School, very active with gas drilling issues / task forces in the Ithaca / Horseheads (Schlumberger site) areas, and Steve Penningroth, Ph.D, Biochemical Sciences, Executive Director of the non-profit Community Science Institute, a NYS Certified water testing lab in Ithaca. We’ll learn more about ground water and what gas drilling can and has done to contaminate water; water testing; looking at the legal issues involved in trying to get recourse from gas corporations and organizing communities to try to protect themselves from the devastation that’s already been wreaked in many other places. Q&A to follow presentations. Only 150 seats available in the sanctuary. Co-sponsored by the UU church, the UU Green Sanctuary Committee, Susquehanna Group Sierra Club, and the Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition.
Date and facilitation has been changed, please take note.
Join us on Thursday August 27th at 6PM at the Shaleshock office above Autumn Leaves Bookstore on the Ithaca Commons (115 E. MLK st). All are invited! Working Group representatives please come prepared to discuss, organize and coordinate. Snacks provided.
At this meeting, the facilitator will be doing things a bit differently. There will be an agenda signup sheet for you to put your request for an agenda topic to be covered. There is a lot to cover and many areas of importance. Shaleshock’s role as a grass-roots resource for people here and throughout the state is getting to be an area of concern, and that is something we hope we will discuss. So please bring your ideas and look forward to seeing everyone!
We will begin passing a hat to help pay for office expenses (rent, copies, etc…) So if you’re interested in donating, or sponsoring the Shaleshock office for a month, please be prepared. Contact clover56@riseup.net with questions.
If you would like to learn more about how rights-based organizing can be used to challenge corporate exploitation in your community, Shaleshock member Autumn urges you to learn more about CELDF.
An episode of Alternative Radio featuring Richard Grossman, giving a speech entitled “Rolling Back Corporate Power” is available to borrow at the Shaleshock office, at 115 E. Martin Luther King Street (the Commons; office is located above the Autumn Leaves Bookstore).
Ever wonder just what’s in that fracking fluid?
Ever wonder what you can do about keeping it out of our water?
Please come find out!
Informational meeting
sponsored by Citizens’ Energy Alliance
February 11th 6:30pm to 9pm
Spencer Town Hall, 81 E. Tioga Street
Dr. Theo Colburn will narrate her slide show and answer questions via telephone remote. Jack Ossont will follow with a presentation about citizen’s constitutional rights to health, safety and welfare. A public discussion will follow.
In 2007, TIME Magazine honored Dr. Colburn as a TIME Hero of the Environment for her work exposing the human health impacts of toxic chemicals in our environment and for pioneering the concept of “endocrine disruptors”. More recently Dr. Colburn has been in the news for her work analyzing gas-drilling waste in the Rocky Mountain west, where hydraulic fracturing has been linked to more than 1,000 incidents of water contamination. She has published numerous papers and received several distinguished awards. She resides in Colorado and heads The Endocrine Disruption Exchange. www.endocrinedisruption.com
Jack Ossont is a co-founder of Democracy NY, Inc. After a stint as a Naval aviator during the Viet Nam era, Jack has worked tirelessly for over 30 years in community service and rights based organizing. He is a graduate of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s Training for Trainers and in 2003, along with his wife Valerie, received the 20th Anniversary Environmental Leadership award from the NYS Citizen’s Environmental Coalition.
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