6 Simultaneous Rallies
Frack Action launched 6 simultaneous rallies at 6 of the 9 DEC offices in the state on June 15th. The concept of the website, FrackAction.com was birthed by Julia on May 28th, the same day that a group of us went to an Earth First gathering in Ithaca. That gathering led to our relationship with young organizers that pulled together actions in their DEC districts. For a full article with pictures see, http://www.frackaction.com/content/DECactions.
USSF 2010
The US Social Forum was a place where those in Frack Action could connect to folks from Pennsylvania, and the eco-justice movement at large about fracking, but it was also a place to be part of the growing People's Movement.
Detroit, as the 15,000 or so activists there saw, is a real boarded up, abandoned city. During the forum, there were protests in the street addressing Detroit's issues, from EMT workers being laid off to the continuation of the largest incinerator in the world, an environmental racism issue.
With the disappointment of the Obama administration, a large People's Movement is expected. Activists are seeing common enemies. Immigration, Palestine, LGBT, the Environment, disproportionate distribution of wealth in health care, education, housing, et cetera, the US occupations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and elsewhere, a new left seems to be growing and supporting itself from all sides. http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/23/adrienne_maree_brown_on_the_us
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