Dates Set for Power Shift 11

Email From Energy Action Coalition:

We've got big news! The dates are set, the venue is settled. Power Shift 2011 is April 1-4 at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.

Power Shift 2011 is our opportunity to come together and define the way forward for our movement. Together we'll celebrate our grassroots success stories, hear from movement leaders, and learn from and train each other to launch new campaigns. We'll take bold action to set the tone in Washington and show them what true leadership looks like. If it's anything like years past, Power Shift 2011 is bound to be historic [1].

Now more than ever, we need Power Shift 2011. Big Oil and dirty energy corporations continue to pollute our politics and devastate the health of our communities, but with grassroots people power we're fighting back.

To meet today's challenges we know we'll need a diversity of tactics and approaches, and we'll bring them all together at Power Shift 2011. We'll stand up to Big Oil by bringing together innovative solutions from across the country and work with each other on community-led initiatives to create the clean and just energy economy we're demanding. It's time for our elected officials in Washington, DC to hear our demands and follow our lead.

Power Shift 2011 is being built from the ground up, literally. We'll create our own conference space outside RFK Stadium using massive tents and our creativity. With the help of a Steering Committee, Working Groups, our partners, and you, we'll have all of the top leaders of the movement involved.

Be a Power Shift Coordinator to bring your communities voice and participation to this historic convergence.

Power Shift Coordinators will help make this all possible by recruiting people to the movement, and supporting them in their fundraising and travel arrangements to Washington, DC. Thousands of coordinators across the country will ensure this convergence displays the breadth and diversity of our movement.

Sign up today -- Help us hit our goal of 300 Power Shift Coordinators by the end of the year.

Let's finish 2010 strong and launch boldly into 2011.

See you in April!

Whit Jones
Power Shift 2011 Coordinator
Energy Action Coalition

Tonight the NY State Assembly approved the moratorium on gas drilling in New York City’s watershed

Tonight the New York State Assembly approved a moratorium on gas drilling in New York City’s watershed, a huge victory for those of us who have been fighting so hard to protect our drinking water from toxic chemicals.

Protecting New York’s environment is at the top of our agenda in the Assembly majority and we will not let anything stand in the way of making sure all New Yorkers have clean, safe water. When it comes to keeping pollution and dangerous chemicals out of our water supply, there is simply no acceptable level of risk.

That is why my colleagues and I resisted pressure from the oil and gas industry and passed this crucial moratorium, which would prohibit the controversial process known as hydrofracking while the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency conducts a safety review.

Our most important responsibility is to keep all New Yorkers safe. By preventing hydrofracking from moving ahead, we have not only protected our water supply today, we have served notice to the industry that we will always put the health and safety of New Yorkers first.

To read the entire article/email click here:

Candlelight Vigil for Climate Adaptation/COP16

Candlelight Vigil for Climate Adaptation/Cancun Climate Conference
New York, NY
December 1, 2010 06:00PM to 07:00PM

Event Description:
World leaders will be meeting in Cancun in November and December to work out the details of international climate policy. As part of a coordinated day of national action, we are going to be hosting a candlelight vigil in front of the United Nations to demonstrate how important this conference is and the significance of the decisions that are and are not made.

We will provide the candles, we just need you there to hold them. Tell your friends, families, colleagues and everyone you know.

If you have any questions, email Lauren @ Lschuster@gmail.com

Event Type: Public Event


Location:
Ralph Bunche Park at E. 43rd St. & 1st Ave. at Peace Form Monument (Across street from UN)
New York, NY
10007

Can "Healthy" Food Feed America?

Can "Healthy" Food Feed America? Corby Kummer, award-winning food writer and senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly is moderating a panel with Stephen McDonnell, CEO, Applegate Farms; David Orr, manager, Amawalk organic farm; and Nevin Cohen, urban food expert with The New School. This public, Journalism Dept.-sponsored event will be held at Baruch’s Newman Conference Center and offer healthy snacks at a reception that will begin at 5:30 p.m.

Date:
November 30, 2010
Time:
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
College:
Baruch College
Address:
151 E. 25th Street

Building:
Library Building
Room:
Newman Conference Center, 750
Phone:
646-312-3970
Website:
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Admission:
Free

Won Over Paterson on Fracking

Governor Paterson declared on public radio that he is no longer convinced Fracking is safe. This is a huge victory for the Movement at large. He has called a special session of the Assembly Monday on which the moratorium, which would end in May, could be officially passed.

(See full article at Catskill Mountainkeeper.org).

Frack Call Blitz

If you want to stop Hydrofracking, you can join this phone blitz. This bill will give us another 6 months to build the movement.

Action:

Tuesday 11/23 (and everyday until the Assembly passes the bill), please call and ask the Speaker, influential members of the Assembly and the Governor to attend the Special Session in Albany and “bring the Sweeney hydraulic fracturing moratorium bill A11443B to the Assembly floor for a vote and pass the bill!”

Essential calls: (If the phone lines get flooded, send an email or fax!)

• Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver 518-455-3791, or, 212-312-1420 or mailto: Speaker@assembly.state.ny.us
FAX HIM @ 518-455-5459

• Assemblyman Herman Farrell (Chair of Ways & Means Committee)
518-455-5491, or, 212-234-1430, or, 212-568-2828 or mailto: FarrelH@assembly.state.ny.us

• Your Assemblyperson!
Find Them Here

• Governor David Paterson
518-474-8390 or email Paterson here

Amp Up! Network Eco-Movement Meeting

Come to our very open-general Amp Up! Network meeting.

Time: Sunday, November 21 · 4:00pm - 6:30pm
Location: CCNY Shakur Center
137th Street & Amsterdam
New York, NY

DEC Permits Fracking and a Dump-In is Held Upstate

The DEC, Department of Environmental Conservation has permitted Gastem USA to Frack in Otsego County, New York. A well attended protest took place Thursday.

According to Cooperstown News Bureau, the company is likely to wait until spring. The moratorium on Fracking that passed in the senate, expires in May, and hasn't yet passed in the House.

It is part of the DEC's constitution to help the Oil and Gas Industries.


In Rochester, CEOs of Halliburton and Chesapeake Energy celebrated five years of profits from Fracking, by holding a public dump-in and press conference. They toasted with wine glasses full of flaming, toxic water and subsequently dumped buckets of toxic water into a reservoir to symbolize Fracking, which they held to be a patriotic subindustry. They hired a woman to dance with a flaming hula hoop in appreciation of the Halliburton Loophole, which exempts Fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act and other acts won by the environmental movement in the early 1970s. Protesters such as Emily Good, asked challenging questions during the press conference and chanted, "It's Our Water, We Will Fight!" at the CEOs while they dumped the toxic water.

Flaming Loop-Holes and Pittsburgh Frack Ban

Symbolic of the Halliburton Loophole, the Genesee Valley Earth First! organized a flaming hula hoop and "dump-in" action in Rochester yesterday.

Also, following the 200 person protest and other actions in Pittsburgh, a city-wide ban on Hydrofracking has just about ensued in Pittsburgh.

Discuss Environmental Issues with Rep from 350.org

"The first WE Connect event will be with Jeremy Osborn, Co-Founder of 350.org, to learn about and discuss the newest information on environmental issues, solutions and pragmatic ways to take action."

www.WE.net

This is from en email from WE the World


"WE Connect
Helen Kramer's NYC Salon
Sunday, Nov. 14, 3:30-5:30 pm
222 Park Avenue South, Apt. 2D N.W.
Corner of 18th Street & Park Avenue (buzzer code #0204) in Manhattan

RSVP: MarriottSheldon@WeTheWorld.org
Donation: $10 to benefit the WE Campaign (Donations are tax deductible)
Co-Sponsor: The Coalition For One Voice is Co-Sponsoring this event

WE Connect is a new series of community gatherings to inspire actions of social change around the world.

The first WE Connect event will be with Jeremy Osborn, Co-Founder of 350.org, to learn about and discuss the newest information on environmental issues, solutions and pragmatic ways to take action."

Marcellus Protest in Pittsburgh

As the natural gas industry convened at the 2nd annual Devoloping Unconventional Gas (DUG) conference in Pittsburgh, many members of the anti-fracking movement marched over the Rachel Carson Bridge to protest outside the conference. Because of fracking, the industry is experiencing a natural gas boom. According to the DUG website, there were over 2,000 attendees. "Whether you are looking to make new business connections, or learn what operators are doing to protect and develop their investments, DUG East is THE conference you cannot afford to miss." An individual ticket cost $895....
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