Hundreds of people from all over New York State came to Albany to lobby the legislature.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
A Sea of Blue in Albany
Hundreds of people from all over New York State came to Albany to lobby the legislature.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Spring Forward
As the end of our Horizontal Hydrofracking Moratorium nears, there will be quite a few opportunities to stand up for what's up in the next couple of months.
April 11th. To come lobby against Hydrofracking in Albany, just email me (ayalashannon@gmail.com) and I'll forward it to the right person to see if there's still room on the bus from NYC. The bus leaves at 6:30 a.m. from Brooklyn.
April 20th. Rising Tide North America coined it the Day of Action to End Extraction. We will be in concert with direct actions around the country and maybe the world.
First, from 12:30 to 2:30 there will be an anti-Fracking rally in Washington Square Park. It seems there will be a march from this event to the next->
Later, at 3p.m. we will raise awareness of both hydrofracking and the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline or NJ-NY Expansion Project.
The pipeline would connect in Staten Island and Jersey City but feed energy into Manhattan at 14th Street.
It would be a major project going under the Hudson River and folks in Jersey City have organized against it. See NoGasPipeline.org. It is potentially very dangerous as a similar pipeline exploded in San Bruno last year. The explosion could affect Chelsea and the West Village, but we are also in solidarity with Jersey City. United for Action and Sane Energy Project are also organizations that have been working on opposing it. We've flyered in Chelsea and signed up as interveners with FERC. This event will continue to raise awareness in the neighborhood, while commemorating the Gulf Oil Spill and Fukushima.
(facebook event)
May 2nd March through Albany to save NY's water and water everywhere.
Editors Note: I think that as we come towards June, we should keep in mind that a lot of landowners upstate don't appreciate our efforts, and that we should always be hoping to get them on our side, as well as the workers in these companies. Although the frackers haven't been able to horizontally drill too much in New York State, they have managed to inspire major, hostile divisions in small towns in the past few years. A ban on fracking isn't going to heal that. And if we don't get a ban, it's in the hands of these folks.
PS: We are in concert, (http://www.extractionaction.net/)
April 11th. To come lobby against Hydrofracking in Albany, just email me (ayalashannon@gmail.com) and I'll forward it to the right person to see if there's still room on the bus from NYC. The bus leaves at 6:30 a.m. from Brooklyn.
April 20th. Rising Tide North America coined it the Day of Action to End Extraction. We will be in concert with direct actions around the country and maybe the world.
First, from 12:30 to 2:30 there will be an anti-Fracking rally in Washington Square Park. It seems there will be a march from this event to the next->
Later, at 3p.m. we will raise awareness of both hydrofracking and the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline or NJ-NY Expansion Project.
The pipeline would connect in Staten Island and Jersey City but feed energy into Manhattan at 14th Street.
It would be a major project going under the Hudson River and folks in Jersey City have organized against it. See NoGasPipeline.org. It is potentially very dangerous as a similar pipeline exploded in San Bruno last year. The explosion could affect Chelsea and the West Village, but we are also in solidarity with Jersey City. United for Action and Sane Energy Project are also organizations that have been working on opposing it. We've flyered in Chelsea and signed up as interveners with FERC. This event will continue to raise awareness in the neighborhood, while commemorating the Gulf Oil Spill and Fukushima.(facebook event)
May 2nd March through Albany to save NY's water and water everywhere.
Editors Note: I think that as we come towards June, we should keep in mind that a lot of landowners upstate don't appreciate our efforts, and that we should always be hoping to get them on our side, as well as the workers in these companies. Although the frackers haven't been able to horizontally drill too much in New York State, they have managed to inspire major, hostile divisions in small towns in the past few years. A ban on fracking isn't going to heal that. And if we don't get a ban, it's in the hands of these folks.
PS: We are in concert, (http://www.extractionaction.net/)
Friday, March 11, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
The Youth Don't Want One Fossil Fuel for Another
Yesterday, while dozens of folks flocked to the rally at the Army Core of Engineers in Tribecca, many still held out in the extra sixth hour of the hearing held by the New York City Council on fracking. Like previous frack hearings held in New York City, there wasn't much division, in fact not one person was in favor of fracking and more than ever, just as in last Friday's DRBC hearing, people are using the word "ban" and saying that regulations will not be good enough.
Lou Wright, of Renew School spoke on behalf of students at the New School and Oxfam NYU. "I'm here today to say on behalf of the young people of New York... we don't need that gas. We don't want it; we don't want the drilling, but we don't even want the gas. We want new energy economies. We want new modes of transportation. We want new ways to heat our homes, new ways to cook our food, and new ways to heat our water. And, it's not even a matter of cost or contamination. It's just a matter of we don't want to trade one fossil fuel for another. And we're done arguing."
Many people brought up the controversy of the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline that would likely feed into the West Village or Chelsea. Most of the resistance has enflamed in Jersey City who would be experience the construction but not the actual energy. This was alluded to as a reason as to why, perhaps, Mayor Bloomberg and PlanYC did not reveal the results of a recent PlanYC poll, in which the people of New York City put banning fracking in the New York City watershed as the number one sustainable priority of the city.
Read/View more of the hearing here: "How Do You Testify to a Government on Your Side?" Shannon's Organic News.
Lou Wright, of Renew School spoke on behalf of students at the New School and Oxfam NYU. "I'm here today to say on behalf of the young people of New York... we don't need that gas. We don't want it; we don't want the drilling, but we don't even want the gas. We want new energy economies. We want new modes of transportation. We want new ways to heat our homes, new ways to cook our food, and new ways to heat our water. And, it's not even a matter of cost or contamination. It's just a matter of we don't want to trade one fossil fuel for another. And we're done arguing."
Many people brought up the controversy of the proposed Spectra natural gas pipeline that would likely feed into the West Village or Chelsea. Most of the resistance has enflamed in Jersey City who would be experience the construction but not the actual energy. This was alluded to as a reason as to why, perhaps, Mayor Bloomberg and PlanYC did not reveal the results of a recent PlanYC poll, in which the people of New York City put banning fracking in the New York City watershed as the number one sustainable priority of the city.
Read/View more of the hearing here: "How Do You Testify to a Government on Your Side?" Shannon's Organic News.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Marcellus Back in Trenton
On Friday, February 25th, a hundred people attended a hearing with the Delaware River Basin Commission. The DRBC is responsible for regulations of industry in the basin. The whole thing was much lighter than the previous DRBC hearing on July 14th; there was no big demonstration, and only a small pack of pro-drilling landowners attended. The previous hearing may have been the catalyst for the large grassroots group, United for Action, which may have been represented by fifteen people if not more. That hearing in July though, in which many people had to take sessions waiting in the parking lot because of the fire code, was likely the reason why this hearing was held in a very large space; However the room appeared empty for the second half of the early hearing, because almost all of the land owners, or -as it seemed- all of the pro-drilling attendees left at the same time as one big group of some fifteen people or less. In other words, there were less pro-drilling attendees than in the summer, and that became very clear when they all left together. Safe drilling, as it was called, was an enduring position that seemed to have not been present at this hearing; however there were moderate calls for extensions on comment periods, commentary sessions in places other than Trenton, and urging of the DRBC to wait for the EPA study and tests specifically for the Delaware River Basin. Although the DRBC is responsible for regulations, there are people who feel that there is no need for regulations on both sides of the issue. Many landowners expressed that drilling should start as soon as possible, and on the other side, two women disrupted the hearing at the very start by standing on the stage and holding signs that read: "Total Ban."More Footage at ShannonsOrganiceNews.
Northeast Food n Justice Summit + Mass March for Farm Workers
At the Northeast Food and Justice Summit, hundreds of young people, including teenagers, carried forward the Food Justice Movement at a two and a half day conference followed by a giant march through Boston for farm worker's rights.
Real Food Challenge has been challenging students for five years or so to campaign their schools to purchase 100% Real Food, which means local, sustainable and humane; food which truly nourishes eaters, communities, workers, animals and the environment. But this summit was a bit unique. RFC came out of The Food Project, a Food Justice organization in Dorchester Boston that hires teenagers from the inner city to the outskirts to work together on an urban farm and in a rural farm. It brings them closer to nature, beautifies the neighborhood, and of course brings about more fresh food grown right in the community and a greater understanding and appreciation of where Food comes from. At this summit, there were maybe 100 folks younger than 18. There were other such youth groups there too, among the many college students and older activists. At the end of the summit, at a "Young Leaders" breakout, which was for folks not in school anymore at all, the majority of the circle expressed that they appreciated seeing so many young youth and were inspired to see the next generation carrying forth Food Justice.
Aligned with the summit and RFC, but not endorsed by Northeastern University, was a march through Boston for Farm Worker's Rights. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) have won campaigns with various food stores to pay one penny more per pound of tomatoes for the farm workers in Immokalee Florida. This march targeted Stop n Shop. 
According to a CIW flyer: "Workers are paid virtually the same piece rate (an average of 50 cents per 32-lb. bucket) as they were 30 years ago. At this rate, a worker must pick over 2.25 TONS of tomatoes to earn Florida minimum wage in a typical 10-hour workday. Most workers earn less than $12,000 per year. "Farm workers in Florida have no right to overtime pay, no health insurance, sick leave, paid vacation or pension, and no right to organize...
"In the most extreme situations, workers are forced to labor against their will through the use or threat of physical violence. Since 1997, there have been nine cases of forced labor prosecuted in Florida's fields, involving 1,200 workers."
Feb 19th Amp Up! Summit
On February 19th, the 2nd Amp Up! Summit happened at Hunter College. Once again some fifty or more folks came together to build a network and deepen an understanding of environmental justice, and today's eco, food, political and sustainability issues as well as focus that vision for a just and sustainable future. There were workshops on sustainable transit, memes and media, and breakout discussions on organizing skills.
The first summit happened just before the Gulf explosion in spring 2010. Julia Walsh innovated the idea as part of her seasonal job with Earth Day New York and organized the summit in six weeks with students from environmental clubs from around the city. Similarly, Adam Kroopnick, who was part of the crew that organized Buffalo Power Shift, as well as Betta Broad, both at Earth Day New York took the torch this year and organized the summit with Julia and students and youth from around the greater city area in several weeks.
Click here to join the Amp Up! Facebook group.
The first summit happened just before the Gulf explosion in spring 2010. Julia Walsh innovated the idea as part of her seasonal job with Earth Day New York and organized the summit in six weeks with students from environmental clubs from around the city. Similarly, Adam Kroopnick, who was part of the crew that organized Buffalo Power Shift, as well as Betta Broad, both at Earth Day New York took the torch this year and organized the summit with Julia and students and youth from around the greater city area in several weeks.
Click here to join the Amp Up! Facebook group.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Hearing this Thursday
From United For Action:
On December 9, 2010, Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) caved in to the pressure by the gas drilling interests and issued draft regulations for hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin watershed. This is the first step leading to issuance of permits for hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the watershed. Thus DRBC has put the water and lives of over 15 million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, including about 7 million people in New York City and northern New Jersey who live outside of the basin, at a tremendous risk...
United for Action is organizing a trip to attend the public hearing to be held on Thursday 2/24/11 in Trenton, NJ. (If you can't come you can write letters for us to bring)
Come to DRBC Public Hearing in Trenton, NJ on Thursday 2/24
When: Thursday 2/24/11 meet up at 9:30 am
Where: At the NJ Transit Ticket Windows inside Penn Station near 7th Avenue
One way ticket costs $15.50
Trenton Transit Center address is 72 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton, NJ
Hearing place address is Patriots Theater at War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, NJ
For those who are adventurous, you can also walk from the Trenton Transit Center to the War Memorial. According to the google map walking direction, the walk takes about 18 to 20 minutes.
We plan to take the 6:16 pm train leaving Trenton Transit Center arriving in New York Penn Station at 7:36 pm
If you plan to join us and take the train from Penn Station but has not yet RSVP, please RSVP to (AyalaShannon@gmail.com)
If you can not come to this hearing, please make every effort to go to (this hearing):
2/22 – Liberty High School Auditorium, 125 Buckley Street, Liberty, NY
If you can not attend a hearing in person, please send a comment before the deadline of March 16th 5:00 pm.
On December 9, 2010, Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) caved in to the pressure by the gas drilling interests and issued draft regulations for hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin watershed. This is the first step leading to issuance of permits for hydraulic fracturing gas drilling in the watershed. Thus DRBC has put the water and lives of over 15 million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, including about 7 million people in New York City and northern New Jersey who live outside of the basin, at a tremendous risk...
United for Action is organizing a trip to attend the public hearing to be held on Thursday 2/24/11 in Trenton, NJ. (If you can't come you can write letters for us to bring)
Come to DRBC Public Hearing in Trenton, NJ on Thursday 2/24
When: Thursday 2/24/11 meet up at 9:30 am
Where: At the NJ Transit Ticket Windows inside Penn Station near 7th Avenue
One way ticket costs $15.50
Trenton Transit Center address is 72 South Clinton Avenue, Trenton, NJ
Hearing place address is Patriots Theater at War Memorial, 1 Memorial Drive, Trenton, NJ
For those who are adventurous, you can also walk from the Trenton Transit Center to the War Memorial. According to the google map walking direction, the walk takes about 18 to 20 minutes.
We plan to take the 6:16 pm train leaving Trenton Transit Center arriving in New York Penn Station at 7:36 pm
If you plan to join us and take the train from Penn Station but has not yet RSVP, please RSVP to (AyalaShannon@gmail.com)
If you can not come to this hearing, please make every effort to go to (this hearing):
2/22 – Liberty High School Auditorium, 125 Buckley Street, Liberty, NY
If you can not attend a hearing in person, please send a comment before the deadline of March 16th 5:00 pm.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Countdown to Amp Up! Summit
With about a week left until the summit to kick off a semester of high voltage, renewable energy powered, organic social change, it's up to all the folks that are down, to drop seeds everywhere, and water those seeds, and shine a little on them. That means telling our classes, our friends, people we've never even talked to before, people who don't talk to many people. "Even if you're not into the environment or food, it's good to come just to see what's going on, it's free, and you learn about justice in general, and skills that you could use for anything." Please send emails out, share stuff on Facebook walls and invite people through that; you can print the flyer too. Hey, Mr. Turquoise videos are not on behalf of Amp Up! or an organization; you could make videos yourself: this is grassroots.
Invite friends here.
Register here.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
A Mountain Lost, a Mountain Saved
An email from NY Loves Mountains (sent Jan 18th):
The new year has already seen big changes in the the movement to end
mountaintop removal that have made us pause to mourn and to express
gratitude. On January 3rd, Julia "Judy" Bonds passed away after a
struggle with cancer. Judy, a Goldman prize award winner in 2003, was
a beloved leader who had devoted her life to the fight to end the coal
mining practice that was destroying her family's home.
...It is with gratitude and hope that we met the news this past week
that the EPA has chosen to veto the permit for the proposed Spruce No.
1 mine in West Virginia, what would have been the largest mountaintop
mine in Appalachia to date, stating that "the proposed Spruce No. 1
Mine would use destructive and unsustainable mining practices that
jeopardize the health of Appalachian communities and clean water on
which they depend." Many see this decision as a landmark victory,
marking a turning of the tide in the regulation of the mining
industry. However, with a new administration could come a very
different EPA, reversing the progress being made now.
...New Yorkers absolutely have a connection to mountaintop removal. Not
only do we burn MTR coal, our state retirement fund invests in Massey
Energy, the company behind more MTR mines than any other. If you know
a state employee that does not want his or her retirement money
invested in mountaintop removal coal mining, please tell him or her to
get in touch with us. We need to push Albany to stop supporting a
company that destroys entire habitats and communities and sends its
miners into deadly mines without proper safety precautions. It's time
to end Comptroller's DiNapoli's appeasement strategy and get our money
out of Massey. Sign the petition calling for NYS Retirement Fund to
divest from Massey Energy here.
The new year has already seen big changes in the the movement to end
mountaintop removal that have made us pause to mourn and to express
gratitude. On January 3rd, Julia "Judy" Bonds passed away after a
struggle with cancer. Judy, a Goldman prize award winner in 2003, was
a beloved leader who had devoted her life to the fight to end the coal
mining practice that was destroying her family's home.
...It is with gratitude and hope that we met the news this past week
that the EPA has chosen to veto the permit for the proposed Spruce No.
1 mine in West Virginia, what would have been the largest mountaintop
mine in Appalachia to date, stating that "the proposed Spruce No. 1
Mine would use destructive and unsustainable mining practices that
jeopardize the health of Appalachian communities and clean water on
which they depend." Many see this decision as a landmark victory,
marking a turning of the tide in the regulation of the mining
industry. However, with a new administration could come a very
different EPA, reversing the progress being made now.
...New Yorkers absolutely have a connection to mountaintop removal. Not
only do we burn MTR coal, our state retirement fund invests in Massey
Energy, the company behind more MTR mines than any other. If you know
a state employee that does not want his or her retirement money
invested in mountaintop removal coal mining, please tell him or her to
get in touch with us. We need to push Albany to stop supporting a
company that destroys entire habitats and communities and sends its
miners into deadly mines without proper safety precautions. It's time
to end Comptroller's DiNapoli's appeasement strategy and get our money
out of Massey. Sign the petition calling for NYS Retirement Fund to
divest from Massey Energy here.
Friday, January 28, 2011
A Green Train is a Rollin
There are three major environmental and food conferences this semester and one tremendous day of action.
Click here to get the scoop on what's going on.
Click here to get the scoop on what's going on.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Counter Culture
The experiment of a P.a.T.C.H. went pretty well. In the darkly lit old, wooden community center of Saint Luke's Church in West Harlem about thirty people spent a few hours sharing tunes, artwork, ideas and food. Although all activists were invited it became thoroughly routed in Environmental Justice, Food Justice and Eco Defense. There was Vegan and Freegan food. People spoke about MTR, Fracking and EJ history. Folks from Campus Sustainability groups met folks from Radical Environmental groups. The way it should be. Because it is a break from the everyday fabric of materialism and waste, degredation and exploitation, we say Reduce, Reuse, Resist! But I guess the main thing, as was intended, was that people shared how they felt, and that's what it's all about.
NYC Gas Pipeline??????
Wednesday is the last day to register as an intervener of the proposed Natural Gas Pipeline that is headed to run below Lower Manhattan, Jersey City and Staten Island. If you're like lots of people who recieved flyers about this in Chelsea from United For Action, you're gasping. Bloomberg, the same guy who rejected Fracking in the NYC Watershed, supports a Marcellus Gas Pipeline to be built in NYC? And these things do blow up. Sorry to be all code orangey all over again, but yes, they are terrorist targets. But that aside, a pipe blew up accidentally in California months ago killing 8 people. And accidents aside, it compliments unnecessary fossil fuel extraction while pushing away Green Jobs and putting Green Jobs in the category of youthful idealistic fantasy. Here's a better idea:United For Action created a guideline page for registering as an intervener, which may lead to the opportunity of participating in the democratic process of a public commentary period. Even though you probably have to be in this sphere of things to even know about this, Wednesday is the deadline, so let's register as stakeholders who have the most STAKE in the FUTURE! It takes 25 minutes. Please register as an intervener.
*Photo: San Bruno Pipeline Fire (San Fransisco Examiner)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Phili Victory/Harrisburg Rally
A victory in Philadelphia coincided with a protest in Harrisburg. 
From Protecting Our Waters:
Philadelphia utility to avoid Marcellus natgas
Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:27pm GMT
* Commission concerned about effects of "fracking"
* Marcellus buys banned pending EPA review due in 2012
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Philadelphia officials on Tuesday directed a city utility not to buy natural gas from the Marcellus Shale until more is known about the safety of the hydraulic fracturing technique used to extract it.
With its largely symbolic gesture, Philadelphia becomes the first major U.S. city to refuse to buy natural gas obtained by the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, said Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones, who sponsored the measure.
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1813865220110118
We celebrate this positive breakthrough, which took place on the same day as a significant statewide rally we helped build:
Reporting from Harrisburg, Protecting Our Waters organizer Liz Arnold comments: We definitely made an impression. It was great seeing everyone who made it out to Harrisburg. Press coverage is never accurate (I counted 200 people at the rally), but everyone who reported on the inauguration at least mentioned us, and often explained some key concerns about fracking:
Harrisburg Patriot News
Pittsburg Tribune-Review
Bloomberg
WTAE Pittsburg
York Daily Record
Phillyburbs.com
AND an inspiring one about the anti-gas drilling actions going on in England
From Protecting Our Waters:
Philadelphia utility to avoid Marcellus natgas
Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:27pm GMT
* Commission concerned about effects of "fracking"
* Marcellus buys banned pending EPA review due in 2012
By Jon Hurdle
PHILADELPHIA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Philadelphia officials on Tuesday directed a city utility not to buy natural gas from the Marcellus Shale until more is known about the safety of the hydraulic fracturing technique used to extract it.
With its largely symbolic gesture, Philadelphia becomes the first major U.S. city to refuse to buy natural gas obtained by the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, said Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones, who sponsored the measure.
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN1813865220110118
We celebrate this positive breakthrough, which took place on the same day as a significant statewide rally we helped build:
Reporting from Harrisburg, Protecting Our Waters organizer Liz Arnold comments: We definitely made an impression. It was great seeing everyone who made it out to Harrisburg. Press coverage is never accurate (I counted 200 people at the rally), but everyone who reported on the inauguration at least mentioned us, and often explained some key concerns about fracking:
Harrisburg Patriot News
Pittsburg Tribune-Review
Bloomberg
WTAE Pittsburg
York Daily Record
Phillyburbs.com
AND an inspiring one about the anti-gas drilling actions going on in England
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Art
Still going on at Exit Art in Manhattan is a Frack Art exhibit. In one section, there is a wall of postcards in which folks sent in equal sized art about Fracking from all around. There was abstract art dipicting the graininess of pollution and industrialization in Rural America, and the dim colors of Injustice, to clear pictures of Dimoch P.A. Speaking of ART and EXPRESSION, about 1 month before the Amp Up! Summit, is an activist art gathering at Saint Luke's Church in Harlem. It's called P.a.T.C.H., a people's art, theatre and concert happening. It's going to be free or just about free. All are welcome to perform anything, anything, or bring art or even food or posters or short stories to tell.
a P.a.T.C.H.
141st Street and Convent Ave (St. Luke's Church)
Friday, Jan 21st 7p.m.-10p.m.
Please RSVP and express if you wish to perform at AyalaShannon@gmail.com
Monday, January 10, 2011
Spring 11 Semester
FEBRUARY 19th: Amp Up! Summit
FEBRUARY 25: Northeast Food and Justice Summit
April 1st: Power Shift 11
April 20th: Anniversary of the Gulf
Stop and consider how you are going to be a part of each and everyone of these events. The Food and Climate Justice Movements have only gotten bigger every year in the past decade. And the problems have largely gotten worse- yet the progress that there has been have come from Social Pressure.
The Gulf Tragedy, the failure of the UNFCCC, the rising empire of Natural Gas and Hydrofracking, the development of the XL Pipeline and the Tar Sands and the continued affects these have had predominantly on communities of low income and color. Not to mention the affects Fracking has on Sustainable Food. But we have held up Fracking in NY, we have slowed down MTR, there have been Environmental Justice Victories and more community gardens. This year it's really going to turn around. This year we are going to really make the country think again about the state of Fossil Fuels and Local/Sustainable Agriculture and what an Organic, Just, Sustainable Society looks like, sounds like, tastes like, dances like, and grows like.
FEBRUARY 25: Northeast Food and Justice Summit
April 1st: Power Shift 11
April 20th: Anniversary of the Gulf
Stop and consider how you are going to be a part of each and everyone of these events. The Food and Climate Justice Movements have only gotten bigger every year in the past decade. And the problems have largely gotten worse- yet the progress that there has been have come from Social Pressure.
The Gulf Tragedy, the failure of the UNFCCC, the rising empire of Natural Gas and Hydrofracking, the development of the XL Pipeline and the Tar Sands and the continued affects these have had predominantly on communities of low income and color. Not to mention the affects Fracking has on Sustainable Food. But we have held up Fracking in NY, we have slowed down MTR, there have been Environmental Justice Victories and more community gardens. This year it's really going to turn around. This year we are going to really make the country think again about the state of Fossil Fuels and Local/Sustainable Agriculture and what an Organic, Just, Sustainable Society looks like, sounds like, tastes like, dances like, and grows like.
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