This blog was created, edited and produced by Shannon E. Ayala for 11 months between May 2010 to April 2012. It was a product of the Amp Up! Network, a project launched by NYC and Hudson Valley-based activists intent on mobilizing youth in the issues of our time.
Pete Seeger performed This Land is Our Land, plus an interesting prayer song that he wrote he said, recently, and Mark Ruffalo, who is from Upstate New York spoke out against Fracking, at Frack Action's press conference in Albany yesterday.
A whole new senate session begins tomorrow on the issue, and so phone calls being made now would certainly help, especially to Sampson's office, since he is on the fence and represents Brooklyn.
Shortly before Julia began speaking at the press conference at City Hall with Sierra Club Mid-Atlantic Chapter, NRDC and NYH20, high school students marched by with drums and and lungs, protesting the cut of the student metro cards. At the end of the press conference, the representative from the Sierra Club explained what the commotion was about and he said that public transportation makes us more sustainable.
COME TO OUR REGIONAL DEC PRESS RALLIES, JUNE 15TH AT NOON! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133579409992269
Things you can do: Week of Action 1. Come to Rally/press conference Tuesday at DEC office in Long Island City at noon 2. Call Thompson and ask him to support moratorium 3. Become member of Frackaction.com and click take action 4. Flyer with us before and after rally 5. Join Video Petition: "My name is ______ and I love NY water" 6. Hang out with us and a full-time anti-fracker
