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/)
