Great No Fracking Video!

The numbers and the passion (and the facts) are all right there. But then Cuomo ignored the subject completely in his State of the State address. Booo!

Good News- People Uniting- against Dirty Energy, Citizens United, and Unlabled GMOs

Photo and text from The Ramps Campaign

All of this happened on Saturday:

*A wave of folks shut down the largest mountaintop removal site in Appalachia. *20 are still in jail*    donate to get them out: http://bit.ly/mj-legal

*Texans trained for the biggest sustained blockade of the southern leg of the Keystone XL,

*and 1,000s marched through DC to embolden the movement to ban fracking!

Welcome to a newly escalated movement to keep all fossil fuels in the ground--launching into an amazing summer of solidarity!

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BOMBSHELL! A new report funded by the Koch Brothers (huge funders of climate change denial) says climate change is real AND humans are responsible for it! Read more.

The anti-fracking fight in NY is heating up. Now a gas drilling company is threatening to sue to say local bans against fracking count for nothing. 

Seventh State Calls for Overturn of Citizens United!

 

In a bipartisan and near unanimous vote, Massachusetts called for a 28th amendment to overturn Citizens United, the anti-democratic Supreme Court ruling that basically allows the wealthiest to buy our elections. They are the seventh state to do so and more are in the process of fighting "to restore the power of the people to regulate political and election spending and to preserve the Bill of Rights for human beings rather than corporations." More here.

Food Fight of Our Lives!! 

Ninety percent of Californians want GM food labeled. They were able to get nearly a million signatures to get this on a ballot as the Prop 37 Right to Know initiative. It is heartening to see so many lining up behind this effort. "So far over 621 organizations and businesses - including retail grocery stores, consumer, farmer, organic, natural health, environmental, farm worker, and labor groups - have endorsed the California Initiative." See the list here.

God knows, we need this great support. The Grocery Manufacturers Association (Monsnato is a member) has called Prop 37 as the most serious threat to agricultural biotechnology in history. If you haven't donated please do- every dollar counts- Go to LabelGMOs.org

For a refresher of what is at stake- GMO? OMG! Ten Reasons to Never Eat GMOs

Label GMOs- We Have a Right to Know!

 

New Yorkers against Fracking Rally and Concert!

From New Yorkers against Fracking!
New Yorkers Against Fracking is very excited to announce a powerful and critically important rally and multi-media concert event to support a ban on fracking in New York State. On Tuesday, May 15th, join Medeski Martin & Wood, Natalie Merchant, Joan Osborne, the Felice Brothers, Ida, the Horse Flies, Tracy Bonham, Toshi Reagon, Dan Zanes, The Ahkwesasne Women Singers, and actors Melissa Leo and Mark Ruffalo in calling on our elected leaders to ban fracking in New York.

These all-stars are coming together for a special rally, concert, and multi-media performance at this very critical time. New York needs to address this dangerous practice and enact a ban to protect the citizens of this great state. Please join us and Academy Award winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, who will be filming the event, for an experience that promises to be transformative.

The Concert:
When: Tuesday, May 15th at 7:00pm
Where: The Egg, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223

The Rally:
Where: The West Capitol Lawn, Albany NY
When: Tuesday, May 15th at 4:30 pm

Information about transportation coming soon. Stay tuned for public press release and announcement early next week.

Tickets: 518 473-1845 / www.theegg.org

Sign up here- http://www.facebook.com/events/410718712291328/

AND
YOU ARE INVITED to join
The SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force on
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25TH at 8:30AM for our
FRACKING: SEE-FOR-YOURSELF BUS TOUR
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