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Hello all – Please take a moment to watch a video I produced with two North American journalists in Israel. I’m currently filming, producing, and editing news shorts from the Middle East and hope to be releasing more on a regular basis. Please distribute the link widely! http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-21/how-i-got-gassed-in-the-west-bank/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC2 How I Got Gassed in the West Bank by [...] [...] “Ithaca Veterans Peace Council” (new) will be tabling at Ithaca Fest. We are looking for all members of VFP, VVAW, IVAW and MFSO to stop by and sign a contact list. A chapter of VFP will be chartered this summer to compliment IVAW and MFSO. We are also looking for high school teachers, especially Sr. [...] [...] “Ithaca Veterans Peace Council” (new) will be tabling at Ithaca Fest. We are looking for all members of VFP, VVAW, IVAW and MFSO to stop by and sign a contact list. A chapter of VFP will be chartered this summer to compliment IVAW and MFSO. We are also looking for high school teachers, especially Sr. [...] [...] [ May 19, 2009; 5:00 pm; ] NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. NO MURDER WEAPON. ANOTHER MAN IMPLICATED TROY DAVIS HAS BEEN ON DEATH ROW IN GEORGIA FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS HIS 30 DAY STAY OF EXECUTION IS DUE TO RUN OUT AT THE END OF THE WEEK THIS TUESDAY HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS A GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION TO CALL FOR JUSTICE FOR TROY HERE IN ITHACA PEOPLE WILL [...] [...] Last week we found out that Motorola has met our first boycott demand – they no longer sell the Israeli military bomb fuzes. Instead of resting on our laurels, we need to seize this opportunity to push twice as hard on our other demands. Now is the time to strengthen our campaign. We want everyone to [...] [...] [ May 9, 2009; 2:00 pm; ] The International Socialist Organization in Collaboration with The United Auto Worker’s Union, Local and The Cornell Organization for Labor Action Present: Karen Ross, Shop Steward, Cornell UAW -presenting the UAW’s fight for a fair contract COLA Representative -speaking to the important role students can play in labor struggle and what students can do to help UAW locally Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, [...] [...] Download source video (217.3 MB) Dr. Ismail Mehr, an anesthesiologist and head of the department at St. James Hospital in Hornell, NY, organized and led a medical relief mission in Gaza just days following the attacks in Gaza last December and January which left upwards of 1,400-1,500 Palestinians dead and many more wounded, homeless, and [...] [...] For all those interested, the News 10 coverage of today’s mock Israeli checkpoint on the academic quad is online. Here’s the link: http://tinyurl.com/ICheckpoint be sure to watch the video clip Great job Brooke and Professor Wilcox! [...] [ May 4, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Monday, May 4 7:00-9:00 pm Town of Ithaca Hall, 215 North Tioga St. All local residents are invited to a panel discussion and forum: “Local Implications of the National Economic Crisis.” Panelists are Karl Graham, Director of Community Relations and Development at Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Kathy Schlather, Executive Director of the Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County, [...] [...] [ May 3, 2009; 2:00 pm; ] The International Socialist Organization in Collaboration with The United Auto Worker’s Union, Local and The Cornell Organization for Labor Action Present: Karen Ross, Shop Steward, Cornell UAW -presenting the UAW’s fight for a fair contract COLA Representative -speaking to the important role students can play in labor struggle and what students can do to help UAW locally Margo [...] [...] [ May 6, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Announcing an open forum on “The New Gas Drilling: What Local Governments Can Do”
Over 2000 Tompkins County land owners, and thousands more in the surrounding Southern Tier, have signed leases to permit Marcellus Shale gas drilling on their property. Many expect to see drilling begin later this year, perhaps as early as summer. While some welcome the drilling and others dread it, a common concern for all is the protection of our clean water and air, our land, and our quality of life*. **NY State law (Environmental Conservation Article 23) took the ability to regulate most aspects of gas drilling activity away from towns, and gave it to the New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation (DEC) instead. This leaves many local legislators and community members wondering just what they can do to protect our critical resources given these constraints. The Sullivan County, NY Drilling Task Force has been working for many months on answering just this question.*** Dr. Pammer will describe the work of the Gas Drilling Task Force in Sullivan County. The group investigated possible impacts and the authority of local municipal governments. Their recently released Task Force Report outlines 21 recommendations that will be presented to their County Legislature. You can see a newspaper story about the report at http://www.sc-democrat.com/news/002February/20/news.htm and the *full* report on the Sullivan County Division of Planning website: http://www.scgnet.us/index.asp?orgid=610&storyTypeID=&sid=&. Dr. Penningroth, Biochemist and Toxicologist, directs the Community Science Institute’s state-certified water testing laboratory. The CSI lab monitors water quality in Cayuga Lake and its tributary streams in partnership with citizen volunteers. He believes a reasonable estimate of drinking water that will be contaminated near drilling sites is between 1% and 5%. He will describe why and how to test private water wells so that land owners discover problems and have solid scientific evidence of* **pre-drilling, **baseline water data* should contamination occur. CSI has two information fact sheets on testing drinking water that will soon be available on their website: www.communityscience.org. This Forum is co-sponsored by: Social Ventures; Ithaca Health Alliance; Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton; Department of City & Regional Planning/Cornell University; Sustainable Tompkins; CRESP Center for Transformative Action; Shaleshock Citizens Action Coalition; Back to Democracy. For copies of informational handouts from the recent forum, Gas Drilling: Health Effects, Economics and the Watershed http://www.shaleshock.org/open-educational-form-on-natural-gas-drilling-march-26th-in-ithaca/ Questions or comments? shaleshock08 AT yahoo DOT com or 202-368-8753 [...] |
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Jimmy Massey documentary tour continues …
[ May 27, 2009 to June 6, 2009. ] Despite the difficulties with parking for an event downtown just after the Ithaca Festival parade, 50 people attended the screening and discussion. If you missed the Ithaca screening, you still can see it in Oneonata (May 29), Corning (June 1), Cortland (June 4), Binghamton (June 5), or other locations in the Mohawk Valley and Sugerties scroll down for schedule). [...]