New York (NY)

#BlackLivesMatter: Lessons From A Leader-ful Movement

January 29, 2015 Jodie Tonita, www.stproject.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Ferguson, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, Racial Justice

I was saddened but not surprised when Oprah Winfrey recently said she was looking for “some kind of leadership” from this movement. Saddened that she could not yet see the incredibly courageous, strategic, and talented leadership at the heart of this “leader-ful” movement. Not surprised given the generational gap between boomers and millennials and the tendency for traditional media to seek a single charismatic leader to deliver the message. It‘s been incredibly humbling and inspiring to witness the courageous youth of Ferguson, NYC and people across the country declare and demand that #BlackLivesMatter. Black organizers heard the call, saw the possibilities, stepped into capacity gaps, and are organizing their communities and allies to meet the moment.

How We Banned Fracking In New York

January 25, 2015 Sandra Steingraber, www.ecowatch.com Strategize! Fracking, New York (NY)

We are unfractured. And thereby hangs a tale. It’s a tale in which we all are—each one of us is—a starring character and a co-author. We are the maker of this story that has been shaped by our unceasing, unrelenting efforts—all of which mattered and made a difference. Every rally. Every march. Every jug of Dimock water. Every public comment. Every local ban. Every letter to the editor. Every letter to the Governor. Every concert. Every expert testimony at every hearing. Every phone call. Every media story. Every press conference. Every petition signature. Every chant. Every sign and banner. Every birddogging mission. And every alarm clock that rang at 3:30 a.m. to take every person to every bus to Albany every time we came here for the past five years. It all mattered. It was the people who spoke scientific truth to power.

Fracktivists Fight Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal Near NYC

January 23, 2015 Ben Adler, www.grist.org Resist! Environment, Fracking, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC

New York state’s fracking fight has moved offshore. And now the key players include not just New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) but also New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R). New York’s famously dedicated anti-fracking activists, who last year helped push Cuomo to ban the practice entirely, have teamed up with coastal conservation groups to stop a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal from being built 19 miles off the coast of Long Island and only 30 miles from New York Harbor, the nautical entry point at the heart of New York City. Environmentalists and residents of nearby communities, who have formed the No LNG Coalition to coordinate opposition to the project, fear gas leaks from the terminal could cause vapor clouds, fires, explosions, and damage to the ocean ecosystem.

Cuomo Considers Mandatory Review Of Police Brutality Cases

January 21, 2015 Kenneth Lovett, www.nydailynews.com Organize! Law, New York (NY), police brutality

Gov. Cuomo is considering requiring automatic state reviews when grand juries fail to indict in police brutality cases, the Daily News has learned. Under a scenario being discussed with interested parties, once a grand jury decides not to indict, the district attorney would be required to transmit all records from the case — including grand jury transcripts — to the state entity doing the review, sources say. Cuomo is considering including the measure in a justice reform package he is set to unveil on Wednesday in his State of the State/budget address. Cuomo spokeswoman Melissa DeRosa said that "discussions are ongoing about a range of options (but) nothing has been finalized."

Seneca Lake Protesters Declare: ‘We Are Planting Our Flag’

January 21, 2015 Lauren McCauley, www.commondreams.org Resist! Energy, Environment, MLK, New York (NY), Seneca Lake

Twenty people were arrested blocking the entrance to Texas-based energy company Crestwood Midstream on Monday, bringing the total number of arrests since the actions began late October to 200 people. The group is protesting plans to turn the region's salt caverns into a storage facility for gases extracted during fracking operations. Despite strong local opposition and what the group says are "grave" geological and public health concerns, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently approved construction of the storage infrastructure on the west side of Seneca Lake. With the Martin Luther King Jr. Day demonstration, the diverse group of protesters paid homage to the lessons learned from the civil rights movement.

Time To Stand Up To The NYPD

January 4, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Bill De Blasio, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Bratton, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), NYC, NYPD, Police abuse, police brutality, Racism

What kind of relationship do communities and individuals want to have with the police? Do police want the respect of the communities and people they serve? How does a city create a vision for the type of policing it wants to see and then achieve it? Unfortunately, the NYPD union leadership seems committed to making things worse. Patrick Lynch has threatened “When these funerals are over, those responsible will be called on the carpet and held accountable.” What does that mean? Is he threatening a police coup of city government? Leaked emails and comments in chat rooms show that the NYPD is working with GOP politicians to continue to escalate protests in order to remove de Blasio from office. De Blasio should not back down. The public is with the mayor because they know there are serious problems within the NYPD. He should escalate his efforts for positive police reforms. It is time to talk about an era of community control of policing where structures are put in place that give the community power in their relationship with police.

Attention Turns To Fracking’s Impact On Air Quality

December 31, 2014 Lisa Song, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Air, Fracking, New York (NY)

Fracking's impacts on air quality took the spotlight this year, fueled by new research and broad media coverage. The modern shale boom has created a massive influx of oil-and-gas wells, compressor stations and other infrastructure that spew toxic chemicals and greenhouse gases into the air. The consequences for public health and climate change are increasingly recognized as serious issues, on par with the water contamination concerns that once dominated debates over the pros and cons of fracking. In mid-December, New York banned high-volume hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, within its borders, effectively closing off the state's shale gas resources to producers. New York's decision was based on a public health review which cited various health risks including "air impacts that could affect respiratory health due to increased levels of particulate matter, diesel exhaust, or volatile organic chemicals."

As New York Bans Fracking, Calls For Moratorium In PA Grow Stronger

December 31, 2014 Sharon Kelly, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Fracking, New York (NY), Pennsylvania

For the past several years, Pennsylvania has had a history of lax regulation of the shale rush and its impacts on drinking water. For example, in 2011, the state made national headlines for allowing shale wastewater laced with toxic and radioactive materials to be discharged after incomplete treatment into rivers and streams that were not capable of fully diluting the waste, according to internal EPA documents. Even now, toxic waste from the fracking industry is only tracked via industry self-reporting, which a Pittsburgh Post-Gazetteinvestigation found has led to major gaps in tracking and reporting. “I think there is a strong feeling in Pennsylvania that what happened in New York is in large part because of the demonstrated damage caused by gas production here,” said Myron Arnowitt, State Director of Clean Water Action. “It appears that the leadership in New York has been more responsive to what has been happening to Pennsylvanians than the leadership in Pennsylvania.”

Cuomo Didn’t Stop Fracking, The Communities Did

December 25, 2014 Cliff Weathers, www.alternet.org Strategize! Environment, Fracking, Law, New York (NY)

Soon after the decision, Bill Lipton, director of the state’s Working Families Party, one of the groups behind the New Yorkers Against Fracking Coalition, said, "New York is worth more than the gas under our feet. Six years ago, the gas drillers told us hydrofracking was an inevitability. We believed in a better future for our state. Every New Yorker who spoke up, called their lawmakers, boarded a bus to Albany, signed a petition or put a sign in their yard deserves enormous credit." Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox praises the wisdom of activists relying on health and environmental research in the battle. He also said activism inspired more scientific studies.“If it was not for our movement there would not have been any science on the subject,” said Fox in a letter to activists. “In 2008, there was very little science on fracking at all.”

The Police Aren’t Under Attack. Institutionalized Racism Is.

December 24, 2014 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, www.time.com Educate! Ferguson, New York (NY), NYPD, police brutality, Racial Justice

At the same time, however, we need to understand that their deaths are in no way related to the massive protests against systemic abuses of the justice system as symbolized by the recent deaths—also national tragedies—of Eric Garner, Akai Gurley, and Michael Brown. Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the suicidal killer, wasn’t an impassioned activist expressing political frustration, he was a troubled man who had shot his girlfriend earlier that same day. He even Instagrammed warnings of his violent intentions. None of this is the behavior of a sane man or rational activist. The protests are no more to blame for his actions than The Catcher in the Rye was for the murder of John Lennon or the movie Taxi Driver for the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Crazy has its own twisted logic and it is in no way related to the rational cause-and-effect world the rest of us attempt to create.

Even With Ban, New York Can’t Escape Effects Of Fracking

December 23, 2014 Anne Meador, www.cetology.org Educate! Environment, Frack, New York (NY)

Unfortunately, just because New York banned fracking, and even though more than 150 New York municipalities have banned fracking using local zoning laws, the state hasn’t escaped its effects. New York is already burdened with the fracking industry’s health and safety problems and threats to the environment through gas infrastructure. Gas companies are building pipelines to service increasing demand in New York City. In spite of opposition from groups like OccupythePipeline concerned about radon exposure and the risk of explosion, Spectra Energy’s pipeline, which runs under Greenwich Village, went into service in November 2013.

A (Very) Brief History Of The New York Frack Ban Movement

December 22, 2014 Chip Northrup, www.cetology.org Educate! Fracking, Law, New York (NY), Oil & Gas

Armed with propaganda manufactured by the gas industry and its paid frackademics – the frackers got the upper hand in Albany. Their lobbyists first re-wrote the state’s compulsory integration law, essentially privatizing the power of condemnation for the frackers in 2005, which was adopted on a unanimous vote of both houses. The same gas lobbyists subsequently co-wrote proposed changes to the state’s SGEIS to make the regulations as “frack friendly” as possible. When it looked like New York was on a fast track to get fracked, oil and gas companies started leasing land and drilling test wells. This was at a time when gas was spiking at $10 mcf, so the speculative frenzy to tie up land was high. That was their first big miscalculation – they assumed that New York was going to be a walkover.

8-Year-Old’s Death Prompts Medical Marijuana Rally

December 20, 2014 Carly Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! Medical Marijuana, New York (NY), Protest

Patients, advocates and family members of sick children staged a rally outside New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Manhattan office Friday to demand that the Democrat establish an emergency-access medical marijuana program for the state, one week after an 8-year-old from Niagara Falls died from brain cancer. "More than five months after Governor Cuomo signed a bill into law that was meant to bring vital treatment to our family, my daughter Donella is dead," Nate Nocera, whose daughter died Dec. 12, said at the event. "Governor Cuomo, I know you cannot turn back time to get us the medical marijuana that could have slowed the aggressive growth of the tumor in her brain ... but you have the power to end the needless suffering of so many New York families."

Nationwide Protests Are Bringing Issue Of Police Abuse To Forefront

December 5, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, DC, killed by police, New York (NY), Oakland, Police abuse, police brutality, Portland, Racism, San Francisco, Washington

Below are a series of headlines, photos and opening paragraphs from major media sources describing how they covered the nationwide protests against the grand jury decisions in police shooting cases in New York and Ferguson as well as police abuse which has become a nationwide epidemic. Some papers like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette where there were major protests did not cover the local protests in their communities. Others, like the Washington Post, focused more on the politics of the issue with photos of protests in DC and nationally. The Associated Press summarized the night of protests writing: "Thousands and thousands of diverse people united by anger took to the streets from New York City to San Francisco for a second straight night to protest a grand jury clearing a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man. Grandparents marched with their grandchildren. Experienced activists stood alongside newcomers, and protesters of all colors chanted slogans. A 61-year-old black woman was accompanied by her daughter and twin 10-year-old grandchildren, a boy and a girl. She said it was important to her that the children saw a crowd that was racially mixed and diverse in many other ways all insisting upon the same thing - that something must be done." That was the message, too, in cities across America: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Minneapolis Oakland, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., among them.

15 Arrested Protesting Seneca Lake Fracking Project

November 4, 2014 We Are Seneca Lake, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Energy, New York (NY)

Entering the third week, starting at 7:00 AM this morning protesters blocked the gates of Texas-based Crestwood Midstream’s gas storage facility on the shore of Seneca Lake. 15 people were arrested at about 9:00 AM after Crestwood called the police. Last week, ten protesters were arrested in acts of civil disobedience blocking the gates, just as the 15 people did today. Protesters have held blockades at the Crestwood gate since Thursday, October 23; on Wednesday, October 29, they began blocking two of the gates to Crestwood. Notably, the ongoing protests also included a rally with more than 200 people at the Crestwood gate on Friday, October 24th. Friday, October 24th marked the day that major new construction on the gas storage facility was authorized to begin. The ongoing acts of civil disobedience come after the community pursued every possible avenue to stop the project and after being thwarted by an unacceptable process and denial of science.

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