Mayday New York! Cuomo wants to frack your children.

I had a similar conversation with Dallas yesterday.

SANDRA STEINGRABER CALLS YOU TO ALBANY ON JANUARY 9, 2013

Rally to Stop Fracking in NY at the State of the State Address, 11 am – 3 pm 

Information and Buses

I’m upset because the planet’s dying. I know this is all because of global warming. Just like the hurricane. ~Elijah

No mother should have to comfort her child who knows that we are killing the planet and his future. No child should ask, “They then should I dream?”

They health risk assessment in New York took a wrong turn from the beginning:

In a series of assertions unencumbered by data, it seems to say that the health effects of fracking are both unknown and unknowable. A Health Impact Assessment is unnecessary because the uncertainties are too great to analyze, therefore the risks can be safely mitigated.

As Sandra says, NOTHING is more important.

Jan 5, 1:00 pm

This is what I want to tell you:

Please come to Albany on Wednesday. The Governor is giving his annual State of the State speech, and the New Yorkers Against Fracking coalition is calling all New Yorkers to a rally outside the auditorium where he will be speaking. Buses are coming from all over our state. In those buses will be farmers, students, faith leaders, elected officials, scientists, doctors, nurses, parents, teachers, children, grandparents.

I want you on the bus. With all your friends. With signs and banners. With love and fierce resolve. Change all your plans and come.

There is nothing more important. Not your kid’s soccer practice. Not your yoga class. Not your career. We still have a chance here—in the still unfractured state of New York—to stop a brutal and extreme form of fossil fuel extraction, to show the world how to build a green energy economy, and to help Governor Cuomo keep his promise to lead on climate change. All that necessitates saying NO to fracking. Our children’s lives depend on our success.

To paraphrase my friend, Derek Jensen: The New Yorkers who come after us will not care how busy we were, nor how much we worried or grieved about their future. They are only going to care whether they can breathe the air and drink the water. They’re going to care whether the land is healthy enough to support them.

The Marcellus Shale is our Greensboro lunch counter. It’s our Stonewall riot. It’s our Seneca Falls Convention. This is our moment, and it hangs in the balance.

Love,
Sandra