From Green Right Now Reports
New Yorkers Against Fracking will be holding vigils in several communities this week, stretching from Brooklyn to Syracuse and several other cities.
The coalition is urging Gov. Cuomo to maintain a moratorium against natural gas fracking, which it sees as endangering private and public water supplies and the Hudson River Watershed that provides millions of people with drinking water, including much of New York City.
Here’s a list of the events:
- Thursday, November 08, 2012
Statewide Conference Call
@ (559) 726-1200; code: 776632
Starts at: 07:00 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Cortland, NY
@ Market Place Mall, 64 Main Street, Cortland, NY 13045
Starts at: 05:30 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Binghamton, NY
@ Confluence Park, Washington St. and North Shore Dr. Binghamton, NY 13901
Starts at: 05:30 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Brooklyn, NY
@ Grand Army Plaza Memorial, Flatbush Ave. & Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238
Starts at: 06:00 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Long Island, NY
@ Shelter Rock Church, 626 Plandome Rd. Manhasset, NY 11030
Starts at: 06:00 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Otego, NY
@ Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, 144 Bert Washburn Rd. Otego, NY 13825
Starts at: 06:00 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Syracuse, NY
@ Clinton Square, Downtown Syracuse, East Water St. & South Salina St. Syracuse, NY 13202
Starts at: 06:00 PM
More information - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Rochester Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil
@ Cobbs Hill Park, beside Lake Riley, (NOT the reservoir) off 490 at the Culver Rd. Exit, across from the Culver Rd. Armory. Contact NHarv@frontier.com to RSVP with questions.
Starts at: 06:00 PM - Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Spiritual Call to Ban Fracking: Vigil in Upper West Side, NY
@ Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Dr. Manhattan, NY 10027
Starts at: 06:30 PM
More information - Thursday, November 15, 2012
Call-In Day to Governor Cuomo
@ Join thousands of people across New York for a Call-in Day to Governor Cuomo.
Starts at: 12:00 AM
More information - Friday, November 16, 2012
Do the Math Tour
@ Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom, 311 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001
Starts at: 06:00 PM
More information
Many celebrities and artists have joined the movement, including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. The mother-and-son team paid for a billboard alongside a freeway in metro NYC.
New Yorkers Against Fracking is partly supported by a grant from biologist and author, Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., a cancer survivor whom the group describes as “deeply concerned for her children’s future in New York.” Steingraber donated a significant portion of her recent Heinz award for lifetime achievement to help start the coalition.