Consider yourself invited to join the eviction resistance at Pennsylvania fracking site

A week into the resident-led occupation of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, PA, the following message has been circulated by the fine folks with Occupy Well Street. Basically, it’s on…

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Consider yourself invited to join the eviction resistance at Pennsylvania fracking site

A week into the resident-led occupation of a mobile home park in Jersey Shore, PA, the following message has been circulated by the fine folks with Occupy Well Street. Basically, it’s on…

Save Riverdale: Urgent Call for Support

“I was here to protect my home.  Within a week I realized why the hell would I protect a house with water I can’t drink.  It’s still about the house, but it’s more about this land and that water. As long as you’re willing to stand, stay here, and bring more: this isn’t over yet” –Riverdale Resident

For 7 days, Riverdale Mobile Home Community and our group of volunteers have impeded the construction of a water withdrawal site on the Susquehanna River

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This summer’s activism schedule is brought to you by humans who know the truth about high volume unconventional slickwater hydraulic fracturing–a.k.a. “fracking” for short. (Follow link for more fracking info.)

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Global warming or not, there’s one thing we can all agree on: it’s summer. Summer is a time to roll in your favorite patch of grass, or if you’re an activist, then summer is a time to shake signs to protect that grass. This summer’s activism schedule is brought to you by humans who know the truth about high volume unconventional slickwater hydraulic fracturing–a.k.a. “fracking” for short. (Follow link for more fracking info.)

This isn’t going to be your normal summer of activism. Natural gas may have fallen in price, and Aubrey McClendon might be having some “issues“– but fracktivists are bright enough to realize that just because Aubrey needs to hire a tiny little fiddle player these days, this only means others will vie for his acreage… so they can frack it. And we all know that both Romney and Obama have “Drill, Baby, Drill” mentalities.

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“Traveller spent a month in May 2012 visiting 12 different places in PA that all had unique stories and situations, but had one thing in common: gas development has changed their lives, and not for the better.”

THE LEAGUE OF ACTIVISTS

Over the last month I have seen more of the transformed landscape that was once Pennsylvania and is now turned gas fields than I can even understand, or fully explain. I will only attempt a synopsis of the journey.  I visited 12 different places that all had unique stories and situations, but had one thing in common: gas development has changed their lives, and not for the better.

I first went to Butler County, then Washington County, Fayette County and all over the Moshannon Forest. My mission was to see, first hand, what living in the gas fields is like for some people and to assist some of these families with independent air testing. I had already met at least 4 families that have lost their water, in Butler alone. I know that there are at least 12. Their situation is still dire, still haphazard.  Although, many kind citizens have…

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Seven weeks of #wiunion (via Legal Eagle)

Well-written synopsis of the events of last seven weeks/48 days at the Capitol, and the re-awakening of a giant called #wiunion, and another giant called profoundly caring people, and one very human tweeting fount of legal observations, thank you, @legaleagle

It's Day 48, about to turn Day 49. That's seven weeks. Seven weeks of Wisconsinites standing up and making their voices heard. Through hearing testimony, through meetings with their elected officials, through letters and emails to the governor's office. Through protests, through where they chose to sleep, through signs, through chants. Through showing up and taking part. Through recall canvassing and through adding their signatures to recall peti … Read More

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ice and stones

water and radios

 

Diana Ludwig – Fine Art – Fine Art America – FineArtAmerica

Check out the new artwork from the Forest here. Also 3 RSS feeds one can

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Diana Ludwig – Fine Art – Fine Art America – FineArtAmerica

 

 

king fish jump

fish jump, kingfisher, low river, cupboard doors open and shut,

raccoon, skunk, porcupine

sleeping on the Cold Hard Ground [insert Waites link]

measuring cup, measuring spoon, a nebula shaped like a butterfly

 

syncro got a new loving home, Volkswagen vanagon

I
was the  original owner (and the legendary “little ol lady”, having babied it
and rarely took it over 61 mph!) I never had reason to take it “off-roading” —
except for the dirt roads that can be seen in some of the photos. Often
went on state forest dirt roads for TrailCares (hiking trail
maintenance).

• 
  4
  + L speed Manual transmission, Baulk-synchronized with additional compound
  Low-speed traction gear
• water-cooled gasoline
  engine, 2.1 L
  fuel-injected engine, digifant engine management system
• Syncro
  4-wheel-drive, (“all wheel drive”), manually-operated
  locking rear differential (what is this?)
• 14-inch steel
  wheels,
• high ground clearance, skidplates underneath
• Folding rear bench seat/bed
  combination *,
• 2
  rear-facing removable seats **,

grey cloth interior, rear
compartment heater, 18.5 gallon fuel tank.
Power rack & pinion
steering, power front disc/rear drum brakes, independent front
suspension, coil springs & telescopic shock absorbers, front
& rear, double-jointed drive shafts

http://dianaludwig.com/vw/index.html

http://dianaludwig.com/vw/vw.html

http://www.dianaludwig.com/vw/info3.html

Vanagon.com

Visit the Syncro Yahoo Group on the web at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Syncro/

 

fox owls

Katy-dids rasping noisy across from the cemetary in the cool,  foxes howl for hours from  gravel stoops in front of their burrows,  barn owls screech into the window from their tree perches…half dozen young coon romp about the legs of deer meandering in the fog, crows call, 2 bronze turkey heads sinking down to the river through the rhodadendron, a red sedan in flames on the hairpin turn to Fischer, a pair of spotted fawns with their mom along the interstate.

Hounddog Taylor 

 

snow

snow!