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Gillian Graber is a cofounder and now the president of Protect PT, a community organization working to ensure the safety, security, and quality of life for people in Penn Township, Trafford, and surrounding communities. For the past two years they've been organizing to prevent fracking from putting their community at risk.What We Talked About:
In this interview Gillian shares how she got involved with community organizing. She explains what specific steps she took to grow her organization to what it is today.Links to stuff we talked about:
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Vera Scroggins has documented violations and exposed much of the gas industry malpractice and has been banned from 312.5 square miles of Pennsylvania. This includes the county hospital, local restaurants, supermarkets and drug stores, the animal shelter, the bowling alley, even the lake shore. The ban represents one of the most extreme measures taken by the oil and gas industry against protesters. A Montrose County courthouse granted Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation an injunction barring Scroggins from all property owned or leased by the company. This amounts to two hundred thousand acres of land, and nearly 40% of the county where Scroggins lives.What we talked about :
In this interview Vera Scroggins talks about where she grew up, and how she became active in environmental issues. For her, it's just as much about defending the land as it is our rights to free speech and basic health.Links:
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Alex has been the Shale Gas Program Coordinator for Energy Justice Network since 2011. Outside of his professional capacity, he has worked extensively as a volunteer organizer fighting for environmental justice in communities facing rural poverty.Main Message :
Foundations and major environmental groups (Big Greens) aren't situated to help the people most in need and Organizers need to build their own support network if the most difficult and important work is going to get done.What we talked about :
In this conversation Alex shares his experience working with his friends in Northeastern Pennsylvania. From working in rural communities, and with a history in labor organizing, Alex understands the importance of building support networks of our own – and not relying on large foundations or major environmental groups (Big Greens).Links to stuff we talked about:
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Alma is a wife, mother and grandmother. She raises chickens, horses and hay in Payette County – Idaho’s oil and gas epicenter.Main Message:
“NEVER give up and NEVER stop speaking about the things that matter! “ - Alma HasseWhat we talked about :
In this interview Alma shares how her life was both disrupted and transformed by the oil and gas industry. Living in the epicenter of Idaho’s extraction economy, Alma experienced the impacts directly – but originally she was “part of the problem” as she says.
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In this week's recap of wildlife news, Mozambique burns its ivory stockpile in a move against poaching, Lupita Nyong'o stands up for elephants, lions return to Rwanda, and Migaloo the white whale spotted in New Zealand. Get these stories, and more in your two-minute roundup!
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