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Dear fellow New Yorkers,
*Please join me in Albany. *Here are the
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How many times--during the five years we've been fighting fracking
together--have I written those words to you? Probably a dozen or more.
But this time, I write you not from my desk at home but from the hospital
bedside of my husband Jeff, who suffered a stroke on May 31 that has robbed
him--for now--of speech and the use of his right arm. As he fights his way
back to health, strength, and language (and you can see by his
almost-symmetrical smile that he is the valedictorian of his acute rehab
unit), there is almost nothing that would compel me to leave his side.
*Nevertheless,
I am coming to Albany on Monday, June 17 for the New York Crossroads rally,
and I want you to come, too. * [image: For more information and to sign up
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We both do. An artist by both trade and temperament, Jeff lettered this
sign with his left hand to express our deepest desire: a massive citizen
turnout for a rally on the East Capitol Lawn, beneath Governor Cuomo's own
office in Albany, that will demonstrate to the world the power of New
York's anti-fracking movement.
As with all my anti-fracking work, I'm making this trip for our kids. A
new report released just this
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reveals
how chemicals used in drilling and fracking operations pose health risks to
pregnant women and children. Our own two children are middle-schoolers.
They and all children deserve a future free of toxic chemical exposures
from fracking. They deserve a solution to the climate crisis. They deserve
jobs that won't kill them.
But, this time, I'm also getting on the bus to
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*us*--for Jeff and me--the hard-working, middle-aged parents who likewise
need uncontaminated drinking water and clean air.
Air pollution--of the kind that fracking creates--is a leading risk factor
for stroke, especially for otherwise healthy adults. And stroke is like
watching lightning strike a library. In a single swift and terrifying
moment, it erases words, memory, motion, and knowledge.
Jeff will recuperate from this blow--and, in this effort, we are
overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support that we’re receiving
right now--but a long, hard road to recovery lies ahead. We believe that
no one should endure this fate because they were forced to breathe crummy
air laced with ozone, diesel exhaust, benzene and hazardous air
pollutants--which is exactly what you get with fracking. And Jeff needs
crummy air quality least of all. So, on Monday, I'm not leaving Jeff to go
off and fight for someone else; I'm going to Albany to fight for him and
for my whole family.
The latest we have heard from Governor Cuomo is that the decision to
maintain or lift our state's current moratorium on fracking hangs on a
secret health "review," which no one is allowed to see. This review,
conducted by the NY Department of Health, should be finished any day now
and, with it, comes a decision. But that decision is not made in a
political vacuum. Our escalating political pressure over the past five
years is what has kept fracking out of our state, and it is only escalating
pressure now that will continue to do so. Escalation means showing that our
movement is bigger and more resolved than ever--and that means coming back
to Albany again. . . with a whole bunch of new folks in tow. . . to say
that the public's health will not be sacrificed on an altar of secrecy and
fossil fuel dependency.
And, this time, we bring second message, too: *Governor Cuomo, we want
renewable energy. *A new study by Stanford researcher Mark
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and
his colleagues shows us that converting New York's energy infrastructure to
one entirely powered by wind, water, and sunlight is technically feasible,
highly affordable, and can produce jobs while mitigating climate damage. *
More**over, it would save 4,000 lives a year from air pollution-related
deaths alone. *
In short, we intend to show that no issue is as important to us as
preventing our families, lakes, streams, farms, forests and
communities--and air--from being poisoned. That fracking, and all its nasty
infrastructure, has no home in New York State. That the time for a
transition from brutal, dead-end fossil fuels to renewable energy is NOW.
Thus, as the final week of the legislative session begins on Monday
afternoon, we will march, literally, around the Capitol, surrounding it
with our voices and all the determination they can carry.
This is a human rights movement. It's overtaking Albany. So, to quote the
man who loves me most and now struggles for every word: *Get on the
bus.
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still unfractured,
Sandra (and Jeff)
p.s. to our neighbors in the Finger Lakes: We need to fill another bus
from Ithaca. Sign
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Sign up your friends. There is nothing more important for you to do on
Monday than come make history in Albany.
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