Hi All For those from Tompkins Co. area who plan to go to the rally by Binghamton Bus I have arranged with Celebrations in Brooktondale that we can use their parking lot to meet up and carpool SO If you'd like to carpool to Binghamton to catch the 8:30 am bus to the rally
Meet at Celebrations, 2331 Slaterville by 7am - we can leave cars and carpool down to Binghamton from there. We'll be back to Celebrations around 6pm Don't forget to sign up for the bus from Binghamton *Binghamton Bus*: $0 - $27 round trip, suggested donation Book a seat here: https://goo.gl/2AUERw Email: [email protected] Phone: 607-296-8265 Irene Weiser [email protected] Brooktondale, NY 607-539-6856 *Joy to the world* *All the boys and girls* *Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea* *Joy to you and me.* On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Irene Weiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > FERC has approved lots of fossil-fuel projects in NY and wants to > rubberstamp more. The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) > has the power to stop one of these projects right now: the “Constitution” > pipeline. But ONLY if it denies the project’s water quality certificate by > the end of April. Governor Cuomo needs to stop the invasion of these > ruinous pipelines, compressor stations, and gas-fired power plants in our > communities. Come to Albany and tell the governor to stand up to FERC, > protect NY from fracked gas infrastructure! > > *RALLY DETAILS* > > Tuesday April 5, 2016 > 11:30 am to 2:30 pm > East Capitol Park with a march to DEC headquarters > Eagle Street, between State St. & Washington Ave., Albany, NY > > In case of rain: Million Dollar Staircase, inside Capitol Building > Speakers at East Capitol Park: > > - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – Waterkeeper Alliance – PELC > - Wenonah Hauter – Food & Water Watch > - Karenna Gore – Center for Earth Ethics > - Maya van Rossum – Delaware Riverkeeper Network > - Rosemary Wessel – No Fracked Gas in Mass > - Anne Marie Garti – Stop the Pipeline – PELC > > Actions and march: > > - Wes Gillingham – Catskill Mountainkeeper (Capitol Building) > - Kim Fraczek – Sane Energy Project (March Leader) > > Speakers at DEC headquarters: > > - Roger Downs – Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter > - Kanerahtiio Jock, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Bear Clan > - Doug Couchon – We Are Seneca Lake > - Jim Cutler – Sugar Shack Alliance – Hilltown Community Rights > - Representatives of other participating organizations > > > *TRANSPORTATION* > > *Binghamton Bus*: > $0 - $27 round trip, suggested donation > Book a seat here: https://goo.gl/2AUERw > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 607-296-8265 > > > *Oneonta area Buses* (Cooperstown, Sharon Springs, Richmondville, > Cobleskill): > $15 round trip, suggested donation > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 607-547-8881 > > > *Ithaca Carpooling*: > > https://www.facebook.com/events/1243022739058777/?ref=98&action_history=null > > > *NYC Bus*: > $25 round trip > Book a seat here: https://www.greyhound.com/en/ecommerce/schedule > Or here: https://www.greyhound.com/en > Greyhound bus leaves NYC at 7am, arrives in Albany at 10am. Short walk to > Empire State Plaza. Return on the 3:30pm bus to get back to NYC at 6:15pm. > > > *Parking info for those carpooling*: > There’s a parking lot under Empire Plaza. It is listed as lot V-3 on this > list, which includes many other parking lots as well: > http://ogs.ny.gov/BU/BA/Parking/Visitor/ > > > *Google Map of rally area in Albany*: > https://goo.gl/tu6KLZ > > > *Driving directions* (East Capitol Park is just below the word “Capitol” > in the rectangle on this map): > http://assembly.state.ny.us/directions/ > > > *For more rally information*: > http://www.stopthepipeline.org > > *PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDE:* > Berks Gas Truth • BEAT • Beyond Extreme Energy • CaPOW • Catskill Citizens > For Safe Energy • Catskill Mountainkeeper • C-Care • CEEC • Citizen > Action-NY • Climate Mama • Complete It Cuomo • Compressor Free Franklin • > Concerned Burlington Neighbors • Concerned Citizens of McDonough • > Concerned Citizens of Otego • Concerned Residents of Oxford • Damascus > Citizens for Sustainability • DAG • Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society • > Delaware Riverkeeper Network • Earthworks • Food & Water Watch • Frack > Action • Friends of Sustainable Sidney • MRAD • Mass-PLAN • Middlefield > Neighbors • Milford Doers • Millers River Watershed Council • Minisink > Matters • Mohawk Valley Keeper • No Fracked Gas in Mass • North Quabbin > Pipeline Action • Otsego 2000 Otsego Neighbors • Peacemakers of Schoharie > County • People, Not Pipelines • Protect Orange County • Residents of > Crumhorn Mountain • Sane Energy Project • Stop Algonquin Pipeline Expansion > • Sharon Springs Against Hydrofracking • Sierra Club-AC • Stop New York > Frack Gas Pipeline • Solutions Grassroots • Stop Minisink Compressor > Station • Stop NED • Stop The Pipeline • Sustainable Otsego • Waterfall > Unity Alliance • We Are Seneca Lake > > > Irene Weiser > [email protected] > Brooktondale, NY > 607-539-6856 > > *Joy to the world* > *All the boys and girls* > *Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea* > *Joy to you and me.* > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at [email protected].
