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DESCRIPTION:This is a global day of action to fight Gas fracking . .\n\nDear friends, 
 allies and colleagues,\nFollowing regional/international meetings in 
 Marseille (The Alternative World Water Forum - March 2012) and in Rio 
 (Peoples' Summit - June 2012) as well as discussions with many groups, 
 there is a growing consensus among the anti-fracking movements around the 
 world that we need a global anti-fracking day to mobilize locally and to 
 build solidarity among our movements.\n\nThe local, regional and national 
 groups in the United States have chosen a day to do a massive national 
 'frackdown' in the United States - 22 September 2012. It would be fantastic 
 if we could turn this into a GLOBAL day against fracking, a GLOBAL 
 FRACKDOWN!\n\nSince fracking started in the United States and is now being 
 exported across the world, we would like to invite movements around the 
 world to join us on the 22 September 2012 in mobilizing locally and 
 nationally to fight against this invasive and harmful practice.\n\nA 
 coordinated global day of action will allow us to push back in a powerful 
 way against the industry’s propaganda, maximize media attention at a 
 critical time, and highlight local efforts.\nA website will be built 
 allowing people to find information, upload their activities, sign up to 
 petitions etc. And the message should be clear:\n\nFracking is inherently 
 unsafe and should not be part of our energy future. It should be banned. 
 Groups in the United States who sign on to participate in their day of 
 action will support the following mission statement:\nFracking for oil and 
 gas is inherently unsafe and the harms of fracking cannot be fully 
 mitigated by regulation. We reject the multi-million dollar public 
 relations campaign by big oil and gas companies and urge our local, state, 
 and national officials to reject fracking. We stand united as a global 
 movement in calling on governmental officials at all levels to pursue a 
 renewable energy future and not allow fracking in our communities or any 
 communities. Fracking is not part of our vision for a clean energy future 
 and should be banned.\n\nSo please join us and spread the word! This can be 
 our global anti-fracking day! A day to show companies and governments 
 around the world that we will not let them destroy our water, land, air and 
 health. We have stopped them before and we will stop them again.\n\nPlease 
 forward this to any groups or list-serves who could be interested and 
 please help us translate it into any language that could help spread the 
 message.\n\nOnce the website is up, we will send around information on how 
 to access it.\n\nHere is also the final statement from CSOs at the Peoples' 
 Summit in Rio against fracking, please feel free to put it up on your 
 websites or send around to others.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/08/18717167.php
SUMMARY:Global day of action to fight Gas fracking
LOCATION:Worldwide!
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/07/08/18717167.php
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