1. Down With Corporate Extremists

    Sunday | January 27th | 11:45am - 1:00pm
    205 Wolf Road, Albany Holiday Inn
     
    Occupy Albany and community allies have learned that right wing extremists including Grover Norquist, the NYS Petroleum Council and the President of Citizens United (the group that brought the Supreme Court case establishing unlimited corporate expenditures in elections) will be traveling to Albany in an attempt to influence elected officials at the NYS Conservative Party annual conference.
    Collectively these groups and individuals advocate: (i) increasing economic inequality via more tax cuts for the 1%, (ii) promoting fracking and risking environmental and climate destruction for the sake of profit, and (iii) allowing the unlimited influence of big money to control our elections.

    We must stand-up and make clear that this is not acceptable. We intend to gather with banners and signs outside the Holiday Inn just as these forces arrive at noon to begin their conference. We will then hold a 12:30pm press conference and speak-out drawing public attention to this gathering as a microcosm of what is wrong with our economic and political systems.

    You can see the full conference line-up here: www.scribd.com/doc/121471085/2013-CPPAC-Tentative-Schedule
    Please join us! Spread the word!
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  2. Making Music for Peace
    Thursday, January 17, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
    Bethlehem Town Hall
    445 Delaware Ave, Delmar     

    Bring your voices,  guitars, drums, spoons  etc.,  and maybe a snack to share.  We will sing and play along to some of the  wonderful peace songs we all know and love. If you have a favorite peace song, please bring the lyrics/music so we can sing along with you. Information 466-1192.

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  3. January 12, protesters will gather at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA to protest drones and torture. This is especially important because Obama recently appointed John Brennan, architect of the drone program and participant in the Bush-era torture and extraordinary rendition programs, to head the CIA.
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  4. Fracking is more than just the topic of the latest Matt Damon movie Promised Land.

    Fracking is a technique used to break apart the dense shale rock, releasing the natural gas inside. A combination of sand, water and chemicals are mixed together and injected into the shale rock layer deep underground, creating “fractures” that allow the gas to seep out.

    The toxic chemicals used in the fracking process could contaminate water wells across the state.
    Last week, Governor Cuomo issued revised fracking regulations that would open the door to fracking in New York and New York's top environmental regulator said a final decision on fracking will "hopefully" come before March.

    We have until January 11 to file public comments on Governor Cuomo's fracking regulations.

    Tell Governor Cuomo: Don't frack New York. Submit a public comment to the Department of Environmental Conservation now.

    For four years, unrelenting grassroots opposition from every corner of the state has kept the fracking industry out of New York, even as it poured millions of dollars into the state to pressure our politicians and blanket the airwaves with advertisements.

    But now Governor Cuomo is making another reckless attempt to open New York to fracking, and we need all hands on deck to protect our state from this dangerous practice. If we don't force Governor Cuomo to back down, New York will be left with an irreversible toxic legacy of chemical contamination.

    And, as communities across New York state slowly recover from the devastating effects of Superstorm Sandy, it's profoundly irresponsible for Governor Cuomo to help the fracking industry extract and burn more dirty fossil fuels. Increasing our reliance on fracked natural gas exacerbates the climate crisis — and makes climate disasters like Sandy more common and severe.

    We've come a long way together. Again and again, we've showed that the power of ordinary people can beat the fracking industry's billions of dollars. Now we need to do it again.

    Tell Governor Cuomo: Don't frack New York. Submit a public comment to the Department of Environmental Conservation now.

    Thanks for standing up to the fracking industry.

    Carolyn Auwaerter
    Greenpeace Field Organizing Manager
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  5. Wednesday, February 6,  noon at the Main Branch of the Albany Public Library, and at 7:00 PM in Room 354 at the Humanities Building at the Uptown Campus of SUNY Albany.  Middle East analyst Phyllis Bennis will speak. Her talk, “A New Year and Old Wars in the  Middle East … Where’s it all going?” will have both daytime and evening venues, to accommodate the needs of all attendees.  Both events are free and open to the public.  Ms. Bennis, author of eight books on Middle East issues, is the director of the New Internationalism  Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., and a fellow at the Trans-National Institute in the Netherlands. She co-chairs the UN-based International Coordinating Network on Palestine, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace  movement. She also serves as an adviser to several top UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. The event is sponsored by the Palestinian Rights Committee and co-sponsored by Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.   For more information, contact Paul Rehm: kprehm@aol.com 518-966-5366.

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  6. OMG - had to add the word "renditioned" to the dictionary...

    http://falkvinge.net/2013/01/04/two-swedes-renditioned-to-the-us-possibly-to-death-penalty-in-secrecy-and-without-lawyers-knowledge/
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  7.  If you want to submit your Fracking comments online, check out 30 Days of Fracking Regs. It's a great resource that puts all the scientific jargon in simple terms and helps you along in the process of writing your comment.
     
    Wednesday, January 9th:
    **We'll be having a mass demonstration at Governor Cuomo's State of the State Address in the Empire State Plaza Concourse. Meet at 11:00am inside the concourse. I've attached meeting and parking info maps and an image for you to share with your email lists and/or Facebook friends. Call Daniel for details at (518) 285-1990.

    Thursday, January 10th:
    **The NY State Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee is hosting a hearing on DEC's proposed fracking regulations beginning at 9:30am in Hamilton Hearing Room B on the second floor of the Legislative Office Building. The Assembly members hosting it have invited the public to read testimony. Please bring your public comments to read! Call Daniel for details at (518) 285-1990.

    Friday, January 11th:
    **The last day to submit comments to the DEC on proposed fracking regulations will see coalition leaders in Albany for a press conference to deliver the hard copies of your comments. This will be a very exciting opportunity to participate in a more intimate action and a great opportunity to meet some of the folks from Artists Against Fracking. Call Daniel for details at (518) 285-1990.

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  8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUONvf1_wrQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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  9. Film: 5 Broken Cameras
    Sunday, November 18, 4:00 pm
    Bethlehem Town Hall
    445 Delaware Ave, Delmar 
    An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras (90 minutes, 2011) is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. Shot almost entirely by Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat, who bought his first camera in 2005 to record the birth of his youngest son, the footage was later given to Israeli co-director Guy Davidi to edit. Structured around the violent destruction o f each one of Burnat's cameras, the filmmakers' collaboration follows one family's evolution over five years of village turmoil. Burnat watches from behind the lens as olive trees are bulldozed, protests intensify, and lives are lost. "I feel like the camera protects me," he says, "but it's an illusion." Free and open to the public.  Information:  466-1192                     
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  10. Joe Lombardo will report on his trip to Pakistan
    Sunday, October 28, 3:00 - 5:00 pm.
    Bethlehem Public Library
    451 Delaware Ave., Delmar NY
    Joe Lombardo, UNAC co-coordinator and member of Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, will report back on his recent trip to Pakistan as part of a humanitarian delegation, protesting drone attacks. Joe was part of a group of Americans, who joined thousands of Pakistanis to complete a two-day and 230-mile peace march across Pakistan in early October, to protest America’s use of drones in Pakistan's tribal areas.

    The trip was organized by CODEPINK. .To find out about the important work that the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the Wars is doing, please go to their web site at: http://upstatedroneaction.org

    For additional information call (518) 466-1192.

    This presentation cosponsored by Women Against War and Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace.
     
    To see a report of Joe's trip, please go to http://nepajac.org/pakistantrip.html
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