My Goddaughter, Elizabeth Arnold, who's an anti-fracking activist wrote today's blog. It is another reminder of why I'm supporting Bernie Sanders for President in 2016. Bernie opposes fracking and fights tirelessly for the environment!
In solidarity,
-Stewart
As kayaktivists in Seattle were preventing Shell from heading to the Arctic to Drill recently, here in Philly we put a crude oil tanker kayak flotilla on the river at the annual Tidal Schuylkill Boat Parade to raise awareness about the danger of oil trains and to promote the national week of action. I wanted to share some pictures with you all from the event. Notice the real oil trains in the background in some of the pictures.
The Boat Parade was sponsored in part by the PES refinery. By the end of the day the organization putting on the parade, Bartram’s Gardens said they will never take refinery money again, and gave half the earnings from the event to the folks at our table.
If you need help planning an action for the National Week of Action to Stop Oil Trains July 6-12th, download the Stop Oil Trains Week of Action Organizing Toolkit!
Also, check out stopoiltrains.org to see some of the events that are already on the map.
Our communities are not sacrifice zones for fossil fuel profit. This is where we live, love, share, struggle and thrive.
*Also in the boat parade was a canoe against fracking and the fracked pipeline they want to build from western PA to Philly.
**To see the full album of Boat Parade pictures by photographer Karen Kirchhoff visit the FB event page.
Images (in order of appearance): www.forestethics.org and Karen Kirchhoff