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To Win Ohio and Pennsylvania, Obama Must Oppose Fracking
by Alex Lotorto
This morning, I was sipping coffee and watching Sunday morning talk shows with my parents. We talked about the presidential election when my dad muted the commercial breaks that consistently included fossil fuel industry commercials.
My mom put it simply, "I made phone calls, put up posters, and worked at the [Obama] campaign office in 2008. I won't do that again if he supports fracking. He needs to protect our clean water, public health, and well-being."
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", is used to extract the gas from a rock layer called the Marcellus Shale and in at least 32 states in the country. The biggest corporations in the world have their sites on shale gas plays and the gas trapped in them, including Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC).
The vast grassroots organizing efforts to stop fracking, despite being largely unfunded by traditional Big Green environmental groups that have promoted natural gas as a bridge fuel to a clean energy future for years, have carried their weight in the pitched battle against drilling and are going to play a major part in 2012 kingmaking in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The fracking process requires up to 15 acre well sites, one to nine million gallons of water per well per frack, pipeline right of ways, smoggy compressor stations, processing facilities, thousands of truck trips, and fracking fluid cocktails made of up to 596 different chemicals. Thousands of violations related to environmental health and safety have been documented by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the head of which, Secretary Michael Krancer, is admiittedly pro-drilling. An analysis from 2010 by the Pennsylvania Land Trust Association puts these violations in perspective:
DEP records show a total of 1614 violations of state Oil and Gas Laws due to gas drilling or other earth disturbance activities related to natural gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale in this 2.5-year period. The Association identified 1056 violations as having or likely to have an impact on the environment.
There is no such thing as "safe" fracking. See the movie Gasland to learn more.
Stephen Cleghorn, an organic farmer from Jefferson County, PA, has been speaking out for a moratorium on drilling in Pennsylvania, most notably after his wife Lucinda Hart-Gonzalez' lost her battle with cancer in November with a powerful speech at the DRBC protest the day of the canceled vote. From his recent TruthOut piece:
Her joy was in sustaining our farm against the threat of fracking. After Lucinda's ashes become a part of this piece of the good earth, it becomes sacred ground to me, and the company that owns the so-called "rights" to the gas in the shale below our farm is advised to keep their hell away from this place.
This morning, I asked Stephen for a comment on Obama's campaign this year. He responded, "Lucinda and I hosted campaign workers in our farm home for three months. I am very disappointed that he cannot see the need to stop fracking, but the Republicans will be even worse. I will vote for Obama, to be sure, but I am not as likely to have campaign workers here this year."
The grassroots organizing the Obama campaign relied on for the 2008 campaign is waning as rural Pennsylvanians like my mom and Mr. Cleghorn lose enthusiasm.
This situation poses a problem for the Obama for America campaign, especially regarding the latest news reported by the usually-Obama-friendly liberal blog, Daily Kos:
Situation Normal, All Fracked Up: Obama embraces fracking
Last week, the Obama administration gave what may be its first formal statement favoring hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of natural gas in a report, Investing in America (pdf).
[From the Obama administration:]
"Since the mid‐2000s, however, the discovery of new natural gas reserves, such as the Marcellus Shale, and the development of hydraulic fracturing techniques to extract natural gas from these reserves has led to rapidly growing domestic production and relatively low domestic prices for households and downstream industrial users. Appropriate care must to be taken to ensure that America's natural resources are extracted in a safe and environmentally responsible manner with the safeguards in place to protect public health and safety. Provided these precautions are taken, the potential benefits to the U.S. economy are substantial.
Of the major fossil fuels, natural gas is the cleanest and least carbon‐intensive for electric power generation. By keeping domestic energy costs relatively low, this resource also supports energy intensive manufacturing in the United States. In fact, companies like Dow Chemical and Westlake Chemical have announced intentions to make major investments in new facilities over the next several years. In addition, firms that provide equipment for shale gas production have announced major investments in the U.S., including Vallourec’s $650 million plant for steel pipes in Ohio.
An abundant local supply will translate into relatively low costs for the industries that use natural gas as an input. Expansion in these industries, including industrial chemicals and fertilizers, will boost investment and exports in the coming years, generating new jobs. In the longer run, the scale of America's natural gas endowment appears to be sufficiently large that exports of natural gas to other major markets could be economically viable."
President Obama has a very important question to answer about fracking before Pennsylvanians like my mom, and Ohioans turn away from working his campaign in 2012. Namely, the old coal miners' union slogan, "Which side are you on?"
The future isn't very bright for us. President Obama has had an opportunity to halt the practice of hydraulic fracturing every single day of his presidency. Instead he has pursued the following pro-fracking policies that must be ceased immediately:
- President Obama initiated the Global Shale Gas Initiative under his State Department “in order to help countries seeking to utilize their unconventional natural gas resources to identify and develop them safely and economically.” Through this program, Obama has met with leaders of at least India, Poland, and China to speak in favor of fracking, making his administration the largest lobbying firm for shale gas drilling in the world.
- President Obama has ordered his Army Corps of Engineers representative on the Susquehanna River Basin Commission to repeatedly authorize water withdrawals from the basin by natural gas drillers, enabling the expansion of drilling in rural Pennsylvania that has caused thousands of environmental violations.
- President Obama has remained silent on the Delaware River Basin Commission’s ongoing effort to authorize fracking in the Delaware River Basin, drinking water for 15.6 million people, including my high school.
- President Obama’s Department of Interior office in State College, PA, under authorization of the Endangered Species Act, regularly permits gas drilling operations and infrastructure without sending government surveyors to identify endangered species habitat at the sites, instead relying on the paid contractors of the gas industry and the outdated, incomplete, Pennsylvania National Heritage Program.
- President Obama’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has authorized the construction of numerous natural gas pipelines, upgrades, and compressor stations that enable further development of gas drilling by moving the produced gas to market.
In Ohio, “Seventy-two percent of voters polled said there should be a halt in hydraulic fracturing, or simply fracking, in Ohio until more was known about the impact of the process, Quinnipiac found,” according to a recent Reuters report.
Ohio has been watching fracking expand at an exponential pace, with 156 permits issued for drilling in the Utica shale that underlies portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia. Ohio issued 80 of those permits during the last three months of the year, including 32 in November.
Ohio has also been the recipient of fracking waste sludge, hosting controversial Class III injection wells where drillers come from out of state to dump. The big problem? They are suspected of causing earthquakes. Activists young and old have been rallying against and even blocking access to the injection wells.
Here in Dingmans Ferry, PA, in Pike County where gas leases have been signed within a few hundred feet of the Delaware River and in Promised Land State Park, with thousands more leases upriver in Wayne County, natural gas drilling is on our doorstep.
The river is the drinking water supply for 15.6 million people from New York to Delaware.
Industrial-scale drilling hasn't started here yet because the Delaware River Basin Commission has yet to pass a set of regulations that would permit the use of fracking. A handful of exploratory Marcellus wells in the river basin have already yielded one well casing failure in Wayne County at the Davidson well in Scott Township. Well casings are meant to protect aquifers that provide well water to rural homes from contamination.
The industry states that they are seeking to drill 10,000 to 20,000 Marcellus wells in the Delaware River Basin.
The DRBC is a federal commission made up of President Obama governors of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware and requires a majority vote to allow drilling.
In November, thousands of brave people planned to protest the final vote on the regulations in Trenton, NJ, causing a last minute dissent of Governor Markell of Delaware. Governor Markell's decision to vote "no" on the regulations was based on his concern that New York has not issued their state's regulations for the process. President Obama remains silent.
In a worse case scenario if New York issues their regulations this spring, the DRBC could vote to approve drilling on the Delaware River as shale gas development scales up quicking in New York as well. That is, of course, if President Obama allows that to happen.
Long story short, the Obama campaign can expect further protests, like the one we held in Scranton when he dropped in for a visit in December.
The anti-drilling protesters were the most numerous, as well as the most visible and the most vocal.
Dingmans Ferry resident Alex Lotorto, an organizer with the Energy Justice Network, said he expects the president to protect rural Pennsylvanians from the harms caused by drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking - a point that will be driven home at every campaign stop he makes in the state next year.
"He needs to keep his promises about clean air and clean water," Mr. Lotorto said.
I expect that anti-fracking activists will visit his campaign offices, campaign stops, and campaign websites to encourage his supporters join in the call, "No Fracking Way!"
It is President Obama’s decision alone whether or not he will lose the key states of Pennsylvania and Ohio by remaining supportive of the gas industry that is pillaging us here. Please inform him of this, starting with his Facebook page. It would do him good to pay attention, act on fracking, and fix what's already broken.
Tags: Obamafrackinghydraulic fracturingState Representative Thaddeus Kirkland's poor reaction to youth...
High School Students throughout Chester marched to Chester City Hall but found it closed so they go over to State Representative Thaddeus Kirkland's office to demand his help to get funding for their school district. Watch his response...
[ Delco Times ] State refuses to advance Chester Upland $18.7 million
District officials said in a public plea last week that the advance would enable the district to meet payroll beyond December. Without it, the worst-case scenario is schools would close, they said.
Secretary of Education Ronald J. Tomalis denied the advance Thursday by sending a letter to Chester Upland school board President Wanda Mann. In addition to the plea made by the district last week, Mann had penned a letter to Gov. Tom Corbett and PDE requesting the advanced funds.
In PDE’s letter, Tomalis said the state was denying the advance because “the board has failed to understand the District’s operations and finances, which has led to the current request wherein the District again seeks assistance from the commonwealth.”
“I welcome continued conversations on this issue; however, the commonwealth cannot continue to direct taxpayer dollars to the district on demand when the district has failed to manage its financial operations, demonstrating instead a disregard for its budgetary and fiduciary responsibilities,” Tomalis wrote.
He continued, “It is also important to recognize that the district’s financial shortcomings will not be resolved without systemic change in the district so that real, system-wide and lasting repairs can be made to ensure continued educational opportunities for... [ READ MORE ]
Sparks fly at School Board Meeting as reform is demanded!
Newly elected board member Charlie Warren asks for a motion to speak to the attending community at the board meeting. Pres.Wanda Mann abruptly tries to shut the request down. The partisan divide plays itself out as Pres.Mann, Vice Pres.Rubio & three other board members vote NO to the request. When the request of board member Warren is denied someone in the audience sings out "We shall Overcome". The audience sings along during the vote to approve the Education Agenda which had not been properly given to the board before the meeting. The crowd gets louder and in anger President Wanda Mann closes the meeting.
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After the school board meeting is prematurely closed by Board President Wanda Mann the newly elected board members Warren & Johnson call for a brief press conference to inform the community about the poor relationship and communication that has taken place between members. A line that is clearly partisan between the two factions has yet to be erased. As Johnson tells the community about the duped press conference Baltazar reaches over to get Johnson's attention drawing an abrupt reaction from Johnson who tells Baltazar firmly not to touch him.
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Community resident and activist Will Richan demanded an answer from he school board president Wanda Mann last night after pointing out that the school board added new voting items to the agenda since the planning meeting without informing the the entire board at the LAST minute. He demands for the board to explain how they could possibly vote on agenda items they have not seen or read before the meeting. Baltazar tried to explain the conflict away by replying that he get's copies of checks in his mail slot before the meeting. Newly elected member Charlie Warren argues that he has never received a copy of a check in his mail slot neither a copy of the updated version of the agenda before the voting meeting.
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Community resident and activist John Shelton asks the board one question: "Where is our money!" Interim Superintendent Wingard does his best to answer the question without answering the question.
Community Org's Observation:
Clearly the push for reform in how things are done will not be an easy one. The divide between the new members vs the old members of the board is apparent but this does not mean it is unhealthy. Our school board has been in need of this type of conflict for quiet some time. With the support of the parents & students in our school district we can get the school board reform that has been long overdue. The days of last minute agenda & expenditure items are over and the day of school board professionalism has arrived.
Action United - Take Back the Capitol - Jobs Rally
Action United members along with other community groups from Pennsylvania head to the House of Congress to apply some needed pressure on PA politicians to protect and support the working and middle class.
March on to K Street where we confront corporate lobbyist who buy off our congressmen. First stop GE Electric.
[ ACTION ] Protest Until Something Happens...PUSH!
Here are some quick snap shops below... the video clips will come later on Saturday :)
Along with many other PA residents we waited patiently outside of Pat Meehan's Congressional Office for about two hours. Of course he never showed up to talk with us after he was on the House floor but we were cool because we had some other actions up our sleeves.
Angel pushes the door on Meehan's office trying desperately to get inside.Neither Congressman Pat Meehan or Tom Marino would talk with us but we PUSH on.
The next day we marched onto K Street where the corporate lobbyist get their swag on and buy off our congressmen to vote against the will of the people they represent. Proudly enough we would shut K Street down for a few hours until a select few were arrested.
There were two teams of Marchers and we converged onto the intersection of 15th and K Street. We shut it down! Despite the rain the chants and energy were awesome and inspiring.
The work was not done. The next day we all marched onto the Capitol and blocked an exit for about an hour. We sang songs, we chanted and we sat in peacefully of course.
Some of the DC natives were not having it :) And they had a way of saying so.
Gunmen with AKs stood at the top of the steps and police stood at the base, ready to pop us off if we did anything too crazy. They watched us stoically as we threw flowers at their feet. The flowers represented the unemployed around the country. Watch out for them flowers they are dangerous. :)
After a long need break on the last day we went to a Smithsonian and looked at some historic antiques and finally got some lunch... then all of a sudden Jesse Jackson shows up.
Jesse mobbed by crowd. And despite how terribly tired we were we had to go see this beautiful memorial dedicated to MLK. It was breathtaking...
MLK Memorial in DC
A Time to Step Up and a Time to Step Down...
Action United help organize an action that could drive it home. After a good number of public comments were made by community leaders the AU Chair Rev. McLaurin, AU Co-Chair Joe Mangano and AU Member Desiree Brooks-McLaurin led the action as follows in the videos below.
VIDEO 1: Action United Member Rev.Warren pushed the Chester Upland School Board to disclose how much Solicitor Leo Hackett makes along with a report on how much money the school district has spent on legal fees alone. School Board President Wanda Mann makes excuses for why she had not followed through with the request for info on Leo Hackett when Rev.Warren had made previous request for the same information.
VIDEO 2: Action United Member Pastor Rev.William McLaurin read a prepared statement listing two reasons as to why CUSD Solicitor Leo Hackett and CUSD School Board President must step down from their post. Other Action United Members echo him along with supportive Chester residents. President Wanda Mann responds sharply.
VIDEO 3: Action United Member Joe Mangano read a prepared statement listing two reasons as to why CUSD School Board President must step down from her post. Other Action United Members echo him along with supportive Chester residents. President Wanda Mann responds coldly.
VIDEO 4: Action United Member Desiree McLaurin read a prepared statement listing two reasons as to why CUSD School Board President must step down from her post. Other Action United Members echo her along with supportive Chester residents. School Board President Wanda Mann becomes defensive.
VIDEO 5: Chester Resident Delores Shelton colorfully points out Solicitor Leo Hackett's salary to the CUSD Board. She also makes a point about the lack of Joel Avery's presence at school board meetings although he makes a considerable amount of money through the district. She describes him as a phantom.
VIDEO 6: Chester resident Lawrence Hamm asks the Chester Upland School Board if Former Superintendents Dr.Joyce Wells and Dexter Davis are still on the school district's payroll. Wanda Mann refuses to clarify the issue.
VIDEO 7: School Board President Wanda Mann responds sharply along with Board Member Richard McClintock who describes the list of reasons echoed by the school board attendees as "CRAP".
[ STUDENT UNION ] State budget cuts have hurt the Chester school district ...
State budget cuts have hurt the Chester school district in many ways: Class sizes have grown beyond capacity, two high schools merged into one overcrowded building, some elementary school grades have been combined due to lack of staff. In this report, Chester students, parents and community members speak out about how the massive cuts to state education spending are affecting them. This piece was produced by Keith Lomax.
Oil and Gas Wells in Texas
It is amazing to look at Texas in Google Earth or another satellite mapping program. Parts of Texas are covered in oil and gas wells. Texas has over 100,000 wells.
This is what the map looks by Sonora, Texas.
The white specks are all wells.
Chester Green Youth Collective: Chester's Green Thumb
Chester Green attendees focused on Non-Violent Direct Action training given by Heather Milton.On October 28th-30th, the Chester Green Youth Collective had launched its first ever Environmental Youth Engagement in Chester City. It was facilitated by 4 youth organizers in Chester; Mark Matthews, Chris Shavers, Ciara Williams and Angel Pabon. The event had free food, plenty of Environmental Justice/Awareness workshops, and a toxic tour that gave visitors an experience of the polluting facilities on the Chester Water Front. There were plenty of challenges to hop over when this particular event was still being discussed over an excessive amount of conference calls, and personal meetings with Community Organizers. But nevertheless, triumph had arose before many of the organizers and volunteers that refused top let this summit CRASH. Chester Green definitely had a huge turn out, and more collectives like this is to be expected from those who attended. There was a lot of stuff looked over about what we can do to get the community engaged, and how. Much of those concerns were explained through a Non-violent Protest workshop developed by "The Ruckus Society."
This event was an enriched and recreational experience, considering that there were a nice amount of Chester Youth and people from some parts of the U.S. (Texas, Mississippi, North Dakota, Louisiana). The exercises and activities had created a sense of positive fulfillment and hope for youth and the city of Chester. After that collective, Chester Green is slowly becoming a process for the Chester Youth Organizers to engage young people in a creative and innovative method.
There will be more to come from that collective in the future, most likely soon.
Bold Energy Justice Platform Released!
After a year of work with numerous grassroots leaders throughout the U.S., our network of activists fighting "biomass" incinerators has put together a bold and comprehensive platform to guide and unite our work. Since so-called "biomass" incineration cuts across many issues, including energy and waste policy as well as agriculture and forestry issues, it makes sense that this came out of that network. The platform is in solidarity with those who are fighting other forms of dirty energy and seeks an end to nuclear power and all fossil fuels as well. We do not wish to see one form of dirty energy solved by promoting another, which we often see when nuclear power, natural gas or "biomass" are proposed as alternatives to coal. It is urgent that we move beyond all of these. Since many of us fighting "biomass" incinerators are also engaged in protecting communities from these other threats, we see this as one inter-related struggle for clean energy. We urge our colleagues -- both grassroots, regional and national organizations -- to join us in adopting this strong platform and to recognize that natural gas and biomass are not "transition" fuels.
Please view our platform and consider signing you or your organization onto it.
We predicted the nation's largest city bankruptcy -- 8 years ago
Pennsylvania's capital city is now filing for bankruptcy. We hate to say it, but we told them so... eight years ago. In 2003, Energy Justice founder, Mike Ewall, testified before Harrisburg City Council at the request of the coalition of black clergy in the region, warning them that if they borrowed another $125 million to rebuilt the nation's oldest and most toxic trash incinerator, it would lead the city into bankruptcy. After presenting each slide in a presentation detailing how the project's economics were not as rosy as the consultants led the city to believe, Ewall repeated: "I'm telling you, this will put the city into bankruptcy."
It was clear that the city could not dig themselves out of their massive incinerator-related debt by rebuilding the incinerator (necessary to comply with new regulations on toxic emissions that the incinerator couldn't meet, since they had off-the-charts dioxin emissions -- the worst in the nation). After campaigning for a few years to seek the closure of the incinerator, the heavy corruption in the city won the day and the city borrowed more money to sink into the doomed project. Not only has this caused economic hardship for the (largely minority) city residents who must pay ever-increasing taxes and utility rates in the city and suffer from the selling off of public property, but they continue to suffer from a glaring case of environmental racism -- with the nation's longest-running trash incinerator and its highly toxic ash dump not far from the city's public housing projects.
The website of the Coalition Against the Incinerator -- a grassroots group we started in 2000 -- is archived here: http://www.stoptheburn.com
A copy of the economic presentation we gave is here: http://www.stoptheburn.com/presentation.pdf
A recent news article vindicating our warning: Harrisburg financial collapse was predicted
Further news on the city's bankruptcy is available in Google News.
Grace Community Resource and Empowerment Center, Inc. TOWN HALL MEETING Tues. Oct. 18
In Collaboration with the White House Office of Faith Based
and Neighborhood Partnerships
Presents
TOWN HALL MEETING
Prevention and the Faith Base Connection”
Schneeberg, Director
Neighborhood Partnerships
Tuesday October 18, 2011 at 7:00 P.M.
Alumni Auditorium, Widener University Campus – One University Place. Chester, PA
Chester, PA - Grace Community Resource and Empowerment Center, Inc. (GCREC) will
present in collaboration with the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood
Partnerships its 2nd Town Hall Meeting - “LET’S TALK: Violence Prevention and the Faith Base
Connection”. The meeting will feature Eugene Schneeberg, Director - Center for Faith-Based
and Neighborhood Partnerships (CFBNP) as the Keynote Speaker. Mr. Schneeberg will join a
professional panel for a public discussion about Violence: Causes, Reduction, Prevention and
Resources. This very important Town Hall Meeting will take place Tuesday October 18, 2011
at 7:00 P.M. Alumni Auditorium, Widener University Campus – One University Place. Chester,
PA.
Attending the meeting with Mr. Schneeberg will be Mark Roscoe, a Senior Policy Advisor
with the CFBNP. Confirmed panelist are Calvin Hodnett, U.S. Justice Dept. & representative
of President Obama's SC2 Initiative; Chester City Councilman John Lender, Dept. of
Public Safety; Rev. Bayard Taylor, Chester Police Chaplain and Pastor at Calvary Baptist
Church; Fatima Hafiz PhD, professor in teacher education at Temple University and Senior
Facilitator for the T.E.A. Group (Transformative Education Associates, LLP); Nicole Cogdell,
Chester Resident, Parent &; Senior Advocate, Technical Advisor for Brothers of Concern. **We
just received notice that, former Deputy Director of CFBNP, Ben O’Dell (Now an official w/
HUD) will join the panel for discussion.
“LET’S TALK: Violence
Keynote Speaker: Eugene
Center for Faith-Based and
Chester and surrounding communities are invited to come out and take advantage of the
information shared by Mr. Schneeberg from CFBNP on the role of the Faith Based community
and community partners, and what resources are available to combat the issue of violence. This
is a great opportunity for the Chester community to witness and participate in sharing ideas,
opinions, and initiatives to help uplift our city.
GCREC is grateful and appreciates the efforts and collaboration of Director Eugene Schneeberg
and the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to help make this
Town Talk Meet a reality.
“Stand Up Chester and Get Involved”.
Master Blaster's 5th Annual TALENT SHOW! Nov 11th
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[ ACTION UNITED ] How do we stop the gun violence NOW! Oct 25th 6pm @ YWCA
A big community meeting will be taking place at the YWCA on the 25th of this month, the last Tuesday of October @ 6pm. The goal is to bring as many concerned residents together as possible and to create a plan of action to stop the violence in Chester City. Especially, before the summer months arrive. There will be a moment of discussing the top issues and concerns with community members and then there will be a panel of community leaders to help direct the community on what the next steps should be collectively in order to STOP THE VIOLENCE! Guest panelist will be City Anti-Violence Initiative Dir. Cory Long, Chester Anti-Violence Activist Nicole Cogdell, Dir. of the Human Rights Coalition Richard "Tut" Carter, Pastor Lenny Bryant and Dir. of the Christian Coalition Against Violence Pastor Ted Reed. The meeting has been organized by a group of concerned residents called Action United. If you would like more information please contact Desire Grover: desiregrover@gmail.com Thanks so much! There is POWER in NUMBERS! Join us!
Chester Re-Entry Resource Center...
(Left) Rev.Dalton & (Right) Richard "Tut" CarterFor the first time in the history of Chester city a Prison Re-Entry Call Center has been opened. The center will provide transitional support, civic resources and advocacy for the Re-Entry Community of Ex-offenders in Chester city and throughout Delaware County. Richard "Tut" Carter and Rev. Dalton, in collaboration with the Mayor's anti-violence task force, worked together to create the Chester Re-Entry Resource Center of Delaware County.
First time in the history of Chester a Prison Re-Entry Call Center has been opened.In good faith the Mayor has committed to paying for a full year of the call center's utilities. The goal of the call center is to help recently released ex-offenders transition back into society in a healthy and productive way. Chester Re-Entry Resource Center of Delaware County strongly believes that to provide these resources to these men will help end violence, reduce recidivism and end the hopelessness in the hearts of their families.
Chester Green Youth Collective October 27th-30th
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Chester Green Youth Collective October 27th-30th
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NEW: We are mapping all of the existing, proposed, closed and defeated dirty energy and waste facilities in the United States. We are building a network of community groups to fight the facilities and the corporations behind them.