<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Thought I'd share from Ohio! Thanks Charles for gathering some from Mendocino! </div><div><br></div><div>Best, </div><div>Shannon <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Tish O'Dell" <<a href="mailto:tish@celdf.org">tish@celdf.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> November 10, 2014, 5:56:22 AM PST<br><b>To:</b> Shannon Biggs <<a href="mailto:shannon@globalexchange.org">shannon@globalexchange.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Few more quotes from Ohiofornia!</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Obviously many of them had an opinion!!<div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The valiant efforts of Denton, TX, to prohibit fracking through the existing structure of law has collided with the misconception that citizens may act at the local level to protect their health and welfare from corporate threats, just as communities in northwest Ohio have found themselves at the mercy of corporate industrial scale livestock and poultry confinement operations, due to existing law. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are one of many communities across the country, facing a corporate harm, which is exploring a new path; one that takes a civil rights approach, using rights based ordinances to protect the community and the surrounding environment, in order to expose the imbalance of power between corporations and communities, and to test existing law to create change where communities may act in their best interest.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Sherry Fleming, OHCRN Board member Williams County</b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear Denton Community- we in Ohio are in solidarity with your campaign and success in unifying your residents and taking civil action to protect your Water, Air, Soil, Children & Rights from the Oil and Shale Gas industry's radioactive and toxic pollution. </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you for This Success! It has galvanized us all.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please adopt a Denton Bill of Rights to further fortify your Rights. You have your peoples' support (which is Huge), the industry and gov agencies will be slowed down, stymied, even stopped. The Rights Based tactic is strong and working in communities fighting like you.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Contact <a href="http://celdf.org/" target="_blank">CELDF.org</a> (Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund).</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">You Inspire us All! </div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Carolyn Harding, OHCRN Board Member Franklin County and co-founder of Radioactive Waster Alert</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><br></b></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>Tish O'Dell</b></font><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>CELDF Ohio Organizer</b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>OHCRN State Coordinator</b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b>440-838-5272</b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b><a href="http://www.celdf.org" target="_blank">www.celdf.org</a></b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;font-weight:bold">"Be the Change you want to see in the world" - M. Gandhi</span><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div>
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