[CRNMC] just the Argument For Measure S

[Sandra Marshall]

Karina that is worded powerfully.
Thank you,
Sandy


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 4:35 PM, karinajoy <karinacotler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gee, thanks!
> K
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> On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Baile Oakes wrote:
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> WOW !
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> High 10s and Kudos, Karina !
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> Incredibly well done.
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> Thank you sooooooo much.
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> with love,
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> Baile
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> On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:20 PM, karinajoy wrote:
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> Argument For Measure S
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> Measure S establishes a Community Bill of Rights for the people of
> Mendocino County, built on the right to local community self governance, in
> order to exercise and secure our unalienable right to protect our health,
> safety and well being. These rights include the right to live in a healthy
> and safe ecosystem and the right to protect local water from harm caused by
> unconventional gas extraction. In order to uphold and protect those rights,
> this initiative bans all fracking related activities within the County,
> including the transportation of fracking fluids, and the use of local water
> for fracking.
>
> Our nation was founded on the concept that government is instituted to
> secure our unalienable rights and derives it’s just powers from the consent
> of the governed.  Activities such as fracking affect our health and
> safety, our quality of life, the health of our natural environment as well
> as our property values and must be decided by the Citizens who live here
> and who will be directly affected, or there is no “consent of the governed.”
>
> Yet States routinely issue permits to chartered corporations that make it
> “legal” for them to violate the rights of the people and refuse to
> recognize our right to say “no!’ to harmful activities.
>
> Measure S challenges those illegitimate laws which violate our fundamental
> rights. This measure elevates the rights of the people of Mendocino where
> they belong, above the claimed "rights" of corporations and state agencies
> that enable fracking corporations to profit from the destruction of local
> ecosystems and to harm residents and communities.
>
> Measure S protects our water by banning fracking and asserts the right of
> the people of Mendocino to make those kinds of decisions now and into the
> future.
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