From hope to action as guardians of the future
Published on January, 12 2015
“What’s good for women is good for the world.” Riane Eisler. “Hope is something you do, not something you have.” Joanna Macy. Read Randa Solick’s inspiring report of the 2014 Women’s Congress for Future Generations she attended with two colleagues from Santa Cruz thanks to mini-grant funding.
In 2011, Randa and Mathilde Rand from Santa Cruz, Jean Hays from Fresno, and Nancy Price from Davis – all from California, attend the 2011 Women’s Congress for Future Generations in Moab, UT, which led to the Earth Democracy leadership team deciding to make Guardianship of Future Generations one of our core framing initiatives.
And Hattie Nestel of Athol, MA, a new member of the Earth Democracy team, is doing exactly what Joanna Macy recommends: “It’s best,” Hattie says, “to tell your own story and let people take what’s for them.” Here are wonderful videos Hattie’s made of people along the pipeline route concerned about the impact telling their personal stories, including Katy Eiseman and Rose Wessel, the founders of No Frack Gas in Mass. Their eloquent personal stories tell what moved them to work tirelessly to defeat the proposed Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline across northern Massachusetts.
Read the Archives on the left of the No Frack Gas in Mass homepage to see what they have accomplished already as a model of hope to action. You may sign up for the Newsblog and a wealth of materials at this excellent website about the pipeline and Kinder Morgan, the towns along the route, alternatives, and the state and federal process, and more are available.
Let’s be clear, natural gas is not a transitional fuel to truly green, clean and renewable energy…and neither is nuclear, nor carbon-based mono-crop bio-fuels that take land out of agriculture. Massachusetts WILPF members can engage with this campaign at www.nofrackgasinmass.org and be sure to sign up for their newsletter.
Focused, organized grassroots action makes a difference. The voices raised against the environmental impact of the pipeline highlight how people were misled about impacts in their backyards and communities. This led Kinder Morgan to propose a new route through New Hampshire leading to mobilization there as well. Let’s be clear this pipeline is not needed, regardless of the route and opponents stand united.
Even if you don’t live in Massachusetts, you use Facebook and Twitter be sure to “Share” and “Like” this campaign and “Tweet” out their messages. Social media are great tools and we need to support this campaign. .
PHOTO Stop the Pipeline Massachusetts • Homeowners Speak Out: Lynn and Rob Chesebrough of Hollis, New Hampshire Video by Hattie Nestel
