The 2014 Election Day is rapidly approaching and we need your help
in passing the Community Bill of Rights Charter Amendment. The
Community Bill of Rights asserts our unalienable rights to breathe clean
air, drink pure water and exercise local control to ensure a safe and
healthy community now and in the future.
We are seeking your help and there are many ways to support the Bill of Rights effort.
In
May of 2013, the first time it was on the ballot, the CBR garnered 42%
of the vote; in November, it was endorsed by 45% of the voters. Given
increased publicity about the hazards of hydraulic fracturing"”to say
nothing of the recent spate of earthquakes near Poland, Ohio"”we are
quite confident that this time the public is ready to support our right
to clean water, clean air, and local control.
Can you help us get the Youngstown Community Bill of Rights passed?
We want to finance a direct mail campaign that will cost about $5,000.
Two small billboards will total $1,500"“$1,800 dollars for the month
remaining before the election. And much-needed radio time, to be
effective, would start at $500. During the last election, our opponents
spent over $81,000 against the initiative; our treasury"”built with
small donations and bake sale proceeds"”stands at about $1500.
Please
consider supporting the hard work that the FrackFree Mahoning Valley
activists have been doing and will continue to do until this charter
amendment is passed. No one in the group is paid for any of the
countless hours they have spent gathering information, knocking on
doors, talking to citizens, educating the public about the issue,
designing literature, etc.
Any amount would be helpful, of course, but we are asking you to dig deep and help us get this done.
Please visit our two websites, protectyoungstown.org and frackfreeamerica.org, both of which have been developed and are maintained completely by volunteers.
We
hope you share our conviction that allowing fracking and injection
wells in the city of Youngstown would be a monumental mistake, and that
the only way we can protect Meander Reservoir, Mill Creek Park, and the
city itself from this real threat is to pass the Community Bill of
Rights on Nov 4, 2014.
Checks can be made out to the Community Bill of Rights Committee and sent to PO Box 43, Youngstown, OH 44501.
Thank you for your support.
Please contact Protect Youngstown NOW thru Nov. 3rd and Help the #Youngstown
ballot initiative (ISSUE #4 Community Bill of Rights) get a YES! vote
on November 4! ~ Can help immediately - need not be a Youngstown
resident - call 234-201-0402 or email:
frackfreemahoning@gmail.com to arrange your canvassing/ flyer-ring hours
and get your list of confirmed addresses and map. This is NOT
cold-calling - these are known confirmed individually addressed voters.
Help Phone Bank NOW!
Call for phone number lists:
234-201-0402 frackfreemahoning@gmail.com
READ MORE on how to help: http://www.protectyoungstown.org/canvas-now.html
Print a donation flyer:
"All men are, by nature, free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and seeking and obtaining happiness and safety " - Ohio State Constitution, Article I, §1, Bill of Rights - Inalienable Rights (1851)
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