Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-Day OutlawsCompassionately contrary compatriots,

Before we send to you a more comprehensive newsletter with reports and photos about our recent actions and related dirty energy developments and resistance, we invite your participation in these upcoming grassroots-led initiatives.

UPCOMING EVENTS!

February 4: IRAGE Activists on the Climate Justice Forum (website excerpted)

February 6: Anti-Fracking Strategy Session in Boise

From 1 until 3 pm this Wednesday, activists of Idaho Residents Against Gas Extraction, United Vision for Idaho, Wild Idaho Rising Tide, and other invited groups, such as Occupy Boise and the Sierra Club, are meeting at the Solid Grill and Bar, 405 South 8th Street in Boise.  The reserved space for five to twenty people will accommodate a group lunch and privacy, as participants discuss strategies to oppose natural gas development in Idaho and plan a mid-March weekend direct action workshop and petition signature presentation action.  IRAGE and WIRT are currently working with CREDO Action to launch and circulate an online/print petition demanding a legislative ban on fracking in Idaho until further study criteria are met.  While we doubt our lawmakers will grant our requests, the petition serves to bring awareness and education to Idaho voters.  Petitioners will explain the circumstances, rules, and laws surrounding recent and upcoming natural gas and injection well drilling, while collecting signatures at public events and information booths like those at Farmers Markets.  We intend to pressure and document the stances of our state officials, to assert their accountability if (when) fracking problems arise, before stronger citizen initiatives during the next election cycle.

February 7: Highway 95 Realignment Possible Impacts on Palouse Prairie and Native Plants

The Palouse Prairie Foundation and the White Pine Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society are co-sponsoring a public presentation and discussion about the potential effects on native flora and fauna of the proposed re-routing of U.S. Highway 95 between Moscow and Thorn Creek Road.  Please converge at 7 pm this Thursday in the 1912 Center Fiske Room, 412 East Third Street in Moscow, to learn more about this critical local situation. Continue reading →