Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project, Incorporated

What do you see in your surrounding environment? How does that vision impact your relationship to all life on Earth? We are activists of color who are grease car drivers, off grid survivors, natural healers, and spiritual warriors challenging pollution and prisons in big cities, Indigenous Territories, and rural landscapes. Bridging the woods and our hoods with practical examples of health and wellth—balancing abundance, clarity, and well-being; detoxing from white supremacy and patriarchy; embracing Source and Indigenous lifeways; challenging the “cop in our heads” and compartmentalization in our movements; and, “bossin’ up” when it comes to food, clothes, shelter, community—we promote living unplugged (renewable energy, cooperative economics, collective food security, holistic medicine) while maintaining cultural identities and power as people shifting our consciousness and renewing our spirits in honor of our ancestors and future generations. This energy workshop and human footprint strategy session will encourage all of us to engage in transformative relationships with each other and Mother Earth; build power through liberation strategies interconnected with life force; and, develop networks of self-determined communities.

Did you know that the 9 million residents of NYC rely upon the largest unfiltered surface water system in the world? This system will be impacted by natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the largest gas reserve in the US which lies miles underneath NY, PA, OH, WVA, MD, & TN. Natural gas drilling is currently taking place in 34 states. Recent advances in technology (accelerated by rising gas prices and our collective over-consumption of fossil fuels) have made natural gas exploration more accessible by updating a process called hydraulic fracturing first developed by Halliburton in the 1940s. Slick water hydro-fracking uses lots of water, sand, toxic chemicals, and pressure to extract the gas trapped in tiny pores and cracks dispersed throughout millions-of-years-old rock formations miles below Earth’s surface. Community complaints from fracking include exploding wells, ignitable water, livestock deaths, and severe illnesses in people living on/near well sites. Come find out why natural gas is not a “green bridge” to clean energy, and get involved in exposing the irreversible environmental damage that drilling will have on our air, soil, and water, threatening animal, human, and plant life for many generations to come.

What do you see in your surrounding environment? How does that vision impact your relationship to all life on Earth? We are activists of color who are grease car drivers, off grid survivors, natural healers, and spiritual warriors challenging pollution and prisons in big cities, Indigenous Territories, and rural landscapes. Bridging the woods and our hoods with practical examples of health and wellth—balancing abundance, clarity, and well-being; detoxing from white supremacy and patriarchy; embracing Source and Indigenous lifeways; challenging the “cop in our heads” and compartmentalization in our movements; and, “bossin’ up” when it comes to food, clothes, shelter, community—we promote living unplugged (renewable energy, cooperative economics, collective food security, holistic medicine) while maintaining cultural identities and power as people shifting our consciousness and renewing our spirits in honor of our ancestors and future generations. This energy workshop and human footprint strategy session will encourage all of us to engage in transformative relationships with each other and Mother Earth; build power through liberation strategies interconnected with life force; and, develop networks of self-determined communities.

Did you know that the 9 million residents of NYC rely upon the largest unfiltered surface water system in the world? This system will be impacted by natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the largest gas reserve in the US which lies miles underneath NY, PA, OH, WVA, MD, & TN. Natural gas drilling is currently taking place in 34 states. Recent advances in technology (accelerated by rising gas prices and our collective over-consumption of fossil fuels) have made natural gas exploration more accessible by updating a process called hydraulic fracturing first developed by Halliburton in the 1940s. Slick water hydro-fracking uses lots of water, sand, toxic chemicals, and pressure to extract the gas trapped in tiny pores and cracks dispersed throughout millions-of-years-old rock formations miles below Earth’s surface. Community complaints from fracking include exploding wells, ignitable water, livestock deaths, and severe illnesses in people living on/near well sites. Come find out why natural gas is not a “green bridge” to clean energy, and get involved in exposing the irreversible environmental damage that drilling will have on our air, soil, and water, threatening animal, human, and plant life for many generations to come.