Time is now to get involved!

To my Ashtabula neighbors:

Harmon and Sandy have passed on a very urgent request(forwarded email below) for us to show up in Columbus this weekend to let Governor Kasich and the entire State House and Senate know that they must hold the gas industry accountable and the government must carefully monitor any and all activity the gas industry brings to our state; from taking our fresh water resources to threatening our water and air to extracting the gas and then leaving our county economy dry to the greed and misrepresentation of the hydrofracking process and on and on.
Please go to Columbus!

Thank you,

Gail Larson
Rock Creek, Ohio

Friends -

In about 10 days we'll be gathering in Columbus for a giant rally against fracking in Ohio. Today we found out that big oil will be there to greet us.

The American Petroleum Institute, the largest oil and gas lobby in America, already has an event planned on Saturday in Columbus meant to smear Josh Fox and Bill McKibben, and no doubt that industry will turn out in a big way for our rally too.

This makes our organizing over the next 10 days even more important. If the media sees a small anti-fracking rally met by a bigger pro-fracking action on the 17th… well, the implications should be obvious. Forgive the tired expression, but we have to go big or go home.

We can't let Gov. Kasich and the oil industry's paid representatives in government take cover behind an astroturf campaign by big oil. Our movement is better organized to exercise people power than big oil and gas. The first step to beating the industry is to make sure that all of y'all make it out to the action - the movement is counting on you.

The next step is to bring your friends, family and allies with you when you come. We need to get the word out that big oil is rallying against us - can you share this news with your social networks now?

Thanks to you, the gas industry knows that there is a grassroots movement rising to stop them. That's progress, but it also means we have a lot more work to do. I'm very grateful to be a part of this growing movement.

-Duncan