HUGE DRIVE EFFORT through February 5, 2013
READ Press Release HERE (click)

Youngstown, Ohio, City Residents:
HELP*, or  SIGN PETITION
To Place Local Control on the Ballot to
Protect Your Drinking Water:

*Do NOT Need To Be A Resident To COLLECT Signatures!

Community Bill of Rights Ballot Initiative Petition signatures:

Help move the gauge: ALMOST THERE!!!
Protect Youngstown, Mill Creek Park and water in the entire watershed from fracking!

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Youngstown Community Bill of Rights Ballot Initiative Petition - Sign IN PERSON ONLY.

After the required number of signatures are gathered (by February 6), a measure to ban fracking in Youngstown, Ohio will be put before the voters in the May 7, 2013 spring Primary Election.

The measure affirms that citizens have the right to drink clean water, breathe clean air and live on unpolluted land. It gives citizens the vote to protect themselves from toxic pollution. It will protect Youngstown's drinking water (the Meander Reservoir), Mill Creek Park, and the populated
areas of Youngstown from fracking.

Only Youngstown, Ohio, City Residents May Sign This Petition. They Must Be Registered Voters.
They Must Sign By February 6, 2013.

Petition may be signed in person ONLY and may be signed here:

Pig Iron Press with Pig Iron Literary & Art Works
Friday, 10 a.m. - 5  p.m., and Saturday:  10 a.m. - midnite
26 North Phelps, Youngstown, Ohio 44503-1130
Call: (330) 747-6932
http://www.facebook.com/PigIronPress

The First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown
Saturday, Feb 2, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
1105 Elm St. (Elm & Illinois)
Youngstown, Ohio 44505
http://www.facebook.com/UU.Youngstown

Rust Belt Brewing at B & O Tavern (find on facebook)  
Boxcar Lounge (find on facebook)
Thursday, January 31, 4 p.m. -  ?,  Friday and Saturday 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
530 - 534 Mahoning Ave
Youngstown, Ohio 44502
(330) 423-3818
Look for Amy and Michelle

ALSO look for the petition at the Lemon Grove - look for table with a sign!
Monday, Feb. 4, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Please Call First: (330) 397-1250
110 West Federal Plaza
Youngstown, Ohio 44503
Daily 9:00 am - 2:30 am
Phone    (330) 744-7683
http://www.lemongrovecafe.com/

Federal Square downtown Youngstown (Occupy Square)
Please Call First: (330) 397-1250

Petition may also be brought to a neighborhood or public place  for signatures upon request - call (330) 397-1250
  OR    (234) 201-8007   OR   (234) 201-0402    OR  email us:   frackfreemahoning [at] gmail.com   OR    frackfreeamerica [at] gmail.com

HUGE DRIVE EFFORT  through February 5, 2013:  base will be the Lemon Grove:
Youngstown, OH Petition signature gathering from light til dark, anyone can pick up petitions, ID badges, a map of an area to be canvassed. Please  work in pairs.
Weekend of Sat Feb 2 and  3,  10am – late
Where: base is Lemon Grove, 110 West Federal Plaza, Youngstown, Ohio 44503

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/325349447569055/

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If you are particularly interested in helping with the Actions to protect Mill Creek Park,  join the coordinating Guardians group at this FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/guardiansmillcreek/

Protect the Threatened Historic Mt. Hope Cemetery

This Community Rights-based ban will protect the threatened historic Mt. Hope Cemetery - located in the city limits - being discussed in the 2 min. video below: (also here if player does not play:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnyibILCfYM

History of Youngstown's Mount Hope Cemetery presentation, entitled  "The People of Mount Hope," was given by Nathan Queener, who completed a graduate thesis on the East Side cemetery as a history major at Youngstown State University. The historical site, located at Wardle Avenue and Liberty Road, contains the remains of veterans who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Korean War, according to a news release from the EHS.  Surviving records for the cemetery are stored at Reed's Chapel AME Church on Jacobs Road.  While Mount Hope Cemetery fell into disrepair after the 1980s, grassroots efforts to restore the site have resulted in substantial improvements. Queener said in the release that these efforts could be threatened by the expansion of the local energy industry, given that at least one firm has expressed an interest in purchasing the site to conduct hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations.

--- from WKBN article,  Mount Hope Cemetery Will Be Saturday Lecture Topic at http://www.wkbn.com/content/news/local/story/Mount-Hope-Cemetery-Will-Be-Saturday-Lecture-Topic/My83F6xDl0uwhrzIP6ULTA.cspx

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Fill out & Submit this contact form below to have the petition brought to you!

Mill Creek Park, perhaps the second largest metropolitan park in the US,  would be protected if the ballot measure is approved in spring election.

Japan TV (NHK) covering the drive on Saturday in Youngstown, Ohio.

Getting the fracking ban ballot measure onto the spring ballot - gathering signatures at The Lemon Grove, downtown Youngstown, Ohio.

Charter Amendment crafted with assistance form CELDF, Community Environmental Defense Fund