Rise Up

[libbyt]

I'm so angry and full of emotion, I can't even focus to write down my thoughts. But, I need to be here on LJ, even if I can't express myself well.

The last month of my life has been focused on the Occupy movement, rural poverty, social injustice, and oil. Light stuff, huh?

I grew up in rural SE Ohio, in a very poor Appalachian town. My mom and

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Fricking fracking!

[shannenigans]

I totally understand being livid about this, there have been earthquakes in Texas in the last few months caused by fracking. Well, they say not caused directly by fracking, but by disposing of the liquid left over from fracking. It's tragic that we are accelerating the rate at which we phuck up the planet instead of decelerating. I thought we would be better than this by now.

Re: Fricking fracking!

[piper_chris]

Ouch, everything I read about fracking sucks. (I've also been reading about tar sands oil and the Keystone pipeline and although the technology is different, many aspects of it suck the same ways - so I went to the protests here about it.) Families shouldn't have to uproot themselves so oil companies can profit off destroying their environment. Is it all a done deal for their area? Is there much opposition to the oil companies in rural SE Ohio? Will your mom and stepdad stay there or move?

[onesandzeros]

I'm so sorry. Fracking makes me ill. It's a shame they are doing this to your childhood home. I don't understand how these things can be legal.