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Rhiannon12866

(203,034 posts)
Thu May 14, 2015, 01:43 AM May 2015

Exclusive: Anti-Fracking Filmmaker Josh Fox Arrested In Finger Lakes Protest

The creator of the award-winning film ‘Gasland’ was just arrested at a protest in rural New York. Here’s the mini-documentary he made on the eve of his arrest.


Award-winning documentary filmmaker Josh Fox, who wrote and directed the acclaimed fracking film Gasland, was arrested this afternoon while engaging in a human barricade at a natural-gas storage facility in the Finger Lakes.

“People need to see what’s happening at Seneca Lake, and also understand that this isn’t isolated, it is happening everywhere,” Fox told The Daily Beast before the protest. “We need to educate people that our dependency on fossil fuels has got to change, and it has to change now.”

Working through the night prior to his arrest, Fox put together a new short documentary, exclusively premiered below, on what he says are the facts behind the situation in Seneca Lake.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/13/exclusive-anti-fracking-filmmaker-josh-fox-arrested-in-finger-lakes-protest.html


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Exclusive: Anti-Fracking Filmmaker Josh Fox Arrested In Finger Lakes Protest (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2015 OP
they'll have us all in jail marym625 May 2015 #1
I totally agree, am so sick of this insane controversy, too Rhiannon12866 May 2015 #2
I will in the morning marym625 May 2015 #3
And thank you for the K&R. Rhiannon12866 May 2015 #4
Awesome! That's the next county over from me... Cooley Hurd May 2015 #5

marym625

(17,997 posts)
1. they'll have us all in jail
Thu May 14, 2015, 01:45 AM
May 2015

Probably on workfarms for GE, BP, AT&T and Comcast, before it's all over

Damn! This really sucks!

Rhiannon12866

(203,034 posts)
2. I totally agree, am so sick of this insane controversy, too
Thu May 14, 2015, 01:48 AM
May 2015

But it did put him back in the news and gives him a platform. Check out his new mini documentary here.

Rhiannon12866

(203,034 posts)
4. And thank you for the K&R.
Thu May 14, 2015, 02:06 AM
May 2015

I actually thought of posting this in LBN, but this story was from earlier today.

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