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Related: About this forumExclusive: 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. Heres 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 whats happening at Seneca Lake, and also understand that this isnt 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
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marym625
(17,997 posts)1. they'll have us all in jail
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
But it did put him back in the news and gives him a platform. Check out his new mini documentary here.
marym625
(17,997 posts)3. I will in the morning
Just about to turn in.
Thank you for posting it
Rhiannon12866
(203,034 posts)4. And thank you for the K&R.
I actually thought of posting this in LBN, but this story was from earlier today.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)5. Awesome! That's the next county over from me...