T.A.S.K. Meetings
Please join us:
To receive information about our student organization and meeting times please email us at: taskohio@gmail.com. We always welcome members of the public, as well as fellow students, faculty and staff.
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Sept. 29, 2012 Nimishillen Creek LEAP (Litter Elimination, Awareness and Prevention) Spend your Saturday morning with community members cleaning up the creek! It’ll be a little gritty, a lot of fun, and a great way to spend some time outside, doing something good for the environment and the community.
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: McKinley Presidential Library and Museum, 800 McKinley Monument Drive NW, Canton, OH 44708
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Meeting - February 17th at United Church of Christ, Kent: No Fracking in Kent Town Meeting. Hear more about this controversial drilling method. Learn what we all can do. Open to the public.
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: 1427 Horning Road, SE corner of Rt. 59 and Horning Rd. Parking in back, off Horning Rd.
Stand together!
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March and Rally - Saturday, February 11th in Kent, OH
A March to Protest Fracking will be held on Feb. 11, 2012, in downtown Kent. Marchers will meet at the Kent Stage at 10:45, proceed toward the KSU campus along Main Street, and then turn west to the Gazebo on Franklin Street. There, two speakers will present, Dr. Ted Voneida of Neomed and Jaime Frederick of Coitsville, whose personal experience with fracking provides a moving account of living near a fracked well. Marchers will then return to the Kent Stage for free hot chocolate and doughnuts.
“Marchers from all over Ohio are expected,” said George Sosebee, one of the organizers and a member of Concerned Citizens Ohio. “In so many townships, villages, and cities in northeastern Ohio, people are rising up to take back their rights to clean air, clean water, and clean soil.” Kent residents who love this city plan to attend, as well as supporters from 350.org, the national group Food and Water Watch, members of the Kent Environmental Council, faith-based groups, and citizens from as far away as West Virginia are expected. Many local grassroots groups will also attend.
Marchers are expected to follow all traffic rules and coordinate with Kent City police and the march marshalls. Safety is of utmost concern to the march sponsors, Concerned Citizens Ohio and other local groups.
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Meeting - February 9th at Raintree Country Club, Green: Information Night about Fracking. The Ohio Farm Bureau and ODNR will be there.
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Raintree Country Club, 4350 Mayfair Road, Green, Ohio – phone: 1-800-371-0017
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Meeting – January 25th at the Randolph Townhall – Drilling Informational Meeting. Chesapeake Energy will do a presentation the first hour then environmentalists will speak the second hour.
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 1639 Rte 44, Randolph, OH
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Meeting – January 23rd in Sugarcreek, OH - Community Informational Meeting on Fracking. Community meeting for residents to learn about the fracking process, have an opportunity to ask questions (must be submitted ahead of time) and share information, organized by Rotary Club, and Keith Rathbun, publisher of The Budget Amish newspaper. Invitees are Al Landis, & someone who used to work for the EPA….. Also, possibly speaker from Food and Water Watch.
Attending: Representatives of our local governments, ODOT, ODNR, Farm Bureau, and the county engineer
Location: Valley View Community Church, 2772 Simons Dr NW, Sugarcreek, OH 44681-7602
VERY IMPORTANT – questions MUST be submitted ahead of time!
Submit questions to localnews@thebudgetnewspaper.com or fax to 330-852-4421. You can submit up to 4.
Please CHECK HERE FOR UPDATES: http://www.facebook.com/events/329609847052291/
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Meeting – January 11th at the Covelli Center in Youngstown: Drilling Informational Meeting. The Youngstown City Council Public Utilities Committee will hold a public informational meeting about issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing drilling (i.e. fracking) and injection wells. ODNR officials have been invited to attend. The meeting will be from 5 PM to 7 PM on Wednesday, January 11th at the Covelli Centre’s Community Room. Meeting is open to the public.
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Meeting – January 7th at the Kent Free Library: FACT – FAith Communities Together – For Frack Awareness. We welcome anyone who is approaching fracking from a spiritual or religious stand. You don’ t have to belong to a traditional religion.
Location: 312 West Main St., Kent, OH
Time: Noon.
Lunch: Brown bag it. Coffee may be provided.
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T.A.S.K. Student Organization Launches First Annual Activist Documentary Film Festival
Free and Open to the Public
What: Five days, five documentaries that will challenge you to question the world around you. (Split Estate, Tapped, Food Inc, Hempsters: Plant the Seed, If a Tree Falls)
When: October 31 – November 3rd 7:00pm – 9:30pm & November 4 2:00pm – 4:30pm
Where: KSU @ Stark, 6000 Frank Ave. NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720
Snacks Provided, Bring Your own Water Bottle, Facilitated Discussions After Each Film
Any questions, please email taskohio@gmail.com
Flyer: Click Here
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Hi Everyone,
We’ve finalized the phone call with CELDF (Community Environmental Legal
Defense Fund). The conference phone call will be Monday, October 24, from
8-9 p.m.
I need to have you register on Doodle
(http://www.doodle.com/8qse3ssgy9hk8dk3) so I can easily notify you about
the conference phone # and registration #. If you cannot take part in this
phone call, but would be interested in the subject, please email me and let
me know if you’d like to be notified of further discussion of the issue of
local control of the industrialization of fracking (High Volume Horizontal
Hydrofracture Shale Gas Drilling (HVHHSGD).
Once you have watched Thomas Linzey’s one hour talk on www.celdf.org web
site, if you have questions about CELDF’s approach, that you wish Ben Price
to answer, by Friday, October 20, please email me (reply to this email) or
send your questions to <mailto:benprice@celdf.org> “Ben Price”
<benprice@celdf.org>.
Gwen Fischer
Concerned Citizens Ohio
concernedcitizensohio@gmail.com
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PhotoContest
Open to Kent State at Stark Students
Complete Rules
Entry open until September 30, 2011
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Midwest Powershift 2011
This is a must go for any student interested in creating a 100% Clean Energy Future NOW!
October 21 – 23 2011
Early registration is only $20.00. As a T.A.S.K. member this will be paid for.
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Speaker: Calvin Tillman of Dish, Texas
Calvin Tillman, Mayor of DISH, Texas, ( featured in GASLAND) speak in Plain on Sunday October 9th, 7:00 p,m.!!!!
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Fracking Meeting
An educational meeting on fracking with Joe Logan from the Ohio Environmental Council and Ohio Farmers Union and Vanessa Pesec from NEOGAP.
Sept. 26th, 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Flyer: Fracking Meeting
