I Predict A Renewed Wave Of Political Activism In 2014 ♥ A Very Busy New Year

First We Have To, Shut Down-spectra's natural gas transportation pipeline in New Jersey And New York City!

The Objective Is Simple-NO Gas Pipeline!

spectra energy built a major natural gas pipeline expansion to New York City that runs through the heart of Jersey City. Jersey City & NYC will bear tremendous risks with no reward, all for the benefit of spectra energy shareholders!

Natural gas pipelines are prone to high risk of leaks that are released as either fine mists of toxic spray or result in fires and explosions that may do significant damage to property and life.

It Ain't Over, Till It's Over!

Big energy isn't faking us out, with their psychological manipulations. (A type of social influence that aims to change the perception or behavior of others through underhanded, deceptive, or even abusive tactics.)

How to Detect Lies Body Language, Reactions, Speech Patterns

List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan

Spectra is rushing through the installation of their high pressure natural gas pipeline under the Hudson River, from New Jersey to emerge at Gansevoort Street, where Con Edison will pick up the work and build out the last section of the pipe to link to their distribution system.

spectra's proposed pipeline, would run up 10th Avenue from next to the New Whitney Museum up to 15th Street.



Civil Disobedience Training Manual

Thermal underwear really helps.  Also; don't forget your thermal socks, hats, and gloves!

I always have thermal shirts and leggings in the winter! They really make a noticeable difference!

The ACLU has an affiliate in every state and Puerto Rico. Affiliates handle requests for legal assistance. Find Your Local Affiliate

Street Speech: ACLU-Your Rights In Washington To Parade, Picket, and Leaflet

Civil Rights Lawyers by Location

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Name extreme storms caused by climate change after policy makers who deny climate change and obstruct climate policy. For those who haven't seen this yet, it's good.



Stop Governor Brown's Plan to Frack California by Kossack, Dan Bacher.

Frackers Await the Flow of Water from the $26-Billion Delta Project link from Kossack, olo.

Contact California Governor Jerry Brown Tell Him, No Gas Fracking In California. Especially in the Beautiful Central Valley!

California's Central Valley 450 miles from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific Ocean coast. It covers approximately 22,500 square miles, about 13.7% of California's total land area (slightly smaller than the state of West Virginia), and is home to some of California's most productive agricultural areas.

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November 4th 2014

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The first time I registered to vote in 71'. I couldn't vote because I didn't know how to find my polling place.

So I'm sharing voting info with everyone. I think it would be especially helpful for first time voters.

Vote And Encourage Others To Vote; Democratic, Of Course. 

USA.gov Registering to Vote and Voting Frequently Asked Questions ie Absentee Voting, Questions for Uniformed Services/Family Members, Questions for Overseas Citizens and many more.

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Shut Down-spectra's natural gas transportation pipeline in New Jersey And New York City!

Or; It Ain't Over, Till It's Over.
Stop spectra!

♥For My Grandfather Michael Murphy. He worked on the Central Railroad; (in Jersey City), 100 years ago. Unloading box cars with a big hook. He and his fellow workers, sweltered in the summer and froze in the winter!

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Contact New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie

Contact New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo

Contact President Obama

Tell them; STOP, the spectra pipeline!

The spectra pipeline is expected to pump 800 million cubic feet of gas a day, starting in Linden, NJ (Bayway Refinery). Eventually making its way to Manhattan.

Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life.
Define yourself! Harvey Fierstein

November 2 2013
Thirteen people were arrested for blocking the West Side Highway adjacent to the site where Spectra Energy has completed a pipeline entering Manhattan from New Jersey.


In December 2012, Jersey City filed a lawsuit in Federal Court to halt construction of spectra's proposed pipeline.

This suit, hasn't been heard by the court yet. I read the news every day awaiting the Court's decision so I know it hasn't been settled yet. Jersey City is still waiting the Federal Courts pending decision concerning the overturning of FERC's decision.

Legal arguments, against the spectra gas pipeline. For ♥All My Friends In New Jersey, New York♥ And Everywhere♥

Contact Spectra Energy Watch. Where Eminent Domain Meets Grassroots & Social Media.

Private property rights are fundamental to freedom.

Founding father Samuel Adams described it as an “essential” right and wrote, “that no man can justly take the property of another without his consent.”

The Continuing Saga of; Stop spectra gas, aka The New Jersey-New York Expansion Project
 
Detailed Maps-Proposed Pipeline Route

The Danger

Incredibly; spectra wants to run the Manhattan portion of the pipeline from, Liberty State Park in Jersey City, past the Statue Of Liberty, Ellis Island, Castle Garden (War of 1812 Era Fort Clinton And America's first immigrant receiving center), The Holland Tunnel, The New Jersey Turnpike, etc and off Hoboken's pristine shoreline, into Manhattan's West Village. Spectra laying a pipeline to bring FRACKED gas into the West Village Really Scary! This is crazy!

On June 28 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted approval to spectra to proceed with construction of the pipeline and ok'd spectra's original proposal.

Construction and testing are finished. Now this gas pipeline will go into service next month, with gas flowing  through Bayonne, Jersey City and offshore Hoboken.

The spectra pipeline, $857 million project.

Natural Gas Watch.org Spectra Energy Delayed Critical Natural Gas Pipeline Repairs, Maintenance for Years in Pennsylvania

Sane Energy Project saneenergyproject.org

Contact The Government Tell Them, No spectra pipeline!

State Government Offices Local US Government, City Government And Federal Government

spectra and con ed plan to bring fracked gas, laced with radon, into New York via a new explosive, high pressure pipeline. This is bad for the environment and bad for New Yorkers.

From Bayonne to Hoboken, spectra's controversial natural gas transportation pipeline is expected to start pumping gas November 1st by Joseph R. Vena/The Jersey Journal October 24, 2013

I wrote this diary because I love New York City, Jersey City and they really turned Hoboken into a beautiful city. I have many friends in Manhattan and Jersey City.

I don't know how spectra got a permit for this project to begin with.

Considering the large number of people all over Jersey City, NYC and with the West Village's congestion, allowing spectra's gas pipeline in this densely populated area, is totally reckless and irresponsible!

Jersey City spectra energy pipeline Council Caucus 02/22/2011




Occupy Spectra NYC Aug 11, 2012 Occupy and NYC residents out in force to oppose the construction of an explosive pipeline that proposes to deliver radon-infested fracked gas from the Marcellus.


Manhattan Side PSA


What a Pipeline Explosion Looks Like Edison, New Jersey

♥The Statue Of Liberty Thanks You All For Your Activism♥

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This Land Is Your Land,
This Land Is My Land
This Land Belongs To You And Me.


NO Tar Sands! Mountaintop Removal, Gas Fracking, Strip And Longwall Mining, An American Tragedy And Global Climate Crime!

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President Obama launched a national campaign to make a college education more accessible and achievable for low-income students at a White House summit on higher education Jan. 16 2014.
 
The President is calling on colleges, universities, businesses, and other organizations to help expand opportunity for more young Americans to get to college and succeed.

Leaders from more than 140 colleges and universities, businesses and and organizations attended a meeting at which Obama urged them to adopt best practices to increase the enrollment of low-income students and graduation rates.

The Posse Foundation Has identified, recruited and trained 5,544 public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential to become Posse Scholars. Since 1989, these students—many of whom might have been overlooked by traditional college selection processes—have been receiving four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships from Posse’s partner institutions of higher education.

Most important, Posse Scholars persist and graduate at a rate of 90 percent and make a visible difference on campus and throughout their professional careers.

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“If we want America to lead in the 21st century, nothing is more important than giving everyone the best education possible, from the day they start preschool to the day they start their career.” President Barack Obama

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Get 2 Cents For Your School Or Charity
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Help For The Okiciyap Community Food Pantry/And A Links "Information-A-Thon" For Everyone.

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About St Joseph's

All New Totally Updated-Jersey City NJ Sues In Federal Court To Stop spectra's gas pipeline

♥For My Grandfather Michael Murphy. He worked on the Central Railroad; (in Jersey City), 100 years ago. Unloading box cars with a big hook.
He and his fellow workers, sweltered in the summer and froze in the winter!

And For ♥All My Friends In New Jersey, New York♥ And Everywhere♥ Or; It Ain't Over, Till It's Over.

The Continuing Saga of; Stop spectra gas, aka The New Jersey-New York Expansion Project

Contact The Government
Tell them,  No spectra pipeline!

State Government Offices Local US Government, City Government And Federal Government

E-Mail New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Tell him, stop the spectra pipeline!

This is Really Scary!

From Bayonne to Hoboken, spectra's controversial natural gas transportation pipeline is expected to start pumping gas November 1st by Joseph R. Vena/The Jersey Journal October 24, 2013

Construction and testing are finished. Now this gas pipeline will go into service next month, with gas flowing  through Bayonne, Jersey City and offshore Hoboken.

The spectra pipeline is expected to pump 800 million cubic feet of gas a day, starting in Linden and eventually making its way to Manhattan, the completion of the $857 million project.

In December 2012, Jersey City filed a lawsuit in Federal Court to halt construction of spectra's proposed pipeline.

It hasn't been heard yet. I read the news every day awaiting the Court's decision so I know it hasn't been settled yet. Jersey City is still waiting the Federal Courts pending decision concerning the overturning of FERC's decision.

On June 28 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted approval to spectra to proceed with construction of the pipeline and ok'd spectra's original proposal.

Incredibly; spectra wants to run the Manhattan portion of the pipeline from, Liberty State Park in Jersey City, past the Statue Of Liberty, Ellis Island, Castle Garden (War of 1812 Era Fort Clinton And America's first immigrant receiving center), The Holland Tunnel, The New Jersey Turnpike, etc and off Hoboken's pristine shoreline, into Manhattan's West Village. Spectra laying a pipeline to bring FRACKED gas into the West Village

This is crazy!

I wrote this diary because I love New York City, Jersey City and they really turned Hoboken into a beautiful city. I have many friends in Manhattan and Jersey City.

I don't know how spectra got a permit for this project to begin with.

Considering the large number of people all over Jersey City, NYC and with the West Village's congestion, allowing spectra's gas pipeline in this densely populated area, is totally reckless and irresponsible!

I realize that, someone does not care about us at all!

 Stop spectra natural gas [transportation] pipeline!


Jersey City spectra energy pipeline Council Caucus 02/22/2011


Detailed Maps-Proposed Pipeline Route

The Danger

Natural Gas Watch.org Spectra Energy Delayed Critical Natural Gas Pipeline Repairs, Maintenance for Years in Pennsylvania

What a Pipeline Explosion Looks Like Edison, New Jersey



Learn in two minutes about how spectra and con ed plan to bring fracked gas, laced with radon, into New York via a new explosive, high pressure pipeline. This is bad for the environment and bad for New Yorkers.


Occupy Spectra NYC Aug 11, 2012 Occupy and NYC residents out in force to oppose the construction of an explosive pipeline that proposes to deliver radon-infested fracked gas from the Marcellus.


spectra interstate gas pipeline

Contact Spectra Energy Watch. Where Eminent Domain Meets Grassroots & Social Media. Private property rights are fundamental to freedom.

Founding father Samuel Adams described it as an “essential” right and wrote, “that no man can justly take the property of another without his consent.”

Sane Energy Project saneenergyproject.org at Facebook

Manhattan Side PSA

♥The Statue Of Liberty Thanks You All For Your Activism♥

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This Land Is Your Land,
This Land Is My Land



This Land Belongs To You And Me.

Happy Fourth Of July Everyone

Greater Newark/New York Fresh Air Fund♥ Sends Children To Summer Camp

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Oglala Lakota College

From its inception in 1971, the college’s mission has been to provide the educational credentials to our students so that they could compete for employment opportunities on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

As a result of having a college on the reservation; Lakota people are now employed in teaching, nursing, human services, business, computer, and vocational educational positions on the Pine Ridge reservation.

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For ♥All My Friends In New Jersey, New York And Everywhere♥
Or; It Ain't Over, Till It's Over!

Never Swim When There's No Life Guard And Never Swim Alone!

And Never swim out further; than you can swim back to shore from, in 30 seconds.
How to Perform CPR


Picture Illustrations How to Do CPR on an Adult The summer season has begun and I just wanted to share my experiences and some good advice about swimming safety.

I keep reading in the New Jersey news about young people drowning. So I wrote this for everyone, everywhere.

Rip Tides (current)

An extremely strong channel of water flowing seaward from near the shore (see photos), through the surf line. National Weather Service-Rip Current Safety

Typical flow is at 0.5 metres per second (1–2 feet per second), and can be as fast as 2.5 metres per second (8 feet per second).

Rip Current



I grew up in Bayonne and Southern New Jersey (Brick Town. About 20 miles from Seaside Heights Boardwalk) and spent every summer swimming in its ocean and occasionally in its lakes. But mostly in the ocean.

I've swam at beaches, from Point Pleasant to Atlantic City.

The ocean is not a place for an inexperienced swimmer, no matter how calm it looks.

If caught in an outgoing tide; or rip tide, Don't Try To Swim In To The Shore. SWIM SIDEWAYS FROM ONE SIDE OF THE BEACH TO THE OTHER. Rip tides are sudden and are only in parts of the water.

Don't panic. If you swim sideways you will swim out of the rip tide affected water. It's impossible to fight the tide and try to swim in. It will just keep pulling you out further

The ocean may look beautiful, inviting and fun, but it can also be very dangerous for anyone who is not a strong swimmer. If you don't swim really good. Swim in the motel pool and stay in the shallow end. Pools can be dangerous too!

Never Mix Alcohol/Drugs With Activities Near Or In The Water!

Always wear a life jacket (swim vest), if you are not an experienced swimmer and always, when boating.

Teach Children To Swim!

Children's Swim Vests

Adult's Swim Vests

(I have no interests in these above companies. I just wanted to provide some links where economical swim vests were available).

Use caution when swimming in lakes, rivers, streams and generally everywhere.
Riverbeds, streams etc, often contain tree roots and other debris that a swimmer can get caught on. 

The fresh water, unlike the salt water of the ocean, doesn't provide any buoyancy which helps you to float .

Buoyancy Salt Water vs. Fresh Water by Chris Sullivan
Also, the mud bottoms can pull one down.

Always wear a bathing suit when swimming (or at the most, cotton shorts and a tee shirt). Do Not wear heavy clothing, like jeans. You'll sink like a stone!

When in a desperate situation in the water you do not need an extra 8 pounds (aprox weight of a wet pair of jeans) pulling you down!

I learned how to swim by age five using a swim/life vest. I still almost drowned in a lake, once when I was a teenager.

I was just wading and stepped into a drop (also called a dip). The next thing I knew, I was over my head and going down.

I was wearing jeans and they became heavy as lead and were pulling me under and that was it!

Luckily I had the time to tear them off and then I managed to struggle back up to the surface.

At the time I was surrounded by people close enough to almost touch me. But apparently no one saw me go under.

I am a most experienced swimmer. If I can almost drown, anyone can!

NEVER SWIM, WHERE THERE IS NO LIFEGUARD PRESENT AND NEVER SWIM ALONE!

And Never jump into unfamiliar water. As well as never dive into unfamiliar water.

One never knows how deep the water is, local and current tide strength, whether it's full of large rocks and other hazards that one can hit.

And Never, Drink And Drive!



Mothers Against Drunk Driving/Quotations

Drunk Driving Prevention Tools
Make a Plan and Stick to the Plan!

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General Phone: 609.393.4252
Fax: 609.393.4259
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(I have no interests in this company I just think it's a good thing for the charities and for the City of Trenton, New Jersey).



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USCIS will secure America’s promise as a nation of immigrants by providing accurate and useful information, granting immigration and citizenship benefits, promoting an awareness and understanding of citizenship.

Forms

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♥The DREAM Act, We Won't Give Up♥

Thank You President Obama for releasing hundreds of detainees.

Please release the rest of these no risk, innocent immigrants.



Also, Thank You President Obama for your new immigration reform policy.
Administration Announces Deferred Action for Certain Young People
by Maurice Belanger The Immigration Forum

On June 15 2012, the Obama Administration announced that it would grant deferred action (a form of administrative relief from deportation) for certain young people who were brought to the U.S. as young children and meet certain criteria.

Join/Pass The Dream Act!

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Cesar Chavez Explains Boycotts


The Struggle in the Fields Documentary


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Fighting For Political Power



The first time I registered to vote in 71'. I couldn't vote because I didn't know how to find my polling place.

So I'm sharing voting info with everyone. I think it would be especially helpful for first time voters.

Vote And Encourage Others To Vote. Then; Please Vote Democratic, Straight Down The Ballot Of Course!

USA.gov Registering to Vote and Voting Frequently Asked Questions ie Absentee Voting, Questions for Uniformed Services/Family Members, Questions for Overseas Citizens and many more.

Polling Place Finder And Voting Info League Of Women Voters

Verify Your Voter Registration Status. Rock the Vote's mission is to engage and build political power for young people in our country. Frequently Asked Questions/Registering

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I Was Born; A Suffragette, A Democrat, And A Union Maid! Women's Suffrage In The United States Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. Timeline

Please take a moment to call or contact your Elected Officials today. Tell Them, To Pass The DREAM Act And To Fix Our Broken Immigration System! Contact Government

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HSF Online Application System!

Scholarships



The NAACP believes strongly that leaders must be developed today and such development is ongoing. The Youth & College Division, created in 1936.

Today there are more than 25,000 young people, under the age of 25, representing 700 Youth Councils, High School Chapters and College Chapters actively involved in the fight for civil rights.

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The National Urban League started out as a grass roots, civil rights organization, has evolved into a powerhouse for helping people secure economic empowerment. Programs And Initiatives

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(USCIS) is the government agency that oversees immigration to the United States.

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Assisting Jews in the Former Soviet Union since 1975

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Since the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 with the resulting hyperinflation, pensions have become almost worthless.  At the same time, food, clothing, medicine and apartments are no longer subsidized by the government, and the prices for these have risen beyond the reach of most pensioners.

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The DREAM Act, We Won't Give Up!

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Thank You Pres Obama, Democratic Congress, And Everyone who is working to end violence in America. This is one of our biggest issues. We have to fix our cities and towns.

Anyone who proposes any further budget cuts; (hint, republicans) are really not taking the nations best interest to heart.

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