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[Caroline Yacoub]

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>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
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>From: Kathleen Hernandez <HernandezKathleen at hotmail.com>
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>TRUSTEES OF LA COMMUNITY COLLEGES WHO ARE VOTING TOMORROW
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>"ACTION NEEDED TODAY - EMAIL TRUSTEES OF LA COMMUNITY COLLEGES WHO ARE VOTING 
>TOMORROW ON RESOLUTION TO BAN FRACKING - SAMPLE LETTER BELOW.
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>The trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District are going to vote 
>tomorrow on a resolution to urge elected officials to place a moratorium on 
>fracking.
>
>This college district is large, and any resolution they pass will carry a lot of 
>weight. I'm told the trustees take a point of view very seriously when they 
>receive lots of e-mails.
>
>Please send the trustees an e-mail urging them to pass this resolution. You can 
>copy and paste my e-mail (below), or use some portion of it, or write your own.
>
>Please place these words in your e-mail's subject line: Moratorium on 
>Fracking--Resolution BT2. The e-mail address is: trustees at laccd.edu.
>
>Please forward this e-mail to your friends and ask them to do what you're 
doing.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>To the Trustees of the Los Angeles Community College District:
>
>Please vote in favor of Resolution BT2, urging elected officials to place a 
>moratorium on fracking, which will come before you Wednesday, March 20.
>
>The health and safety of West Los Angeles College students and employees, as 
>well as residents of Culver City and the Baldwin Hills section of Los Angeles, 
>are in jeopardy. Not only these people, but even the college buildings and the 
>ground under them are in danger.
>
>As you probably know, "fracking" is the common term for horizontal hydraulic 
>fracturing. This is a particularly controversial method of oil extraction in 
>which a mixture of water, sand and chemicals�manny toxic-- is injected under 
>enormous pressure into the earth. This process causes shale rock formations to 
>fracture, releasing oil and gas.
>
>The giant oil company PXP announced its intention to construct hundreds of oil 
>wells in the Inglewood Oil Field, immediately adjacent to the college, which 
>sits on land belonging to Culver City and unincorporated Los Angeles County. 
>This is the largest urban oil field in the United States, surrounded by 
>approximately 300,000 people-- those most likely to be harmed.
>
>Fracking--environmentalists, geologists and medical professionals tell us--is 
>dangerous, potentially causing earthquakes; polluting aquifers, ground water, 
>the earth and the air with toxins, including carcinogens, and releasing great 
>amounts of methane into the air�thereby increasing global warming. The process 
>also uses great amounts of precious water.
>
>The campus of West LA College itself is in danger for at least two reasons: 1) 
>The oil field and college sit atop earthquake faults, putting the college and 
>surrounding areas in jeopardy. Not only the process of fracking itself, but also 
>the process of injecting the polluted water back into injection wells once it's 
>been used, greatly heighten the likelihood of a major earthquake. 2) The land on 
>which the college sits is essentially hard rock, but repeated fracking would 
>crack that rock numerous times, making the land unstable.
>
>Pro-fracking individuals may tout the benefits of fracking, but we need to urge 
>the governor and president to invest heavily in sources of renewable (and safe) 
>forms of energy, so that we become less and less dependent on gas and oil, 
>whether foreign or domestic.
>
>Thank you for taking this into consideration."
>
>Kathleen Hernandez 
>
>Our federal budget is a moral document, and thus reflects the values and 
>priorities of our society; 
>
>
>Martin Luther King Jr. once said,���A nation that continues year after year to 
>spend more money on military defense
>
> than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.��� 
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