Forum Post: A March to "Stop The Northern Pass", Fri. Nov. 25th / LiveFreeOrFry.org

All,

I need to connect with whomever about a march against ”The Northern Pass”. (a HVDC, 1200Mw, electric corridor through pristine NH wilderness down to points south: Mass and Conn)

Things are developing on my end but WE need to act fast so I can get this out through our info-network. I’m thinking / planning on sending out a flier and web link(s) and whatever OWS wants, and be at Liberty Plaza on the 23rd to talk with the people to possibly rally support for a Rally and March against Northern Pass on Friday, Nov 25th. The weather forecast looks favorable for Friday.

It's short notice but this is the only window of opportunity...there is no time like the present...the powers at be are making some major decisions on the local level and this march against this Northern Pass would be a great boost for the opposition, that's 99% of informed NH citizens, and raise awareness of this project. The big corps have been trying to keep it quiet, the people have been sounding the alarm and trying to stop it.

I need a point of contact at this point and I need you to please respond at your earliest convenience.

LiveFreeOrFry.org supports the OWS movement, we are fighting the same causes: corporate greed and abuse of the people’s rights. We've been at this 24/7 for the past year. Many groups have formed in NH to fight this. I will alert them all of the rally and march if we can work this out.

The march to ”Stop The Northern Pass” could possibly get us the attention of the national press that we need, and if it happens on Friday the 25th it would be timed with the release of the Nov-Dec issue of Yankee Magazine’s multi-page article about this controversial HVDC Power Line project: ”Battle Lines” , pitting big business against private land owners / NH citizens. http://stopthetowersnh.blogspot.com/

Any feed back appreciated.

What to talk , that would be great, zap me a number.

Hope to connect with you soon, Rick Johnsen http://www.livefreeorfry.org info@livefreeoerfry.org

Re: "John Jaye16p said 1 day, 20 hours ago: @Rick, Just getting through this topic for the first time, and the trajectory is great!!

One thing that strikes me, like @JesseLadner, is that there is a lot of overlap between your proposal and other things being worked on here in PER – I would include the “Demand w/out Divide” among those with a lot of overlap.

That said, I wonder if there is some way to organize joining forces around this topic?

On another thread, I mentioned the idea of “consensus building” through cross-working-group projects – IMO a cross-wg project has the advantages of promoting a sense of cooperation and shared goals between similar working groups, and will help support-wise when it comes time to go to GA with a specific proposal.

Is this something you (now in the Demands WG) and those in the PER group would be interested in?

It just seems that we can be so much more effective if we consolidate overlapping projects into a unified front, understanding that this may take some adjustment of ego’s on everyone’s part to align all our interests.

…this seems like a perfect candidate to start experimenting with in that regard, because IMO it is something that has the greatest overlapping support within the movement…

Thoughts?""

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