ONE Northside

  • Announcing ONE Northside’s 2018...

    Join ONE Northside for our 2018 Fall Fundraiser!   Join ONE Northside for our Fall Fundraiser on November 8th (only a few days after the election) to celebrate a year of powerful organizing, community building, and wins across our neighborhoods. Register now [...]

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  • Letter to Senators: Why we need support for SB3512 and Rent Stabilization in Illinois

    Letter to Senators: Why we need suppo...

    Dear Senators: My name is Jon Adams, and I am a leader at ONE Northside. I also am a resident of Wilson Men’s Hotel (and a member of our tenant’s assocation), a Single Resident Occupancy building in Uptown where tenants [...]

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  • Parents and students deserve well fun...

      Loris Tillet, Education Team Leader Loris Tillet is a parent leader on ONE Northside’s Education team. She came to the United States as a child, from Belize, in order to receive the best possible learning opportunities. “School for me, [...]

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  • We can’t afford austerity: Econ...

    The Convention is ONE week away — have you registered?  We’re spotlighting leaders on each of our issue teams each week until the Convention. You can see previous weeks here.  Bea Westrate, Economic Justice Leader Bea Westrate is a long-time resident [...]

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  • Raise Our Rates: Mental Health Justic...

    The Convention is only TWO weeks away — have you registered?  We’re spotlighting leaders on each of our issue teams each week until the Convention. You can see previous weeks here.  On Tuesday, ONE Northside’s Mental Health Justice Team testified to the [...]

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Fracking-Stop-the-Frack-AttackONE Northside, along with our partners in Fair Economy Illinois, worked hard a couple years ago to stop fracking (a dangerous method of oil and gas drilling) from occurring in Illinois. By generating tens of thousands of comments we effectively created a moratorium for over a year as the fracking lobby tried to legalize the activity. They ultimately prevailed and fracking became legal in Illinois. This month, the first permit was requested under the new law to frack in southern Illinois.

The permit is woefully inadequate and our partners downstate are requesting that we submit comments to block the permit from being approved. Will you take two minutes today to block this fracking permit from being approved? Fracking is dangerous for the earth and for communities’ ability to access clean drinking water.

Here are the instructions to submit comments to oppose the first fracking permit requested for southern IL. 5pm TODAY (7/28) is the deadline for submission.

  1. Open Woolsey-Application-Comments-07.28.17.
  2. Copy and paste all of the content in the document into a new email.
  3. Fill in your name and phone number at the end of the letter portion (~4th paragraph)
  4. Put “HVHHF #000001” in the Subject Line of the e-mail as well as the body.
  5. Send the e-mail  to:  DNR.HFPublicComments@illinois.gov

Please spread the word to colleagues and friends who want to stop fracking. Please email hgelder[at]onenorthside[dot]org to report your comment.

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