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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 07:29 AM
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PG front page/Sunday: Marcellus shale protestors in St. Patrick's Day parade
Can someone with more than my marginal computer skills please post the excellent color picture which has pride of place on the PG's web page. It shows members of the Pittsburgh Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Lincoln Place Action and Marcellus Protest, among others carrying a powerful 4 ft. by 12 foot, brightly colored banner stating, as best I can:
type it:
Fracking___________ Unnatural
Drilling___________ Unethical
Spilling___________ Unwanted
Killing____________ Unsafe
Marcellusprotest.org


The St. Patrick's Day parade was a three-hour spectacle that included a fake bishop, real nuns, politicians, protesters and countless bagpipers and step dancers.

Several environmental groups marched together against Marcellus Shale drilling. They had drummers, marchers dressed as drill rigs and an enormous green fabric snake, carried Chinese dragon style on poles, labeled "Shell" and "Range Resources." Their leaflet was headlined, "Fracking WILL Poison Your Water!!"

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11072/1131662-53.stm#ixzz1GTvK2dgC
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 07:39 AM
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1. Here yinz go!
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 07:47 AM
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2. Sure and Isn't that a grand picture? Green for St. Paddy's Day & Green for the environment!
Thank you, thank you so much,
to quote Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson of the LAPD, on one of my favorite TV shows, The Closer.
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 07:57 AM
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3. Aye, that it is!
I need to keep up with events like this, as I would have gone if I'd known the date.
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 10:57 AM
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4. I loved that photo.
At this rate we will all be glowing a nice shade of St. Paddy's Day green for next year's parade.
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