Anonymous Youngstown - Call to all Anons - Lupo sentencing 8/5/14
Channel: Occupy Youngstown Oral History Project
Date: 03/08/2014

Greetings Anonymous from Anonymous Youngstown.  

This is a call for all Anonymous to attend the sentencing of Ben Lupo on Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at 10 am.   Ben Lupo will be sentenced at the Carl B. Stokes United States Court House, 801 West Superior Avenue, Courtroom 15A, Cleveland, Ohio, for illegally dumping several thousand gallons of fracking waste water into the Mahoning river in Youngstown, Ohio.  

Cleveland.com reports that a tanker holding twenty thousand gallons was dumped at least twenty times, for a total of at least four hundred thousand gallons of frack waste dumped into the river.

Such frack waste contains chemicals which are cancer-causing to humans, including Diesel, Diethano lamine, Naphthaline, Formaldehyde, Sulfuric acid, Thiourea, Benzyl chloride, and others.  Additionally,  fracking waste water contains radioactive elements which include radium-226, radium-228, and radon gas.

Human exposure to these elements is known to cause  breast, lung, and liver cancer and childhood leukemia. 

We need boots on the ground (outside and inside the courthouse) because this ruling will have state, and possibly national, implications for penalties rendered in future dumping incidents. The current penalties (max of 3 years and $250,000) are a joke, and insulting to the people of Ohio.

Come to Cleveland on Tuesday, August 5, 2014, and make the Anonymous presence known.

We are Anonymous.  We do not forgive.  We do not forget.  Expect us in Cleveland on August 5.

How Fracking is Exposing People to Radioactive Waste
http://www.alternet.org/environment/fracking-can-expose-you-radioactive-waste-even-youre-far-away-drilling-site
Fracking company owner pleads guilty to ordering toxic waste dumped into Mahoning River
http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/03/fracking_company_owner_pleads.html

Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing
http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Hydraulic-Fracturing-Chemicals-2011-4-18.pdf