We asked Nydia Tisdale to say a few words about her recent legal situation,
and
here’s what she said.
See previous post for context of what she’s talking about, and of course Nydia’s website About Forsyth and her YouTube channel.
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Visiting Nydia Tisdale
Update 2016-10-19: And we asked Nydia to speak directly through YouTube.
Here’s Nydia Tisdale with her picture on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Gretchen and I dropped in on Nydia Sunday afternoon in Roswell, GA.
Needless to say, we support Nydia.
She usually doesn’t even provide commentary with her video reports,
yet when videoing public meetings she’s repeatedly faced obstruction
from people who don’t seem to know the First Amendment, nor even the Four Amendment, much less Georgia’s Open Meetings Law.
Chris Joyner, AJC, 6 October 2016, Ga. citizen journalist faces possible jail time, Continue reading
Bell Brothers v. Sabal Trail Attorney Fees
You can help prevent this happening to you or your neighbors.
Sabal Trail will use this to intimidate anyone who opposes them,
just like they’ve been using previous court cases to scare people all along.
Fortunately, the Bells have already provided a way everyone can help
and thereby demonstrate we the people do not want Sabal Trail.
The Bell brothers have set up a
gofundme campaign.
If you can’t contribute, you can help publicize it.
In the same case that people travelled to Leesburg, GA to attend twice, from Dougherty County and Lowndes County, GA and from places in Florida as far south as the Everglades, the Bell Brothers lost Continue reading
Lowndes County Commission Trailer
A
movie trailer for your local government, the Lowndes County Commission!
No, it didn’t win at
the CAUSES 5 mini-film festival at VSU Saturday night,
but you can, by speaking up at your local government
(and state and federal).
-jsq
Lowndes County Commission Trailer
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Submitted to the
CAUSES 5 mini-film festival at VSU, 23 January 2016,
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
CAUSES in VDT, and the mini-films show 7PM tonight at VSU 2016-01-23
90-second movie trailers of local issues, tonight at 7PM, Bailey Auditorium, VSU, Valdosta, Lowndes County, GA. We sent in some submissions, and I hope you did, too; once we thought of them as trailers, it was pretty easy (by “we” I mean Gretchen”).
Desiree Carter, VDT, 22 Jan 2016,
Valdosta State showcases ‘Causes’,
“Causes” is a mini-festival created by Dr. Matthew Richard in the anthropology department of Valdosta State University.
“I came up with this in 2008 when Facebook and YouTube were new,” said Richard. “It’s a neat way to challenge students and to show that things learned in class can be applied to real life.”
To Richard, this project embodies Continue reading
Why should we let this foreign corporation, Sabal Trail, run roughshod over us? –Jim Parker @ LCC 2014-11-11
“Why do we have to kneel before their wishes? How is it that a single foreign corporation can have greater power and say than the hundreds of property owners and their supporters?” asked Jim Parker
in
the 11 November 2014 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. Continue reading
Protest at Valdosta Sabal Trail office 2014-10-21
Joe Adgie wrote for the VDT 22 October 2014, Residents protests Sabal Trail,
VALDOSTA — A group of around 40 Valdosta and Lowndes County residents went to the Sabal Trail’s Valdosta office on Tuesday afternoon in protest of the group’s proposed pipeline.
The group, many of which carried signs displaying their opposition to the pipeline, discussed the impact of a pipeline on the area.
Dr. Michael Noll, president of Wiregrass Activists for Clean Energy, discussed wanting to educate the community about the dangers of a natural gas pipeline.
“We also want to Continue reading
Protest today against Sabal Trail pipeline
It’s a bad week for Sabal Trail and its proposed fracked methane pipeline,
with three back-to-back protests today alone (March and Protest in Valdosta, GA plus Development Authority meeting, and Protest at Sabal Trail Open House in Jasper, FL, plus Hamilton and Suwannee County Commission meetings)
after one yesterday (at Albany Open House and Dougherty County Commission) and more to come. Continue reading
Nova Scotia banned fracking; will southeast U.S. ban fracked methane pipelines?
Yesterday
Nova Scotia announced a ban on fracking.
Will local or state governments in the southeast, now threatened
by the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline,
ban such pipelines?
Especially since FERC has now directed Sabal Trail to examine
routes through Americus, Cordele, Ashburn, Tifton, Adel, Valdosta, and even Thomasville,
in addition
to the ones it already proposed through Dougherty, Colquitt, Brooks, and Lowndes Counties?
Sierra Club Canada wrote about public meetings in its Media Release of 28 August 2014, Government of Nova Scotia Needs to Ban Fracking,
“Public meetings held by the panel were attended by an overwhelming majority of well-informed citizens who had deep concerns about fracking,” according to [Gretchen] Fitzgerald, “Those concerns should be met with the type of leadership they deserve: an immediate, legally binding ban.”
And the Nova Scotia government listened. Bruce Erskine wrote for The Herald Business 3 September 2014, Nova Scotia to ban fracking, posting a video in which you can hear Energy Minister Andrew Younger say: Continue reading
DuPont withdraws mine permit application after citizen opposition
After only a few weeks of organized opposition by citizens,
including Satilla Riverkeeper and activists from as far away as Waycross,
mighty DuPont has had to think again about mining Wayne County near Jesup.
Not given up, but at least not just breezing through unnoticed.
Update 2014-08-28 14:00: Greenlaw Press Release.
Terry Dickson wrote for jacksonville.com 27 August 2014, DuPont withdraws application for permit to mine more than 2,200 acres in Wayne County, Continue reading