Strength in the Struggle: Renewing spirits for the work of climate justice
Monday, January 27, 10:00 - 12:30 (Snow Date Monday, Feb. 3)
Meet at Quincy Point Congregational Church, 444 Washington St., Quincy
Join in Spiritual Witness at Enbridge’s Compressor Station Site
In cooperation with Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS), local faith leaders invite our interfaith colleagues, members of faith and spiritual communities, and all people of good will to join us on Monday, January 27, for a public spiritual witness for climate justice. Enbridge has begun construction in Weymouth on a dangerous and dirty fracked-gas compressor station*. Like Joshua in the Hebrew bible story, we will sing, pray and march along the “wall” of Enbridge’s fence-line, proclaiming that all walls of injustice must fall. We will share grief, honor and support frontline leaders, and renew our spirits as participants in Beloved Community - local and global, human and more-than-human.
Gather at Quincy Point Congregational Church, 444 Washington St., Quincy, at 10:00 a.m. for coffee, orientation, song and prayer/meditation. Then we will carpool to the construction site at 50 Bridge St., Weymouth, for a procession along the fence-line with song and multifaith prayer/expressions, and conclude on the Fore River Bridge, holding signs and banners in support of FRRACS.
RSVP HERE so that we can plan appropriately. Link to Facebook event page available here.
Faith leaders, please wear identifying attire as appropriate.
Invite others from your spiritual community to come with you.
Bring signs and banners from your congregation, community, or organization.
At the RSVP link above, share a paragraph about why your faith tradition or spiritual grounding compels you to act for climate justice. Share it with your spiritual community, and bring a copy that we can collect to share with media.
Dress warmly, since the site can be windy and very cold.
If the weather is questionable, check the event notice for possible postponement to Feb. 3.
Parking, Public Transportation, and accessibility: Both the church and construction site are handicap accessible. If parking at the church, place a FRRACS sign on your dashboard and use the spaces indicated in the map below. See maps for parking areas at both sites. On public transportation, take the Red Line to Quincy Center, then bus 220 or 222 to the church.
*As many of you know, the proposed site is in a densely populated urban area, adjacent to two Environmental Justice Communities already overburdened with pollution from existing emitters. It is on the banks of the Fore River and Boston Harbor, and next to conservation land, a public park, and critical infrastructure. Enbridge is digging up the site, composed of coal ash containing arsenic, asbestos, heavy metals, and oil contamination, without required protections for their workers, the public, or the environment. They plan to truck out 1100 loads of toxic soil to four dumps in MA and NH, and then build a massive toxic emitter of methane and other toxic chemicals.
Local towns and citizens groups are in court attempting to stop the project because of the many irregularities in the permitting process. Our local, state, and federal elected leaders are united in bipartisan opposition (with the exception of the Baker Administration and its regulatory appointees). Eversource and National Grid have stated publicly that they do not need gas from this project in order to serve Mass. needs. The gas is primarily for export as LNG via a proposed terminal in Nova Scotia, where Mi’ kmaq fishing grounds will be destroyed. The impacts of this projects affect families and the environment from the Pennsylvania fracking fields, to Nova Scotia, to Europe where the gas would be burned, accelerating the global climate emergency. We believe that stopping this project is an urgent matter of climate justice for people of faith and all people of good will. Join us on January 27.
Parking on site:
Parking placard (print and place on dashboard, if you’re parking at the church):
