NORTH COAST, Calif. – A signature drive is beginning to put an initiative on the November ballot in Mendocino County that will preserve our county's clean drinking water by banning fracking while giving residents more local control to protect the county's essential resources.

Janie Rezner's guests on KZYX's “Women's Voices” at 7 p.m. Monday, June 16, will be Geri Morisky who – along with many others – is gathering signatures for this Community Rights Initiative, and who attended the recent Democracy School led by Paul Cienfugeos, Community Rights educator and organizer.
 
The show also will hear from Liz Rog of Decorah, Iowa, Winneshiek County, the location of that region's first ever Community Rights ordinance, to attempt to stop frack sand mining.

If the North Coast effort is successful, Mendocino County will be the first county in California to use the initiative process to ban fracking and assert rights to clean air, water and soil.
 
The show will air at 7 p.m. at 90.7 FM Philo, 88.1 FM Fort Bragg, and 91.5 FM Willits and also can be heard streaming live at www.kzyx.org . There will be time for call-ins. It will be archived at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/contributor/4206 along with past shows.