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In September of this year, after about a year of work on 414wire I got the opportunity to move to Washington, DC to work on the Al Jazeera Fault Lines team. Fault Lines is Al Jazeera's award winning documentary program focusing the US, both its role internationally and its domestic politics.

After much debate about the future of the project with fellow collaborators, I felt that it was time to announce that 414wire will be on indefinite hiatus.

I wanted to thank everyone for their support of the project, including Jay Burseth, Justin Klug, Brianne O'Brien, Joel Van Haren, Jane Hampden Daley and Tracey Po***ck.

Additionally, I will hope that you will take the time to support Fault Lines by checking out our page: https://www.facebook.com/AJFaultLines

To serve as a preview of our work to come, below is a film featuring Milwaukee that was released last year.

Best,
Spencer Chumbley
Founder, 414wire

Fault Lines - The decline of labour unions in the US Labour unions are under fire across the US, but do they have enough vitality to fight back?

From Al Jazeera Fault Lines - How the White House Was Won. 414wire founder Spencer Chumbley contributed to the production of the film. Give it a watch!

Fault Lines - How the White House was Won It was a long and bitter race that lasted months and cost at least $2.5bn. This episode of Fault Lines takes viewers through a tour of the US 2012 presidenti...

Earthworks Oil and Gas Accountability's just-published report, "Gas Patch Roulette: How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsylvania," makes the case that the decision to allow fracking on PA's campuses has opened up a Pandora's Box stuffed with a looming health quagmire of epic proportions.

"Surveyed children averaged 19 health symptoms, including some that seem atypical in the young, such as severe headaches, joint pain, and forgetfulness," wrote Earthworks. "Among all the survey respondents, it was children living within 1500 feet of facilities who had the highest occurrence of frequent nosebleeds (56%)," also noting severe throat irritation as a reported ailment by 69-percent of people younger than the age of 16.

It's a dim outlook in PA to put it mildly, with a recent cherry on the top: Anadarko Petroluem Corporation is in the midst of "talks" with PA's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources about fracking in the Rock Run area, site of a state-owned park. Republican Governor Tom Corbett recently fired the Director of its state parks system, John Norbeck, who was diametrically opposed to fracking in PA's parks.

Whatever's left of the state's public assets currently being auctioned off for fracking - in what author and activist Naomi Klein described as "shock doctrine" fashion - to the oil and gas industry's highest bidders.

Fracking in PA Poisoning Communities as Floodgates Open for Drilling on Campuses, Public Parks Pennsylvania recently passed Act 147 - also known as the Indigenous Mineral Resources Development Act - opening up the floodgates for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on the campuses of its public universities. As noted in a recent post by DeSmog, the shale gas industry hasn't limited Version 2.0