GASLAND and the Abolitionist Movement....is this the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of Our Time?

Oscar The abolitionist movement to rid the United States of the evils of slavery rose to a fever pitch before the Civil War.  Opposing political and economic forces sought to maintain their wealth on the backs of fellow human beings with the unspeakable evil of the slavery system.  When I think about this, I can't help draw some comparisons to the equally unspeakable evil of poisoning people in poor, rural areas and gaining great wealth on the backs of these human beings.  At the time, a young teacher and devoted abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote the famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.  It sent shockwaves throughout the country and helped mobilize and energize the abolitionist movement.  I can't help but see the comparison with GASLAND.

  This film and its soft-spoken, intelligent director, Josh Fox, have accomplished the same thing:  They have mobilized an entire nation of victims of natural gas production and hydraulic fracturing into a huge, growing passionate movement of people who are fighting for their very lives.  Like the abolitionist movement, many in government circles labled them extremists, but watch this:  even Lincoln, who was actually a man who once held less than noble ideas concerning African Americans, was finally turned by the passion and truth of the cause of abolitionists and Uncle Tom's Cabin and set aside political compromise to issue the courageous Emancipation Proclamation.  I would encourage all politicians to watch GASLAND, just as politicians in Lincoln's time read Uncle Tom's Cabin, and make that very courageous choice to protect our nation's water, air, soil and most importantly, her people.  P.S.  Josh...I hope you win the Academy Award...for all of us.