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Husband, father, small-college professor in southeastern Pennsylvania. This is my personal account. @ProfessorRein is my professional account.

Phoenixville, PA
Joined December 2006
Photo by Nathan Rein (@nbr)
This is why we care.
Our 5 y/o, has been asthma attack free for over a year. Our neighborhood has also been free of @MarinerEast2 construction for over a year. Drilling returned this week, so did the nebulizer. Fracking and it’s infrastructure are literally making us sick. #VoicesofMarinerEast
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Way Forward: Supervisors tell all! - mailchi.mp/f6ff04634ff9/supe…
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Join the Way Forward for a potluck picnic at Schuylkill Friends Meetinghouse in Phoenixville, 8/15. All welcome, rain or shine. Bring something to share. More details on our Facebook page or buff.ly/2nxjgHo
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Tremendous energy in Harrisburg today as members of the Way Forward joined with Penn Environment, the Sierra Club and other activists to lobby our legislature to move PA towards 100% renewables by 2050. A modest goal that can be achieved.
The rotunda of the Capitol Building in Harrisburg was packed with activists, including from the Way Forward who lobbied for bills to move PA towards 100% renewables by 2050.
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If you've ever wondered what it looks like to lobby, here activists including @nathan_rein @jesscadorette help educate Rep Warren Kampf on the many reasons to support bills that will mandate that PA move to 100% renewable energy by 2050.
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Because of the nasty snowstorm in the forecast, we've decided to postpone our event with Ann Cummings of Gun Sense Chester County, originally scheduled for tomorrow night. Stay tuned for updates.
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#Phoenixville students are planning a seventeen minute walkout (3/14, 10 a.m.) to honor the… instagram.com/p/BfpEPLXFPoA/
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John Winthrop, 1630, en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony: "We must delight in each other."
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Please watch this video and share it with everyone you know. shareblue.com/teen-who-survi…
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Members of the Way Forward and the Phoenixville advocacy team of the Friends Committee for National Legislation came together last night to draft letters to the editor, seeking support for the Preventing Preemptive War in North Korea bill being considered in Congress.
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Danielle Friel Otten will be speaking at Way Forward's candidate forum on February 21, but came tonight to meet the group. Find out more about Danielle here: http//danielle4pa.com
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We're still on for tonight, despite the weather - j.mp/feb7forum for more. Join us to meet Sara Campbell-Szymanski, Joe Ciresi, Pam Hacker, and Jennifer O'Mara at 6:30 p.m.
Six in 10 Americans don't trust @realDonaldTrump with the authority to order nuclear attacks, according to a new Wash Post-ABC poll. About half of Americans think Trump might launch a nuclear attack with no reason wapo.st/2E0bzAX
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According to Hannah Arendt's 1951 "Origins of Totalitarianism," loneliness is "the essence of totalitarian government." That means friendship is the opposite.
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Nathan Rein retweeted
RT this post to support our planet. For every RT we’ll donate $1 to @ProjectDrawdown to fund solutions to reverse climate change, up to $40,000. interf.ac/2DkX0Ym #ClimateTakeBack
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Someone's going to make a lot of money off this pipeline, sure. But who's bearing the long-term costs? buff.ly/2mcXTtP
From the @PittsburghPG: Sunoco has been trampling property-owners' rights, ruining drinking water, and destroying ecosystems in PA for the past year. buff.ly/2COa2g4
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Keep up the pressure. Gerrymandering disenfranchises everybody, even the majority party. @FairDistrictsPA @CKuniholm nitter.gq/MelissaForPA/status/95…
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Outstanding presentation tonight by Leo Olson of the Free Migration Project, providing us with a first hand perspective of the hardships faced by asylum seekers, including unlawful and immoral separation of children from their parents. #givemateoback
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