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| ONGOING "The Mountaintop Removal Road Show" is designed to educate communities across America about the horrendous practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, and will be touring throughout 2006. For a volunteer presentation in your community, contact Dave Cooper at (859) 299-5669, email davecooper928@yahoo.com. Click here for upcoming dates. |
November 21-23 Coal River Mountain Watch, along with the Student Environmental Action Coalition and Southern Energy Network are hosting the 4th Annual Fall Student Summit in the Coal River Valley. Join us to learn about the past, present and future of the fight against Mountaintop Removal and other abuses of the coal industry.
We will be talking with local residents who have been fighting mountaintop removal, taking a trip to Kayford Mountain to see MTR first hand, and meeting and networking with students from across Appalachia and the Southeast. There will be talks on all our current projects, from the Coal River Wind Project to Sludge Safety and our joint campaign to get national legislation passed. The Campaign is in full swing and the youth are a huge part of it.
Past summits have been amazing events by all accounts and they only look to be getting better. Make sure to Register to be part of the weekend. |
| Nov. 22: 4:00 p.m. -Midnight. Coal Film Festival, Cultural Center Theater, Charleston, WV. Films about the impact of coal on the air, climate, people and communities. Speakers - brief comments between films. Come for any part of the program, or stay for the whole series! Films include: Blue Planet, Kilowatt Ours, Burning the Future, and the Midnight Special: John Sayles' Matewan - the 1920s Coal Wars. Sponsored by the WV Sierra Club, with speakers from assorted citizen groups. |
December 19-21, 2008: Mountain Justice Winter Campout, Frog Level, Tennessee.
If you love mountains, camping, hiking, the forest and all that is wild you're invited to the Winter Solstice camp on Dec 19, 20th and 21st.
WHY: To reinvigorate, enthuse, inspire mountain activist in the Appalachians; to bring passion, humor, joy, and fervency of purpose back into the cause; to forge friendships, cooperation, and alliances throughout Appalachia.
Mountain Justice Winter Camp exists to explore having at least one meeting a year that is mostly social. Folks will meet and naturally form discussion groups and form plans.
More info. |
Jan. 10th WV Environmental Council Board of Directors meeting, time and location TBA |
To have events included here or in the next issue of G.R.E.E.N., email details to G.R.E.E.N. Editor Denise Poole
deniseap@earthlink.net |
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