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MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER MAY 20-28 2007
THE MOUNTAINS STRIKE BACK!
You are cordially invited to the Moun...
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER MAY 20-28 2007 THE MOUNTAINS STRIKE BACK!
You are cordially invited to the Mountain Justice Summer 2007 (mountainjusticesummer.org) at the Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center (http://www.narrowridge.org/) in Tennessee. Greedy soul-less corporations are blowing up highland watersheds in order to rip coal from the earth. We are the people fighting to stop them, and we need your help!
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE SUMMER MAY 20-28 2007 THE MOUNTAINS STRIKE BACK!
You are cordially invited to the Mountain Justice Summer 2007 (mountainjusticesummer.org) at the Narrow Ridge Earth Literacy Center (http://www.narrowridge.org/) in Tennessee. Greedy soul-less corporations are blowing up highland watersheds in order to rip coal from the earth. We are the people fighting to stop them, and we need your help! Mountains and highland watersheds are still being blown apart for short term profit. As the general assemblies of Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia play a game of "its better than it used to be" countless acres of Appalachian forest are being clear-cut, blown apart and dragged off. The mining is WORSE than it has ever been and we need your help to wake everyone up as to this fact. All four states in the MJS network need you to fight strip mining this summer. We need people to do water testing, lobbying, demonstrating, painting, drawing, writing and in general helping us to resist strip mining.
WHAT IS THE MJS TRAINING CAMP?
The MJS camp is the time that folks from the states fighting get together to train. This year's camps emphasis will be field training. Volunteers will get both field and class room training in water testing, oral history recording, strip mine documentation, map reading, guerilla theatre, Appalachian cultural sensitivity, demonstrations, and other skills that MJS volunteers will using this summer.
PLEASE REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMP!
This part MJS III is really serious about. We have to know how much food, space, transport, water we have to provide for in advance of the camp. Goto our website and follow the links to register. Let us know if you're thinking about coming. It's disturbing to find you someone goes into show when they get stung in the field.
We really really need to know about allergies, if you're diabetic, etc. The camp is a field camp and though we can accommodate folks on field work we really would prefer to know that yellow jacket stings put you into anaphylactic shock BEFORE you go out on one of the field trips. Please call or email mountainjusticesummer.org prepared to provide two people who will vouch for you we can call.
PLEASE COME PREPARED TO CARE FOR YOURSELF
The Appalachian counties which have been impoverished by the "benefits" of king coal (and clear cut logging) are as a direct consequence poor. As a result many of the organizations fighting strip mining in the Appalachians are poor. Come prepared to be self sufficient and to camp for a week. The land has fields and is by a lake so you can swim. But in general if you come to help us for a summer please do your own dishes and come prepared. In short, autonomy.
WHAT WE NEED:
You.
Cameras (both still and video), GPS units, CB radios, Tarps, food for an army, Compasses, cars and trucks (see above), gas, gas cards, houses where people can stay, people who live in these states to get involved. If you live near any of the areas where strip mines are active
Houses. trailers and barns where people can stay.
WHAT NOT TO BRING:
Dawgs, no dogs please! Please if there is anyway you can avoid it do not bring your dogs.
Drugs. Do not bring or transport drugs to any of our MJS events. Police occasionally set up checkpoints in some coal communities as a harassment tactic. Additionally no one under the influence of anything should be driving where there are coal trucks. The coal drivers have enough speed and drugs in their own systems to more than make up for what you might lack.
Drama. Too few people are doing too much work in the campaign to stop the geologic annihilation of one of most ancient mountains and watersheds on Earth. For many organizations fighting strip mining a day of drama can lose a mountaintop. Mutual aid presupposes mutual respect.
That's it. Come prepared to have fun and train hard. The camp is a tool we have developed to fight back against the strip mine companies and the damage they are doing to our earth.
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I agree with some of what you say. BUTT being a coal miners son and a coalminers great grandson from VICCO KY. THIS IS OUR LIFE AND LOOK AT THE KY, ELK, minning feeds our familys and builds for a new future, what good is a mountain >? other than looks. I lived on top of one most of my life and moved away ro buy a level farm
Many of us are doing our best to disconnect from dirty energy, but the real solution comes from policy change. Policy and lifestyle change is how we keep the creeks clean, regardless of whether it's the big business or the individual polluting it.
These fucktards who call us treehuggers' are nothing but uneducated losers who just want everything handed to them with no consequence. That's why we call these kinds of people fucktards because that's just what they are.
I think I agree with what you're trying to say, but strongly disagree with the language. I get called a tree hugger because of the actions that result from my respect for all existence. If I love the trees and the earth, but not the people destroying it, I am being as closed minded and biased as they are, I feel.
Me and you are a lot alike YouAre, and I am sorry for the language in my above post. But it gets me mad to see our state and mountains being destroyed like this, it really really does. I'll behave and use better language in the future, and please understand: I'm on your side completely!
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Hey i gotta idea. Why dont we all just stop minin coal ,turn off our tvs,turn off our lights well turn everything electric off stop using toilet paper and cutting down trees. Sounds stupid huh? well thats because it is. The coal that is mined is used to power 80% of America. If you dont like it then move to Canada Where theres plenty of trees.
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treehuggers' are nothing but uneducated losers who just want everything handed to them with no consequence.
That's why we call these kinds of people fucktards because that's just what they are.
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