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Everywhere in Early March: Link TV Airs Sneak Preview of Burning the Future
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New York City Now thru March 14: Burning the Future showing at Landmark Theatre
OVEC volunteers and staff are honored to have helped the filmmakers and journalists on the below-mentioned projects -- and so many more. Together, we are raising awareness about the national disgrace that is mountaintop removal. Together, we are building the movement that will end mountaintop removal coal mining!
Still Time to
Comment on SB588
Despite snowy roads that kept many people from
venturing forth, turn out was strong for the WV Senate Energy,
Industry and Mining Committee meeting on SB588, a bill that would
have effectively ended mountaintop removal. See Public TV's video
from the meeting
here (plus information on Blair Mountain) and read the
Charleston Gazette's coverage
here. Joe Lovett, Cindy Rank, Denise Giardina, Chuck
Nelson and Father Roy Crist all delivered passionate comments on why
we must end mountaintop removal now.
Even though the bill is already sadly dead, your comments are important for the record. By Monday, please send written comments (or even just a thank you note) on mountaintop removal and SB588 to Chairman Jon Hunter at senhunter@mountain.net.
Everywhere in
Early March: Link TV Air's Sneak Preview of Burning the Future
TUNE IN: Click
here to find out air times for March 2 thru March 14.
LINK TV presents a sneak preview of BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA, a special television event exploring the explosive conflict between the coal industry and the residents of West Virginia. With the U.S. government’s energy policies leaning further toward the use of “clean coal” the time has come to ask, exactly how clean is it? What effects does coal extraction have on the communities that surround it, and do the benefits outweigh the costs? Confronted by an emerging coal-based U.S. energy policy, local West-Virginia activists watch the nation hail coal as a solution to the energy crisis without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, the film’s heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their fight to enlist the nation’s help in saving their families and their health, protecting their mountains, and preserving their way of life. Filmmaker David Novack presents a sneak preview of his groundbreaking film in this Link TV special event.
Read Variety's review.
New York City
Now: Burning the Future showing at Landmark Theatre
Last night, Burning the Future premiered to a big crowd in New York
City. There's another special event tonight, with guests
from West Virginia's coalfields there to answer your questions. Join
them at 7:30 p.m. at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema, 143 E. Houston
St.
The movie runs at this venue thru March 7. Click here for show times and to purchase tickets. In the lobby, be sure to check out the exhibit "Appalachia: A Land and People Under Threat," with large-format photos by Antrim Caskey, would has been documenting our movement to end mountaintop removal for years.
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Come on out to see this documentary |
New York City
March 2: Black Diamonds
If you are in New York City this weekend, you can catch another
documentary about mountaintop removal, Catherine Pancake's
Black
Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice.
Check it out at 2 p.m. at the
Museum of Modern Art.
Los Angeles
Next Week: Burning the Future
March 7 - March 13:
Burning the Future: Coal In America screens in Los Angeles at
the Laemmle Theaters' Town Center 5 in Encino. For show times and to
purchase tickets, click
here.
Cleveland
March 10: Mountain Top Removal at Film Fest
March 10: 6:45 p.m.
Mountain Top Removal , a feature documentary by Haw River
Films, screens at the 32nd annual
Cleveland
International Film Festival. The film has been
nominated for the Nashville Film Festival's Reel Current Award,
which is given annually to a documentary with extensive insight into
a social or environmental issue. The winning film will be selected
in the next couple of weeks by Al Gore (who lives in Nashville). Mr.
Gore will present the award to the winning filmmaker on Monday,
April 21.
Jeff Bigger's op-ed in the
Washington Post
Jeff
Biggers is doing his part to raise awareness, too. In
a
column that will run in tomorrow's print edition of the
Washington Post, he exposed what a load of ... crock the idea of
"clean" coal is.
Kathy Mattea's
CD Coal premiers on Mountain Stage March 30
And even more exposure: Kathy Mattea's new CD
Coal delves into mountaintop removal. Hear some of the
cuts
here. She
toured
mountaintop removal sites with members of OVEC and
Coal River Mountain
Watch and
SouthWings
last
summer.
On March 30 at 7 p.m. Kathy Mattea will premier Coal on Mountain Stage, at the Paramount in Ashland, Kentucky.
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