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WOC On(line)
In case you missed it on our website, the latest issue of OVEC's
newsletter is online. Read the June 2008 Winds of Change
here. (OVEC
members who have indicated they want WOC mailed to
their homes should have received the newsletter a couple of weeks ago.)
July 5 & 6:
Mountain Keepers Music Festival
About an hour south of Charleston, W.Va., Kayford
Mountain is an island of green West Virginia in midst of a Mars-scape of
massacred mountains. People from across the United States and beyond
travel to Kayford Mountain to get a shocking first-hand look at
mountaintop removal operations. Every year, folks also converge on
Kayford Mountain for events that celebrate everyone's work for
environmental justice. Join the celebration on
Saturday, July 5th and Sunday, July
6th--come to the annual Mountain Keepers Music Festival, held at the
Stanley Heirs Park on the mountain.
The free two-day event features local and regional musicians playing a variety of bluegrass, gospel, country and old-time music, as well as children's games, a pot-luck meal, free camping and a silent auction. Attendees are encouraged to bring a covered dish for a potluck. Read more about the festival here. For the musician lineup and directions to Kayford Mountain, click here.
Unclean Coal
On You Tube you can find several videos that expose the truth about
"clean" coal.
Here's one of the latest, which examines "clean" coal
propaganda. And in case you haven't seen it yet,
here's a link to cartoonist Mark Fiore's efforts to dispel
the myth of "clean" coal.
July
11 - 13: New York Loves Mountains Weekend
Headwater Productions, a Brooklyn-based community-action and
arts production company, will host the first annual
New York
Loves Mountains Festival July 11-13. This weekend of music,
theatre and public outreach will unite Appalachians and New Yorkers
to raise awareness about mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) and
its devastating effects on the ecology, communities and economy of
Appalachia.
The weekend kicks off with a benefit reception and concert at Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook. The reception, starting at 7 p.m. on the 11th, will offer a three course dinner catered by Rice in DUMBO. The concert, starting at 9 p.m., will feature the Appalachian-based band Here's To the Long Haul and musician Cari Norris, as well as New York musicians The IEDs, Andrea Reising, Supermajor, and Sam and Karen Duffy. Tickets for the reception and concert will be $65, or $15 for just the concert. Proceeds will go to benefit Pennies of Promise, a fundraising initiative to rebuild Marsh Fork Elementary in West Virginia where students' health is endangered by a nearby coal-processing plant. Coal River Mountain Watch has been leading the campaign for a new school in their community for Marsh Fork students.
On Saturday the 12th from 11- 4 p.m., leaders from Appalachia, including CRMW's Ed Wiley, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth's Teri Blanton and OVEC's Maria Gunnoe, will join with locals to rally and celebrate in Battery Park. The goal of the rally is to educate and galvanize citizen support to help inspire New York representatives to follow in the footsteps of North Carolina state Rep. Pricey Harrison in asking for a ban on state purchasing of MTR coal, and for NY Congressional Representatives to co-sponsor the Clean Water Protection Act.
Saturday night at 7p.m. there will be a reading of the new play Current Changes in Empire by Sarah Moon. This play combines the history of electricity generation in America - from Edison to Mountain Top Removal - with the intimate story of a contemporary Appalachian family struggling with the consequences of mountaintop removal. The reading will take place at The Actors Institute at 150 W. 30th St. Tickets will be $10 and proceeds will benefit Headwater Productions.
See the festival website for more info.
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