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Winds of Change Newsletter, December 2007 See sidebar for table of contents
David vs. Goliath Award Goes to OVECs Boone County Organizer
In San Francisco on October 18, Rainforest Action
Network (RAN) honored OVEC community organizer Maria Gunnoe with one of
the groups World Rainforest Awards. Maria received the David vs.
Goliath Award.
RAN noted, "Gunnoe is a lifelong resident of Boone
County, WV. She has experienced the destruction of mountaintop removal
coal mining operations firsthand and has organized extensively around
the issue in order to preserve the Appalachian way of life and
communities throughout the region."
RAN uses "market activism" and is working with groups
like Coal River Mountain Watch to reduce our dependence on coal and
discourage investment banks from investing in companies that practice
mountaintop removal coal mining.
The group has helped to reform corporate behavior,
encouraging progressive environmental policies as first steps toward a
sustainable and just economy.
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