Mountain Justice


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Mountain Justice
PO Box 86
Naoma, WV 25140

 

Mountain Justice Training Camp Schedule
May 20 - May 27, 2011
Letcher County, Kentucky

Friday (5/20)

Saturday (5/21)

Sunday (5/22)

Monday (5/23)

Tuesday (5/24)

Wednesday (5/25)

Thursday (5/26)

Friday (5/27)

 

Set-Up

Science & SMCRA

Community Economics

NVDA

Free-Form

Community Organizing

Free-Form

Break Down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yoga

yoga

service

yoga

yoga

yoga

yoga

yoga

8:00 - 8:45

breakfast

breakfast

breakfast

breakfast

breakfast

breakfast

breakfast

breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00 - 9:45

set-up

morning circle (medics, toilets, what is MJ, how we make decisions, etc.)

morning circle

morning circle

morning circle

morning circle

morning circle

action travel time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:00 - 10:45

set-up

MJ Campaign House Panel

Appalachian Cultural Awareness

Security Culture - RAMPS

History of Blair Mountain

History of MJ - Willie Dodson

State Breakouts

March in Appalachia, VA for the Preservation of Ison Rock Ridge! Join us to protest the pending Ison Rock Ridge permit. More info can be found at http://www.samsva.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00-12:15

set-up

MTR 101 - Marty Mudd

Hands-On Introduction to Aquatic Ecology - Jason Robinson

Legal: Know Your Rights - Ian McCabe

 

Campus Organizing

Forest Ecology / Plant ID - Fern Greenleaf

break-down

 

set-up

Air Monitoring - Matt Landon

Medicinal Plants & Roots - Carol Judy

Action Health & Safety - Dave Pike

A-O

Storytelling as Organizing - Carrie & Michael Kline

Puppet Building

break-down

 

set-up

Underground Coal Mining - Mike O'Bradovitch

Grow Appalachia - Maggie Ashmore

NVDA - Donny

A-O

Media 101 - Charles Suggs & Vernon Haltom

Coal in Columbia - Miranda Brown

break-down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:30-1:30

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:45-3:00

set-up

Water Testing - Tim Guilfoile

Forest Ecology / Plant ID - Jim Scheff

Strategizing & Direct Action - RAMPS & Rising Tide

Building a Mass Movement - Jase Short

Facilitation - Molly Shea

Revolts, Revolutions, Uprisings - Jase Short

break-down

 

set-up

Coal Slurry Impoundments - Mat Louis-Rosenburg

Micro-Hydro - Joe Rinehart

Blockades 1 - Donny & Grumbles

Nuclear Power: Why It Ain't No Solution To Nothing - Mary Olson

Fundraising - Susanna Ronalds-Hannon

Puppet Building

break-down

 

set-up

Fracking 101 - Will Wilson

MACED - Josh Bills

Deescalation / Peacekeeping -Sarah V

MTR Tour

Media 202 - Charles Suggs & Vernon Haltom

MTR Tour

break-down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3:15-4:30

set-up

"Exploring Biodiversity: Conservation Tools in the Resistance against Appalachian Surface Coal Mining and MTR" Jason Robinson

Appalachian Transitions Roundtable Discussion

Scouting - Dave Pike

Conflict Resolution Sarah Vekasi

Community Organizing - Bill Price

Activist Self-Care - Sarah Vekasi

break-down

 

set-up

Power Plants - Robert Gardner

ARRI - Patrick Angel

Direct Action Support - Kim Ellis

Be Your Own Media - Matt Landon

Beehive Collective: True Cost of Coal

Puppet Building

break-down

 

set-up

Exhausting Administrative Remedies - Rob Goodwin

 

Blockades 2 - Donny & Grumbles

Community Service Project at Wiley's

Listening Projects - Miranda Brown

Deepening Our Connections - Eric Blevins

break-down

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grant Writing - Cathy Kunkel

Home Weatherization Projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4:30 - 5:30

set-up

free time

free time

free time

free time

free time

free time

free time

 

 

 

 

Scouting Walk - Dave Pike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blockades 2 Implementation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5:30 - 6:30

dinner

dinner

dinner

dinner

dinner

dinner

dinner

dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6:45-?

Welcome to MJ Training Camp!

Coalfield Youth Panel

MTR: History of Opposition - Julian Martin

UMWA Panel

Carrie & Michael Kline - Music of Coal Concert

"Opposition to Strip Mining and the Balance of Power" - Chad Montrie

Closing Activity - (debrief, update on the March in Appalachia) NO TALENT SHOW!

 

 

Documentary

Music

Square Dance

Music

 

 

The Irregular String Band

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 PM

quiet time

quiet time

quiet time

quiet time

quiet time

quiet time

quiet time

quiet time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All-day workshops

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Climbing

Climbing

Climbing

Climbing

 

Puppet Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blair Mtn. Planning

 

Blair Mtn. Planning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Community Service

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prep for Blair Mountain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fliering in Wise County