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RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS November 21-23, 2008: Student / Youth Anti-MTR Summit
posted November 18, 2008
Everyone is invited to the 2008 Fall Student Summit in the Coal River Valley. Coal River Mountain Watch, along with the Student Environmental Action Center and Southern Energy Network are hosting the 4th Annual Fall Summit on November 21-23. Join us to learn about the past, present and future of the fight against Mountaintop Removal and other abuses of the coal industry.
December 19-21, 2008: Mountain Justice Winter Campout
posted November 18, 2008
Mountain Justice is hosting a Winter Campout at Frog Level Tennessee. If you love mountains, camping, hiking, the forest and all that is wild you're invited to the Winter Solstice camp on Dec 19, 20th and 21st.
November 14-16, 2008: First Annual Mountain Justice Meeting
posted November 7, 2008
 As Mountain Justice begins its 5th year as a movement for social and environmental justice in the coalfields, we're heading to the Appalachian South Folklife Center in Pipestem,
West Virginia to plan out the next steps in the fight for a sustainable future in Appalachia.
Over the course of a weekend we will get to know each other, eat great food, share our perspectives and sit down to the important work of deciding what needs to happen next in the movement to stop mountaintop removal and grow a strong, diverse and healthy Appalachian future.
More recent events...
 “Voices
for Appalachia”
Written and Narrated by Hundreds
An Appalachia Portrait-Story Project
Artist Francesco di Santis joined us
at our 2008 Mountain Justice training camp in Kentucky to continue work
on his latest project “Voices for Appalachia”. Francesco is
working with other regional organizations throughout Appalachia and the
project has
traveled to Mountain Justice Spring Break, the mountains of eastern Tennnessee,
the Appalachian Studies Association conference and the Heartwood Forest
Council.
 There
is a manmade ecological disaster of geologic proportions occurring
in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians; its
called mountain range -- or Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining.
It is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage -- the
destruction of watersheds -- and the annihilation of one of
the most diverse places on earth.
Mission Statement
Mountain Justice seeks to add to the growing
anti-MTR citizens movement. Specifically Mountain Justice
demands an abolition of MTR, steep slope strip mining and
all other forms of surface
mining for coal. We work to protect the cultural and natural
heritage of the Appalachia coal fields. We work to contribute
with grassroots organizing, public education, nonviolent
civil disobedience and other forms of citizen action.
Historically coal companies have engaged in violence and
property destruction when faced with citizen opposition to
their activities. Mountain Justice is committed to nonviolence
and will
not be engaged in property destruction.
We work together to create diverse and sustainable economies in
Appalachian regions traditionally dominated by the coal industry by
supporting businesses, jobs and ways of living that are not environmentally
or culturally destructive and are nourishing to the social and biological fabric of healthy communities.
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