- Plan It – Plan meetings, actions,
and Mountain Justice Spring Break / Mountain Justice Camp
2009. - Volunteer Work – On the ground, clean stuff,
fix stuff, garden, mend fences - Research – Look at mining permits, find
out what is being proposed and where, Coal to Liquids, so
called “Clean Coal” and Carbon Sequestration fallacies - Organize – Long term placement in an area,
working with youth, residents, building long term power
that creates real improvement in people’s lives, for short
term, support local organizers with listening projects,
materials creation,
etc. - Lobbying – Working Clean Water Protection
Act nationally (see www.ilovemountains.org)
or on state level campaigns to end MTR and for clean energy
and green jobs legislation. - Give Presentations/Pay Speakers – To
churches through Christians for the Mountains, on campus,
at house parties, show movies, fundraise to pay coalfield
residents to come
to your area and speak. - Materials Creation – Art projects, fact
sheets, fliers, websites, brochures, posters. - Experts/Professional Resource Support – Find
lawyers who will work for free/reduced, find university
professors who can help with water testing and health studies,
experts on hydrology (if you are an expert in this, then
use your skills!) - Community Info – Listening projects, water
testing, health studies - Action Planning – Planning, prepping, participating,
prop making - Media Work – Filming, photography, writing,
recording – especially
at actions - Monitoring/Ground truthing – hike around
with GPS to make sure the mine is within the permit boundary,
track species living on a mountain before it is mined, look
for toxic water spills after rainstorms – Hike around/4-wheeler
to catch the company violating regulations. - Fundraising! – fundraise
for community groups and/or Mountain Justice - Organizational Building – Record keeping, data input,
filing, tracking media, campaign assistance, media work
Regional Contacts
- Kentucky
Contact Dave
Cooper at
davecooper928 {at}
yahoo.com,
(859) 299-5669 - Tennessee
Contact United
Mountain Defense at unitedmountaindefense {at} yahoo.com,
865-633-8483 - West Virginia
Contact Coal River Mountain
Watch online or at (304) 854-2182. - Virginia
Southern
Appalachian Mountain Stewards,
samsva {at} gmail.com,
276-565-1083
and
Blue Ridge Earth First!
BlueRidgeEF [at] yahoo.com
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