6th Annual Bluegrass and Barbeque New York Benefit
Join us in Celebrating and Strengthening Work for Social Justice
in Central Appalachia with Bluegrass and BBQ at the
5th Annual New York City Benefit featuring Chely Wright.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
7 PM to 9 PM
Soirée
199 Bowery (at Spring Street formerly named BLVD)
New York, New York
Tickets are $95 per person
BBQ and all the fixin's will be served
Buy tickets or become a sponsor.
Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
This large-format book, edited by Tom Butler and George Wuerthner, is a useful tool for activists, conservation groups, grantmakers, and public officials. "Every American should understand what surface mining is doing to the beautiful hills and hollows of Appalachia, and then join the effort to stop the plunder." . . visit Plundering Appalachia
Tennessee valley authority (TVA) cited by EPA for the worst environmental spill in the United States
December 22, 2008 the retaining wall around TVA's coal waste material, next to their Harriman (Kingston) power plant, failed and approximately 500 million gallons of coal ash flowed into tributaries of the Tennessee River. This Tennessee Valley spill is said to be over 40 times bigger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Read More . . .
Community Groups and grassroots organizations respond to TVA disaster
VOICES FOR aPPALACHIA
PORTRAIT-STORY PROJECT
Being our own media
Be your own ethnographer and historian
A positive self-fulfilling paradigm of expression
The Portrait-Story Project is a mobile, networked and volunteer art-media-social phenomenon whose primary purpose is to bring and co-generate an aesthetic and practice of media solidarity to the self-determination of communities and individuals connected to the land they live on.
Visit www.portraitstoryproject.org & www.voicesforappalachia.org
Grassroots Organizations Working to End Mountaintop Removal (MTR) in Central Appalachia Featured in ACF’s Spring 2008 Newsletter
West Virginia
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
- Photo gallery of mountaintop removal in West Virginia
- OVEC’s action alert on safe water
- What you can do today to stop mountain top removal
Kentucky
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Tennessee
- Kathy Mattea Lobbies Tennessee Legislature to support TN Scenic Vistas Act (Senate Bill 3822/House Bill 3348)
- Lindquist Environmental Appalachian Fellowship (LEAF)
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In addition to the organizations highlighted in our Spring newsletter, several other organizations are working to end MTR in our region, many of which are ACF grantees, and are also a part of the Alliance for Appalachia.
The Alliance For Appalachia
The Alliance For Appalachia is a collaboration of thirteen organizations in Central Appalachia working to bring an end to the devastating coal mining technique known as mountaintop removal. The Alliance For Appalachia also seeks to promote a just and sustainable economy and a clean, renewable energy future in the region.
The Alliance For Appalachia Members:
Grassroots organizations
Coal River Mountain Watch
Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
Save Our Cumberland Mountains
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
Partner organizations
Appalachian Citizens Law Center
Appalachian Voices
Appalshop
Heartwood
MACED
Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program
Southwings
Other Organizations Working on Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
United Mountain Defense
Mountain Justice Summer
Katuah Earth First!
we've moved! acf's new address is:
Appalachian Community Fund
530 South Gay Street, Suite 700
Knoxville, TN 37902
*Our phone and fax numbers are the same. We're in the Farragut Building in downtown Knoxville. Please feel free to come by and see us.
