Confront the 2006 National Governors Association Convention, August 4-6, Charleston, SC
Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 10:23 AM UTC
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The first weekend in August, while United States governors are milling around in luxuriant hotels and admiring old slave plantations, residents in the coalfield regions of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, will be experiencing firsthand the dire effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. Because of the indifference and complicity of the governors of these states, over 500 square miles of forested mountains have been leveled in southern Appalachia, lost forever to the greed of politicians and businessmen. Charleston, South Carolina, August 4th to 6th, 2006, National Governors Association Convention Call to Action for Appalachia
The first weekend in August, while United States governors are milling around in luxuriant hotels and admiring old slave plantations, residents in the coalfield regions of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, will be experiencing firsthand the dire effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. Because of the indifference and complicity of the governors of these states, over 500 square miles of forested mountains have been leveled in southern Appalachia, lost forever to the greed of politicians and businessmen. So while America's state leaders are patting each other on the back and rubbing shoulders with obscenely wealthy corporate executives, let's get out there and let them know that we're not going to sit idly by while they reduce the natural world to coal dust and capital returns.
Come to Charleston, South Carolina, August 4th-6th! Join coalfield citizens and community activists as we confront the injustices perpetrated by a government driven by profit. With creative irreverence and insightful confrontation we will hold our supposed representatives accountable -to their peers and to the public- for their insatiable appetite for industrial expansion, and the havoc it wrecks on the land and people of Appalachia!
For more information & details of the weekend's actions:
Email: MTNcommunityinfo@riseup.net
Call: 843-723-5203
& get on down to Charleston!