Resources
Grassroots Groups
West Virginia:
Kentucky:
Virginia:
Tennessee:
Regional:
- Appalachian Voices
- Energy Justice Network
- Mountain Justice
- Christians for the Mountains
- Rainforest Action Network
Youth:
Books
- -Coal River by Michael Shnayerson
- -Big Coal by Jeff Goodell (analysis of modern day coal industry)
- -The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier edited by Holly George-Warren (history)
- -Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese (global history of coal)
- -Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina (fiction based on actual events leading up to the Battle of Blair Mtn.)
- -Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina (fiction based on actual events leading up to the Buffalo Creek Disaster)
- -Life Work & Rebellion in the Southern West Virginia Coalfields by David Allen Corbin (radical history of WV Mine Wars)
- -When Miners March by William Blizzard (Overview of events leading up to the Battle of Blair Mtn.)
- -To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia by Chad Montrie (Focus on anti-strip mining organizing in 1960s & 70s)
- -Appalachia: A History by John Williams (history)
- -Voices From the Mountains: The People of Appalachia-Their Faces, Their Words, Their Songs collected and recorded by Guy and Candie Carawan (songbook + history)
- -Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 by David A. Corbin
Movies
- -Matewan (awesome feature length movie about events leading up to the Matewan Massacre of 1920)
- -Black Diamonds (General overview of various views on mountaintop removal)
- -Razing Appalachia (General overview of various views on mountaintop removal from 1999, shortly after the Haden decision)
- -The Appalachians (Historical documentary of Appalachia) Mucked (Documentary about the disasters of the 2001 floods)
- -Mountain Mourning (Made by Christians for the Mountains, looks at the effects of mountaintop removal from a faith based perspective)
- -Out of Darkness (Chronicle of the UMWA formation viewed through the lens of the miners of the Pittson strike)
- -The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly (interview with Myles Horton of the Highlander Center, has amazing insight into social justice work)
- -Sludge (Documentary of 2000 Martin County, KY sludge dam disaster)
- -Harlan County, USA (Documentary about the 1972 Harlan County, KY strikes and the Miners for Democracy Movement within the UMWA)
- -Coal Bucket Outlaw (Chronicles coal truck drivers who are being forced to drive overweight coal trucks, shows intersection between working class people and corporate greed)
- -Kilowatt Ours (Documentary about the externalities of electricity production and encouragement towards energy efficiency/renewable energy)
- -Thoughts On The Presence of Fear (Essay from Wendell Berry set to the visuals of an active strip mining site)
- -Bringing Down The Mountains (Short film that gives mountaintop removal facts and shows interviews with affected residents)
Other Websites
- I Love Mountains (ilovemountains.org)
- Pennies of Promise (penniesofpromise.org)
- Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment (appalachian-center.org)
- WV Highlands Conservancy (wvhighlands.org)
- WV Citizens Action Group (wvcag.org)
- Meigs Citizens Action Now! (meigscan.org)
- Expose with the stories of communities that are directly impacted by mountaintop removal (wvcoalfield.com)
TVA Coal Ash Disaster 12.22.08
- United Mountain Defense (www.unitedmountaindefense.org/)
- Southern Energy Network (http://www.cleanenergy.org/hottopics/index.cfm?id=105)
- Energy Justice Network (http://energyjustice.net/Ohio/TVA-Special-1-8-09.pdf)
- AlterNet (AlterNet article)