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Date Posted: 23:58:54 02/03/05 Thu
Quick update here for me.
Lots of stuff going on. Ceffalily did not come back with us after the holidays. A surprise but she is doing VERY well as far as we can tell and hear. We miss her terribly but are happy that she is happy. My stepson derek (age 23) did come back with us though and that is going well.
I am going through some HUGE changes right now.
I was laid off of my job the week before last. I am relieved in one way and a bit stressed in another but am doing fine. Loosing this job has freed up a lot of my time to dedicate to a better cause. I have been volunteering at the Coal River Mountain Watch and helping as much as I can. I guess I kind of had a wake up call recently. After seeing Farenheit 911 and reading some rather interesting books, I just couldn't take sitting on my hind end and not standing up for something. I have discovered that this country I live in is not all it is cracked up to be and that politicians are pigs. I have learned that this country is being run by money hungry power corrupted men and women who do not give a damn about their constituents. The things that I have learned about in this area ALONE (not mentioning all of the other injustices in the world) have made my stomach turn and my head spin. I still find beauty in the world and in people, but I know that aspects of my life will never be the same again. So many things just instantly became not important to me. I don't care about *things* (material) anymore. I realized how much money I have wasted on silly things when other people in this world are starving...homeless...and beaten down. I am not saying that I am going to vow to a life of poverty or that I feel guilty for the fact that even though money has always been tight for me and my husband we have always had food to eat etc. It's just that certain things mean nothing to me anymore. I will never be someone to live in a fancy house or drive a new fancy car or spend 200 bucks on curtains or buy *new stuff*. I am not chastising people for doing that...I just know I can not be happy with that type of lifestyle. I am happy to have our little place here in the mountains...I do not need anything fancy..and I can deal with having a tin roof if I have to. (that was for you dreemy...giggle)* I guess I am just feeling the whole "live simply so that others may simply live"
SO that's it. I have become fully engrossed with the efforts to Stop MTR. I hope people can realize that this is just not a problem here in WV. It is a problem for the entire country and the whole world. It's not just about Mountains being raped and destroyed...it's also about people's basic human rights being taken from them. I am sure the list goes on and on.
I will keep you guys updated here on MTR if you want, just let me know. I will try and post another upate on sopme neat plans we have for our little hippie pad down here. *Think outside hearth with a cauldron for cooking* hee hee.
I want to try and get on here a lot more as I miss you all terribly. big hugs all around!
ok here is the stuff... PLEASE pass on to anyone you think may be interested.
Love, Peace and Magick,
Moon(*
Please forward far and wide:
Down with King Coal! Save Appalachia - Stop Mountain Range
Removal!
Take Action on February 10th!
There is an institution near you complicit in mountain range
removal coal mining. A coal company, an electric utility, a
government office, a bank, a lobbying firm.
This is a call for a simultaneous day of action against
mountain range removal across Appalachia, the US and the
world. Be as loud as you can in protest of watershed
destruction!
Protest! Demonstrate! Make some phone calls! Send some
email!
Turn off the lights! Take direct action!
Our demand is simple – stop mountain range removal and all
forms of destructive strip mining for coal.
The Appalachian Mountains are among the oldest mountains in
the world. They contain the most biologically diverse
temperate forest and freshwater aquatic ecosystems on the
planet. Two hundred million years of wind, water, and ice
have eroded the Appalachian mountains to about half of their
original height. Massey Energy Co., Arch Coal, National Coal
and other corporations have decided that that was much too
long and are trying to get the other half in only a few
decades. Greedy multinational corporations, with support
from corrupt government agencies, are perpetuating the
greatest ecological crime in history: the destruction of
water producing mountain ranges.
Groups and individuals across Appalachia are rising in
united protest against the increasing cultural and
environmental devastation caused by this most destructive
form of mining. Mountain range removal results in loss of
life, loss of employment, destruction of homes, and
elimination of communities throughout the coalfields.
In West Virginia alone, three million pounds of explosives
are detonated every day, over 600 square miles of mountains
have been reduced to barren wasteland, and more than 40,000
mining jobs have been eliminated. Valley fills have buried
over 1,200 miles of Appalachian streams forever. Billions of
gallons of chemical-laden sludge, restrained only by leaky,
failure-prone earthen dams, loom above our communities and
schools. Mountain range removal has expanded beyond West
Virginia and Kentucky and is a growing problem in Virginia
and Tennessee. Meanwhile, dirty politicians grant the coal
industry its every desire. Such a condition can no longer
be endured and will no longer be tolerated. It used to be
called mountain top removal but so many mountains have been
destroyed that it is now referred to as mountain RANGE
removal. It is a war against the earth.
Massey Coal Corporation is an evil mountain leveling
corporation and we need your help confronting this company
and King Coal in general. Massey busts unions, destroys
mountains and buys politicians. They are wrecking southern
West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. They are owned by the
billion dollar Fleur Corporation. Massey deserves your
attention on February 10th.
Here’s what you can do:
If you’re good at picketing-picket. If you’re good at
guerilla theatre, do it. If you can chalk, call, email or
take direct action - whatever you do best – do it. Call
your representatives (ick!), go to a nearby area doing an
action, see who is evil in your town, protest in front of
your federal building, issue press releases, protest your
utility company and demand they not buy coal from companies
involved with mountain range removal, protest your
university if they are using coal, picket Peabody, Massey,
National Coal, and lots more. Contact us if you’re in a
major city and need some suggested locations - there are
plenty. See the contact list below for websites, addresses
and other info. You can use the companies’ websites to
find out who they are, where their directors are from, where
their offices and mines are, etc… A google search on many
of these companies will also turn up whotheir investors are.
Do whatever you do best, but do it on Feb 10th. Our theme is
“as Massey as you wanna be” to express solidarity with
our friends in West Virginia. Don’t be limited though,
there are many different tentacles to the mountain devouring
corporate robber barons, so pick your target and give ‘em
some grief.
For the Mountains!
Appalachian Mountain Preservation Council
Ministry of Propaganda
Please let us know about your action. If you need more info,
please email:
annebonnylives@yahoo.com
johnjef@bledsoe.net
bamsterman@charter.net
edge37343@yahoo.com
Good websites with lots of mountain top removal info:
www.ohvec.org, www.appvoices.org
Coal Contacts:
Feel free to contact the following and express your
disapproval of mountain range removal and all other forms of
destructive surface mining.
Massey Energy (destroyer of mountains, waterways and
communities in WV and KY, also viciously anti-union)
Massey Energy Company - 4 North 4th Street, Richmond,
Virginia 23219
Phone: 888-424-2417, 804-788-1824
http://www.masseyenergyco.com
Massey.Hotline@masseyenergyco.com
Some of Massey’s top managers:
katherine.kenny@masseyenergyco.com,
john.parker@masseyenergyco.com,
michael.allen@masseyenergyco.com,
steve.sears@masseyenergyco.com,
gary.smith@masseyenergyco.com,
gary.temple@masseyenergyco.com,
tom.kielty@masseyenergyco.com,
thomas.dougherty@masseyenergyco.com
A&G Coal Corporation (This is the VA company that killed a
little boy last fall with a runaway boulder)
Phone (276) 328-3421
National Coal Corporation (leading the charge for
destruction in TN)
National Coal - 8915 George Williams Rd. Knoxville, TN 37923
Phones: 865-769-3749, 865-690-6900, 866-703-COAL (toll Free)
Fax: 865-691-9982
Email: info@nationalcoal.com,
investorrelations@nationalcoal.com, sales@nationalcoal.com,
jdavis@nationalcoal.com
Crestview Capital Funds (an institutional investor in NCC)
95 Revere Drive, Suite A, Northbrook, Illinois, 60062 Phone:
847-559-0060 Fax: 847-559-5807
http://www.crestviewcap.com Email: lisa@crestviewcap.com
Cunningham & Company (a public relations firm working for
NCC)
730 W. Randolph St., 6th Floor Chicago, Illinois, 60661
Phone: 312-876-1070 Fax: 312-454-0261
http://www.cunninghamcomp.com, Email:
info@cunninghamcomp.com
West Virginia Coal Association (lobbying group) P.O. Box
3923, Charleston, WV 25339
http://www.wvcoal.com Phone: 304-342-4153 Fax: 304-342-7651
Staff of the WV Coal Ass:
President - Bill Raney - braney@wvcoal.com, Senior VP -
Chris Hamilton - chamilton@wvcoal.com
VP - Dan Miller - dmiller@wvcoal.com, Regulatory Affairs -
Jason Bostic - jbostic@wvcoal.com
Administrative Assistant - Sandi Davison -
sdavison@wvcoal.com
Friends of Coal (another industry front group)
P.O. Box 3923 Charleston, WV 25339 1-866-982-2625
http://www.friendsofcoal.org
Just in case you hadn’t already heard – folks are
organizing for Mountain Justice Summer 2005. This will be a
coordinated effort to bring attention to the destruction
caused by mountain range removal and to confront the
corporate and government entities involved.
Please visit www.mountainjusticesummer.org for more info.
Sign up for our electronic newsletter.
http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/mjsnews
Katuah Earth First!
PO Box 16309
Knoxville, TN 37996
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