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Mountain Top Removal Podcast
Mountain Voices Alliance
Mountain Top Removal - Videos
MTR - An Ecological Disaster
Barons of King Coal by Magpie
Mary Anne Hitt Keynote at Surge Conference 2007
Mountain Top Removal Podcast
The Mountain Top Removal podcast is a very new project. The hope
is to get a "choir" full of voices to speak out against - sing - of the
National Disgrace and Ecological Disaster of Mountain Top Removal.
In time I hope that individuals and organizations contributing audio presentations will host the RSS feed and a podcast page on their respective websites
Here is the first voice to contribute:
====>Click to hear "Mountaintop Removal Mining - An Ecological Disaster"
An introduction to the horrific practice of Mountaintop Removal Mining
that is destroying our beautiful Appalachian Mountains - what it is, the
damage it is doing, and how you can help stop it before it's too late.
Barbara Strangfeld is volunteer for I Love Mountains and Appalachian
Voices. She is first to say that her position is only that of a
concerned citizen. Listen to her introduction to Mountaintop Removal
Mining. She would like to fully credit the I Love
Mountains and Appalachian Voices organizations for the
material she uses in her presentation.
Copyright © 2007 Contributing Authors, All Rights Reserved.
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Barons of King Coal (For Purple Mountain Majesty)
Many many thanks to the group Magpie (Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino) for their
wonderful song and permission to use it for the Mountain Top Removal
podcast. Please visit their website (http://www.magpiemusic.com/) for more great music on
the Environment and Political Issues.
====>Click to hear "Barons of King Coal (For Purple Mountain Majesty)"
Barons of King Coal (For Purple Mountain Majesty)
Chorus:
With their draglines and their big trucks they take more coal each day
But it's underneath our mountains so they just blast them away
For purple mountain majesty, once our nation's soul
Now is raped and pillaged by the barons of king coal
Back in these hills and hollows, hidden from your view.
Is the worst destruction of the earth that anyone could do:
Blasting off the mountaintops for the coal that lies below;
Killing every living thing where now black waters flow.
My family has lived here a hundred years and more;
This mountaintop is all that's left of what we had before.
Now just look around you and tell me what you see,
Death and desolation where living forests used to be (chorus)
Massey tried to drive me out by terror and by fear,
They've shot and burned and threatened everything that I hold dear.
This fight has been so fierce it tore my family apart,
But how could I just walk away? This land, it is my heart.
Down along Marsh Fork Creek is our children's school
In the shadow of Massey's toxic black impoundment pool.
Now the kids who learn and play there daily do complain
Of every kind of sickness that no one will explain. (chorus)
So tell me now who is to blame, who shakes king coal's hand?
Who fails to protect us, and who sells out our land?
It's greedy politicians at the company's beck and call,
From the judges up to Byrd and Bush, I will blame them all.
So tell your friends and family, those who listen and will hear,
Help stop this devastation 'fore these mountains disappear.
For you who hear my story, it's time to take a stand
For purple mountain majesty, for the people and the land (chorus)
words and music by Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino 27 April 2006
Copyright © 2007 Magpie, All Rights Reserved.
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2007 SURGE Conference: Mary Anne Hitt, Keynote Address
The eighth annual Students United for a
Responsible Global Environment (SURGE) Conference was held at Duke
University on March 30 - April 1, 2007. The conference
focused on a variety of environmental, social justice and economic justice
issues. The Friday evening kickoff featured the Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, Dr. William Schlesinger introducing keynote speaker Mary Anne Hitt
of Appalachian Voices at the Love Auditorium.
====>Click to hear "Introduction by Dr. William Schlesinger"
====>Click to hear "Mary Anne Hitt, Keynote Address"
To watch the movie played during the keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPixjCneseE
====>Click to hear "Mary Anne Hitt, QA Session"
Copyright © 2007 SURGE, All Rights Reserved.
Please visit the Mountain Voices Alliance webpage: http://www.mvalliance.net/
Mountain Voices works to preserve and protect the environment, including
the natural beauty, abundant resources, quality of life and cultural
heritage of our communities. They achieve their goals by working with local
governments, developers, organizations and individuals to encourage
responsible and sustainable development that is in the best interest of
citizens, visitors, and future generations.
Here are videos from their website:
====>Click to view "Save Our Slopes"
Save Our Slopes TV ads - 3-07
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to view "Save Our Slopes"
Save Our Slopes TV ad - 2-07
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to view "Developer Threatens Resident with Lawsuit"
Developer Threatens Resident with Lawsuit - WLOS Newscast - 2-07
UPDATE: Beth Woody did not succumb to the developers threat and as of 3/28/07 has not heard a word form him.
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to view "Erosion video from Rivercrest Subdivision"
A developer's unbridled lust for gold takes some of the peace and
tranquility out of a retired couple's golden years. The newly adopted
Storm Water Ordinance by Buncombe County comes too late for this couple
and many more citizens like them. The court system is our best hope for
now. Citizens should rally in support of each lawsuit against a
developer. Only when predatory developers realize that citizens are not
afraid to use the court system and that ill-gotten gains are at risk
will this problem end. This video requires Quicktime. For a free
download of QuickTime 7 for Windows, go to
www.apple.com/quicktime/win.html.
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to view "CIBO TV Attack ad #1 - 1-07"
CIBO TV Attack ad #1 - 1-07
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to view "CIBO TV Attack ad #2 - 3-07"
CIBO TV Attack ad #2 - 3-07
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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====>Click to view "Bunkum: New video from "WNCNN" - April 2007"
Bunkum: New video from "WNCNN" - April 2007
Copyright © 2007 Mountain Voices Alliance, All Rights Reserved.
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Mountain Top Removal - Videos
The following videos are from an assortment of people and posted on YouTube. Please view each video and credit each author accordingly:
====>Click to view "National Memorial for the Mountains"
====>Click to view "Mountaintop Removal Movie from iLoveMountains.org"
====>Click to view "Wells Fargo:Lootin and Pollutin in Coal Country"
====>Click to view "Stop Mountaintop Removal"
====>Click to view "Virtual Flyover of Mountaintop Removal Site"
====>Click to view "Mountaintop Removal in KY and WV"
====>Click to view "Mountaintop Removal on Cherry Pond and Kayford Mountains 2"
====>Click to view "Toxic West Virginia: Mountaintop Removal- Episode 1"
====>Click to view "Religious Leaders Mountaintop Removal Tour"
====>Click to view ""The Appalachians" Mountaintop Removal Sequence"
====>Click to view "Mountaintop Removal on Cherry Pond and Kayford Mountains"
====>Click to view "Larry Gibson at Kayford Mountain"
====>Click to view "Mountain near Belva"
====>Click to view "Pine Mountain Virginia / Kentucky / Tennessee"
====>Click to view "SOCM on Zeb Mountain"
====>Click to view "Black Mountain Story Part 1"
====>Click to view "Mountaintop Removal in KY and WV"
====>Click to view "Mountain Mourning - Look What They've Done"
====>Click to view "Bears In My Neighborhood"
====>Click to view "Coal River Mountain"
====>Click to view "Mountain Near Mud"
====>Click to view "Mountain Mourning - Christians for the Mountains"
====>Click to view "Lobby Days -- stopmountaintopremoval.org"
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