Friends of the Appalachian Mountains,
What are you doing for spring break?
Come to Appalachia and join the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining and hydrofracking for natural gas! Meet awesome community activists and student leaders organizing in their communities to save their beloved Appalachian Mountains from blasting! Have fun while while learning about coal mining, fracking, Appalachian music, culture and heritage - do community service work - go hiking in the mountains - see mountaintop removal and hydrofracking and learn about the death cycle of coal - hang out with other concerned, aware young people supporting local communities in their struggles against extractive industry.
This year, Mountain Justice is offering two Mountain Justice Spring Break weeks:
Virginia Mountain Justice Spring Break March 3-11, in Appalachia, Virginia - a historic town in the beautiful mountains of far western Virginia that has mountaintop removal coal mining very nearby. Residents of the town and the community group SAMS (Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards) are fighting to protect Ison Rock Ridge from mining. You will see mountaintop removal up close, and meet with local residents who have lived in the mountains for a lifetime. Workshops, organizing skills, trainings, site tours, mountain music and dancing.
To learn more and to register for Virginia Mountain Justice Spring Break, go to http://mjsb2012.wordpress.com/
From March 21-28, Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB) will be in northern West Virginia near Clarksburg, in the middle of the Marcellus Shale geological formation. Driving in you will see dozens of active natural gas drill sites and hundreds of hydrofracking tanker trucks going up and down the highway. This is a scenic and remote area of West Virginia that is getting drilled to death.
To learn more about hydrofracking, check out Steven Colbert's explanation of the issue.
Our West Virginia MJSB site is in a very comfortable and modern heated building with bunk beds, warm showers, and great home-cooked food lovingly prepared by volunteers. The week will offer workshops, trainings and community-led presentations that focus on building bridges between the anti-hydrofracking and the anti-mountaintop removal campaigns. Everyone is welcome and we have some awesome local West Virginia speakers lined up.
We will offer site tours to see hydrofracking in nearby Wetzel County, West Virginia, and see mountaintop removal at Larry Gibson's famous Kayford Mountain.
Please note that the West Virginia MJSB begins and ends on a Wednesday - There will also be lots of activities and site tours (and possibly housing) before and after the camp.
MJSB is high-energy, youth-led and it's always exciting. Check out this video from MJSB in 2007, when community members and college students entered the office of WV Governor Joe Manchin, demanding that a safe new school be built for the children at Marsh Fork Elementary, whose school was beneath a giant lake of toxic coal waste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jqENyow0cQ
Registration for Mountain Justice Spring Break includes all food, workshops and lodging - it's low cost and no one is turned away for lack of ability to pay.
To register and for more information on the West Virginia MJSB, go to
http://www.mjsb.org/index.php
What are you doing for spring break?
Come to Appalachia and join the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining and hydrofracking for natural gas! Meet awesome community activists and student leaders organizing in their communities to save their beloved Appalachian Mountains from blasting! Have fun while while learning about coal mining, fracking, Appalachian music, culture and heritage - do community service work - go hiking in the mountains - see mountaintop removal and hydrofracking and learn about the death cycle of coal - hang out with other concerned, aware young people supporting local communities in their struggles against extractive industry.
This year, Mountain Justice is offering two Mountain Justice Spring Break weeks:
Virginia Mountain Justice Spring Break March 3-11, in Appalachia, Virginia - a historic town in the beautiful mountains of far western Virginia that has mountaintop removal coal mining very nearby. Residents of the town and the community group SAMS (Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards) are fighting to protect Ison Rock Ridge from mining. You will see mountaintop removal up close, and meet with local residents who have lived in the mountains for a lifetime. Workshops, organizing skills, trainings, site tours, mountain music and dancing.
To learn more and to register for Virginia Mountain Justice Spring Break, go to http://mjsb2012.wordpress.com/
From March 21-28, Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB) will be in northern West Virginia near Clarksburg, in the middle of the Marcellus Shale geological formation. Driving in you will see dozens of active natural gas drill sites and hundreds of hydrofracking tanker trucks going up and down the highway. This is a scenic and remote area of West Virginia that is getting drilled to death.
To learn more about hydrofracking, check out Steven Colbert's explanation of the issue.
Our West Virginia MJSB site is in a very comfortable and modern heated building with bunk beds, warm showers, and great home-cooked food lovingly prepared by volunteers. The week will offer workshops, trainings and community-led presentations that focus on building bridges between the anti-hydrofracking and the anti-mountaintop removal campaigns. Everyone is welcome and we have some awesome local West Virginia speakers lined up.
We will offer site tours to see hydrofracking in nearby Wetzel County, West Virginia, and see mountaintop removal at Larry Gibson's famous Kayford Mountain.
Please note that the West Virginia MJSB begins and ends on a Wednesday - There will also be lots of activities and site tours (and possibly housing) before and after the camp.
MJSB is high-energy, youth-led and it's always exciting. Check out this video from MJSB in 2007, when community members and college students entered the office of WV Governor Joe Manchin, demanding that a safe new school be built for the children at Marsh Fork Elementary, whose school was beneath a giant lake of toxic coal waste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jqENyow0cQ
Registration for Mountain Justice Spring Break includes all food, workshops and lodging - it's low cost and no one is turned away for lack of ability to pay.
To register and for more information on the West Virginia MJSB, go to
http://www.mjsb.org/index.php
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