Saturday, March 12, 2011

MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL: THE TRUE COST OF COAL

A high energy, interactive, graphic-based picture-lecture that speaks to
the overwhelming and complex picture of globalization, militarization, and
resource extraction, as well as the small-scale changes and actions we can
undertake to build another world!

Wednesday, March 16, 2011
5:30pm
Richmond Center at WMU
         
Long exploited as a resource-extraction colony within the US, the
Appalachian Mountains are home to a fight for survival whose outcome will
determine in part the industrial power of this country. Without coal,
there would be no 'cheap' electricity. Today’s energy corporations and
government bodies are continuing to show the extent of their violence and
greed as they push their extractive agendas in the “New Coal Rush.”

Learn more about this graphics campaign as it unfolds at:
beehivecollective.blogspot.com.

Contact with questions about this event: aliisa@logicalhost.com

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