End the Filibuster protests & arrests
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Protests and Blockades at a Coal Plant Associated with Manchin’s Family
The following articles are related to protests and blockades associated with U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Protestors Arrested at Coal Waste Plant Affiliated With Manchin’s Family (newsweek.com) Hundreds of climate change activists to protest at W.Va. power plant, Manchin’s voting record, on Saturday | News | bdtonline.com West Virginians Lead Blockade of Coal Plant That Made …
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Unclear who is investigating oil leak and vandalism; community activist speaks out
BOONE COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Oil sits on top of the areas where the water pools on the Pond Fork River. Maria Gunnoe is the director of a non-profit, Mother Jones Community Foundation, with a long list of awards for community activism in West Virginia. She has been capturing the oil leak the only way …
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Rolling Stone article outlines Senator Manchin’s role in keeping coal alive
The in-depth story by Jeff Goodell “Manchin’s Coal Corruption Is So Much Worse Than You Knew” is a shocking deep-dive into the senator’s financial and political ties to the dying, destructive industry.
From Appalachia to Wall Street, How the U.S. Created an Oligarchic Dystopia
Listen to the audio documentary featuring members of the Mother Jones Community Foundation here.
We Still Live Here: Coal Activists Fight On in Heart-Wrenching New Film
As The Both of Me makes clear, the self-destruction of Appalachia has never ended. by Jeff Biggers Entering the abandoned ruins of a deconsecrated church and converted United Mine Workers hall with the slow approach of a horror film, the chilling opening scene in the new short documentary, The Both of Me, premiering at the Telluride Mountainfilm festival this weekend, …
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Media Advisory May 1, 2021
Mother Jones Community Foundation Contact: Director: Maria Gunnoe 304-989-9581 or info@motherjoneswv.orgPO Box 494 Van, WV 25206-0494www.motherjoneswv.org Mary “Mother Jones” Harris was born on May 1, 1837. On May 1st, we also recognize “May Day” or International Workers Day. This was the first Labor day designation in 1886. May 1st was set aside to be a …
Faith Organizations Speak Out
Biblical/Theological Considerations on Resource Exploitation As a barebones starting point, we offer the following considerations on industrial exploitation of coal and gas in Appalachia. 1. “The earth and all that it contains belongs to God” (Psalm 24:1) is a key scripture regarding the use of the creation. This and other similar scriptures show clearly that the …
This essay from 2000 amounts to a depopulation plan for southern West Virginia
When I first read this document 18 years ago, it infuriated me. Starting on page 13, the essay includes points that amount to a depopulation plan for southern West Virginia. I think it infuriates me even more now, after everything that’s happened since then that has continued to run our people out of their ancestral home places. We truly …
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National Recognized Activists “Infuriated” at Bloomberg-Backed Coal Documentary
Source: Mother Jones Community FoundationNEWS RELEASEFor immediate releaseContact: Maria Gunnoe: info@motherjoneswv.org 304-989-9581 “From the Ashes,” a new documentary on the coal industry directed by Michael Bonfiglio, distributed by National Geographic and funded by former New York City Mayor and one-time presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg, is drawing bitter opposition from environmentalists, mountaintop removal opponents, Appalachian community activists and coal …
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