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Mountaintop Removing the Land and People

Thursday, 17 November 2005
6:30 PM - 12:00 AM

Mountaintop Removing

the Land and People"

a film festival about the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining and its effects upon the Appalachian environment and communities.




Free to the public. Donations welcomed. All funds raised will be donated to citizens’ organizations fighting to end mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians and to promote adoption of energy conservation and renewable energy use.




Films will screen every other Thursday starting on 13 October at the Customs House Museum, 200 South 2nd Street in Clarksville, TN. Doors will open at 6:00 and film begins at 6:30 p.m.

On alternate Thursdays, films will screen at the Clement Auditorium on the campus of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. Doors will open at 6:00 and films begin at 6:30 p.m.

A pre-screening reception will be hosted at the Downtown Artists Cooperative from 5:00-6:00 p.m. where program participants will meet the public and offer sales of their films, books, music, and art.

Thursday, 13 October
RECEPTION:
at the Downtown Artist Co-op, 96 Franklin Street, Clarksville, from 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Join us for refreshments and conversations with Larry Gibson and Dave Cooper from United Mountain Defense and Jeff Barrie, producer and director of Kilowatt Ours

FILM FESTIVAL:
at the Custom House Museum, 200 S. Second Street, seating from 6 - 6:30 p.m.

To Save the Land and People, by Anne Lewis
Kilowatt Ours ( http://www.kilowattours.org/ ), by Jeff Barrie will be shown after intermission

A note from Joe Schiller:
Larry Gibson spends most of his time with the Coal River Mountain Watch (http://webpages.charter.net/crmw/ ) and The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition ( http://www.ohvec.org ) A lot has been written about him. Here are a few of many examples: http://www.wvcoalfield.com/newpage7.htm , http://magazine.audubon.org/incite/incite0105.html , http://www.voiceyourself.com/article.php?section=3D5&more=1&id=854

Dave Cooper is involved with these groups and he has been at so many events sponsored by these groups. They are both remarkable people fighting against overwhelming odds.

I sure hope Clarksville turns out to meet and support them.
Joseph Schiller [mailto:SchillerJ@apsu.edu]

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