Oct. 29, 2009

COAL COUNTRY FILM

Coal Country tells of the dramatic struggle around the use of coal, which provides over half the electricity in America.

In Appalachia, miners and residents are locked in conflict: is mining  and processing coal essential to providing good jobs, or is it destroying the land, water and air? What does this mean for the rest of America and the world?

Passions are running high in the mountains of Appalachia. Families and communities are deeply split over what is being done to their land. At issue is the latest form of strip mining called ‘mountaintop removal’, or MTR. Coal companies blast the tops off mountains, and run the debris into valleys and streams. Then they mine the exposed seams of coal and transport it to processing plants. Coal is mined more cheaply than ever, and America needs coal. But the air and water are filled with chemicals, and an ancient mountain range is disappearing forever.

Sierra Club Public Showings of "Coal Country" in Missouri
 
Tuesday, Nov. 10 - St. Louis
6pm
Diana Oleskevich, 6400 Minnesota Ave., St. Louis, MO 63111
Phone:314-678-0317
Email: justice@csjsl.org
Please come in the main entrance
 
Tuesday, Nov. 10 - Cape Girardeau
7pm
Edwin Miller, 309 S. Spanish St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
Phone: 573-332-8208
Email: edwinmiller1@hotmail.com

Tuesday, Nov. 10 - Columbia
7pm
Ryan Doyle, 518 Hitt St., Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 218-390-9561
Email: ryanmichaeldoyle@gmail.com
 
Wednesday, Nov. 11 - Labadie
7pm
Ginger Gambaro, 33 Owl Creek Lane, Labadie, MO 63055
Phone: 314-451-4239
Email: gingergambaro@yahoo.com

Wednesday, Nov. 11 - Springfield
5:30pm
Maddi Reising, 910 S. John Q. Hammonds Pkwy, Springfield, MO 65807
Email: madeline123@live.missouristate.edu

Wednesday, Nov. 11 - Kirksville
6pm
Danielle Zemmel, Patterson St. and Mulanix St., Kirksville, MO 63501
Phone: 314-814-1617
Email: djz1247@truman.edu

Thursday, Nov. 12 - Maplewood
7pm
Missouri Sierra Club, 7164 Manchester Ave., Maplewood, MO 63143
Phone: 314-644-1011
Email: Michael.Berg@sierraclub.org
 
Friday, Nov. 13 - St. Louis
5pm
Washington University Danforth Center, Rm 234, St. Louis, MO 63105
Phone: 617-974-1116
Email: hjalper@wustl.edu
 
Friday, Nov. 13 - St. Louis
7pm
Glorious Gardens Event
Rhonda Schaper, 9423 Daisy Ln., St. Louis, MO 63123
Phone: 314-645-3085
Email: rhonda@gloriousgardensinc.net

Friday, Nov. 13 - Kansas City
7pm
Kerry Albertson, 12123 Goodman St., Overland Park, KS 66213
Phone: 816-808-4826
Email: albykats@gmail.com