The Mountain Association for Community Economic Development turns 40 this year. To help celebrate this milestone, the organization has taken a step back to reflect on the amount of just economic transition that’s taken place in the region over the past 40 years. They’ve been collecting stories, and have compiled them on a new website, “Stories from the Mountains.”
Renew Appalachia is proud to share some of those stories over the holiday months, as a way to spread the hope and joy that is present when the people of eastern Kentucky begin to rebuild their communities together, with an eye on the future.
This next installment from Stories from the Mountains features energy work in the small town of Benham, Kentucky in a film produced by Appalshop.
BENHAM $AVES from Appalshop CMI on Vimeo.
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New series about Appalachian Transition gets it right
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On our travels through West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, we heard just one person refer in earnest to a war on coal. We heard many others—economists, community development leaders, small-business…
Kentuckians are on the hunt today for Mitch McConnell. They're traveling to all his district offices across the state to deliver more than 10,000 signatures on a petition to ask him to support the RECLAIM and Miners' Protection Acts - two bills that have bipartisan support in the House of Representatives, and that are overwhelming supported by eastern Kentuckians. RECLAIM would bring much-needed federal Abandoned Mine Lands money back into the region for economic development, and the MPA would permanently protect the pensions and health benefits of coal miners and their families - a measure that is desperately needed.
You can follow along as these Kentuckians continue trying to find Mitch today. So far, they can't seem to locate him...
BREAKING IN LOUISVILLE: We’re delivering the signatures of 10,000 people demanding Senator McConnell take care of coal miners, their families and their communities. Call McConnell and tell him to bring home the RECLAIM Act and the Miners’ Protection Act now:
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Congress has chance to pass RECLAIM Act this week
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Congress is finalizing bills to pass on to the President’s desk this week, and they have a chance to pass the RECLAIM Act and Miners’ Protection Act (MPA) before the session ends and th…