Results for Appalachia
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Ashley Judd: 'My Christian Faith Demands I Work for Social Justice'
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
It's noon on the West Coast, and Ashley Judd is scurrying to make a live on-air interview with a National Public Radio local affiliate in Berkeley. It's noon on the West ...
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The Ugliest Word in the English Language: Fracking
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
I think I know the ugliest word in the English language -- a neologism, actually, coined to describe the technique for pumping liquid at high pressure into rock to open up cracks so that natural ga ...
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Reverend Billy Against Mountain Top Removal
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2011/04/11/reverend-billy-against-mountain-top-removal/" target="_self"></a>Reverend Billy and the <a href="http://www.revbilly.co ...
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Wendell Berry Won't Quit Trying to Save the Mountains
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog -
<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2011/02/14/wendell-berry-wont-quit-trying-to-save-the-mountains/" target="_self"></a>Fourteen mountain-top removal protesters -- including ...
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Mountaintop Removal Kills People
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog -
<p style="text-align: left;">More than 2,000 activists gathered at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C. More than 2,000 activists gathered at Freedom Plaza in Washing ...
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Coal Country: Is it Mine or God's?
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog -
<em>[<strong>Editor's Note</strong>: On 10.10.10, </em><a href="http://www.350.org/" target="_blank"><em>350.org</em></a><em> is c ...
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We Must Ask Moral Questions About Our Oil Addiction (Part II)
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog -
Yesterday, I asked some <a href="http://blog.sojo.net/2010/07/07/we-must-ask-moral-questions-about-our-oil-addiction-part-i/">moral questions about our oil addiction</a>. ...
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Voices from the Gulf: 'I am Hurt, Angry, but Hopeful'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog -
<p class="wackmsg_new_sender"><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/voices-from-the-gulf/"></a></p> Editor's note: This w ...
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Mountain Music
Originally Posted: 02/28/2011 - 8:31pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Danny Duncan Collum Saving a Kentucky community and its culture, one kid at a time. Ten years ago old-time mus ...
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Keep it Close to Home
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Danny Duncan Collum Appalachian-influenced music with a modern twist: Zoe Speaks. In 1997, Steve Earle, depres ...
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Almost Heaven
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 8:54pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Elizabeth Newberry Interstate 77 winds around the mountains of Bland County like lifelines on the palm of my hand. I cross through the Big ...
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Poets Turned Prophets
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:27pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Elizabeth Newberry Affrilachian Poets claim the space between two worlds. Three poets stride across the stage ...
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Attention or Exploitation?
Originally Posted: 04/05/2011 - 10:28pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Elizabeth Newberry What is the proper role of the filmmaker? The Clampetts. A coal miner's daughter. Chil ...
