I'm back in asheville for good ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I've been up in Southwestern Virginia, in Wise County, doing anti-moutaintop removal stuff. One of the biggest projects of the summer is setting up a community center/free space/meeting place/library/etc in the town of Appalachia (coal town, where Jeremy Davidson was killed). We finally got a space (we think) at a UMWA ( Read more... )

We piled the old grease car full of six people and gear, strapped our bags to the roof, and prepared for a 6 hour drive south to the heat. 3 days later, after the car broke down 4 times and finally abandoned in Columbia, we put our thumbs on the on-ramp under the 100 degree sun and waiting for four hours until we turned around to give up and ( Read more... )

National Governors Association Convention
Call to Action This weekend, while United States governors are milling around in luxuriant hotels and admiring old slave plantations, residents in the coalfield regions of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, are experiencing firsthand the dire effects of mountaintop removal coal mining. ( Read more... )

I'm leaving tomorrow morning and hopefully be in soutwestern virginia doing www.mountainjusticesummer.org by the end of the week. This is the point of the summer where i have no idea what will happen after tomorrow and just have faith things fall into place and this big backpack will have everything i need. I dont know if my phone will have ( Read more... )

So i just got back from the dentist where they extracted 4 wisdom teeth from my skull. they even cut one in half to get it out. it was messy and smelled terrible. anyways, i'm stuck on a couch for a few days with frozen peas on my neck and a face 3 times it's normal size. please come by and watch movies and eat smoothies and ice cream and make ( Read more... )

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i left the cob hut and the woods and climbed into a large new lexus and drove to embassy row in dc and walked in a "park" and slept on a couch that was bigger than the hut itself. as we drove further and further north, i felt the mountains slip behind me and traffic surround me and no dirty southern hip hop was getting me back to those woods. i ( Read more... )

hey all ( Read more... )

How's about a real update eh ( Read more... )