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DESCRIPTION:Film evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nCoal Country\nby Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller\n\nPassions are 
 running high in the mountains of Appalachia.  Families and communities are 
 deeply split over what is being done to the land of West Virginia by Big 
 Coal, the coal mining corporations now practicing mountain top removal.  
 This is the latest form of strip mining where coal companies blast the tops 
 off mountains and run the debris into valleys and streams.  Appalachian 
 streams feed the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.  So these waters, too, are 
 being poisoned by West Virginia mining operations.   After getting the coal 
 from the exposed seams of coal after blasting off a mountain top, the coal 
 companies transport it to processing plants.  Using mountain top removal 
 and completely disregarding the waste products of mining coal, at these 
 plants, coal is mined more cheaply than ever, and so America is still 
 heavily dependent on coal just as it is on cheap oil.  Coal is the source 
 for half of America’s energy.  But the air and water are filled with 
 chemicals and an ancient mountain range is disappearing forever.\n\nThis is 
 the story of coal.  But see this film for the human stories as well.  Learn 
 about the devastation that is taking place in the lives of people who live 
 in Appalachia.  And so many other poor creatures, from the creatures in the 
 rivers and streams to the bear and deer in mountain forests have died 
 because of mountain top removal.  Miners themselves have suffered and died 
 working on these mines, and of course, virtually all of the area has 
 physically been destroyed.  There is no other place on earth that has 
 suffered like the mountain-top-removal-demolished mountains of Appalachia.  
 This film shows the devastation wrought on the people and the land of 
 southern West Virginia.  It is devastation on a monstrous scale and most 
 Americans are  probably not aware of the extent of it.\n\nWheelchair 
 accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are 
 accepted\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/03/18676234.php
SUMMARY:Coal Country
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/03/18676234.php
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