He’s been laughed at, cussed, and shot at, but Larry Gibson refuses to abandon his home. Gibson has lived atop Kayford Mountain in West Virginia for decades, fighting to save his family’s land from one of the biggest Mountain Top Removal mines in Appalachia.
“Mountain Man” is a 9 1/2 minute short documentary. It features interviews with West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Cabinet Secretary Randy Huffman, political strategist Mudcat Saunders, Jesuit Wheeling’s Dr. Ben Stout, retired coal miner Chuck Nelson, Coal River Mountain Watch’s Rory McIlmoil and UK’s Dr. Ron Eller, among other interviews.
Look for “Mountain Man” at film festivals in 2011.
Good news, folks. There a bunch of “Toxic Soup” screenings coming up soon. First, we have a screening at Rutgers University as part of the 2010 New Jersey Film Festival. This will be on Sunday, September 12th at 7 pm. Second, we are screening at Glenville State College on Wednesday, September 29th at 7 pm.
“Toxic Soup” will be screening on Saturday, August 7th at 3:15 pm at the Bangor Opera House as part of the 2010 KahBang Film, Art and Music Festival in Bangor, Maine.
“Toxic Soup” will be screening at the New Jersey Film Festival at Rutgers University this fall in the competition bracket.
“Toxic Soup” will be screening on Sunday, September 12th at 7 pm at Voorhees Hall #105 at Rutgers University.
DIRECTIONS: Take the NJ Turnpike to Exit 9 and then take Route 18N (New Brunswick direction) and go for 2 1/2 miles to the College Avenue Campus/George Street exit (immediately after the Route 27S exit) and make a left at the light at the end of the exit ramp onto George Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto Hamilton Street, then go to the next light and make a right onto College Avenue. Almost immediately on your right hand side there is an University Parking Lot (#9) which is made available for our patrons to park in. Voorhees Hall is adjacent to the Zimmerli Art Museum and is 100 paces across the Voorhees Mall from Parking Lot 9. Patrons can also park in Rutgers Lots #1 (next to Kirkpatrick Chapel) and #16 (next to Murray and Milledoler Hall).
Also in case you prefer to travel via train, know that Rutgers is only an one hour ride from New York City. We hope to see you there!
A great visual depicting the whoring of our environment for corporate profits courtesy of Mother Jones, one of the better investigative magazines out there.
As part of CNN’s “Toxic America” special, Sanjay Gupta reports that over 200 toxic chemicals have been found in the cord blood of babies. The health effects of this Toxic Soup remain largely unknown.
According to the BBC News today: “A court in the Indian city of Bhopal has sentenced eight people to two years each in jail over a gas plant leak that killed thousands of people in 1984. The convictions are the first since the disaster at the Union Carbide plant – the world’s worst industrial accident. Bhopal residents describe the impact of the disaster and give their reaction to the sentencing.” American CEO Warren Anderson was let off the hook completely, continuing the misguided legal trend of deifying executives. Read the rest of the story here.
So BP went on the offensive this week, launching an ad campaign that extolls its cleanup efforts, complete with chirping seabirds in the background of CEO Tony Hayward’s pompous monologue. “We’ve helped organize the largest environmental response in this nation’s history.” Yes, because you created the largest environmental disaster in this nation’s history! You would think that the thousands of dollars that BP invested in this hot air could have been better spent on the relief effort, or on the welfare of Gulf Coast residents who have lost their livelihoods due to BP’s recklessness.
