[Update - May 1st, 2008: "Burning the Future: Coal in America" will be airing again soon on the Sundance Channel, May 13th, 16th, and 18th. In addition, the DVD's will go on sale next week on the film's website: www.burningthefuture.com.]
Can coal ever be clean?
These guys are spending tens of millions trying to convince you, the American voter, that the future of America’s energy lies with “clean coal.”
A new documentary film, “Burning the Future: Coal in America” aims to clue Americans in on why “slightly less deadly coal” is probably a more accurate term for what the spooked coal industry is trying to push these days. Or maybe “laundered coal.” But “clean?” Well check out the trailer and see what you think:
Here’s the film’s short synopsis:
In Burning the Future: Coal in America, writer/director David Novack examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a groundswell of conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Confronted by an emerging coal-based US energy policy, local activists watch the nation praise coal without regard to the devastation caused by its extraction. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, our heroes demonstrate a strength of purpose and character in their improbable fight to arouse the nation’s help in protecting their mountains, saving their families, and preserving their way of life.
[Update - May 1st, 2008: "Burning the Future: Coal in America" will be airing again soon on the Sundance Channel, May 13th, 16th, and 18th. In addition, the DVD's will go on sale next week on the film's website: www.burningthefuture.com.]
No coal is clean coal!
Abolition of King Coal and Coal-Fired Plants Everywhere – No Nukes! No Uranium Mining!
Stop the Global Warming Machines!
Stop the Coming Genocides – Food/Water/Energy Chaos!
Weekly Vigil – presently May 4, 2008
Sundays Noon-1pm
Ottawa, Ontario – Canada
U.S. Embassy
490 Sussex Dr.
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance
psea4earth@gmail.com
Please see the following links or google “abolition of coal”
http://quebec.indymedia.org/en/node/28427
Hey, if you want to be part of the action in this movie, check out http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org which helped plan a lot of these actions. The training camp is May 17-23 in Harlan County, KY, and will lead into an amazing summer of internships, days of action and campaigning against coal and coal fired power plants.
Actually, the final scenes of this movie were shot at Mountain Justice Spring Break in 2007, planned by groups like SEAC (www.seac.org) Coal River Mountain Watch (www.crmw.net) and the Southern Energy Network (www.climateaction.net) and OVEC (www.ohvec.org). To be a part of MJSB 2009, visit http://www.mjsb.org — it’s planned mostly be student and youth volunteers.
This may seem like a shameless commercial for the groups in this movie, but I’m really just excited and proud to see our Appalachian hard work get such national coverage, and I want to invite everyone to be a part of the excitement. Don’t just watch movies, be a part of them!
Yeah!
Dana (at Seac.org)