What Can I Do to Fight for Mountain Justice? see dana at seac.org if you want to plug in. Yeah!

Volunteer Grunt Work – On the ground, clean stuff, fix stuff, carpentry, garden, mend fences

Research – Look at mining permits, find out what is being proposed where, Coal to Liquids and Carbon Sequestration fallacies,

Organizing – Long term placement in an area, working with youth, residents, building long term power that creates real improvement in people’s lives, for short term, can support local organizers with listening projects, materials creation, etc.

Lobbying – Working Clean Water Protection Act Nationally (see http://www.ilovemountains.org ) or on state level campaigns to end MTR and for clean energy and green jobs legislation

Give Presentations/Pay Speakers – To churches through Christians for the Mountains, on campus, at house parties, show movies, fundraise to pay coalfield residents to come speak.

Materials Creation – Art projects, fact sheets, press releases, fliers, websites, brochures, posters

Experts/Professional Resource Support – Find lawyers who will work for free/reduced, find university professors who can help with water testing and health studies, experts on hydrology – if you are an expert in this, then you do these things

Community Info – listening projects, Water testing, health studies

Action Planning – Planning, Prepping, Participating, Prop making

Media Work – Filming, photography, writing, recording – esp. at actions

Monitoring – Ground truthing – hike around with GPS to make sure the mine is within the permit boundary, track species living on a mountain before it is mined, look for toxic water spills after rainstorms—Hike around/4-wheeler to catch the company violating regulations

Fundraising!! – Get lots of money to pay speakers, fundraise for community groups and/or Mountain Justice

Organizational Building – Record keeping, data input, filing, tracking media, campaign assistance, media work – things to help build up local grassroots groups