Subject: RE: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road! Jean oks thread From: InOBU Date: 21 May 07 - 05:05 PM I like the addition to the thread title! Thank you mud-elves lor |
Subject: RE: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road! Jean oks thread From: Peace Date: 21 May 07 - 03:54 PM Refresh. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: InOBU Date: 11 May 07 - 09:44 PM Yes... my idea for a thread name backfired, so do tell others to stop by and read all this... hanging my head... =( lor |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 11 May 07 - 07:17 PM I finally stumbled in here--just to see what this was all about. I'm not surprised! Jean, and all the good folks, keep up the fight. Art |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Rapparee Date: 11 May 07 - 06:53 PM Well, Jean, I'm going to email the KFTC address to my friend Alice. Even though she's in Northern Kentucky it'll get her blood flowing and being retired (twice) she's now become incredibly politically active. I'm not living there anymore, so I can't do much, at least not directly. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Flash Company Date: 11 May 07 - 10:16 AM Jean.... lovely to see a post from you, as an old (as in really old) UK admirer I am pleased to see that you are still up for a fight! Family experience of the same problem in the UK, an uncle of Sheila's lost his farm to open cast mining and comitted suicide. As the Man said,' They know not what they do!' FC |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Charley Noble Date: 11 May 07 - 09:49 AM InOBU- I think you're correct that the thread title discouraged some of us from reading this thread. We see so many inappropriate "attack" threads nowadays. And, Jean, thanks so much for responding. Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: InOBU Date: 11 May 07 - 05:55 AM Hi Jean and folks... I think the slow responce to this thread, might be people thinking it is a troll flaming you Jean... but, I wanted to get folks to have a look at all this, so maybe if it stays current for a little while more people will read it. And when they do, I hope they realize what is happening in Appalachia, to paraphrase the Los Vagas commercial in reverce, does not stay in Appalachia, but the poison they unlease on your home, Coal companies then spread around the whole nation. All the best lor |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Peace Date: 10 May 07 - 11:54 PM Another KFTC link. How to become a member or associate member. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Peace Date: 10 May 07 - 11:46 PM Kentuckians for the Commonwealth link. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Peace Date: 10 May 07 - 11:37 PM It's easy to see why people love you so much, Jean. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie) Date: 10 May 07 - 11:34 PM Thank you Lorcan, for coming and also for writing about it. I told about the road name as a "funny story," and example of folks who don't listen to what others are really SAYING. It was ironic to me that, after all my resistance to their eviction of folks near the road and destruction of their homes; my letters and protests to the state government- about all the problems we were having from strip mining; after all my protest songs, going on over many years,- someone wants to "honor" me by naming the road after me! This is a road that is two miles long, will cost 35 million dollars. It does make for safer driving- but most of the traffic will be coal trucks to and from the strip mines, and the Mountaintop Removers. What can I suggest? The Mountain Top Removal is just heartbreaking, I can't bear even to list the terrible things happening- pollution of our air, our water,the very earth beneath our feet. Destruction of habitat for the birds and animals we have known as neighbors all our lives, worse- the destruction of one of the country's important watersheds. You can imagine all the arguments for both sides, but not room to name them here. So, a few things to do: Go online to Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a wonderful and struggling organization to which I belong, and learn what's happening and why, and the things we can do to help. I'm well up in years, but am doing the bit that I'm able to do, even with my current croaky voice and unstable walking. One thing I cannot understand is,- the few greedy people who will benefit financially from all this- what about THEIR kids? Don't they care if their own kids get left with a dying world? PS: Lorcan, thanks for putting the pictures on. The first one was nice. I'm thinking I'll distribute that other one- of me lifting the heavy autoharp- to all the mountaintop removers- maybe it'll scare them out of their meanness! Love to all, Jean |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: InOBU Date: 10 May 07 - 09:48 PM Oh, I wish all of you were at the concert and get together. Peace, yop, It is great if Jean has ideas about what to do, but I really think we all can get thinking, and become a flea bite on the soft parts of King Coal... a thousand flea bites might... well, equal one good snake bite? Cheers lor |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Peace Date: 10 May 07 - 09:08 PM Perhaps Kytrad will advise as to what we can do? |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Rapparee Date: 10 May 07 - 09:02 PM Knowing KY governors, I say it's a lot of both. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: frogprince Date: 10 May 07 - 08:17 PM Dear God; makes me wonder if the gov is just a totally clueless lunk, or if it is really a gesture of utterly sarcastic cynicism. |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: Charley Noble Date: 10 May 07 - 08:08 PM The road to hell is said to be paved with good intentions! There may be a connection here, or not! Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: InOBU Date: 10 May 07 - 03:00 PM Thank'ee Link-Faery!!!!! Hello McGrath!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 10 May 07 - 09:42 AM aka Desolation Row |
Subject: BS: Just Say No To Jean Ritchie Road!!! From: InOBU Date: 10 May 07 - 05:15 AM Well, not this road, here and now. Appalachia is a place of great riches and great poverty. Most of the riches the coal industry has systematically stolen from those who live in that region with the help of gun thugs and politicians for generations. It was getting better. President Clinton was treating the coal industry as it should be treated, with criminal prosecutions for poisoning our rivers and our bodies with mercury in every state needlessly for years. Coal invested one hundred million dollars in the election of a politician who would make their crimes legal, and their investment paid off,
George Walker Bush's "justice" department dropped the prosecution of coal burying power plants, and made the dumping of mining waste into the nations water systems and the pumping of mercury into our bodies, legal. Now, many of you might wonder how the executive branch of government can change laws, after all, aren't they presently of the party that rails against judge made laws? Well, the judge who ruled that the coal companies were breaking the clean water act by dumping mountain tops, and tons of precious lumber, and arsenic and other heavy metal pollutants into the streams in the valleys of Appalachia asked the same question. So far the only answer has been the coughing of the children of Appalachia choking on the particulate matter from the blasting of their mountains by now federally protected criminals. Our dear treasure, Jean Ritchie http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorcanotway/491497986/ tell us that her property is threatened, as fill is used to build an access road, to continue the destruction of her community. There was a great deal of outrage, expressed on her behalf to the Governor of her state, and so, he is responding to the anger. He has named that road, "Jean Ritchie Road."
Jean, have you a middle name, we might call you? Or better still, can we demand that this road be stopped and some already existing road, which brings music lovers to say, Asheville, be called after you instead?
Folks like Julia Bonds, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorcanotway/491497994/ ;who faced threats from the coal industry to come and teach us ignorant city folk a lesson every American voter should understand care about deeply.
For more, go here... http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/index.php and go here http://www.crmw.net/culture.php and then... do something.
okay. Link-faery |
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