COMMUNITY VOICES
LOS ANGELES PUBLIC INTEREST LAW JOURNAL
2 L.A. PUB. INT. L.J. 227
MOUNTAIN VOICES: WHO’S LISTENING?*
Carol Judy Students from diverse colleges and universities came to the Clearfork Valley in 2001 to discover for themselves the truth about mountaintop removal from those who live in Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. We are called Central Appalachia. As students listened to people discuss their feelings about what was happening to the mountains around them, they heard the stories of
the past three to four generations. Those listening and recording heard something deeper in the stories. These stories were not just about individuals who refused to accept mountaintop removal as “progress” or people who wanted to be “environmentalists”— everyone mourned the loss of the mountains. *This is an excerpt. For the full piece, please download the PDF. | AuthorCarol Judy thinks ‘outside the box’, is full of ideas, very active in the community, and
has taken every opportunity offered to travel the world with grassroots women organizers. She is a lover of the forest, a root digger, a ferocious reader of books, and an avid Internet researcher. And, as Coleman McCarthy might say, she is “a disturber of the peace.” Besides serving on the board of the Clearfork Community Institute, she is also a part-time staff member there, funded by the East Tennessee Human Resource Center. |
