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Details: Ed Wiley on Kayford Mountain,WV Mountain Keepers Music Festival 9.19.08 Photo by Donna Binder This week's road session: Please let me introduce, Ed Wiley a former Massey Coal employee who has become an advocate for the environment and is now trying to stop Mountaintop Removal. He has seen and done what the Coal/Energy companies do and takes full responsibility for the lives he damaged and the unreported shortcuts he took while an employee of the energy industry. He set up Pennies of Promise to save the children of Marsh Fork Elementary in the Coal River Valley in West Virginia from the dangerous coal dust from the coal loading silo that sits next to the school. He's helped set up sister fundraising programs in other schools across the country. Any takers? We're footing the bill, once again for the bad decisions and the greed of the corporations. I'm no economist but I can see that we're in a big financial mess and we've got to stick together in our towns and neighborhoods to take care of each other. I cried with many of my guests when Trailer Talk traveled to the coalfields of West Virginia this summer. I was invited by concerned citizen (hero) Larry Gibson to his home on Kayford Mountain which is about half an hour outside of Charleston to see what the true cost of coal (substitute oil or natural gas here too) really is and what individuals are doing to fight back. In the middle of Appalachia (small town America!), I saw Obama signs everywhere and repeatedly the folks I met, whether a Marine, a retired coal miner, a former MTR employee, a church-goer or a mother stated that things have to change. Please tune in! Special thanks to The Homestead School in Glen Spey, New York, for their generous support which made my trip to West Virginia possible.
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