Protect Our Water Heritage Rights
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This virtual panel will be held during the week of August 7th in the evening to connect our struggles and learnings across the fights to stop the Letcher County prison in Kentucky, Mountain Valley Pipeline in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, and Cop City in Georgia and for a better future for the Southeast region, free of prisons and extractive industry. All of these movements take place within the Appalachian and Southern history of resistance to extractive industry, systemic racism, and collective marginalization. There is much to learn about the interconnectedness of the prisons and environmental justice movement.
Kentucky Representative Hal Rogers is trying to fast track and silence opposition to a prison in Letcher County, KY. Rogers seeks to avoid an environmental review process, public comment, and judicial review on the project. He has previously built three federal prisons in his district. This move is an example of the precedent Congress set when they fast tracked the Mountain Valley Pipeline in the Fiscal Responsibility Act in order to please coal baron and Senator Joe Manchin. The fast tracking of the pipeline avoided judicial review and key legal processes that protect communities and the environment. The movement to stop Cop City in Atlanta has drawn attention to the intersection of prisons, police, and environmental justice. The Cop City project targets communities of color who are disproportionately imprisoned and targeted by the police. The project would destroy forest that is considered the lungs of Atlanta.
The moderator of this panel is Jordan Martinez-Mazurek of Fight Toxic Prisons. BJ Lark will perform an opening song. The panel will include Judah Schept, a professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University; Emily Satterwhite a professor of Appalachian Studies at Virginia Tech; Crystal Mello, a community organizer with the POWHR Coalition; and Reverend Keyanna Jones, an Interfaith leader from DeKalb County.
Please join us for this panel with an open mind and heart! RSVP: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZUucO6rqzIiE9ICdcnWU5ekGjHaf…
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