It wasn't just the same old song and dance this day before V-day here at Radford University. Luckily, though, song and dance did accompany inspiring messages from coal field activists and Appalachian Studies scholars at today Mountaintop Removal Awareness day. Over ____ students, faculty and community members came out to hear first hand accounts of living with MTR, live performances of Appalachian music and traditional dance, and explanations of the socio-economic structures that allow our Appalachian Mountains to be destroyed for coal. This event was sponsored by the Radford Appalachian Events Committee; many thanks to all those who made this day a great success.

Here is the schedule of events 10:00 Bud Bennett, Fritz & Tom
Mountaintop Removal/Coal Mining
Focused Music

11:00 Elaine Purkey
Community Organizer, Activist
and Songwriter

12:00 Larry Gibson
Mountaintop Removal Activist
CNN’s Legends and Unsung Hero
Award Nominee

1:00 Kathy Selvage
Community Organizer and Activist
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards

2:00 Deborah McLaughlin
RU Dance Department, Eating Appalachia:
Selling Out to the Hungry Ghost

3:00 Dr. Theresa Burriss
Mountain Top Removal Multimedia Project