Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia Book

Contents

Preface....................vii
Acknowledgments....................ix
Invocation/Invocación Marta Maria Miranda....................xi
Introduction: Placing Appalachia Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith....................1
1. Stop the Bombs: Local Organizing with Global Reach Ralph Hutchison....................19
2. RAIL Solution: Taking on Halliburton on the Home Front Rees Shearer....................32
3. This Land Is Your Land: Local Organizing and the Hegemony of Growth Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble....................47
4. Identity Matters: Building an Urban Appalachian Movement in Cincinnati Phillip J. Obermiller, M. Kathryn Brown, Donna Jones, Michael E. Maloney, and [??] omas E. Wagner....................63
5. Appalachian Youth Re-envisioning Home, Re-making Identities Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty....................78
6. Resistance through Community-based Arts Maureen Mullinax....................92
7. Organizing Appalachian Women: Hope Lies in the Struggle Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney....................109
8. The Southern Empowerment Project: Homegrown Organizing Gone Too Soon June Rostan and Walter Davis....................122
9. Center for Participatory Change: Cultivating Grassroots Support Organizing Craig White, Paul Castelloe, Molly Hemstreet, Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, and Jeannette Butterworth....................133
10. Faith-based Coalitions and Organized Labor: New Forms of Collaboration in the Twenty-first Century? Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan....................148
11. Talking Union in Two Languages: Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East Tennessee Fran Ansley....................164
12. Virginia Organizing: The Action Is at the State Level Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter....................183
13. OxyContin Flood in the Coalfields: "Searching for Higher Ground" Sue Ella Kobak....................198
14. Not Your Grandmother's Agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's Agrifood Activism Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings....................210
15. Mountain Justice Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Ryan Wishart, and Dave Cooper....................226
16. Who Knows? Who Tells? Creating a Knowledge Commons Anita Puckett, Elizabeth Fine, Mary Hufford, Ann Kingsolver, and Betsy Taylor....................239
17. North and South: Struggles over Coal in Colombia and Appalachia Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie....................252
Conclusion: Transformations in Place Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher....................267
List of Contributors....................293
Index....................299