Winds of Change Newsletter, February 2006     See sidebar for table of contents

Sustainable Development: Help Send A Coalfield Delegation to the UN

This May, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development will meet in New York to discuss international energy strategy.

Most government officials continue to ignore the atrocities of mountaintop removal, coal sludge impoundments and underground injections of sludge, so it is up to the people to let the world know the harsh realities of an economy built on cheap electricity.

The United Nations needs to know that we cannot have sustainable communities without the mountains on which we rely for clean water, clean air, our health and the health of our children. It is the people of Appalachian coal mining communities who are most immediately paying the true costs of coal, and so

The first Coalfield Delegation to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, a group of inspiring coal field residents, is prepared to take the truth to the UN, but we need your support if we are going to make it. Please help us raise the $7,000 so we can get to New York this May and ensure that the international debate on sustainable energy development includes the voice of the people.

Please make checks payable to: The Appalachian Coalition for Just and Sustainable Communities, P.O. Box 161 Whitesburg, KY, 41858, or contact Patricia Feeney at (606) 632-0051, or tricia@appcoalition.org.