Coal River Revival at the West Virginia Cultural Center!
Jul 13th, 2010 by admin
Reverend Billy and the Mountaintop Gospel Choir are coming to celebrate in West Virginia!
Reverend Billy is an internationally known activist and performance artist who has crusaded against consumerism on the streets and in theaters across the world. His 35 person gospel choir has written dozens of original songs, including some new songs about the problems with mountaintop removal coal mining, and expressing the needs for banks to divest from mountaintop removal.
After years of campaigning against consumerism and cheap, disposable goods, the group has turned it’s focus towards methods of extraction that are turning entire communities and watersheds into disposable goods. Reverend Billy and his gospel choir have hosted a number of events in the New York City area calling for an end to mountaintop removal, and now they’re coming to West Virginia to celebrate recent victories and local activists. The event will take place in Charleston on Saturday, July 24th at 8 pm at the Cultural Center Theater.
In the words of Reverend Billy:
We’ll celebrate JP Morgan’s quiet retreat from financing MTR operations. We’ll celebrate the freedom of Marsh Fork Elementary School from the threatening coal slurry lake poised above it. We’ll celebrate the lives and work of Mountaintop Removal activists. We’ll give them thanks and praise, invigorate them, REVIVE THEM. We can end Mountaintop Removal in 2010.
