benefit tomorrow to end mountaintop removal

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Thursday, Oct. 12

MTR benefit at the Jazz Factory

Myriad issues are worth your money, and rarely do we presume to tell you how to spend. In Kentucky, though, we are endowed with natural beauty and majesty, from rolling hills to massive, jagged mountains. That’s worth preserving, many would agree.

But in Kentucky, like other states that share the Appalachian Mountains, the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining — or blowing apart mountains one level at a time to reach coal seams in a more cost-efficient, less employee-heavy way — is systematically destroying the mountains. The environmental fallout — acid mine drainage in the water, explosions that rock houses from their foundations, and so forth — has quickly deteriorated the quality of life for people who live in the hollers and towns in and around the mountains.

For Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a social justice organization, MTR is a flagship issue. They’ve been pushing against it for years, and tomorrow they’re sponsoring a benefit at the Jazz Factory featuring live music, readings and a photo exhibition from artists connected to the cause.

The Betweeners and Zach Brock are among the live music performers; Ed McClanahan, Anne Shelby, Erik Reece, Gwyn Hyman-Rubio and others will read.

Author Silas House is the emcee.

—Stephen George

Jazz Factory
815 W. Market St.
992-3242

$10; 6:30 p.m.
All ages

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