ON OUR OWN LAND 1989, 28:30
The citizens’ movement to stop strip mining without the landowner’s consent which resulted in an amendment to the Kentucky constitution.
“Illustrates a conflict that won’t go away, in which the texture of community is pitted against the drive towards profit at any cost… lets coal operators damn themselves with their own words.” -Pat Aufderheide, In These Times
1990 Alfred I. DuPont/Columbia University Award for Independent Broadcast Journalism; American Film and Video Festival; Robert Flaherty Seminar.
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