Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot in partnership with Mimi Pickering and produced with Appalshop is finished. DVD's are available from Appalshop and California Newsreel. Clips screened at the historic 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit are included…

To Save the Land and People

TO SAVE THE LAND AND PEOPLE Remastered 2009, 1999, 56:40 The Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People used every means possible, from legal petitions to guns and dynamite, to…

Evelyn Williams

EVELYN WILLIAMS 1995, 26:40 Coal miner’s daughter and wife, mother of nine, domestic worker and community organizer whose awareness of class and race oppression led her to a lifetime of activism.…

Chemical Valley

Chemical Valley on vimeo The chemical spill and crisis in the Kanawha Valley has many echoes of events in the valley after Bhopal in the 1980s. If you want to view…

On Our Own Land

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…

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Yellow Creek, KY Still photo of documentary by Anne Lewis.

Yellow Creek, Kentucky

YELLOW CREEK, KENTUCKY 1984, 29:00 Documents the efforts of the Yellow Creek Concerned Citizens to stop a commercial tannery from dumping toxic wastes into the creek that flows through their…