Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Invocation/Invocacion Marta Maria Miranda
Introduction: Placing Appalachia Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith
I. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINS: PLACE, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE
1. Stop the Bombs: Local Organizing with Global Reach Ralph Hutchison
2. RAIL Solution: Taking on Halliburton on the Home Front Rees Shearer
3. This Land Is Your Land: Local Organizing and the Hegemony of Growth Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble
4. Identity Matters: Building an Urban Appalachian Movement in Cincinnati Phillip J. Obermiller, M.
5. Appalachian Youth Re-envisioning Home, Re-making Identities Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O
6. Resistance through Community-based Arts Maureen Mullinax
II. WHERE NO ONE STANDS ALONE: BRIDGING DIVIDES
7. Organizing Appalachian Women: Hope Lies in the Struggle Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda
8. The Southern Empowerment Project: Homegrown Organizing Gone Too Soon June Rostan and Walter Davis
9. Center for Participatory Change: Cultivating Grassroots Support Organizing Craig White, Paul Cast
10. Faith-based Coalitions and Organized Labor: New Forms of Collaboration in the Twenty-first Centu
11. Talking Union in Two Languages: Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East Tennessee
III. CLIMBING JACOB'S LADDER: SCALING UP
12. Virginia Organizing: The Action Is at the State Level Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter
13. OxyContin Flood in the Coalfields: "Searching for Higher Ground" Sue Ella Kobak
14. Not Your Grandmother's Agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's Agrifood Activism Jenrose Fitz
15. Mountain Justice Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Ryan Wishart, and Dave Cooper
16. Who Knows? Who Tells?: Creating a Knowledge Commons Anita Puckett, Elizabeth Fine, Mary Hufford,
17. North and South: Struggles over Coal in Colombia and Appalachia Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie
Conclusion: Transformations in Place Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher
List of Contributors
Index