Videos from the rally
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Along with the many, many people who were taking photos at Thursday's I Love Mountains Day rally, we had a number of people there shooting video. So if you weren't able to come, take a few minutes and see what you missed!
Here are a couple of clips shot by Mimi Pickering of Appalshop
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Teri Blanton Welcomes Huge Crowd at I Love Mountains Day from Mimi Pickering on Vimeo. |
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Wendell Berry Speaks Out At I Love Mountains Rally from Mimi Pickering on Vimeo. |
And here are some by Jim Pence, from the HillbillyReport.com
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This is a slideshow of photos from the rally that Jim set to music. |
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This is uncut video of the entire rally. It is about an hour long. |
Additional videos...
You need a hill to be a Hillbilly
Posted by
Larry Thacker
at
February-22-2008 10:44 AM
Stereotypical Hillbilly
I know we now have a festival that’s celebrates backwardness so I am sorry if this offends anyone who wants to hang on to stigma that goes with the title. The perception is killing us on a hundred different levels’, if they lost the term it would not bother me. It really hit home as to how Corporations perceive us when Walker/Cat started running the pro Mountain Top Removal and pro cover up a stream commercials using a Mr. Bug and a Miss Bug in a courtroom setting. No Walker/Cat official would get on TV and make such ridiculous claims and even slightly tempt the truth in advertising concept. They would lose all credibility, as would any elected official who got up and promoted Mountain Top Removal and Valley Filling. It is a hard argument to make in print or in a crowd of educated people. They do not run these spots nationally just down here in the Kentucky and West Virginia markets. They have been put on YouTube and they are the bunt of many jokes and are the laughing stock on blog sites in the rest of the country. It bothers me to think the rest of the country thinks we are dumb enough to be talked into Mountain Top Removal and covering fresh water streams by a couple of cartoon bugs. Educators and local politicians no matter how you feel about MTR should petition Walker/Cat to stop running these spots in this local market. Get the teachers and students involved, should make for some interesting papers. They have the right to run pro MTR commercials, just please try to come up with something that will support their argument for the practice other than a couple of cartoon bugs. If you are pro MTR they are hurting your cause and making everybody involved with it look like fools. You should also ask them to come up with something that would have some influence on people over 3rd grade level.
I know we now have a festival that’s celebrates backwardness so I am sorry if this offends anyone who wants to hang on to stigma that goes with the title. The perception is killing us on a hundred different levels’, if they lost the term it would not bother me. It really hit home as to how Corporations perceive us when Walker/Cat started running the pro Mountain Top Removal and pro cover up a stream commercials using a Mr. Bug and a Miss Bug in a courtroom setting. No Walker/Cat official would get on TV and make such ridiculous claims and even slightly tempt the truth in advertising concept. They would lose all credibility, as would any elected official who got up and promoted Mountain Top Removal and Valley Filling. It is a hard argument to make in print or in a crowd of educated people. They do not run these spots nationally just down here in the Kentucky and West Virginia markets. They have been put on YouTube and they are the bunt of many jokes and are the laughing stock on blog sites in the rest of the country. It bothers me to think the rest of the country thinks we are dumb enough to be talked into Mountain Top Removal and covering fresh water streams by a couple of cartoon bugs. Educators and local politicians no matter how you feel about MTR should petition Walker/Cat to stop running these spots in this local market. Get the teachers and students involved, should make for some interesting papers. They have the right to run pro MTR commercials, just please try to come up with something that will support their argument for the practice other than a couple of cartoon bugs. If you are pro MTR they are hurting your cause and making everybody involved with it look like fools. You should also ask them to come up with something that would have some influence on people over 3rd grade level.
I Love Mountains Day Videos
Randy Wilson
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyEIUTwj8Ho">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyEIUTwj8Ho</a>
Wendell Berry
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfMu2NxtZI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgfMu2NxtZI</a>
Bev May
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloxoCV7xsU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nloxoCV7xsU</a>
Rick Handshoe
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8btpcZpdE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8btpcZpdE</a>
Father John Rausch
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dznkm3P1Oq4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dznkm3P1Oq4</a>