Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment

The 2010 Spring Into SOCM campaign is working to bring new members out for social justice. Watch this video to help make joining now easier than ever before!

Over 500 of America’s oldest mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining – but a majority of Americans don’t realize that they are connected to this destruction through their electricity. We need to get this message out across the country and put the pressure on Washington to end mountaintop removal.

This powerful new ad, narrated by Kentucky native Ashley Judd, is based on the most talked-about political commercial in America’s history. We need your help to get this commercial on air. Please donate to help air our ad and help spread the word!

Watch the ad, make a donation, then share it with your friends and family so they can do the same.

There are cleaner, safer alternatives for our electricity.

Two of Tennessee's mountains are part of the ilovemountains.org "Most Endangered Mountains" series. The two videos below tell the stories of people effected by the horrible mountaintop removal process, which removes coal from Tennessee land to produce energy. 

Pledge to help end mountaintop removal by visiting www.ILoveMountains.org, and submit your name to be included in a list of supporters. You will find the form in the top right corner of the site's homepage. 

Wanda Hodge and her community won a "Lands Unsuitable For Mining" (LUMP) designation for the Rock Creek watershed, which is part of Walden's Ridge. This has kept the area safe for the past 20 years. But today, the threat has returned and coal companies are working hard to overturn the LUMP designation. If this were overturned the entire area of Walden's Ridge would be open to heavy mountaintop removal mining. 

 For the Kids:

• From GreenGorilla.com: KJ helps the gang find out that “clean and green” is actually a massive coal-seeking mechanical worm on it’s way to remove their favorite mountain.