Multimedia
Welcome to SOCM's Multimedia page, your one-stop spot for video and podcast resources pertaining to our Chapter and Committee work.
SOCM Tug-of-War Rope Breaks!
The 2010 Annual Membership Meeting was an event to remember. Watch as the SOCM young vs. old tug-of-war contest literally falls apart!
A thank-you goes to SOCM E3 Committee Chair Cathie Bird for creating this video.
Podcasting with StoryCorps - Take a Moment with Maureen O’Connell and Boomer Winfrey
Click here to hear a StoryCorps interview with members Maureen O'Connell and Boomer Winfrey! In Fall of 2010, SOCM partnered with StoryCorps to provide interview slots to a few selected members, who otherwise, may have not known about the StoryCorps opportunity or had a chance to participate. As SOCM's former executive director, Maureen worked with SOCM for more than 30 years, helping shape the democratic presence that SOCM provides to Tennesseans today. Boomer's work as a media consultant, dating back to the 1970s, helped transform SOCM's outreach and develop the organization's grassroots movement. Please take 40 minutes to listen to their stories!
Want to hear a short clip from the interview? Click here.
Learn more about NPR's StoryCorps, a national oral history project, by clicking here.
Podcasting with StoryCorps - Take a Moment with member Vickie Terry
Click here to hear a StoryCorps interview with member Vickie Terry! In Fall of 2010, SOCM partnered with StoryCorps to provide interview slots to a few selected members, who otherwise, may have not known about the StoryCorps opportunity or had a chance to participate. As a long-time E3 Committee member, working on efforts to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee that was occurring right in her own backyard, Terry's interview is a true reflection of the hardships, heartful successes and lessons learned through environmental justice work in Tennessee. Please take 40 minutes to listen to her stories!
Want to hear a short clip from the interview? Click here.
Learn more about NPR's StoryCorps, a national oral history project, by clicking here.
Cathie Bird tells the EPA that Tennessee Deserved a Hearing
SOCM and Others Schedule People’s Hearing for Coal Ash Regulation
While seven hearings have been scheduled by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider a classification for coal ash, not one was scheduled in Tennessee, the site of the disastrous TVA coal ash disaster in 2008. A coalition of environmental justice organizations – forming the Citizens’ Coal Ash Hearing Committee – will host a people’s hearing to help ensure that the voices of those who have been impacted by the lack of a “hazardous” classification of coal ash have a chance to testify.
SOCM’s Cathie Bird discusses the People’s Hearing with WUOT 91.9 fm Knoxville
Spring Into SOCM
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!
Exposing the Dirty Secret of mountaintop removal
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.
Pledge to End Mountaintop Removal
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.
Walden’s Ridge TN Threatened
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.
External Multimedia Sites We Recommend
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.
