Chris Irwin, co-founder of the United Mountain Defense and former editor of the environmental magazine "Earth First!" will lecture on the effects of mountaintop removal at 6:30 p.m. on October 21 in Stevenson Hall 1002 on the Sonoma State University campus. This lecture is sponsored by SSU's Project Censored and Students for Media Democracy.
Mountaintop removal is a new form of coal mining in which companies dynamite the tops of mountains to collect the coal underneath. This destructive form of mining is a threat to the natural ecosystem and the U.S. economy.
Chris Irwin is a sixth generation Appalachia native and his story about mountaintop removal is featured in Project Censored's newest book Censored 2006.
The lecture is free, but donations will be accepted. For more information, please contact Suze Cribbs, Project Censored Event Coordinator, at (707) 664-3166 or by email at suzeraine@sbcglobal.net.
