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Event
Stop the Kaboom 3
The third annual Stop The Kaboom Festival is at Rainbow Bills in Hedgesville, WV on June 14-16th, 2013. This festival was created to raise awareness and funding for the fight against surface mining for coal and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas otherwise known as fracking. All of the proceeds from this event will be used in our struggle against these industries and the regulations that allow them to destroy our lands and water while poisoning the folks that live nearby. Last year the Stop The Kaboom festival raised money and awareness to support the RAMPS Campaign in Southern, West Virginia, a non-violent direct action campaign dedicated to ending strip mining, and Frack Ban a community group located in the eastern panhandle of WV, that is trying to keep "fracking" out of Morgan County, WV. This festival is about connecting people and ideas, through music, art and community action to stop these devastating forms of resource extraction.
The RAMPS Campaign, is an acronym for Radical Action for Mountain People Survival. We are dedicated to support these folks whom willingly risk their libertys' by engaging in non-violent direct action. This past winter the campaign helped to coordinate a 3 week long winter action in St Louis Missouri. The Winter camp brought together communities from Black Mesa, Arizona, where Navajo people are being forcibly relocated to make room for Peabody's strip mining, and Appalachian residents who face health and community impacts from Peabody surface coal mines. The camp rallied and performed an action at the headquarters of Peabody Coal in St Louis, and was joined by several supportive organizations such as Black Mesa Indigenous Support, Veterans for Peace, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, SEIU and several other Labor Unions. This past year the RAMPS folks have been on the road traveling from Alaska, Texas to Ohio to lend support and solidarity to others struggling from the impacts of coal, fracking and tar sand keystone pipeline construction. The campaign has worked relentlessly to stop strip mining, while lending support to various communities of people directly affected from extreme energy extraction. They still need support to continue building networks and securing a permanent campaign space in Southern, WV. For more information please visit rampscampaign.org
FRACK BAN is a community group based in Morgan County, WV and their goal is to educate people about the dangers of "fracking" and to organize the citizens to establish a county ban on fracking through a community rights ordinance. With the funds raised from last year's festival, the group was able to attend Democracy School where we finalized our local community rights ordinace to ban fracking in Morgan County, WV. The community ban now must be widespread and gain support from all of our community members and county commissioners, in order to be passed. Hydraulic Fracturing for natural gas is a dangerous procedure where gas companies drill thousands of feet vertically and horizontally fracturing Marcellus Shale to release natural gas. In this procedure gas companies use at least a million gallons of freshwater, mixed with sand and over 500 chemicals per well drilling, The impacts of fracking lead to contaminated wells and aquifers, and gas mixing into well water. For more information please visit www.frackban.org
We are excited to not only raise money for both of these worthy groups but to also bring people together through music, art and action. Rainbow Bills house has had an ongoing tradition of beautiful gatherings of people in a energizing atmosphere. There has been lots of work taking place here to make sure that a good time will be had by all. We will have speakers and workshops to learn the effects that surface mining for coal and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas have on the environment and the people. By raising awareness and funds for both of these groups we are standing together to demand clean water and healthier livelihoods.
Performers Supporting this event
G-13,
Segway,
Secondhand Reggae Band,
After Destiny,
Luke Johnson Band,
High Frequency,
The Window Panes,
Brokedown Hustlers,
Gypsy Ramblers,
Lowbrau HighBallers,
Threesound,
It's a Messed Up Little World,
New Earth,
Chelsea Mcbee and the random assortment,
T-Paige,
The Lady Dies,
Roots Coalition,
Polymorphic,
eddie ru Kidding,
Jason Carver,
Uncle Brother,
The Bloody 9's,
Sunrise Project,
Monkey Island,
Jamie Gregory,
James Tompkins,
Betty Jo and Scott, and more to be announced
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LocationRainbow Bills (View)
132 Titmouse Lane
Hedgesville, WV 25427
United States
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Attendees
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United States
Jun 12, 2013 8:42 PM |
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United States
Jun 12, 2013 8:42 PM |
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United States
Jun 09, 2013 6:06 AM |
Holly S.
Winchester, VA United States
Apr 16, 2013 1:49 PM |
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United States
Apr 07, 2013 9:43 AM |
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United States
Apr 07, 2013 9:43 AM |
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