ARTivism Virginia
Collection of videos from the ARTivism Virginia YouTube channel. This collection features environmental activism, water protection campaigns, community organizing, and artistic resistance against fossil fuel infrastructure projects in Virginia and the Appalachian region.
ARTivism Virginia
Collection of videos from the ARTivism Virginia YouTube channel. This collection features environmental activism, water protection campaigns, community organizing, and artistic resistance against fossil fuel infrastructure projects in Virginia and the Appalachian region.
Boots on the Ground: Into The Heart Of Virginia
Week one of our two-week, 150 mile, 5 county walk is under way. Join our walk any day or part of day until July 2 and join our Walking the Line Celebration Concert, Friday, June 23, in Staunton. #noACP #WalkingTheLine
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Next Steps: How To Stop These Pipelines
As “Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia” ponders right next actions, we look back to our early interviews for inspiration to keep on truckin’. Featuring landowner, Ernie Reed of Wild Virginia and with Lakshmi Fjord of Friends of Buckingham, Joseph Jeeva Abbate of Yogaville Environmental Solutions, Kirk Bowers of Virginia Sierra Club and Joyce Burton of Friends of Nelson. Since our June 23 interview with Ernie Reed, new public hearings have been announced by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality for August. While these hearings are a bit of a sham, we still must turn out for them in force. Will you be one of the 1,000 people we need on each of these five dates? Stay tuned for how we will join together to send a clear and powerful message at these hearings. This fight will take all of all of us! #noACP #noMVP
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Sacred Places Map
The Sacred Places Map combines the work of 18 fine artists to depict only a few of the sacred places, things and beings that would be threatened along the proposed ACP route in Virginia. Curator Lilly Bechtel talks about the creation of the map and her work as an ARTivist. The map will be on display again this Sunday, July 2 in Union Hill. See "Thou Shall Have No Dominion Here" event information on the "Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia" facebook page.
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Sow 'Em On The Mountain
Walking the Line sets out June 17 ! Walking the Line Celebration Concert, Staunton, June 23 ! Join all or some of our walk: http://walkingtheline.org/ Enjoy our free, with reservations, Celebration Concert: / 1943069245909101 Create your own verse of Sow 'Em On The Mountain and let us know you plan to come and sing it with us at the Celebration Concert when we film the second version of this song video. message us on facebook! You gonna reap just what you sow.....
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Sow Em on the Mountain - Second Sing
“Sow Em on the Mountain - Second Sing” hits anthem status as “Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia” strides into the center of its second week. Filmed June 23, 2017 at the Walking the Line Celebration Concert in Staunton, this second “Sow Em” film echoes and amplifies the walk’s clear and urgent call to witness what is too beautiful and precious to lose. The Robey Family Band leads with Lorie & Friends Jam, Love Army Ukulele Brigade, Lua, True Worship and voice over by Kay Leigh Ferguson. Join our walk. Sing with us again Sunday, July 2, 10 am at the Union Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham. Lend your voice, your help, your hope to stopping the pipelines!
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Sow Em on the Mountain - Sing 3: Now, this fight is now
On July 2, 2017, Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia completed a 150 mile, 5 county walk along the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline Route by joining Union Hill Baptist Church and Friends of Buckingham for worship and ritual. Since we struck the first banjo chord for our anthem, “Sow Em on the Mountain”, many months have passed, many miles have been traveled and many voices have been added to the song and the long important work to stop these greed lines. Stay tuned for next sings and next steps.
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The Good News: Or It's A Shame It Takes An Enemy
The Good News: Or It's A Shame It Takes An Enemy Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia and ARTivism present our fourth video examining the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines. With Kirk Bowers of Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Randy Whiting and Joyce Burton of Friends of Nelson, Peter Anderson of Appalachian Voices, Nancy Sorrells of Augusta County Alliance, Joseph Jeeva Abate of Yogaville Environmental Solutions - YES and Lee White of Walking the Line and Cville Rising. Give us a listen. #noACP
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This is a Robbery
Virginia Department of Economic, uh, Environmental Quality approves erosion and sediment control ploy, uh, plans for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Gloves off.
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Thou Shall Have No Dominion Here
“Thou Shall Have No Dominion Here” - our 6th film on the issues of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline focuses on the Buckingham Compressor Station as a stark example of environmental racism and injustice. With Pastor Paul Wilson of the Union Hill and Union Grove Baptist Churches, cultural anthropologist Lakshmi Fjord, PhD, from Friends of Buckingham and Joseph Jeeva Abate from YES (Yogaville Environmental Solutions). Give us a listen. Join our work. Every fact here is true, but one. What has changed is that there is now no plan for underground storage tanks at this site. Only above ground.
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Walk With Me
Walk with Me: An invitation to join Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia for an hour, a day, or the entire two weeks. From a conversation with key organizers. Come and see.... Find out more here: http://walkingtheline.org/ — with Douglas Olson, Patty Nourse Culbertson, Peter Pooya and Lee M White.
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What Lies Beneath: Water Killer, Job Killer
Our 7th video on the issues of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline focuses on Augusta County and pipeline threats to water and jobs. With Nancy Sorrells of Augusta County Alliance. Come learn more at our Walking the Line Celebration Concert in Staunton on Friday, June 23!
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Why This Fight
"Walking the Line: Into the Heart of Virginia" presents “Why this fight?” A conversation with some, not remotely all, of the organizations and volunteers working to stop the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked-gas pipelines. With Nancy Sorrells of Augusta County Alliance, Kirk Bowers of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Lee White of Walking the Line and Cville Rising, Joyce Burton of Friends of Nelson, Joseph Jeeva Abate of Yogaville Environmental Solutions - YES and Malik Olson of Walking the Line and Cville Rising. This is such a good fight for so many reasons and we haven’t yet even talked about the unlawful use of eminent domain. We will. Go to http://walkingtheline.org/ to learn more. Join us!
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Circle of Protection: Buckingham - Weekly Interfaith Prayer Vigil
In 2018, ARTivism Virginia produced some twenty Circles of Protection – weekly interfaith prayer vigils to protect Buckingham County, Virginia from the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and its associated Buckingham Compressor Station in Union Hill. Allies from across the state and region came to expect neighbors, prayer, story, poetry and song. These circles were an inspiring first landing for those new to the struggle to stop ACP in the name of environmental justice. They also lifted up those who were long into and weary from this good, long fight. The vigils were in open air on the grounds of Union Hill & Union Grove Baptist Churches, Buckingham, VA. On the first Sundays of the month we shared a loaves and fishes pot luck in the church basement. All were welcome.
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Happy Pipeline Owners
As we celebrate the death of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline we offer again this little love letter to the broad, diverse community fighting to stop construction of the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines and especially to all the Southern country women who may look easy to fool, but almost never are. Without their ferocity and tenacity, ACP would never have been stopped and it is that same quality which will end MVP. A comedic look at how pipeline companies treat directly impacted landowners - or try to. And yes Aaron Ruby of Dominion Power, your world class smarm inspired our Mr. Rube. We hope it makes you laugh. Then fight.
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Make Moves
Direct action to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline began with the Peter’s Mountain tree sit in February, 2018. “Deckard” whose sit has been guarded and blocked from resupply of food and water for over a month, reminds us that this fight will take all of us, no matter what we’ve got to give. Make moves. Support your neighbors putting their bodies on the line to protect our water and our future. Learn the facts. Join a grassroots group near you. Give material support here: Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice. https://www.iacjva.org/give
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Pray with Me: Stand with Union Hill
Join the Circle of Protection: Interfaith Prayer Vigil with story and song followed by church pot luck with guest speaker. 1:30-3:30 Sundays, October 21 (esp kid friendly), November 18, and December 16. All are welcome. "Pray with Me" features Reverend Virginia Agee of the Highway of Faith Holy Church, Pastor Paul Wilson of the Union Hill Grove Baptist Church, and musicians Emily Robey Morrison and the Yes Brothers.
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Stand with Red: It's a Family Affair
Those taking direct action to block construction of fracked gas pipelines in Virginia are peaceful and informed. They are diverse and they are us. “Stand with Red: It’s a Family Affair” from Water is life. Protect it. allows you to meet one marriage at the center of this courage. The Terry family of Bent Mountain gladly gave private land for the local school, now community center, and again gave land to power lines because these sacrifices benefited the local common good. They are resisting the MVP because it harms the local good, the water future, and benefits only a private out of state corporation. Please support all those protecting your water with your presence, your prayers and your support.
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Stand with Union Hill: Concert of Prayer
The Stand with Union Hill Concert of Prayer on December 18, 2018 was an interfaith prayer vigil to lift protection against the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline Buckingham Compressor Station in Union Hill, Virginia, on the eve of an important meeting by the Department of Environmental Quality's Air Pollution Control Board. The next day, the Air Pollution Control Board and the Virginia DEQ manage to dodge valid legal challenges to their procedure, public outrage over Governor Northam’s recent stacking of board members in Dominion Energy's favor, and the presence of over 150 concerned citizens by not voting, and by declaring a new public comment period for the proposed ACP compressor station at Union Hill. Help us turn this setback into a victory by signing the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/va-air-pollu... And come with us again on January 8, 2019 to seek reason and justice when the Air Board may finally vote on the air permit for the station, 10:00AM, DoubleTree by Hilton Richmond-Midlothian, James River Parlor G/H, 1021 Koger Center Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23235 At 54,000 horsepower, the proposed compressor station, a giant, even by industry standards, has been sited in the center of an historic African American freedman community on a former slave plantation and represents a stark example of environmental injustice.
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Stand with Union Hill: Our Air, Our Lives
Join your neighbors to stop the proposed ACP Compressor Station that would endanger and diminish the health and land values of all residents of Buckingham County and destroy the lives of the historic African American community of Union Hill. The next challenge is to deny the air permit for the compressor station and there are many ways to do just that. Without the compressor station, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a robbery of and threat to all Virginians, cannot be built. At 54,000 + horse power, this proposed compressor station, a giant one, even by industry standards, would bring loud constant noise and release toxic poisons into Buckingham’s air and water. The health of children is particularly vulnerable to the methane, formaldehyde, arsenic, benzene, xylene and other compounds the compressor will regularly release. The station creates a fire and explosion hazard completely beyond the capacity of distant volunteer firefighters, has few staff on site, and would be built on a former slave plantation atop the probably unmarked slave graves of Union Hill ancestors. For current ways to help, see Water is life. Protect it. / waterislifeprotectit or Friends of Buckingham County Virginia here http://www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org/...
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STANDING LIKE A TREE
“Standing Like a Tree” calls out from an old growth forest in Bath County, Virginia, originally slated for destruction by the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. It’s a call to resist environmental destruction everywhere, and one to support the Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice. Originally written by Betsy Rose, and performed by Høly River (formerly known as Lobo Marino). Lyrics: Standing like a tree with my roots dug down my branches wide and open Come down the rain Come down the sun Come down the fruit to the heart that is open to be Standing like a tree Performed by Høly River (formerly Lobo Marino) http://www.holyrivermusic.com Written by songwriter and activist Betsy Rose in 1987 http://www.betsyrosemusic.org/ Support the Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice at https://www.iacj.org Filmed by Chris Damon and Kate Rivara from Good Day RVA Edited by Chris Damon Music recorded and mixed by Patrick Bates
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The Air We Breathe
A moment with the community of Union Hill, Buckingham, VA which would be destroyed by the proposed ACP compressor station. We have a chance to deny the air permit for this station on November 8 & 9 in Richmond and we need your presence to support our story. Event details here for the public hearing: / 1492673444210808 We are all Union Hill. Filmed at the July Circle of Protection, "The Air We Breathe" calls out for urgent and immediate help to challenge and deny the air permit for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline compressor station between now and September 11. Without the compressor station, the ACP, a robbery of and threat to all Virginians, cannot be built. Featuring Reverend Ray McKenzie of the Gravel Hill Baptist Church, Interfaith Leader Kira Young, Caroline Bray and artists Emily Robey Morrison and the Yes Brothers, this small film invites you to Stand with Union Hill. Future Circle of Protection Interfaith Prayer Vigils with story and song and church potluck and guest speaker to follow are October 21, November 18 and December 16. Details here: / 325505834642906
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This Land is Our Land
"This Land is Your Land" invites you to take a closer look at the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines and how their rigged and in some cases, illegal, permit process threatens our ability to own our own land. #StandwithRed
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Water is Life Rally & Concert, Pt. 1
From the Water is Life Rally & Concert in Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 2017. #noACP #noMVP
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Water Is Life Rally & Concert, Pt. 2
From the Water is Life Rally & Concert in Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 2017. #noACP #noMVP
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Water is Life Rally & Concert, Pt. 3
From the Water is Life Rally & Concert in Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 2017. #noACP #noMVP
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Water Is Life Rally & Concert, Pt. 4
From the Water is Life Rally & Concert in Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 2017. #noACP #noMVP
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We've Been Sold
In late 2017, just as his term as Governor of Virginia was coming to a close, Terrible McAwful Terry McAuliffe and his fracked gas friends gave the proposed Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines an endorsement to pollute and plunder through secret memorandums of agreement. We've been sold. The robbery continues from the Tidewater to Southside Virginia, to the top of Peters Mountain. Learn more about Terry McAuliffe's rotten pay-to-pollute deals here: https://bluevirginia.us/2018/02/three... #TerryMcAwful #TerryMcAuliffe #Corruption #ThisIsARobbery #noMVP #noACP
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"To The River" – The SUN SiNG Collective (#NoPipeline Anthem / #NoMVP #NoACP)
"To the River", a new no pipeline anthem, was written by Joshua Vana, arranged and performed by the SUN SiNG Collective, and filmed by Sarah Hazlegrove. It premiered at the SUN SiNG Concert in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 26th, 2019. There was no studio time in the creation of this song recording and video. "To The River" was recorded and filmed along the routes of the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines in areas of devastation using the Sun Bus, a mobile sonic resistance unit equipped with a solar-powered, concert-level recording and public address system, designed by SUN SiNG Collective member Graham Smith-White. Produced by ARTivism Virginia, the SUN SiNG Collective, at its core, is a group of eight professional musicians from across Virginia who came together to create and perform music to inspire resistance to new fossil infrastructure. For years, the collective members have given their time and talent to stop the corrupt robbery of the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines. Their work provides an accurate translation of complex regulatory, scientific and political fact into heart messages that welcome the newcomer, sustain the long fighter and inspire action. Like ARTivism Virginia, the collective is enriched by creative collaboration with fine artists, videographers, designers and puppet masters from across the mid-Atlantic region and seeks to serve environmental groups by providing a supported connection between artists and activists. Thanks to all who made this possible. There were 60 volunteers in and in front of the Jefferson Theater on April 26th, 2019, and every single one of them was generous, talented and essential. Together we joined our joy with our concern. We invite you to do the same. Special thanks to all of the hard working pipeline fighters who assisted in the filming of this video. ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- LYRICS: I’ll take you to the river / Tell you what I see I see the truth in the water / Shining back up at me Everything in time / Since the world began Feel it breathing in the air / Feel it buried in the land I’ll take you to the river / Tell you what I hear I hear the thunder in the distance / I hear the river say a prayer Here come the company man / Here come that big machine Here come the murder of the mountain / Here come me in between I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth Every life in the water running through you What are you gonna hold to / What are you gonna do I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth Now look up on the ridge / See the river come down Watch it carve through the country / And roll right into town Everything in time / Running through our veins We got the river running through us / And no river runs in vain I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth Every life in the water running through you What are you gonna hold to / What are you gonna do I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth Every life in the water running through you What are you gonna hold to / What are you gonna do I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth I’ll take you to the river / I’ll take you to the truth I’ll take you to the river / Tell you what I hear I hear the thunder in the distance / I hear the river say a prayer Copyright 2019 SUN SiNG Collective ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Videography: Sarah Hazlegrove Executive Director: Graham Smith-White Artistic Director: Kay Ferguson, ARTivism Virginia Mixing: Carolyn Malachi / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia The SUN SiNG Collective is: Bernadette "BJ" Lark (vocals) Camry Harris (drums, percussion, vocals) Emily Blankenship-Tucker (vocals, keyboards, fiddle) Gabe Gavin (bass, percussion) Graham Smith-White (banjo, bass, percussion, engineering & production) Joshua Vana (guitars, vocals) Laney Sullivan (vocals, keyboards and harmonium) Lilly Bechtel (vocals) #ToTheRiver #SUNSiNG #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #WaterIsLife #SunBus #ARTivism #ARTivismVA #WEWILLWIN
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Diamonds In The Sky
The climate change line in the sand is drawn in Virginia on the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipeline routes. Legal challenges carry great hope. Political and regulatory avenues have proved corrupted. The young are putting their bodies on the line to protect our local and earthly safety and future. What will you do? Featuring music from After Jack https://www.afterjackband.com #YellowFinchStrong #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines #DoomToThePipeline #noMVP #noACP
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Earth Grief Ceremony
An Earth Grief Ceremony provides newcomers, long working environmentalists and directly threatened community members with a ritual to access and release their sorrow for our planet’s destruction and to transform that release into energy for further actions of protection. ARTivism Virginia co-created its first Earth Grief Ceremony at the "Circle of Protection: Bent Mountain" on September 22nd, 2019, and as this video portrays, the impact was needed and profound. As ARTivism Virginia defines the component parts of its supported connection between environmental activists and artists, we offer to co-create this ceremony where it might be needed. Contact us at ARTivismVirginia@gmail.com For more on our work visit us on Facebook here: / artivismvirginia
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Meet the SUN SiNG Collective
Meet the SUN SiNG Collective, working now to create a new no pipeline anthem and song video and a theatrical concert evening to lift up our resistance and future lovin' souls. 6 pm, Friday, April 26 at The Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA. Get your tickets now! http://jeffersontheater.shop.ticketst... Singing Yes! to the Solar Revolution is saying no to new fossil fuel infrastructure. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. Sing out Yes! to a sustainable future for our children, our environment and our democracy. The Sun Sing Collective is a group ARTivists gathering now to collaborate on original music, video, art and puppetry to tell the story of the MVP & ACP and to stop their destruction. The Sun Sing Collective is: Executive Producer & Music Director: Graham Smith White Producer & Artistic Director of Video, Ritual & Marketing: Kay Leigh Ferguson Puppetry & Set Design: Lily Lamberta Videography: Sarah Hazlegrove Wild Life Illustration/Logo Design: Virginia Greene Sound Engineering: Carolyn Malachi Social Media Marketing: Alexandra Dickinson Musicians/Songwriters: Lilly Bird Bechtel Bernadette “BJ” Brown Gabe Gavin Camry Harris Laney Sullivan Emily Blankenship Tucker Joshua Vana Fiscal Sponsorship: Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice #noMVP #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterislifeProtectit
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Quick Take: When Pipelines Come for Your Land
Richard Averitt of Nelson County, Virginia and his family have worked for over four years to protect their land from Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipeline. One of the injustices they face is a practice known as quick take. Know that this is happening to your neighbors all over our country and that it can happen to you. Stand up for our right to protect our homes and our land. Contact your legislator soon as you can. In Virginia, use this guide: https://whosmy.virginiageneralassembl... For more about the good fight to stop the ACP & MVP pipelines, see "Friends of Nelson" or "Water is life. Protect it."
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Red Terry Takes A Stand
Grandmother Red Terry of Bent Mountain, Virginia made a stand to protect land that had been in her family for seven generations from the Mountain Valley fracked gas pipeline, and an immoral use of eminent domain for private gain. For thirty-five days in the spring of 2018, she occupied a tree stand on her family’s land – as did her daughter, Minor Terry, respectively – blocking the advance of the pipeline and the razing of the land. Red and Minor’s tree stands were blocked off by Roanoke County and Virginia State Police, in collusion with MVP’s private security firm Global Security, and with additional assistance from the Virginia Fusion Center. Community members rallied in support of the Terrys, offering support in any way they could, and the blockade gained the attention of national press from the Washington Post to Democracy Now! #StandWithRed #DefendWithMinor #noMVP
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This Fight Is Now
Follow one Mountain Valley Pipeline resistor from Southwest Virginia as she journeys to stand with the Union Hill Community of Buckingham County in their resistance against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and its proposed compressor station. Bernadette "BJ" Lark speaks a simple and profound truth to those resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure anywhere: "We will win. Because if we lose - there won't be anyone here to win." "This Fight is Now" is a collaboration of ARTivism Virginia and Lights and Years. On May, 17th, 2019, Virginians and allies from the region gathered in Richmond, Virginia, and walked with the Buckingham County community of Union Hill to demand environmental justice, and a stop to the proposed Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines. They were joined by William Barber, III and Karenna Gore of the Center for Earth Ethics. Returning to the route across the Robert E. Lee Bridge traveled by civil rights advocates 51 years before during Martin Luther King, Jr.’s historic Poor People’s Campaign march to Washington D.C., hundreds called for an end to environmental racism and new fossil fuel infrastructure that threatens our ability to protect our homes, our water, and our children's future. Now. This fight is now. Add your voice, your presence, your attention. See "Water is life. Protect it." on Facebook for Seven Protections from MVP and ACP published each week on Thursday, or message them to receive by email. #noMVP #noACP
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Together, We Are Stronger
The Climate Change line in the sand is drawn in Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina along the routes of the unneeded Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. In September, 2019, grassroots organizations in these three states collaborated to create two "No Pipeline" events within the Global Climate Strike Week. "Circle of Protection: Bent Mountain" was produced by ARTivism Virginia to bring water protectors together in real time to share stories, strategy, grief, art, and song and to launch and support the "Climate Emergency: Tri-State No Pipeline Strike" the following day in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. For more information about this work see Water is life. Protect it. on Facebook. What will you do?
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We Won't Back Down
ARTivism Virginia and Water is life. Protect it. are proud to co-produce "We Won't Back Down", a retrospective of the Virginia resistance to and corruption in the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines for the esteemed Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice. Building community to protect the environment and the people who are most impacted when it is degraded has never been more important. With growing threats to humanity and to the integrity of creation, new partnerships dedicated to environmental justice are essential. "We Won't Back Down" is a portrait of Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice's work to support those resisting the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines. Won't you join them? Will you help them? Venmo: @iacjva PayPal: iacjvirginia@gmail.com Web site: www.iacjva.org/give Check: Make out to Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice and mail to P.O. Box 184, The Plains, VA 20198
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Who Will Sing for Me? Graham Smith-White will. SUN SiNG
Graham Smith-White is Executive Producer of the SUN SiNG Collective and has also served as Music Director, song writer and banjo and guitar player... AND he is the creator of the Sun Bus, a mobile sonic resistance unit outfitted with a solar-powered concert-level public address and recording system. Graham Smith-White created Sunbus to bring power to the people and amplify their voices. His solar-powered ecomusic practice, The Sunrise Review, focuses on using nature as recording studio and creative inspiration. As a community organizer and social entrepreneur, Graham works with artists and communities to create the change they want to see. Listen and learn more at: www.solarpoweredmusic.com / www.theinfinitegoodness.agency Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Graham sings for the Golden-winged Warbler. Crowned in gold with a black mask and a loud buzzy voice, the Golden-Winged Warbler is as beautiful as it is unmistakable--though it is becoming harder and harder to find them. These birds have been in sharp decline in recent years, with habitat loss a potentially significant factor. The Appalachian population is down by almost 98% – a few lingering voices in a once raucous forest. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing For Me? BJ Brown Will.
SUN SiNG Collective member Bernadette "BJ" Brown speaks to why she is giving her time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Bernadette's highest honor is to humbly serve. Growing up the daughter of a pastor and missionary, and as the mother of three beautiful children, she has from birth been surrounded by tremendous acts of love, service, and music. Bernadette currently serves as Youth Educator for the Jefferson Center Music Lab Youth Gospel Performance Band in Roanoke, Virginia. Bernadette is the visionary, and lead organizer of commUNITY ARTSreach. She has served as Lucy Addison Middle School Gospel Choir director for over eight years, and Choir Director for Patrick Henry High School Gospel Choir. She's also dedicated to fellowship at Green Temple in Salem, Virginia, where love leads. Bernadette currently holds an MBA degree, with a concentration in Human Resources (minor degree study Master concentration in Education), DECA, Delta Theta Sigma member. Her past work has included both national and international performances. She's had lead and supporting roles in numerous productions including Broadway plays and originals works, with theater and musical production appearances at the Lipscomb University-Dove Award in Nashville, Tennessee, the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City, Bobby Jones Presents - Word Network in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Millennium Studios Tim Reid Productions, Shoreditch in London, the UK Choir Fest in Wales, and many more. Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Bernadette sings for the Cerulean Warbler, a tiny blue gem belonging to the warbler family. This small songbird breeds and migrates through Western Virginia’s mountains, gleaning insects from the tops of trees in the mountain forests. Cerulean warbler numbers, like many forest songbirds, have been declining in recent years – and habitat loss is a significant factor. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing for Me? Camry Harris Will.
SUN SiNG Collective member Camry Harris speaks to why he is giving his time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Hailing from Martinsville, Virginia, Camry has been a touring drummer for the last five years. Music has been is life and is his passion. “When I first joined the Sun Sing Collective, I had no clue what I was walking into, but as time went on and I started to spend time with all the other musicians that were way more knowledgeable than I was, my eyes were opened. I didn’t realize how much destruction the construction of the pipelines would cause to our beautiful land and water and to our friends and families. It breaks my heart to see how far money and greed can drive people to take advantage of amazing people all around the world. We need to stop this now!” Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Camry sings for The Mitchell’s Satyr. This deceptively decorated butterfly is one of the few insects that have an “endangered” label--not because insects aren’t endangered, but because we know so little about them. A tiny population of this butterfly, which has gone extinct in other states, was found in Virginia before the turn of the century--and this population continues to struggle. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing For Me? Emily Blankenship-Tucker Will.
SUN SiNG Collective member Emily Blankenship-Tucker speaks to why she is giving her time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Emily is a musician and theatre artist from Ferrum, Virginia. She currently tours and records with the all-female vocal trio After Jack, teaches and music directs in the Music and Theatre departments at Ferrum College, and freelances as a session musician and voiceover artist. She also keeps up with a small farm and her two-year-old son. In addition to her songwriting credits, she has composed the scores for several full-length musicals. Her theatrical credits include thirteen years as an actor and music director in the Jack Tale Players, dramatizing traditional Appalachian stories. Additionally, she has directed or performed in more than seventy-five theatrical productions during her career. Emily has joined the pipeline resistance movement after being inspired by the direct actions of her neighbors and community members. She hopes that her work will similarly inspire others to join the movement toward justice and sustainability. Each member of the SUN SiNG collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Emily has chosen the Rusty Blackbird. Wading along the edges of Virginia’s forested wetlands, Rusty Blackbirds may at a glance resemble more common birds such as grackles – but they actually represent one of the largest observed declines in an avian population over the last 40 years. The exact reason is undetermined, but a likely culprit is habitat destruction. These elegant blackbirds breed in the boreal tundra of Canada, and almost 80% of their known population winters in the Southeastern US. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing For Me? Gabe Gavin Will.
Gabe Gavin is serving the SUN SiNG Collective as bass player and his band, Bhakti Boyz, will appear as guest artists for the SUN SiNG Concert on April 26th, 2019 – here he speaks to why he is giving his time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Gabe Gavin has been a resident of Charlottesville for the past eleven years, working as a massage therapist and performing musician. He is co-founder of the local reggae band Positive Collective, and more recently a new Kirtan band, Bhakti Boyz. For Gabe, music is a spiritual journey, the gathering together with others in cooperation to create harmony and resonance. Getting involved in “ARTivism”, the use of creative expression as part of the activist movement, is a return to his roots. He spent much of his childhood attending rallies, marches, and demonstrations in support of civil rights and the passing of the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1990, during his senior year of high school, he was arrested for civil disobedience, blocking the door to an army recruitment center in protest of the first Persian Gulf War. After a long hiatus from activism, he is grateful to participate in the efforts of pipeline resistance, re-building community, re-empowering citizenship, and reclaiming dominion of individual and collective rights over the destructive, divisive, and unsustainable culture of corporate greed, political corruption, and patriarchal dogma. He seeks to use music to help foster the experience of UnIty that will help transform the divide and rule paradigm. Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Gabe sings for the Rusty-patched Bumblebee. While all pollinators are facing enormous challenges today, the Rusty-patched Bumblebee is especially threatened, with populations thought to be down almost 90% in the past 20 years. This large eusocial bee builds its nests underground, and is one of many pollinators that plants (including those in our food system) rely on to reproduce. As they decline, those plants suffer as well--ultimately affecting those organisms that depend on plants, including us. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing for Me? Joshua Vana . SUN SiNG Concert
Joshua Vana is serving the SUN SiNG Collective with vocals and lead guitar. He is the author of the new No Pipeline Anthem, "To the River" and his band Resounder will be guest artists at the SUN SiNG Concert on April 26th, 2019 – here hes peaks to why he is giving his time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Joshua Vana is an activist, organizer, and musician living in Rockingham County, the heart of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Working with RAPTORS, the Rockingham Alliance for the Protection & Transformation of Our Resources & Society, he's been involved in the resistance to the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines for two and a half years. He's been a worker-owner of the Little Grill Collective, one of Harrisonburg's most beloved gathering places, as well as a touring and recording guitarist of five years with the Nashville-based songwriter Nora Jane Struthers. Acknowledging that some things never change, and that history repeats itself, Joshua is thrilled to collaborate with fellow artists in Virginia with the understanding that movements need music and art – and that the stories of resistance must be told by the communities fighting for survival, equity, and writing their own history. Joshua sings for the Northern Saw-whet Owl. This small, secretive owl is found across North America in mature forests. Male owls charmingly woo potential mates with gifts of dead mice and hooting calls, and the pair work together to raise their chicks. The Southern Appalachian population – including here in Virginia – is thought to be in decline due to habitat loss. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To The River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing For Me? Laney Sullivan Will.
SUN SiNG Collective member Laney Sullivan speaks to why she is giving her time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Laney is a musician and activist from Richmond, Virginia. She has dedicated her life work to learning more about environmental systems and her place in it all. How can we harmonize and understand ourselves as part of nature? Laney is often on tour with her band Høly River (formerly Lobo Marino), and is otherwise found at home in the garden of the Earthfolk Collective. Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Laney sings for the Spotted Turtle. Living in small, scattered populations across Virginia’s remaining wetlands, the Spotted Turtle is a mostly carnivorous denizen of shallow, soft-bottomed waters. Like many reptiles, temperature of the nest plays a role in determining the sex of the turtle hatchlings. These turtles are threatened by the continuous loss of their wetland habitat. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing For Me? Lilly "Bird" Bechtel Will.
Lilly "Bird" Bechtel is serving the SUN SiNG Collective as singer, songwriter, and speaks to why she is giving her time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Lilly is a Writer, Musician, and Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor with 12 years of experience offering Yoga and Creative Writing Workshops in Yoga studios, Correctional facilities, Rehabilitation centers, and Veteran’s hospitals. Her writing exploring the relationship between yoga, art, and social change has appeared in USA Today, The Brooklyn Rail, elephant journal, Best Practices for Yoga with Veterans, The Huffington Post, and The Faster Times. Lilly currently offers a Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Class at Common Ground Healing Arts as well at Region Ten’s Addiction Recovery Center and The Wellness Center in Charlottesville, VA. She is also pursuing her MFA in poetry as well as finishing a record of original music. A child of the Blue Ridge, Lilly is delighted to bring her work as an artist to bear on the work of defending our land, our water, and the rights of Virginians to build a future we can live in. Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Lilly sings for the Gray Fox, which is found all across North America. Smaller and more agile than its more well-known red cousin, the Gray Fox is the only American canid known to climb trees. While its overall numbers are stable, Gray Foxes have declined in the Eastern US due to forest fragmentation, and are one of many mammals frequently killed inadvertently by cars and eating poisoned rats. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Who Will Sing For Me? Lily Lamberta Will.
SUN SiNG Collective member Lily Lamberta speaks to why she is giving her time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Lily Lamberta is a political puppeteer, using collaborative art and theater as a means to work with communities expressing a creative voice to social justice and environmental issues. She is from Richmond, Virginia, where she is the director and master puppeteer for her political puppet theater All The Saints Theater Company. She uses large scale paper-mache puppets, sculpture, music, banners and flags to parade, protest, and celebrate. She believes that spontaneity and collaborative art and theater are the best ways to poke satire at the corruption of capitalism, bigotry, systemic racism, the prison industrial complex, and pro-pipeline companies. Lily uses all recycled and found goods to make her massive puppets. She is most recognized for starting the Halloween Parade in Richmond that she has put on for 13 years. Her New Orleans-style parade pageantry is her favorite style of political expression. She has been working with world famous Bread and Puppet Theater for 20 years! She has two kids who believe her work is important, and for that, she is grateful. Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Lily sings and creates for the Virginia Big-eared Bat, which lives up to its name with enormous ears that dwarf its head. These bats use their remarkable echolocation to find and eat moths and other flying insects along the edges of the canopy, and live and raise their families in caves along the Appalachian ridge in Southwest Virginia. However, they are extremely sensitive to human activity, and populations dissipate in caves where habitat is frequently disturbed. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
ARTivism Virginia
Who Will Sing For Me? Virginia Greene Will.
Virginia Greene is serving the SUN SiNG collective as wildlife painter, graphic designer, and consultant, and speaks to why she is giving her time and talent to help stop fracked gas pipelines in Virginia. Virginia Greene is a nature artist with a background in biology and zoology. She grew up playing outside and watching animals, and those are still her favorite things to do. Virginia has biology degrees from Virginia Tech and William and Mary, where she researched bird behavior, and an illustration degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She loves to work in all kinds of media, including ink, watercolor, acrylic, and graphite, and she loves to make illustrations for books and media, traditional paintings, and educational comics about nature. She lives and works full-time on her art in Charlottesville, Virginia. She spends as much time outside as she can. Each member of the SUN SiNG Collective has chosen to sing for one of ten selected pipeline endangered critters along the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline routes. Virginia paints for the Cow Knob Salamander, a secretive amphibian that makes its home under rocks and logs in deciduous forests. Keeping out of the sun by day, it spends its evenings hunting for insects in the leaf litter. It is found only in a few spots in the Blue Ridge mountains between Virginia and West Virginia, and its population is tiny and unstable. Amphibians in general are very sensitive to changes in local waterways, and especially to water quality--and the future of this unique salamander remains uncertain. The SUN SiNG Concert is April 26th, 2019, starting at 6:00PM (doors at 5:00PM) at the Jefferson Theater, Charlottesville, Virginia. Tickets are here: http://bit.ly/SunSingTix The SUN SiNG concert will serve as premiere for a new pipeline resistance anthem and song video recorded and filmed along the proposed MVP & ACP routes using the SunBus sound system which is powered by the sun, and will be a magical theatrical concert event to lift all fossil fuel resistant, future lovin' souls. Join Water is life. Protect it. and ARTivism Virginia for an evening of beauty and hope, and for the premiere of “To the River”, a new anthem and song video to stop the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines. / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivismVA
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Don't Let MVP Bore Under Our Rivers! ARTivism Weekly Protection, 12.16.2020
⚡📡📲SIGN & SHARE!📲📡⚡ ⚠️🛑Don’t let Mountain Valley Pipeline bore under our Virginia and West Virginia Rivers! Please SIGN and SHARE this petition from Appalachian Voices before December 20th!🛑⚠️ https://appvoices.org/tell-ferc-no-mv... Tell the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) not to accept MVP’s variance requests to allow them to bore under waterways! Inadequate permitting and enforcement have allowed MVP to criminally ignore state and federal water quality standards for nearly two years – and now MVP wants to have what rules are left thrown to the wind so they can ram through their dangerous project, destroying the waterways and wild places that stand in their way. Water is a commons. No one has the right to destroy! 💧🌎#noMVP #WaterIsLife🌍💧 Music: “Well, Well, Well” - Written by Danny O'Keefe & Bob Dylan, performed by Graham Smith-White & Joshua Vana Animation: Zap McConnell Special thanks to: Russell Chisholm and POWHR - Protect Our Water Heritage Rights: http://www.powhr.org
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Fire On The Mountain
“Fire on the Mountain” is a seven-minute mini-documentary of one family’s fight to protect their home from the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Southwest Virginia. Red Terry and her daughter, Minor, staged a tree sit resistance on their farm in spring of 2018, and their story became a spark that helped bring the lawlessness and corruption of this project and others like it to national and international attention. Produced by ARTivism Virginia and Lights & Years and shot in September of 2019 at a tri-state gathering of resistors to MVP and the recently canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the film documents the family’s stand, fiery character, and what the threat of explosion means for their lives. The bombshell cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Sunday, July 5th, 2020, immediately followed by judicial suspension of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines, brings into serious question whether MVP will be, and should be, the next to fail. We think yes. Lacking five key permits, years behind schedule, billions over budget, and charged with over 300 violations of their water permit, the MVP is not needed and is a threat to all people and all water in the Virginia and North Carolina region it is attempting to occupy. Add your voice to this good fight here: ARTivism Virginia - / artivismvirginia Water is life. Protect it. - / waterislifeprotectit POWHR Coalition & Mountain Valley Watch: https://powhr.org/
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Show UP! ARTivism Weekly Protection - 12/3/2020
⏰🔊SHOW UP THIS WEEK!🔊⏰ When we show up, we WIN. Here are three opportunities! Follow Water Is Life. Protect It. on Facebook for more info! / waterislifeprotectit 📳Thurs, 12/3✔️ C5 Community Protection Speaker Series with guest speaker, VA Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy. Zoom, 6PM-7PM EDT. C5 (Concerned Citizens of Charles City County), in collaboration with SAVE Coalition, launches a moderated public education series on how minority and rural communities can organize and unite to protect and strengthen themselves and their environment. The first event in the series will focus on environmental impacts in minority and rural areas. / 701854953798009 📳Sat, 12/5✔️ Fight MVP & Divest Wells Fargo Action in Norfolk, VA and online! / 369466684504669 📳Wed, 12/9✔️ Volunteer with Clean Virginia! https://www.cleanvirginia.org/take-ac... Music: "I Believe We Will Win" by the SUN SiNG Collective #ShowUP #WaterIsLife #Divest #noMVP
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STREET SiNG ARTivism Workshop #1: Street Chant & Song - April 16, 2020
STREET SiNG Workshops: A bi-weekly, hour-long Zoom workshop to cultivate skills, art and agreements for future environmental events in Virginia. Each workshop from April 16th to June 25th, 2020 has had time for a teaching, and time for participation. Presenters for April 16th, 2020: Angeleisha Rodgers (NYC) https://trumpetessmusic.wordpress.com... / trumpetessmusic Bernadette "BJ" Brown Lark of the SUN SiNG Collective Joshua Vana, Co-Director of ARTivism Virginia Learn more at ARTivism Virginia on Facebook: www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - STREET SiNG workshop topics have included: Songs for rallies, marches, actions Call and response chants Poster/sign making Street theater/ritual/sculpture Banner and flag making Banner and shirt silk screening Water Flags Street drum construction and rhythm Followship in action agreements, dynamic listening, signal & safety Mobile sound, megaphone & public address Discussions on systemic racism in our Virginia communities and opportunities to show up in fighting it Ways to show up amid an ongoing pandemic Producer: Kay Ferguson Technical Director: Graham Smith White Co-Producers: Sun Sing Collective Instructors: Virginia ARTivists #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #noCPS #noC4GT #HIPCheck #WEWILLWIN
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STREET SiNG ARTivism Workshop #3: Street Theater - May 14, 2020
STREET SiNG Workshops: A bi-weekly, hour-long Zoom workshop to cultivate skills, art and agreements for future environmental events in Virginia. Each workshop from April 16th to June 25th, 2020 has had time for a teaching, and time for participation. Presenters for April 16th, 2020: Mara Eve Robbins https://www.waterflags.org / 1000-flags-1000-waters-2231646513732477 Zap McConnell https://www.zapmcconnell.com/about Lily Lamberta / allthesaintstheatercompany Learn more at ARTivism Virginia on Facebook: www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - STREET SiNG workshop topics have included: Songs for rallies, marches, actions Call and response chants Poster/sign making Street theater/ritual/sculpture Banner and flag making Banner and shirt silk screening Water Flags Street drum construction and rhythm Followship in action agreements, dynamic listening, signal & safety Mobile sound, megaphone & public address Discussions on systemic racism in our Virginia communities and opportunities to show up in fighting it Ways to show up amid an ongoing pandemic Producer: Kay Ferguson Technical Director: Graham Smith White Co-Producers: Sun Sing Collective Instructors: Virginia ARTivists #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #noCPS #noC4GT #HIPCheck #WEWILLWIN
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STREET SiNG ARTivism Workshop #4: Street Sound - May 28, 2020
STREET SiNG Workshops: A bi-weekly, hour-long Zoom workshop to cultivate skills, art and agreements for future environmental events in Virginia. Each workshop from April 16th to June 25th, 2020 has had time for a teaching, and time for participation. Presenters for this workshop: Joshua Vana, Co-Director of ARTivism Virginia Graham Smith-White, Technical Director of ARTivism Virginia https://www.solarpoweredmusic.com Jameson Price, Richmond, VA musician and activist https://www.holyrivermusic.com/ Learn more about ARTivism Virginia on Facebook: www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - STREET SiNG workshop topics have included: Songs for rallies, marches, actions Call and response chants Poster/sign making Street theater/ritual/sculpture Banner and flag making Banner and shirt silk screening Water Flags Street drum construction and rhythm Followship in action agreements, dynamic listening, signal & safety Mobile sound, megaphone & public address Discussions on systemic racism in our Virginia communities and opportunities to show up in fighting it Ways to show up amid an ongoing pandemic Producer: Kay Ferguson Technical Director: Graham Smith White Co-Producers: Sun Sing Collective Instructors: Virginia ARTivists #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #noCPS #noC4GT #HIPCheck #WEWILLWIN
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STREET SiNG ARTivism Workshop #5: Street Stories - June 11th, 2020
STREET SiNG Workshops: A bi-weekly, hour-long Zoom workshop to cultivate skills, art and agreements for future environmental events in Virginia. Each workshop from April 16th to June 25th, 2020 has had time for a teaching, and time for participation. Presenters and special guests for June 11th, 2020: Bernadette "BJ" Brown Lark of the SUN SiNG Collective and Justice For Kionte Spencer / justiceforkionte Jason Lambert of Roanoke People's Power Network and Justice For Kionte Spencer https://roanokepeoplespower.wordpress... / roanokepeoplespower Carl Spencer of Justice for Kionte Spencer / justiceforkionte SIGN THE PETITION HERE: https://www.change.org/p/va-attorney-... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Learn more about STREET SiNG Workshops and the SUN SiNG iN PLACE Online Concert Series at ARTivism Virginia on Facebook: www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/ STREET SiNG workshop topics have included: Songs for rallies, marches, actions Call and response chants Poster/sign making Street theater/ritual/sculpture Banner and flag making Banner and shirt silk screening Water Flags Street drum construction and rhythm Followship in action agreements, dynamic listening, signal & safety Mobile sound, megaphone & public address Discussions on systemic racism and police brutality in our Virginia communities and opportunities to show up for justice Ways to show up amid an ongoing pandemic Producer: Kay Ferguson Technical Director: Graham Smith White Co-Producers: Sun Sing Collective Instructors: Virginia ARTivists #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #noCPS #noC4GT #HIPCheck #WEWILLWIN
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SUN SiNG iN PLACE #4 - May 21st, 2020 - An Online Concert Series from ARTivism Virginia
Feeling socially distant? Isolated? Down about the cancelled concerts and events you were looking forward to this spring? As we stay at home to keep our families and communities healthy, it's more important than ever to stay connected – and we at ARTivism Virginia prefer to connect through art. Starting Thursday, April 9th, and continuing every other Thursday, the SUN SiNG Collective will be broadcasting from their respective locations across Virginia for "SUN SiNG iN PLACE: Thursday Night Bi-Weekly Concert Series." We'll be bringing you an hour of music, spoken word, pipeline updates and action opportunities straight to your living room, kitchen, or wherever you may be tuning in from, every other Thursday! TUNE IN HERE from 7PM to 8PM every other Thursday night: Facebook: www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/ Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia/ YouTube: / artivismvirginia We'll be broadcasting music from individual Collective members and those they're quarantined with, as well as guest ARTivists and leaders in the fight against the Mountain Valley, Atlantic Coast, and MVP Southgate pipelines, and other threatening fracked gas infrastructure in our region. The SUN SiNG Collective is a group of musicians and visual artists formed in 2019 to create, record, and perform original material to support the work of the broad, deep, and growing coalition fighting fracked gas infrastructure. The group, led by co-producers Graham Smith-White and Kay Ferguson, collectively arranged and remotely recorded "To The River", and original song by member Joshua Vana, using the Sun Bus, an off-road vehicle with solar-powered recording and concert-level sound capability. Tune in! We look forward to seeing you and connecting through song – until we win! Be sure to check out the ARTivism Virginia page for our alternating Thursday night events – STREET SiNG Workshops! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SPECIAL GUESTS for Thursday, May 21st: Høly River: https://www.holyrivermusic.com Rachel Eddy: https://www.racheleddymusic.com/ • Walking After Midnight Richard Averitt, Nelson County landowner & activist Amelia L. Williams: https://www.wildink.net • The Ties That Bind Ash Devine: https://www.ashdevine.net/ https://www.pateon.com/ashdevine/ Rachel Blankenship-Tucker: https://www.afterjackband.com / theforageher Emily Hammond: http://www.progressivereform.org/abou... Maury Johnson: https://www.powhr.org/ / powhr https://www.wvrivers.org Ted Day will also be joining us from Lights & Years Productions to introduce a new collaborative video with ARTivism! https://vimeo.com/lightsandyears ****** ACTION ALERT! ****** PETITION LEGISLATORS AND EDUCATE PUBLIC ON INJUSTICE OF TOLLING ORDERS/EMINENT DOMAIN IN FERC’S PIPELINE APPROVAL PROCESS: Go here to send a letter to your legislators: bit.ly/2SduMYf ******* TO UNDERSTAND THIS ROBBERY: Congressional Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Investigation of tolling orders and eminent domain in the Federal Energy Regulatory Committee’s pipeline permitting process, featuring Richard Averitt and Maury Johnson: • FERC Pipeline Approval Process is Skewed A... ******* Subcommittee’s Press Release: https://oversight.house.gov/news/pres... ******* ARTivism VA is also on Instagram: https://www.instragram.com/artivism_v... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUN SiNG iN PLACE: An ARTivism Virginia Concert Producer: Joshua Vana Technical Director: Graham Smith-White Co-producers: SUN SiNG Collective members BJ Lark, Camry Harris, Emily Blankenship-Tucker, Gabe Gavin, Graham Smith-White, Laney Sullivan, Lilly Bechtel, and Joshua Vana, ARTivism Virginia Co-Director Kay Ferguson Projects of SUN SiNG Collective members: Camry Harris: Camry Drummer Harris Emily Blankenship-Tucker: www.afterjackband.com Gabe Gavin: Bhakti Boyz - / bhaktiboyz ; Positive Collective - / positivecollective Graham Smith-White: www.solarpoweredmusic.com Laney Sullivan: www.holyrivermusic.com/ Lilly Bechtel: www.instagram.com/__night__teacher__/ Joshua Vana: https://norajanestruthers.bandcamp.co... (lead guitar) Kay Ferguson: / waterislifeprotectit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #SUNSiNGiNPLACE #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #WEWILLWIN
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SUN SiNG iN PLACE: #1 - April 9th, 2020 - An Online Concert from ARTivism Virginia
FULL BROADCAST of the first "SUN SiNG iN PLACE" #1, April 9 online concert from ARTivism Virginia. Live segments from the original have been re-recorded due to technical difficulties during the live broadcast that made audio unavailable. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Feeling socially distant? Isolated? Down about the cancelled concerts and events you were looking forward to this spring? As we stay at home to keep our families and communities healthy, it's more important than ever to stay connected – and we at ARTivism Virginia prefer to connect through art. Starting Thursday, April 9th, and continuing every other Thursday, the SUN SiNG Collective will be broadcasting from their respective locations across Virginia for "SUN SiNG iN PLACE: Thursday Night Bi-Weekly Concert Series." We'll be bringing you an hour of music, spoken word, pipeline updates and action opportunities straight to your living room, kitchen, or wherever you may be tuning in from, every other Thursday! We'll be broadcasting music from individual Collective members and those they're quarantined with, as well as guest ARTivists and leaders in the fight against the Mountain Valley, Atlantic Coast, and MVP Southgate pipelines, and other threatening fracked gas infrastructure in our region. The SUN SiNG Collective is a group of musicians and visual artists formed in 2019 to create, record, and perform original material to support the work of the broad, deep, and growing coalition fighting fracked gas infrastructure. The group, led by co-producers Graham Smith-White and Kay Ferguson, collectively arranged and remotely recorded "To The River," and original song by member Joshua Vana, using the Sun Bus, an off-road vehicle with solar-powered recording and concert-level sound capability. Their work last spring culminated at the SUN SiNG Concert in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the music ensemble has continued to show up to support those fighting for environmental justice in our region. Each concert, we'll be posting information about our special guests and partners. This week, we were joined by: Trish McLawhorn of Southwest Virginia with a call to halt Mountain Valley Pipeline construction during stay at home orders: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/p... https://bluevirginia.us/2020/04/new-p... Ben Cunningham of the Allegheny Blue Ridge Alliance: https://www.abralliance.org/2020/04/0... Mara Eve Robbins of 1000 Flags 1000 Waters: www.waterflags.org/ , / 1000-flags-1000-waters-2231646513732477 and Mara's YouTube channel for original poetry: • Creekside Poems: "Building a Burning Boat"... Tune in! We look forward to seeing you and connecting through song – until we win! Be sure to check out the ARTivism Virginia Facebook page for our alternating Thursday night events – STREET SiNG Workshops! https://www.facebook.com/events/20360... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUN SiNG iN PLACE: An ARTivism Virginia Online Concert Producer: Joshua Vana Technical Director: Graham Smith-White Co-producers: SUN SiNG Collective members BJ Lark, Camry Harris, Emily Blankenship-Tucker, Gabe Gavin, Graham Smith-White, Laney Sullivan, Lilly Bechtel, and Joshua Vana, ARTivism Virginia Co-Director Kay Ferguson Projects of SUN SiNG Collective members: Camry Harris: Camry Drummer Harris Emily Blankenship-Tucker: www.afterjackband.com Gabe Gavin: Bhakti Boyz, Positive Collective (available on streaming platforms) Graham Smith-White: www.solarpoweredmusic.com Laney Sullivan: www.holyrivermusic.com Lilly Bechtel: www.instagram.com/__night__teacher__/ Joshua Vana: https://norajanestruthers.bandcamp.co... (lead guitar) Featured music in this concert: Intro/outro music: "Seasons" by Joshua Vana "Shiloh" by Emily Blankenship-Tucker "Don't Steal The Land" by Laney Sullivan "Hurt People" by Camry Harris "This Is A Robbery" by Graham Smith-White "After A While" by Bernadette "BJ" Lark "To The River" by Joshua Vana ARTivism Virginia on FB: / artivismvirginia On Vimeo: https://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia/ And on Instagram: / artivism_virginia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #SUNSiNGiNPLACE #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #WEWILLWIN
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The Appalachian Trail Is Not For Sale! ARTivism Weekly Protection, 12.10.2020
On August 17th, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) and Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) announced a “Voluntary Conservation Stewardship Agreement” for $19.5M, formed without the knowledge of ATC members. This was a shock after the ATC's six years of opposition to the MVP and the MVP’s destruction to the viewsheds and the Appalachian National Historic Trail in Southern WV and Southwest VA. Please sign and share this petition by December 15th, 2020, urging the Appalachian Trail Conservancy to make the entire text of the “Voluntary Stewardship Agreement” available to every ATC member and to the public. The Trail does not belong to the ATC or any other group or organization, and it is not for sale. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/t... Music: “Mother Earth” written by Peter Chatman (Memphis Slim), arranged and performed by Joshua Vana of the SUN SiNG Collective #AppalachianTrail #noMVP
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“Honoring Responsibility”
*TWO-YEAR UPDATE* - July 2023 - Coalition call to action to fight MVP & MVP Southgate As construction begins again on the Mountain Valley Pipeline mainline, MVP Southgate is seeking to gain an extension of its FERC certificate and will be applying to gain needed permits to be built through Rockingham and Alamance counties, North Carolina. It must be stopped! Sign on at http://www.stopmvpsouthgate.com to stay connected with frontlines resistance, learn about opportunities to engage, and stay tuned for calls to action! WEDNESDAY, JULY 5TH, 2023, 6:30PM EDT Zoom FERC Comment Writing Party w/ 7 Directions of Service Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis... SUNDAY, JULY 16TH, 2023, 3-5PM EDT Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, NC No MVP Southgate Community Event w/ 7 Directions of Service! https://actionnetwork.org/events/stop... Sign up with and follow: 7 Directions of Service http://www.7directionsorservice.org Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights Coalition (POWHR) http://www.powhr.org Appalachian Voices http://www.appvoices.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rest in power, Chief John Blackfeather Jeffries of the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation. We deeply appreciated his support of the community resistance to MVP Southgate and the making of this short film. - ARTivism Virginia, January 2023 From the Bundle of Arrows gathering, 2021: We are inviting all two-leggeds working to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP Southgate extension, and the proposed Lambert Compressor station to join us for the “Bundle of Arrows” gathering near Burlington, North Carolina on the weekend of August 27th & 28th. For more details, register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/sout... Facebook event here: https://fb.me/e/1CJYP0L7K For safety's sake and due to the recent surge in the COVID Delta variant, we have amended our first plan for a three day encampment as below. Friday, August 27th, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (ONLINE): Workshops for indigenous leaders and environmental activists. Workshops will include: Free Prior Informed Consent Health Effects of Fracking, How to Lobby and Rights of Nature. Schedule to follow registration. Saturday, August 28th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM: We will gather near Burlington, NC for a COVID-safe rally, art share and concert. (Outdoors, masks & vaccinations required for our children’s safety.) Register and stay tuned for more information. Musical Guests include: Alexis Raeana & Charly Lowry (duo) http://www.alexisraeana.com http://www.charlylowry.com/ Høly River https://www.holyrivermusic.com Joshua Vana, Co-Director of ARTivism Virginia • "To The River" – The SUN SiNG Collective (... MC & Spoken Word: Jason Crazy Bear Campos-Keck Let us honor our responsibility to Mother Earth by joining our power and our voices to stop Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP Southgate, and the proposed Lambert Compressor Station. Follow 7 Directions of Service here: https://7directionsofservice.com / 7directionsofservice / 7directionsofservice And ARTivism Virginia here: / artivismvirginia / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia Videography by Sarah Hazlegrove Music: "Weaving Waters" Written By Bernadette "BJ" Lark Performed by the SUN SiNG Collective #BundleOfArrows #TogetherWeAreStronger #7DirectionsOfService #ARTivism #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WaterIsLife #ManiBiwa #WEWILLWIN
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"Like A Songbird That Has Fallen" - #YellowFinchStrong
One little song for the brave resistors of the Yellow Finch Blockade and Appalachians Against Pipelines, 932 days of uninterrupted inspiration, and a reminder that justice is a marathon flight. "Like a songbird that has fallen / Only to regain the sky"... For more on AAP: / appalachiansagainstpipelines #YellowFinchStrong #StillHere #DoomToThePipeline #DefendWhatYouLove #noMVP #WEWILLWIN "Like A Songbird That Has Fallen" Written by Bob Neuwirth & T-Bone Burnett Performed by Joshua Vana, based on an arrangement by Luther Dickinson
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"WATER IS LIFE" - COMING 4.16.21 - The SUN SiNG Collective
"WATER IS LIFE" - The SUN SiNG Collective COMING FRIDAY 4.16.21 #WaterIsLife #SUNSiNG #ARTivism #NoMVP #NoMVPSouthgate #NoCPS #NoC4GT #NoDAPL #StopLine3 #NoByhaliaPipeline #WEWILLWIN
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"Weaving Waters" - The SUN SiNG Collective
The Water Quilt Project invites you to the Water Quilt Project Convergence, Saturday, July 10th, from 3-5PM, at the Newport Community Center, 434 Blue Grass Trail, Newport, VA 24128 (60 min from Roanoke, 15 min from Blacksburg). More info here: / 2971453069769507 Over 80 squares were created and have now been assembled into three beautiful water quilts as a way to honor and protect the waterways threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Mountain Valley Southgate. Join us and members of the SUN SiNG Collective in a gathering of story and song. Project creators will speak and all of us together will add finishing touches and make future plans for our Water Quilts. This convergence event will be outdoors and will follow pandemic safe protocols with masking and social distancing encouraged. Bathrooms will be available. Bring your own food, water, or picnic basket. The Water Quilt Project is produced by ARTivism Virginia in collaboration with Appalachian Voices, the POWHR Coalition (Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights), the Haw River Assembly (NC) and Preserve Monroe (WV). For more on the Water Quilt Project, please visit: https://www.waterquiltproject.org And sign up to participate in the project at: https://www.tinyurl.com/WaterQuiltPro... Bernadette "BJ" Lark wrote "Weaving Waters" for our Water Quilt Project with arrangement and performance by the SUN SiNG Collective. What you see here are the early quilt squares from across our region, in protection of the communities, water, land, and air threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline and MVP Southgate. #QuiltingResistance #WaterIsLife #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WeaveWillWin
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#WaterIsLife – Premiering 4.16.21!
💧🔥CLEAN IT UP!🔥💧 #WATERISLIFE OUT 4.16.21! 📎YouTube premiere link here📎 • Water Is Life – The SUN SiNG Collective ➡️Subscribe, y'all!⬅️ #SUNSiNG #ARTivism #NoMVP #NoMVPSouthgate #NoCPS #NoC4GT #NoDAPL #StopLine3 #NoByhaliaPipeline #WEWILLWIN
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Big Things Coming from the SUN SiNG Collective in Spring 2021!
In times of togetherness, as well as great distance... The SUN SiNG Collective is a group of professional musicians from across Virginia (and DC), who came together to create and perform music to inspire resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure. From the band's release of the "To The River" no-pipeline anthem and SUN SiNG Concert in the spring of 2019, through ten online concerts in 2020 in partnership with coalition members and ARTivists from the region, a mighty good noise has been raised to beat the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines, and other dangerous, destructive projects fueling the climate crisis and environmental injustice. Through storm and struggle, the work (and music) continues – And big things are coming in the spring of 2021! Please join us for our SUN SiNG iN PLACE Earth Day Concert on Thursday, April 22nd at 7PM Eastern (link below), and stay tuned for a NEW SONG release! SUN SiNG iN PLACE Earth Day Concert: / 435248110884811 Music: "Ain't Gonna Lie" (SUN SiNG Collective) A special thanks to Sarah Hazlegrove (videography) All other footage from SSC/ARTivism Virginia #SUNSiNG #WaterIsLife #ARTivism #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #noCPS #noC4GT #HIPcheck #WEWILLWIN
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Bundle Of Arrows Invitation
“Bundle of Arrows” was an indigenous-led convergence of all two leggeds resisting the Mountain Valley Pipeline, MVP Southgate, and the proposed Lambert Compressor Station held on August 28th, 2021 near Mebane, NC. This invitation to resist these destructive, harmful and unnecessary project remains open. **TWO-YEAR UPDATE** - July 2023 - Coalition call to action to fight MVP & MVP Southgate As construction begins again on the Mountain Valley Pipeline mainline, MVP Southgate is seeking to gain an extension of its FERC certificate and will be applying to gain needed permits to be built through Rockingham and Alamance counties, North Carolina. It must be stopped! Sign on at http://www.stopmvpsouthgate.com to stay connected with frontlines resistance, learn about opportunities to engage, and stay tuned for calls to action! *WEDNESDAY, JULY 5TH, 2023, 6:30PM EDT* Zoom FERC Comment Writing Party w/ 7 Directions of Service Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis... *SUNDAY, JULY 16TH, 2023, 3-5PM EDT* Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, NC No MVP Southgate Community Event w/ 7 Directions of Service! https://actionnetwork.org/events/stop... Sign up with and follow: 7 Directions of Service http://www.7directionsorservice.org Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights Coalition (POWHR) http://www.powhr.org Appalachian Voices http://www.appvoices.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original call to action from August 2021: Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/sout... Details and directions will follow registration. Friday, Aug 27th, 3:00 PM - Evening: Indigenous Leaders Roundtable Saturday, Aug 28th: TBD - Workshops, Speakers, Rally and ARTivism Virginia Art Build & Concert Sunday, Aug 29th: TBD - Bundle of Arrows March for Unity For more, please follow 7 Directions of Service: https://7directionsofservice.com / 7directionsofservice / 7directionsofservice #BundleOfArrows #TogetherWeAreStronger #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #NoCompressorStation #DoomToThePipelines #WaterIsLife #ManiBawa #OurAirOurLives #WEWILLWIN Videography by Sarah Hazlegrove
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Download "To The River" on Bandcamp – Friday, April 2, 2021!
Two years ago, the SUN SiNG Collective came together to create our no-pipeline anthem “To The River”. On Friday, April 2nd, we’ll be releasing the song on Bandcamp and raising funds for Appalachians Against Pipelines, who’ve been among the many folks leading the direct action campaign against the Mountain Valley Pipeline for over three years. Visit our Bandcamp page on April 2nd (#BandcampFriday) to download the song – pay what you will, and your generous donation will support #AppalachiansAgainstPipelines and the continuing resistance to MVP. The fire is spreading! https://www.sunsingcollective.bandcam... #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #ToTheRiver #ARTivism #StillHere #WANGA #WEWILLWIN Watch the original video here: • "To The River" – The SUN SiNG Collective (... "To The River" Copyright 2019, SUN SiNG Collective Original videography by Sarah Hazlegrove
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IT'S NOT EASY BEIN' GREEN – CALL TODAY for a #GreenNewDeal, VA!
🔥📞CALL TODAY to demand a #GreenNewDeal for VA!📞🔥 Tell the Speaker of the VA General Assembly, Eileen Filler Corn, to assign the Green New Deal Act (HB 1937), the Fossil Fuel Moratorium Bill (HB 2292) and the Repeal Right to Work Bill (HB1755) to committee or to the floor for a vote. 📲CALL NOW - (804) 698-1041📳 and support Green New Deal VA ! https://www.greennewdealva.com 🔥It’s time to do the right thing. NOT the easy thing.🔥 "Bein' Green" written by Joe Raposo, and performed by Emily Blankenship-Tucker of the SUN SiNG Collective and After Jack. #GreenNewDealVA #FossilFuelMoratorium #RepealRightToWork
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Join The DivestMVP Coalition!
🔌JOIN the DivestMVP Coalition!🔌 Wanna help BEAT the dangerous, destructive, boondoggle fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline? 📈💳Hit 'em where it hurts!💰📉 📢SIGN & SHARE the Sierra Club petition!✔️ https://act.sierraclub.org/actions/Na... 📢REGISTER to rally on 2.25!✔️✔️ https://sierraclub.zoom.us/meeting/re... The Mountain Valley Pipeline just keeps racking up damages and hazards to our environment and public health -- but Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other major banks keep funding construction. Here are two ways to demand that these banks stop investing in our destruction. First, join the DivestMVP Coalition by signing the petition (link in bio). And second, register today for the DivestMVP Rally on Thursday, February 25th from 6-7PM. Remember that divestment IS direct action! #DivestMVP #Divest #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #Boondoggle #DoomToThePipeline #WEWILLWIN Thanks to Grace Tuttle of POWHR-Protect Our Water Heritage Rights Music: "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne, performed by the SUN SiNG Collective Animation: Zap Mcconnell
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Join The Water Quilt Project & Beat MVP & MVP Southgate!
💙💧To join the Water Quilt Project, sign on here:💧💙 www.tinyurl.com/WaterQuiltProject 🖇️For more info, visit us here:🖇️ https://www.waterquiltproject.org 🖊️Questions? Email us! waterquiltproject@gmail.com Registration Links for our Stitching Story & Silence Circles are here: ➡️Pre-Register for Monday, March 15th at 8PM & save the zoom link you receive: https://zoom.us/.../tJcofu6gqDopGtEAw... ➡️ And Monday, April 19th at 8PM! https://zoom.us/.../tJYodOmpqjsiGN3Hy... 👥And join the Water Quilt Project Group Community Page here: / 1692455774282634 🔥📍💙Y'all come!💙📍🔥 The Water Quilt Project is a collaboration with ARTivism Virginia and Appalachian Voices, Haw River Assembly, POWHR-Protect Our Water Heritage Rights, and Preserve Monroe. Music: "Blue Ridge Mountain" by Hurray for the Riff Raff, performed by Høly River with Graham Smith-White Animation by Zap McConnell #WaterQuiltProject #WaterIsLife #WeavingWaters #ARTivism #DoomToThePipeline #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WeaveWillWin
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Make Your Powerful Public Comment & Fight the Proposed MVP/MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station!
Want to help fight the proposed MVP / MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station by making a powerful public comment? ***Join our ZOOM Public Comment Party on Thursday, March 4th at 6:00PM, and learn how to generate and file a public comment with the Virginia DEQ before March 10th. REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis... ***The proposed Lambert Compressor Station, a 27,756-horsepower fossil fuel facility slated for an environmental justice community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia – adjacent to the preexisting compressor station facilities for the Transco Pipeline – would emit carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and formaldehyde into the air of yet another environmental justice community. Your voice is needed to say NO to this permit! ***Registration is required to attend - please REGISTER AT THE LINK ABOVE to receive link/call in information, and save your registration link in order to attend! ***Join the Facebook comment writing party event here: https://fb.me/e/24W1qPUBJ Together with Appalachian Voices, POWHR Coalition, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Haw River Assembly, and Chesapeake Climate Action Network, we're turning up the heat in resisting this dirty, dangerous, polluting compressor station, and beating MVP and its Southgate extension! Music: "Dominion Power Is Robbing Virginians" by Graham Smith-White / Sunrise Review. Thanks to Elizabeth Jones of Pittsylvania County, VA! #NoCompressorStation #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #VADEQ #ThisIsARobbery #DoomToThePipeline #WEWILLWIN
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Mark Your Calendars For An April Of ARTivism!
📌Mark your calendars, friends!📌 🌺ARTivism Virginia is going full bloom this April!🌺 ☑️ We’ll be releasing the SUN SiNG Collective no-pipeline anthem “To The River” on Bandcamp on April 2nd, raising funds for @appalachiansagainstpipelines ! ☑️ We’ll also continue seeding new community through the month with our Water Quilt Project. Visit https://www.waterquiltproject.org for more! ☑️ Stay tuned for the upcoming release of the #SUNSiNG original “Water Is Life” on streaming and download platforms April 16th, and... 💐 Watch it all come together in a spring bouquet on April 22nd for our SUN SiNG iN PLACE: Earth Day Concert! 💐 💙Y’all come!💙 #ARTivism #ToTheRiver #WaterIsLife #WaterQuiltPorject #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #StillHere #WEWILLWIN Music: "Listen" - Written and performed by the SUN SiNG Collective
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No MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station! Pittsylvania County, Virginia – Zoom Webinar – 2.2.2021
On February 2, 2021, the Pittsylvania County, Virginia NAACP hosted a public education Zoom meeting on the proposed MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station for their community. This is a recording of that meeting. ARTivism Virginia was honored to assist with this gathering and the expert collaborators who spoke and answered questions. Those speakers included Karen Campblin, Environmental and Climate Justice Chair for the VA State Conference NAACP, Dr. Mary Finley Brook, Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment at the University of Richmond, Lynn Godfrey, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter's Community Outreach Coordinator for Stop the Pipelines campaigns and Mark Sabath, senior attorney with SELC in Charlottesville. The meeting was convened and facilitated by Anita Royston, Chairwoman of the Pittsylvania NAACP and Elizabeth Jones, Chair of the Pittsylvania NAACP’s Environmental Justice Committee. Gratitude for all 51 participants. Once again, we see a community scrambling to prepare for an in-progress permitting process without adequate or advance notification or information from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality or from the applicant, MVP Southgate. Once again, we see environmental justice being treated as a box to be checked. The first public hearing for the Lambert Compressor Station will take place Monday, February 8, 2021 at 6:00PM. Register to attend and/or make a public comment here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/regi... More information on the Feb 8th public hearing here – DEQ NOTICE: https://www.deq.virginia.gov/permits-... Concerned Virginians are encouraged to file a written public comment before March 10, 2021 and information for that is here: https://godanriver.com/opinion/letter... Now is not the time to grant an air permit for the proposed Lambert Compressor Station in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The proposed Lambert Compressor Station would power Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate before the entire project, including MVP main line has permits to cross Virginia and North Carolina waterways. Another rural community without extensive broadband being targeted by a noisy unhealthy fracked gas compressor station in the middle of a pandemic and a climate crisis? That would be no. Show up and say so! To learn more about the proposed MVP Southgate Compressor Station and how to help fight it, please email the Pittsylvania County NAACP at naacppittscoejc@gmail.com. #noMVPSouthgate #NoCompressorStation #noMVP #ShowUp #WEWILLWIN
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Now We Remember
*TWO-YEAR UPDATE* - July 2023 - Coalition call to action to fight MVP & MVP Southgate As construction begins again on the Mountain Valley Pipeline mainline, MVP Southgate is seeking to gain an extension of its FERC certificate and will be applying to gain needed permits to be built through Rockingham and Alamance counties, North Carolina. It must be stopped! Sign on at http://www.stopmvpsouthgate.com to stay connected with frontlines resistance, learn about opportunities to engage, and stay tuned for calls to action! WEDNESDAY, JULY 5TH, 2023, 6:30PM EDT Zoom FERC Comment Writing Party w/ 7 Directions of Service Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regis... SUNDAY, JULY 16TH, 2023, 3-5PM EDT Haw River Ballroom, Saxapahaw, NC No MVP Southgate Community Event w/ 7 Directions of Service! https://actionnetwork.org/events/stop... Sign up with and follow: 7 Directions of Service http://www.7directionsorservice.org Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights Coalition (POWHR) http://www.powhr.org Appalachian Voices http://www.appvoices.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We cannot stand by and watch a fossil fuel corporation, and politicians line their pockets as so much is destroyed, producing fracked gas we don’t need. Inviting all two-leggeds working to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, its Southgate extension, and the proposed Lambert Compressor Station to join us for Bundle of Arrows. Register for our August 27th and 28th Bundle of Arrows events here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/sout... For safety's sake and due to the recent surge in the COVID Delta variant, we have amended our first plan for a three day encampment as below. Once you register, more details, times and directions will be emailed. Friday, August 27th, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM: Workshops and trainings for indigenous leaders and environmental activists. Offerings will include: Free Prior Informed Consent Workshop, Health Effects of Fracking, How to Lobby and Rights of Nature. Schedule to follow registration. Saturday, August 28th, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM: We will gather near Burlington, NC for a COVID-safe rally, art share and concert (Outdoors, Masks & Vaccinations Required = Our Childen’s Safety). Register and stay tuned for more information. Musical Guests so far: Alexis Raeana & Charly Lowry, Høly River, Jason Crazy Bear Campos-Keck, and Joshua Vana. More to come. Let us join our power and our voices to say that this is the season that MVP, MVP Southgate and the Lambert Compressor Station end. Follow 7 Directions of Service here: https://7directionsofservice.com / 7directionsofservice / 7directionsofservice And ARTivism Virginia here: / artivismvirginia / artivismvirginia / artivism_virginia Videography by Sarah Hazlegrove #BundleOfArrows #TogetherWeAreStronger #7DirectionsOfService #ARTivism #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WEWILLWIN
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Stand With Pittsylvania County, VA to BEAT the Proposed MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station!
Stand with Pittsylvania County, Virginia and SHOW UP to fight the proposed MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station! Register for the February 8th DEQ hearing TODAY to make your voice heard! If constructed, this polluting, 29,000 horsepower monstrosity would further wreck the air quality of a community already exposed to another pipeline compressor station, and is just one more bad idea attached to the destructive, multi-billion dollar failing boondoggle that is the 303-mile fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline, and its associated 73-mile Southgate extension. Once again, we see a community scrambling to prepare for an in-progress permitting process without adequate or advance notification or information from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality or from the applicant, MVP Southgate. Once again, we see environmental justice being treated as simply a box to be checked. The first public hearing for the Lambert Compressor Station will take place Monday, February 8th, 2021 at 6:00PM. REGISTER HERE to attend and/or make a public comment: https://register.gotowebinar.com/regi... More information on the Feb 8th public hearing here – DEQ NOTICE: https://www.deq.virginia.gov/permits-... SHOW UP Y'ALL! #noMVPSouthgate #noMVP #NoCompressorStation #DoomToThePipeline #WEWILLWIN Thanks to Lynn Godfrey of Sierra Club Virginia Chapter! Music: "We Shall Not Be Moved" (Trad), performed by Joshua Vana, Gabe Gavin, and Camry Harris
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Stitching Story & Silence Circles - The Water Quilt Project
💌📍You are invited to attend our first “Stitching Story and Silence Circle” for the Water Quilt Project on Monday evening, February 22nd at 8PM on Zoom!📍💌 🔍Pre-register here & save the registration confirmation link!🔎 https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMu... This circle is space for quiet, easy fellowship and shared work, and there will be two more – one in March, and a third in April. To learn about these and all the exciting ways to participate in the Water Quilt Project, sign on here: www.tinyurl.com/WaterQuiltProject Facebook event link for the February Stitching Story and Silence Circle is here: Stitching Story & Silence Circle February The Water Quilt Project is a collaboration of ARTivism Virginia, Appalachian Voices, POWHR-Protect Our Water Heritage Rights, Haw River Assembly (NC), and Preserve Monroe (WV) to honor and protect the waterways of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. ✨💙Please join us!💙✨ Follow the Water Quilt Project here: / artivismvirginia Our partners in the Water Quilt Project: Appalachian Voices: http://www.appvoices.org/ POWHR Coaltion: http://www.powhr.org/ Haw River Assembly: http://www.hawriver.org/ Preserve Monroe: http://indiancreekwatershedassociatio... Music: “Hallelujah” - Written by Karisha Longaker & Sarah Nutting of MaMuse Performed by Emily Blankenship-Tucker, Rachel Blankenship-Tucker, and Bernadette Lark Water Quilt graphic by Virginia Greene Illustration 🔥#noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WaterQuiltProject #ARTivism #WaterIsLife🔥
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STREET SiNG ARTivism Workshop #6: Pandemic Protest
This past Thursday, June 25th 2020, we were joined for our sixth STREET SiNG Workshop by VIDEOmeTRY projectionist Dustin Klein, who's been offering some seriously powerful imaging at Marcus David Peters Circle, a central meeting place in Richmond's calls for racial justice over this past month (June 2020). Follow videometry on Instagram: / videometry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - STREET SiNG Workshops: A bi-weekly, hour-long Zoom workshop to cultivate skills, art and agreements for future environmental events in Virginia. Each workshop from April 16th to June 25th, 2020 has had time for a teaching, and time for participation. STREET SiNG workshop topics have included: Songs for rallies, marches, actions Call and response chants Poster/sign making Street theater/ritual/sculpture Banner and flag making Banner and shirt silk screening Water Flags Street drum construction and rhythm Followship in action agreements, dynamic listening, signal & safety Mobile sound, megaphone & public address Discussions on systemic racism in our Virginia communities and opportunities to show up in fighting it Ways to show up amid an ongoing pandemic Producer: Kay Ferguson Technical Director: Graham Smith White Co-Producers: Sun Sing Collective Instructors: Virginia ARTivists #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noACP #noCPS #noC4GT #HIPCheck #WEWILLWIN
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SUN SiNG iN PLACE! Earth Day Concert - April 22nd, 2021
Join ARTivism Virginia and the SUN SiNG Collective on #EarthDay2021 at 7PM Eastern for one hour of music, spoken word, and action opportunities as we stay connected in resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure, united in our fights for environmental justice, and in together in solidarity for a livable future! ------- SPECIAL GUESTS for April 22nd, 2021 ------- *Høly River* http://www.holyrivermusic.com *Jason Crazy Bear Campos-Keck* *Kay Ferguson* ------- ACTION ALERT ------- Sign up today for the No MVP Southgate Pipeline Water Walk on Sunday, May 2nd! https://actionnetwork.org/events/no-mvp-southgate-pipeline-water-walk https://www.facebook.com/events/481129893323646/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOIN ARTIVISM’S WATER QUILT PROJECT: https://www.waterquiltproject.org Follow the Water Quilt Project here: http://www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia/ Our partners in the Water Quilt Project: - Appalachian Voices: http://www.appvoices.org/ - POWHR Coaltion: http://www.powhr.org/ - Haw River Assembly: http://www.hawriver.org/ - Preserve Monroe: http://indiancreekwatershedassociation.org/preservemonroe ------- IN THIS PROGRAM ------- “Ain’t Gonna Lie” Composed by Bernadette “BJ” Lark & Camry HD Arranged & performed by the SUN SiNG Collective “Blue Ridge Mountain” Composed by Alynda Segarra (Hurray for the Riff Raff) Performed by Høly River with Graham Smith-White Inter-Tribal Women’s Honoring Song Performed by Jason Crazy Bear Campos-Keck “I Hear Them All” Written by Ketch Secor & David Rawlings Performed by the SUN SiNG Collective “Høly River” Composed by Laney Sullivan & Jameson Price (Høly River) Performed by the SUN SiNG Collective “Weaving Waters” Composed by Bernadette “BJ” Lark with the SUN SiNG Collective Grandmother’s Honoring Song from Tuscarora singer Pura Fe Performed by Jason Crazy Bear Campos-Keck “Which Side Are You On?” Composed by Florence Reece Additional lyrics & arrangement by the SUN SiNG Collective “And it’s a...” / “Pandemic Spring II” / “The Day’s Motion” Written and read by Kay Ferguson “Elevate” Composed by Bernadette “BJ” Lark Arranged & performed by Bernadette “BJ” Lark, Gabe Gavin, Camry Harris & Joshua Vana “You Are Not Alone” Written by Jeff Tweedy Performed by Joshua Vana “Water Is Life” Composed by Bernadette “BJ” Lark Additional Composition by CamryHD Arranged & performed by the SUN SiNG Collective Watch “Water Is Life” again here: https://youtu.be/hSL9m7IOKuE Stream here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3NWYhiGnLdoGcN3E7qQMRW?si=xB7U0LXeSqO4oqYCPVBwWg Download here to benefit the POWHR Coalition: https://sunsingcollective.bandcamp.com/track/water-is-life - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Visit ARTivism Virginia on: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/artivismvirginia Instagram https://www.instagram.com/artivism_virginia Facebook https://www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia Vimeo https://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The SUN SiNG Collective was formed in 2019 as a project of ARTivism Virginia, featuring visual artists & musicians using their art to support the fight against the Mountain Valley and the now-cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - SUN SiNG iN PLACE: An ARTivism Virginia Concert Producer: Joshua Vana Technical Director: Graham Smith-White Co-producers: SUN SiNG Collective members Bernadette "BJ" Lark, Camry Harris, Emily Blankenship-Tucker, Gabe Gavin, Graham Smith-White, Laney Sullivan, Lilly Bechtel, and Joshua Vana, ARTivism Virginia Co-Director Kay Ferguson Projects of SUN SiNG Collective members: Camry Harris: https://www.facebook.com/camryhd-106381804491068 Emily Blankenship-Tucker: https://www.afterjackband.com/ Gabe Gavin: Bhakti Boyz - https://www.facebook.com/bhaktiboyz/; Positive Collective - https://www.facebook.com/PositiveCollective/ Graham Smith-White: https://www.solarpoweredmusic.com/ Laney Sullivan: https://www.holyrivermusic.com/ Lilly Bechtel: https://www.lillybechtel.com/ Kay Ferguson: https://www.facebook.com/waterislifeprotectit/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #EarthDay #ARTivism #SUNSiNGiNPLACE #WaterIsLife #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noCPS #noC4GT #noDAPL #StopLine3 #noByhaliaPipeline #WEWILLWIN
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Time to Choose Our Future: #NoMVP
On December 11, 2021, more than three hundred water protectors gathered at Dogwood Dell Amphitheater in Richmond, Virginia for a Violation Vigil to bring visual and spoken witness to the hundreds of harmful water violations already committed by the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Their conclusion? The State Water Control Board must not approve a new water permit for this fracked gas construction project when it meets Tuesday, December 14 in Richmond. The Violation Vigil featured keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II of the Poor People’s Campaign and Repairers of the Breach, as well as coalition leaders, powerful musical performances, puppetry and art. Perhaps most powerful was the reading by 300 individuals from across the region of one documented violation - where and when it occurred and what kind of damage was caused. This ritual gave voice to a large and diverse community of mutual respect and fierce determination. If completed, MVP greenhouse gas emissions would equal 23 coal fired power plants and would damage the habitats of endangered and threatened species, inevitably adding more harm and further clogging of pristine and sensitive waterways with sediment and construction runoff. The Virginia State Water Control Board will vote to either approve or deny this Clean Water Act permit on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. Water protectors are needed. Details are below: State Water Control Board Meeting Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 10:00 AM Gallery, Community College Workforce Alliance 1651 East Parham Road, Richmond, VA 23228 The Violation Vigil to Stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline featured: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II Co- Chair, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival President, Repairers of the Breach Jason Crazy Bear Campos-Keck 7 Directions of Service Russell Chisholm Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR) Delegate Sam Rasoul Virginia House of Delegates, 11th District David Sligh Conservation Director, Wild Virginia Emily Satterwhite Appalachians Against Pipelines Sonya Taylor Sunrise Movement Roanoke Yara Allen Director of Theomusicology & Cultural Arts, Repairers of the Breach Co-Director of Theomusicology & Movement Arts, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Joe Troop No BS! Brass Band Members of After Jack & of the SUN SiNG Collective “Weaving Waters” was written by Bernadette “BJ” Lark and performed by the SUN SiNG Collective. Videography: Sarah Hazlegrove Films The Violation Vigil Project was a collaboration between 7 Directions of Service, Appalachian Voices, ARTivism Virginia, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Earthfolk Collective, Food & Water Watch, Friends of Buckingham, Green New Deal Virginia, Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Protect Our Water Heritage Rights, Repairers of the Breach, Richmond Interfaith Climate Justice League, S.A.V.E., Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light, Virginia Organizing, & Wild Virginia. Visit ARTivism Virginia on: Facebook: www.facebook.com/artivismvirginia Instagram: www.instagram.com/artivism_virginia Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia YouTube: / artivismvirginia #TimeToChooseOurFuture #WaterIsLife #ManiBiwa #ManiEnIse #NoMVP #NoMVPSouthgate #WEWILLWIN
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True Gathering: May 2, 2021 No MVP/No MVP Southgate Water Walk
**Take action now to stop the MVP/MVP Southgate fossil fuel projects in our region!** The May 2nd, 2021 No MVP/No MVP Southgate Water Walk was a true gathering. Skillful and welcoming indigenous leadership created embodied witness by gathering environmental protectors across race, tribe, gender, faith and across state and national borders. To join resistance to these destructive, unjust and unneeded fracked gas infrastructure projects take these two steps now. 1. SIGN THIS “7 DIRECTIONS OF SERVICE” PETITION TO BIDEN TO STOP MVP/MVP SOUTHGATE: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/t... 2. JOIN THE NAACP WEBINAR ON JUNE 29, 7:30 PM - 9 PM Community Conversation: Pittsylvania Lambert Compressor Station - What You Need To Know - Register here today to learn how to help stop Lambert at the early July Virginia DEQ air permit hearing: https://secure.everyaction.com/q9xPby... Facebook event here: / 507632070446891 On May 2, small teams walked, paddled, or biked the entire proposed Mountain Valley Southgate route. 7 Directions of Service, which led the Water Walk, collaborated with the Pittsylvania County, Virginia NAACP Environmental Justice Committee to begin the day near the proposed site of the Lambert Compressor Station which plans to connect the MVP Southgate to the MVP main line - a bridge from nothing to nowhere. Bring your voice and action to this diverse community resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure in our region by taking the actions above. 7 Directions of Service: https://7directionsofservice.com/ Pittsylvania County, VA NAACP http://naacppittsyco.org/ #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WaterIsLife #IndigenousLeadership #WEWILLWIN
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Understand - In Loving Memory of John R. F. Lewis
Understand - In Loving Memory of John R. F. Lewis Still in disbelief over the loss of our friend John R. F. Lewis. We were honored to feature a collaborative piece that John helped spearhead last year for our sixth SUN SiNG iN PLACE Online Concert in June, with fellow Roanoke community members BJ Lark and Amazetta Anderson, "Understand." John was gifted to say the least, and will be missed by many. Love to his family, friends, and community. #RestInPower #JohnRFLewis #Understand Performed by: John F. R. Lewis, Bernadette "BJ" Lark, Amazetta Anderson Edited and mixed by Graham Smith-White Sampled in this video: Song: Nobody Knows Artist: Pastor T. L. Barrett, The Youth for Christ Choir Album: Like a Ship (Without a Sail) Licensed to YouTube by: Believe Music, [Merlin] Secretly Distribution (on behalf of Light In The Attic); SODRAC, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc., LatinAutorPerf, LatinAutor, Warner Chappell, PEDL, UMPG Publishing, AMRA, Secretly Canadian Music Publishing, and 15 Music Rights Societies
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Water Is Life – The SUN SiNG Collective
"Water Is Life" is the second original recording by the SUN SiNG Collective, written by and featuring Bernadette "BJ" Lark and CamryHD. Inspired by indigenous-led resistance to the fossil fuel industry, "Water Is Life" was produced by ARTivism Virginia, a volunteer organization which provides a supported connection between artists and activists resisting new fossil fuel infrastructure in Virginia and the surrounding region. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3NWYhi... Download on Bandcamp to benefit POWHR - Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights: https://sunsingcollective.bandcamp.co... For more info on POWHR, please visit: https://www.powhr.org “Water Is Life” was filmed on these waters: Little Stony Creek & Sinking Creek, Giles County, VA (threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline) Chickahominy River, Charles City County, VA (threatened by the proposed Chickahominy Power Station and C4GT power plant) Back Bay, Shipps Bay, & Atlantic Ocean, Virginia Beach, VA (threatened by climate change) Thousands more are threatened by the fossil fuel industry and climate change. So what we gonna do? #CleanItUp ------- ------- ------- Visit ARTivism Virginia on: Instagram / artivism_virginia Facebook / artivismvirginia Vimeo https://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia ------- ------- ------- “WATER IS LIFE” Composed by Bernadette "BJ" Lark Additional composition: CamryHD Arranged and performed by the SUN SiNG Collective Bernadette “BJ” Lark (vocals) CamryHD (drums, percussion, vocals) Emily Blankenship-Tucker (vocals, electric piano) Gabe Gavin (drums, percussion) Graham Smith-White (bass, percussion) Joshua Vana (guitar) Laney Sullivan (vocals, percussion) Lilly Bechtel (vocals) Also featuring: Jonah Kane West on electric organ And the Water Is Life Choir of Roanoke & Ferrum, VA, under the direction of Bernadette “BJ” Lark and Emily Blankenship-Tucker: Amazetta Anderson Sylena Cammack Chereice Davis Khyree English Jamie Gilbert Alanjha Harris Promise Harris Raihma Harris DeRon Lark Erica Leed Alexander Lyons Haley Moore Janice Ramsey Semirah Staton Camrya Vo Artistic Director: Joshua Vana Producer: Kay Ferguson Cinematography & Editing: Patrick Fitzgerald Additional cinematography: Stace Carter Recorded by: Patrick Cavanagh & Jordan Harman at the Jefferson Center Music Lab, Roanoke VA (December 2019) Graham Smith-White at Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Callaway, VA (March 2020) and Native Pond, Ivy, VA (Summer 2020) Jonah Kane West, Richmond, VA (March 2020) Mixed and edited by Graham Smith-White and Joshua Vana at White Star Sound, Louisa, VA Mastered at Tonal Park, Takoma Park, MD Special thanks to: Jordan Harman & students of Jefferson Center Music Lab Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church, Callaway, VA Russell Chisholm of the POWHR Coalition Lynn Peace Wilson Chris Keup of White Star Sound Virginia Greene Illustration Stace Carter Geoff Luck In loving memory of Reverend Robert Dilday of the Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice #WaterIsLife #SUNSiNG #ARTivismVA #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #noCPS #noC4GT #noDAPL #StopLine3 #NoByhaliaPipeline #WEWILLWIN © 2021 The SUN SiNG Collective
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We Demand A Green New Deal! ARTivism Weekly Protection - 1.13.2020
SIGN ON & SHARE for a constellation of change! Join @Delegate Sam Rasoul and support @Green New Deal VA! The only ethical way to shift to renewable energy is to make sure that our environmental plan lifts up all people economically. That is why the Green New Deal Act is a constellation of bills that together ensure a just transition - better jobs for all workers and protections for all ratepayers. Tell your legislator right now that you want a just and vibrant renewable economy which shares our wealth with the many instead of the few! Send a letter to your VA legislator here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/4c1... AND here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/s... Artwork by Zap McConnell, music by Laney Sullivan of Høly River and the SUN SiNG Collective. #GreenNewDeal #GreenNewDealVA
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Welcome To The Water Quilt Project!
ARTivism Virginia, in collaboration with Appalachian Voices, POWHR, Haw River Assembly (NC) and Preserve Monroe (WV) is pleased to invite you to participate in the Water Quilt Project to honor and protect the waterways of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline. Water protectors from these directly impacted regions as well as anyone from around the globe are invited. There are many ways to participate and we hope you will find your own way among them. To learn more and participate in the project fill out this form: www.tinyurl.com/WaterQuiltProject Individuals can create a square for the Water Quilt that gives voice to the water or the waterway they love and value. Organizations and faith communities can endorse the project as Patchwork Partners. All can contribute a short video or photo for our “Weaving Waters” song video. Anyone can attend one of three monthly “Stitching Story & Silence Circles” and share their story, their quilt square creation or just a quiet time to sew together in this time of distance and concern. You can choose to make a square for a regional neighbor who is directly impacted or who is working to protect our water future in other ways. We hope many will invite others to join the project including and especially those who may not yet be aware of the Mountain Valley Pipeline challenge. Follow the Water Quilt Project here: ARTivism on Facebook: / artivismvirginia YouTube: / artivismvirginia Email us with your questions and ideas here: waterquiltproject@gmail.com The Water Quilt squares will be assembled by ARTivism Virginia and completed squares should be in our hands by May 1st, 2021. How and when we fully finish and bring the Water Quilt to our communities is, of course, pandemic safety dependent, but we dream of a quilting bee gathering by the banks of a Virginia river come June. If this cannot be, we will send the Quilt on tour to a safe outdoor space near you. Join us! Music: “Hallelujah” - Written by Karisha Longaker & Sarah Nutting of MaMuse, performed by Emily Blankenship-Tucker, Rachel Blankenship-Tucker, and Bernadette Lark Animation by Zap McConnell https://www.zapmcconnell.com/about Water Quilt Project graphic design by Virginia Greene Illustration http://www.virginiagreeneillustration... Our partners in the Water Quilt Project: Appalachian Voices: http://www.appvoices.org/ POWHR Coaltion: http://www.powhr.org/ Haw River Assembly: http://www.hawriver.org/ Preserve Monroe: http://indiancreekwatershedassociatio... #noMVP #noMVPSouthgate #WaterQuiltProject #ARTivism #WaterIsLife
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What's The Deal? Green New Deal VA! ARTivism Weekly Protection – 1.7.2020
TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS WHAT THE DEAL IS: 📢⚠️Green New Deal VA!⚠️📢 Demanding a full fossil fuel moratorium and a just transition for all to clean renewable energy, environmental justice and good jobs, #GreenNewDealVA needs YOU to let your legislators know NOW what your deal is. Join Delegate Joshua Cole and remind 'em which side YOU'RE on! 📲Send a letter to your VA legislator here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/4c1... 📲And here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/s... 📲Or reach out for an on line meeting your representatives now. https://whosmy.virginiageneralassembl... Music: #WhichSideAreYouOn (Florence Reece), with additional lyrics by the SUN SiNG Collective.
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Which Side Are You On?
💫Sign on for a Green New Deal TODAY💫 And tell your legislator which side YOU'RE on! #GreenNewDealVA 🔭https://actionnetwork.org/letters/4c1... 🔭https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/s... 🌠And visit Green New Deal VA for more info!🌠 Today we face our future / And there ain’t no neutral ground You’re either wide awake or fast asleep / Climate crisis is goin’ down Which side are you on, now / Which side are you on? Which side are you on, now / Which side are you on? In the capitol the governor’s bosses / the polluters write the laws The lobbyists line their pockets / While they serve corruption’s cause Now the halls of power want “Right To Work” / They’re union-busting lies We need working folks’ solidarity / And our labor organized! In the trees up in the mountains / Brave resistors make their stand To defend our planet’s future / Our water, air and land The judge lays down their fines / Five hundred dollars everyday While the richest nation in history / Politicians look away Now waters rise, smoke fills the skies / there’s a choice we got to make A just transition and a Green New Deal / is the only road to take! #WhichSideAreYouOn written by Florence Reece. Additional lyrics by the SUN SiNG Collective.
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A New Unsettling Force – Join the Poor People's Campaign on June 18th, 2022!
Pipeline fighters and environmental justice advocates are converging in DC this weekend – Saturday, June 18th – to support the Mass Poor People's & Low Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March on Washington! Will you join us? Together we are a #NewUnsettlingForce! Thanks to everyone who gathered with us on June 5th for our #StopMVP ARTivist Workshop and helped make a little good noise – especially Craig Green & Cleo Keller who led us in song! https://www.wmra.org/2022-06-06/virginians-opposing-natural-gas-pipelines-to-join-poor-peoples-march To learn more about the @Poor People's Campaign and the event this weekend, get yer info here: https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/june18/ #June18th #WeRise #TogetherWeAreStronger #StopMVP
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We're Not Having It. #StopMVP
We're not having it. After Mountain Valley Pipeline's U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permits have once again been vacated by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, the path for MVP to ever be finished is disappearing. These legal victories have been made possible by grassroots coalition building, a diversity of tactics, and the implacable will of community defenders and water protectors. #WeWillWin. Thanks to: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival & Repairers of the Breach, and Sarah Hazlegrove Films. #StopMVP #NoChickahominyPipeline #NoCPS #AtlanticGhostPipeline #USFS #USFWS #EndangeredSpeciesAct #TheImplacables #DoomToThePipelines #WaterIsLife
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Circle of Protection SWVA
Take your place in the Circle of Protection: SWVA! The Circle of Protection is an interfaith prayer vigil with story, song, and mutual support to gather and uplift neighbors who wish to protect their homes and communities from harmful and extractive development that threatens their public health and safety. This series began on August 13th, 2022 at Eastern Montgomery Park in Elliston, Virginia, and continues Saturday September 10th and Saturday, October 8th from 1:00 - 3:00 PM at the same location. The Circle aims to bring together frontline community members, long fighters of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, newcomers, and those who demand a future free of damaging development projects. Following an hour program will be a community meal and fellowship. All are welcome! The September 10th Circle will feature: Music from Bernadette 'BJ' Lark Poetry from Mara Eve Robbins Personal story from Crystal Mello Music from Joshua Vana - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - More Circle of Protection details for September 10th, 2022 here: https://fb.me/e/1LIeftuC3 WHO: You, friends, family, neighbors, community members WHAT: One hour of uplift, one hour of good food & fellowship WHEN: Saturday, September 10th from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM WHERE: Eastern Montgomery Park, 5001 Enterprise Drive, Elliston, VA 24087 WHY: To gather community members and advocates, creating space for reconnection, forming new relationships, healing and testimony, and growing our coalition for a future free of harmful and polluting development WHAT TO BRING: Your water bottle, sunscreen, a folding/camp chair, your mask, and a potluck dish! WEATHER & COVID PRECAUTIONS: This event will be held rain or shine. In the case of rain, all attendees can move under the pavilion, and we would encourage folks to wear their masks. In the case of the occurrence of thunder and lightning closeby potentially occurring during the program, we will play things by ear and take a brief intermission if needed where folks can wait in their vehicles. With the desire of preventing further transmission of COVID-19, we will not be moving to an indoor space. RESTROOMS: There is an indoor restroom open to the public at the Elliston Fire Department building where parking is located. PARKING: There are marked and designated sections for the public at the Elliston Fire Department. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" performed by the Indian Run Stringband http://www.indianrunstringband.com Videography by Loud Valley Productions http://www.loudvalley.com Special thanks to: Indian Run Stringband, Pastor Ken Gray of Big Spring Baptist Church, Irene Leech, the POWHR Coalition (Protect Our Water, Heritage Rights) and Preserve Montgomery County, VA Connect with the POWHR Coalition to help fight the Mountain Valley Pipeline: https://www.powhr.org Visit ARTivism Virginia on: YouTube / artivismvirginia Instagram / artivism_virginia Facebook / artivismvirginia Vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/artivismvirginia #CircleOfProtection #SWVA #StopMVP
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Renewal of Resistance: An Evening with #StopMVP ARTivists - January 31, 2023
“Renewal of Resistance: An Evening with #StopMVP ARTivists” was held on January 31, 2023 to replenish the movement in the New Year to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline & MVP Southgate. After FOUR victories against Senator Joe Manchin’s Dirty Deal in 2022, among other victories and setbacks, this resistance – heading into its tenth year – could use an artful boost! The movement has been consistently bolstered by the work of artists all across Appalachia and the Piedmont, and together we're renewing our commitment once again to beating MVP & MVP Southgate! “Renewal of Resistance” gathered people on Zoom from all over the country to hear the voices, see the dances, and feel the words of amazing artists from Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. Hosted by Callie Pruett of acclaimed podcast Appodlachia, this event featured poetry readings by Crystal Good, Mara Robbins, and Steven Licardi; musical performances by BJ Lark and Charly Lowry; a dance performance by Sebrena Williamson and Fiona O’Brien; and art by Laura Saunders and Alicia Aldaz. Action links and performer info are below! +++ TAKE ACTION +++ Visit www.stopmvp.org and sign up for the Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights newsletter to stay in the loop and receive updates and calls to action! Email artivismvirginia@gmail.com if you’d like to join our email list! +++ Comment to the US Forest Service (Deadline EXTENDED to Feb 21st, 2023) +++ Sign this petition with Appalachian Voices!!! https://appvoices.org/no-pipelines/mv... West Virginia Rivers Coalition Comment Writing Party https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regis... Coalition comment writing party instructional video with resources here! • Comment Writing Party - Tell the Forest Se... USFS Comment writing guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12... +++ Comment to the US Army Corps of Engineers (by Feb 10, 2023) +++ Appalachian Voices Petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/t... West Virginia Rivers Coalition Comment Writing Party https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regis... USACE comment writing guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10... --- --- --- --- --- --- --- THANK YOU to this wonderful crew of ARTivists and Callie Pruett! In order of appearance: **Callie Pruett** https://appodlachia.com/ https://appalachiansforappalachia.org/ **Crystal Good** https://crystalgood.life/markingmyter... https://blackbygod.org/ / cgoodwoman / cgoodwoman **Sebrena Williamson with Fiona O’Brien** / @saltareinelementisdancecol5339 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7Ja... www.instagram.com/saltareinelementis **Bernadette ‘BJ’ Lark** / communityartsreach **Neema Avashia** https://www.neemaavashia.com/ / avashia / avashianeema https://bookshop.org/p/books/another-... **Mara Eve Robbins** https://propertiuspress.wixsite.com/b... https://appalachianchronicle.com/2020... https://appalachianchronicle.com/2020... / cpfcfloyd **Laura Saunders** http://www.saundersdocumentary.com/ https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wQ7... **Steven Licardi** https://www.thesvenbo.com/ / thesvenbo / thesvenbo **Alicia Aldaz** / a_touchof_red https://www.etsy.com/shop/ATouchOfRed... **Charly Lowry** / charlylowry www.charlylowry.com --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Connect with us! Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights + www.powhr.org / powhrcoalition / powhr / @protectourwaterheritagerig715 ARTivism Virginia + / artivism_virginia / artivismvirginia / artivismvirginia And to stay connected with the frontlines of the fight against MVP Southgate, please visit: https://www.7directionsofservice.org/ #StopMVP #NoMVPSouthgate #NoSacrificeZones #WEWILLWIN
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