Weekly UMD volunteer meeting, Helping set up tabling in Knoxville, Connecting Intern and Coal impacted community residents, TMD newspaper

July 9, 2010 Jordan, UMD's outreach coordinator intern, traveled to Eagan, TN to meet with Carol Judy. Jordan is doing research for her senior thesis and will be writing an article spotlighting Carol Judy for the Tennessee Mountain Defender newspaper. I provided contact information and directions to Carol's house.

July 9, 2010 Jenny, UMD's artistic intern began working on a grant application from Patagonia along with my help to request $3,000 of funding to print the next issue of the Tennessee Mountain Defender newspaper. She also sent out the request for article submissions to the Mountain Justice listserve.

July 8, 2010 Jordan and Ollie went to the Knoxville Farmer's Market to table for UMD.

July 7, 2010 Ollie Swartzch, a UMD outreach intern, arrives in Knoxville for the next month. I provided an orientation for Ollie to the volunteer house and Knoxville.

July 7, 2010 I helped provide information to Jordan and Ollie, two UMD outreach interns about locations to table at in Knoxville, TN.

July 6, 2010 I attended the weekly UMD volunteer meeting and helped type up and send out meeting notes. We had a breakout group following the UMD meeting about the Tennessee Mountain Defender newspaper. We came up with a list of article ideas that we wanted to print up. Here is a partial list of possible articles for the next edition of the newspaper. We also generated a list of people to contact about writing specific articles and then Jenny, UMD's artistic intern will forward all of these requests to the Mountain Justice listserve and to the people for whom we have specific asks. I may end up writing a couple of these articles.

Possible Articles-- 1) Beehive Design Collective "True Cost of Coal Poster", 2) update on Davis Creek, 3) National Coal of Alabama permit denied, 4) Nationwide Permit 21 shut down, 5) UMD Americorp/ VISTA update/ seeking funding for Americorp Volunteers/ Current Mining Team (CMT), 6) Canoeing in Coal Country/ Blue Trails, 7) water quality along Cumberland Trail/ Rock Creek, TN coal mining issues, 8) Clearfork Community Institute/ Bonner Foundation grant/ CCI Americorp positions, 9) new proposed EPA regulations relating to the coal industry, 10) Protests of the weird/ roundup of weird/ funny protest actions concerning coal, 11) Climate Ground Zero Updates less words and lots of action photos, 12) Fossil Fools Day award/ Tom Kilgore and TVA/ possibly print the flyer that was made, 13) Mountain Justice Campaign houses across Appalachia 14) ALABAMA resistance to coal!!!!! 15) Xinergy Energy 16) National Coal goes down the hole/ what are they doing? 17) Inspirational stories from UMD interns 18) Perry County Alabama residents file lawsuit against Arrowhead Landfill/ TVA coal fly ash disaster, 19) Mountain Justice Spring Break report back 20) Mountain Justice Summer camp reportback 21) Nazi Counter Rally in Knoxville Aug 14, 2010 22) Ryan Bliss Poem 23) ACF Margo Miller poem—see below 24) Great Smoky Mountains Air Quality reportback 25) July 4th Mountain Keeper Music Festival 26) MJ post action protest, bank stuff 27) possible advertisements $3,000 to cover all newspaper expenses 28) local stories from Carol Judy or other local folks

July 5, 2010 I helped co-facilitate a weekly UMD volunteer house meeting where we planned out the weekly volunteer schedule.

July 5, 2010 Jordan, Mary, Jenny, and Pete, all UMD interns went and tabled for UMD at the Preservation Pub in Market Square after I helped them set up the tabling event by providing a phone number to the Pub.