Elisa Young to speak in NYC this weekend

Posted by Betsey Merkel.

Tagged with clean energy, coal, open conversations, participatory culture, quality connected places, social responsibility and social software technology.

Elisa Young, Citizen Advocate, Meigs County, participated in the February 2008 Midtown Brews conversation, "Our Ohio Energy Portfolio: Economc Development in Your Backyard"

Elisa will speak in New York City this weekend at Bluestockings Radical Books. To get an idea of where Elisa will speak, you can read the Bluestocking's Mission Statement:

Bluestockings is a radical bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Through words, art, food, activism, education, and community, we strive to create a space that welcomes and empowers all people. We actively support movements that challenge hierarchy and all systems of oppression, including but not limited to patriarchy, heterosexism, the gender binary, white supremacy and classism, within society as well as our own movements. We seek to make our space and resources available to such movements for meetings, events, and research. Additionally, we offer educational programming that promotes centered, strategic, and visionary thinking, towards the realization of a society that is infinitely creative, truly democratic, equitable, ecological, and free.

Events are hosted nearly every night as some form of presentation, reading, screening, or discussion. Here is the schedule of topics to give you an idea of the flavor of conversations and information.

If you can't make an evening face-to-face you can join un the conversation online at the Bluestockings My Space address .

Presentation at Bluestockings Books, Lower East Side, NYC:
Elisa Young "The True Cost Of Coal"
Sunday, August 24th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested

Elisa Young is a 7th generation Appalachian whose home and community are being sacrificed in the name of cheap (and dirty) energy. Come for her tale of living within the 10-mile radius of the industrial production of coal power (mines-to-plants-to-waste-disposal), and discuss the struggles of folks seeking environmental justice throughout the U.S. Help unplug the system.

Directions:
Bluestockings is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington - which means that we are 1block south of Houston and 1st Avenue.

By train: We are 1 block south of the F train's 2nd Avenue stop and
just 5 blocks from the JMZ-line's Essex / Delancey Street stop.

By car: If you take the Houston exit off of the FDR, then turn left
onto Essex (aka Avenue A), then right on Rivington, and finally right
on Allen, you will be very, very close.

Please come!

Kyla
862-266-0020

kylajagger@gmail.comYOung,