A BIG Week Ahead! Documentaries, Speakers, and Fun!

This week, we have multiple events you can attend!

Tuesday (9/20): 

7PM Documentary Screening "Coal Country", Tucker Hall, Room 18: An informative documentary that helps outline the negative effects of coal on communities.

Thursday (9/22):  

9 AM-12PM Clean Energy Jobs Tour: Meet outside Memorial Union at 9AM to take a FREE tour of Jeff City's ABB Power Plant that manufactures parts for wind turbines (aka windmills). YOU MUST RSVP FOR THIS. SEND AN E-MAIL TO COALFREEMU@GMAIL.COM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND!

7PM Speaker, Patricia Schuba (Labadie Environmental Organization): Labadie, MO is a small town near Washington, MO that has struggled against the construction of another coal ash dump that would contaminate their drinking water and farm lands.

Friday (9/23):

9PM Galactic Fun Zone: Come get to know more people in Coal Free.  There's Laser Tag, Bowling and Arcade games. Bring about $20 (5 for one game of laser tag, 5 for one game of bowling, 2 for shoes).  If you need a ride from campus, meet on top of the Virginia Ave. Garage at 8:30pm.

It's a New Year!

We’re excited to have you join us in our fight to get our campus off of dirty coal energy. Come join us at our meeting next Tuesday, September 13 at 7pm in Memorial Union South room 203 (2nd Floor, above Wrench Auditorium).

We’ll be discussing our fun upcoming activities (a documentary, a speaker, a Clean Energy Jobs Tour and GALACTIC FUN ZONE!). We'll also be discussing all the volunteering and tabling we will be doing next week!

The coal plant (located on the western part of campus near Mark Twain and McDavid residence halls) is polluting our air and water, and causing health concerns for students and the community at large. Pollution from coal plants has been linked to 4 of the top 5 leading causes of death in the United States—heart disease, cancer, stroke, and respiratory disease.

Our ultimate goal is for Chancellor Brady Deaton to set a specific date for when Mizzou will get off coal. So far, the university has not set a date.

So if you’re looking to grow as an individual and become a leader of an up and coming organization on this campus, all while making Mizzou a cleaner, healthier, and safer place to live and go to school, please join us at our meeting on Tuesday!

WHAT: Coal Free Mizzou Meeting!
WHEN: Tuesday, September 13, 7 PM
WHERE: Memorial Union South 203 (2nd Floor, above Wrench Auditorium)

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Thanks to those that came yesterday!

We had a decent turnout for the pinwheel day of action yesterday. Lots of curious students looking at the pinwheels on the quad, they were very colorful and attracted some attention. Pictures will be coming soon!

Here's a special thanks to our speakers, Dr. Larry Brown and Dr. Rebecca Scott. They know their stuff when it comes to coal mining and how to make positive change happen. We loved having them speak, and hope they continue to be so supportive.

We'll be sending those pinwheels to Lisa Jackson very soon. Keep being tough on coal, EPA! It is the best hope for federal efforts to move beyond coal right now.

Pinwheel Day of Action is TOMORROW!

Join us this Thursday on the South Quad by the tiger statue as we place over 500 student-made pinwheel in the ground. At 12:40pm you can hear from our main speakers Larry Brown, Professor of Geography, and Rebecca Scott, Professor of Sociology who wrote a book on coal mining. The pinwheels will go in the ground starting at 11am.

This demonstration is part of a national Day of Action on Thursday, when students across the country will display over 6000 pinwheels in support of clean energy on college campuses. Following the Day of Action, we are sending all 6000+ pinwheels to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, our generation’s hero, as a thank you for holding the coal industry’s feet to the fire.

Students and young people have been at the forefront of every major social justice movement in recent history—and now we are leading the fight for clean energy. So come support us, and come support clean energy.

RSVP on Facebook and see more event details!

Thursday, November 18
11am-1pm, Speakers starting at 12:40pm
Carnahan Quad (South Quad)
University of Missouri - Columbia

Pin Wheels + Yellow Letters = Thursday and Friday

That equation means we'll be getting pin wheels made and yellow letters signed at Lowry Mall on Thursday from 11am to 1pm. And the same thing Friday at the Student Center from 12-2pm.

What are these pin wheels?

They are a show of support for EPA administrator Lisa Jackson. She has been a climate hawk, getting things done for curbing green house gases and coal mining. As part of a national campaign we are getting people to make as many pin wheels as possible, hopefully over 200 from us. Then after our day of action (TBA) we'll be sending these to Lisa Jackson in D.C. where volunteers there will put them in the lawn of the EPA.

And see below for our Yellow Letter campaign description.

Some come see us Thursday or Friday!

The Yellow Letter Campaign Continues

Today Coal Free Mizzou members hit the streets (or at least the sidewalk in front of the Student Center) getting our yellow letter total to almost 400.

What is the Yellow Letter Campaign you ask?

We have written a short letter to our dear Chancellor Brady Deaton thanking him for his continued support of removing coal from our campus and his follow through with the President's Climate Commitment. And we ask him to set a date to move beyond coal. Other schools have set a date with confidence and a plan to make it happen. We can too.

We printed these letters off on some yellow paper, just to make it pop a little more, and we're going to get as many signed as possible before we meet with him later this semester. If you want to sign one, shoot us an e-mail at coalfreemu@gmail.com or wait till we come out and get more signed. We'll tweet and facebook where and when you can find us!

Here is the letter we're getting people to sign, take a look!

Kick Off Meeting Tuesday at 8pm

Coal Free Mizzou presents the 2010 Fall Kick Off Meeting!

Tuesday, September 14th at 8:00PM

Chamber Auditorium in the new Student Union (Room 2501)

Join us as we start our second year of working to get coal off of Mizzou’s campus! We will be sharing our semester goals and brainstorming fun, creative ways to accomplish them all - and we need everyone’s ideas!

Come see how you can make a difference for Mizzou while enjoying free food, free t-shirts and free fun!

If you are unable to make it to Tuesday’s awesome event, feel free to join us for our regular meetings each Sunday at 4:00PM in Memorial Union South Rm 204 or email us at CoalFreeMU@gmail.com for more information.

Hope to see you Tuesday!