A feeling of new found hope
First, I want to wish the best on this Labor Day, to all the people who go to work everyday and work their tails off, to make America a better place to live in, and securing a future for all genarations to follow. I just returned from a road trip, which took Lenny Kohm, campaign coordinator for Appalachian Voice’s, and me, throughout the state of Ohio. We made stops and gave presentations in Dover, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati. We met some great people, and some great organizations, all like minded people working and accomplishing, on changing the direction of our communities and a new direction for America. I want to mention the Ohio Citizens Action Group, and what a great job they are doing, to bring about social justice for all. Dedicated and hard working individuals, building their organization from the ground up, who treated Lenny and I as one of their own. Of course, it wasn’t very hard for them to understand the atrocities that are happening throughout Appalachia. A few weeks before, they had made the trip from Ohio, to see mountaintop removal on Kayford mountain. I don’t have to tell you, that they, like everyone else who witness MTR, were shocked at what they saw and heard. So when Lenny and I arrived in Ohio, we were very excited at the work that they were doing to bring MTR into the spot light. Putting preasure on their congressial leaders to co-sponsor The Clean Water Protection Act, and demanding that a local steel mill, to quit using mountaintop removal coal in their steel mills. It was one of the best trips that I had attended. It was also the week of the DNC convention in Denver, CO., and Lenny and I didn’t miss a minute of it. For those who didn’t watch it, you missed history in the making. I was uplifted each and every night. Listening to speakers as Hillary and Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Michell Obama, the next vice president of the United States Joe Bidden, and the next president of the United States, Barrack Obama. If you didn’t get the chance to hear Barracks speech, I encourage everyone to seek it out and listen to it. Whether you like politics or not, this I am sure of. This is a defining moment in our history. Barrack was put here for this special purpose, to rebuild our nation as a whole. A country that has been torn apart by eight years of a disastrous republican administration. I can’t help but continue listening to Barracks every word. One line in his speech, I will never forget, he said, and I quote, “change doesn’t come from Washington, but change comes to Washington.” And that’s exactly what were going to do. We will take our fight against mountaintop removal to Washington, but this time will be different. We will have an open door to the President’s office, not the close doors we’re use to seeing under republican administration. A President who will make time to listens and truly cares about people, and will not use the Constitution as a door mat. He’s very ready to take on all challenges to take this country back and deliver it back to the people. And he’s ready to take on the climate crisis, and to save humanization from extinction. So I arrived back home with a new found feeling about the future. Mountaintop removal are in it’s last days. It won’t be easy, Barrack needs the help of everyone to move this country forward. The Bush years has set us back many years. But with the determination I see in my travels, speaks very highly of Americans, and what we can accomplish, if we all bust our butts, and work as one, with the same common goal in mind. Yes my friends, our best days are ahead of us. God Bless all, and God Bless the United States of America.
