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Today's Fasters: Katey Lauer, Suzanne Riou and Eric Sidener
Apr 18, 2013

Katey Lauer is a wonderful ally from the Alliance for Appalachia, Suzane Riou shared with us yesterday and we'll hear from Eric later today.

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Suzanne Riou fasts with EQAT to work against violence
Apr 18, 2013
Going without gasoline (we don't use coal on our island) for 5 days, a week - this I what can do. It's not much. But just imagine if everybody who owns and drives a car were to leave it at home for 5 days each month...
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Walter Hjelt Sullivan fasts this week with EQAT
Apr 17, 2013

I fast that the hearts and minds of the Directors of PNC Bank might be opened and they might have the courage to lead the financial services industry into the sustainable energy economy that we must build together or have thrust upon us after much misery and suffering.

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Bruce Birchard shares with us the passion behind his fast
Apr 17, 2013

PNC claims to be a “green bank,” but they are second on the list of U.S. banks with the largest investments in these coal companies.  Mountaintop removal coal mining has destroyed over 500 mountains and buried more than 2,000 miles of streams

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Action inspires action. La Verne Shelton fasted along with Walter
Apr 17, 2013

In solidarity with Walter Hjelt Sullivan's Seven-Day water fast, I have begun a twenty-four hour liquid fast, sundown today (14 April) through sundown tomorrow.

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Ingrid Asplund and Mormon bloggers fast with EQAT
Apr 15, 2013

I know that the communities of Appalachia deserve better than the destroyed mountains, poisonous air and water, and scare jobs that mountaintop removal brings

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Betsy Bolton's fasts to remember Appalachia
Apr 12, 2013

I am fasting because it's the most effective way I know of forcing myself to remember the daily struggles of people in Appalachia

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M Schlotterbeck joins EQAT to fast in solidarity with those impacted by Appalachia
Apr 7, 2013

I'm fasting today to sit for a moment with the enormity of the pain being caused by mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Hannah Weaver fasted with EQAT this week
Apr 7, 2013

I focused on putting one foot in front of the other, walking up and out of Larry Gibson’s place at Kayford Mountain. I followed the hiking boots in front of me up a dirt path, and when the group fell into silence as they reached the top of the ridge up ahead, I knew that when I too stood there, that I would see it.

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George Lakey fasts for 7 days with EQAT
Apr 7, 2013

The photo shows me with Larry Gibson, who is the Appalachian I got to know best and who passed away last year.  Larry stood up to pressures up to and including death threats to hang on to his family's ancestral land on a mountain that the coal companies wanted for their own wealth. 

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