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  [Save Our Cumberland Mountains Rally, Nashville 1]

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  An anti-strip mining rally in Nashville organized by SOCM, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, on April 8, 1975.

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  [Strip Mining interviews]

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  Interviews with inhabitants of a rural mountain about the devastation caused by strip mining to their land and to their community.

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  [Save Our Cumberland Mountains Rally, Nashville 2]

  CLIR, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video

  An anti-strip mining rally in Nashville organized by SOCM, Save Our Cumberland Mountains. The group attempts to meet with Governor Ray Blanton but is only granted a meeting with his aide, James Allen.

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  [Clinchmore Flood Pt 1]

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  The aftermath of the 1965 Clinchmore Creek flood, as described by the area’s inhabitants.

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  [Strip Mining]

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  Discussion and documentation of the devastation caused by strip mining.

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  Court Day at Mt. Sterling

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  In Mt. Sterling, KY, “Court Day” takes place the third Monday of October, bringing together tens of thousands of people to buy and sell goods.

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  Appalachian Perspective

  CLIR, Roots of Video

  Citizens, activists, and business representatives discuss the practice of strip mining for coal in rural Appalachia.

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  [Natural Footage of Montana / Bear Tribe]

  CLIR, Dean and Dudley Evenson, Roots of Video

  Footage of natural landscapes in Montana and of the Bear Tribe Self-Reliance Center, including a traditional pipe ceremony led by Blackfoot tribe member Sun Bear.