Chad Stevens - new doc on anti-stripmine movement
Chad Stevens interviewed Ken Hechler for several hours recently about the early, 1974 attempts by Congressman Hechler to limit strip-mining and mountaintop removal mining. Stevens is a student at Ohio University in mass communications. He hopes to create a 25 minute, PBS style documentary. He asked Hechler what he thought it would take to finally stop MTR. Hechler responded, “It took Pearl Harbor to end American isolationism….” He told me that it seems to always take a disaster to get Americans to finally pay attention. You can check Stevens out at MediaStorm.
from MediaStorm website -
| Chad Stevens |
| Multimedia Producer |
| Chad A. Stevens has been a faculty member in the photojournalism program at Western Kentucky University, a master’s degree candidate in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University and a photographer and multimedia producer in Africa. While teaching at Western Kentucky University, Stevens created an annual documentary photography workshop, the Appalachian Cultural Project, and won the University Faculty Award for Public Service in 2006. In 2002, he spent a year of living in East Africa producing multimedia projects for Save the Children, AIDchild, Literacy and Basic Education and the Global Food for Education Initiative. Prior to this journey, Stevens worked at the Kalalmazoo Gazette as a staff photographer and page designer. He is a graduate of Western |
Chad wrote me -
The focus of this documentary project is three-fold: 1) women leading the
resistance to mountaintop removal coal mining, 2) the heritage of the
mountains and the heritage of coal, and 3) the history and culture of the Coal
River Valley.
