Hi all,
We are looking for a location to hold the Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB) camp in northern WV in mid-March 2012. This year's camp will focus on the mt top removal AND fracking issues and we hope to bring together activists from PA and the northeast states working on fracking issues together with the MTR activists in WV, KY VA etc.
MJSB will be mostly college students, mostly from out of state. Last year MJSB was in Alabama.
We have not yet found a location for the camp. We want to be close to MTR, fracking and/ or strip mining sites.
Here is what we are looking for:
* Space that can hold about 100 people for 1 week.
* We need a big main lodge room (preferably) that is heated for speakers and workshops
* Need a pretty big kitchen and dining room.
* Place for people to sleep. Some can sleep in tents, some can sleep on the floor. We cant afford to rent anything very nice - about $1000-2000 will be our budget for lodging/facility rental for the whole week.
* We want to cook our own food; we cant afford to pay any camp staff to cook (and their food is usually not very good anyways).
* They have to be willing to host us - some of the church camps etc. are a little nervous about Mountain Justice because we are such very scary people
In other words, something like the Folklife Center (Pipestem) would be ideal; it just needs to be in the northern part of the state.
If anyone has any ideas for a location, please email me back. We hope to work with OVEC and WVHC and CRMW and other groups on this camp (speakers needed!) but we are still in the early planning stages.
Boy Scout/Girl Scout/Church Camp/Band Camp/4-H Camp would all probably work OK.
Even a church building would probably work OK, if they would let us sleep there.
Ive put in an inquiry to Camp Mountaineer (Boy Scouts) already. If anyone can tell me about Camp Pioneer 4-H camp that would be appreciated also. The Mountain Institute is a possibility - Ive talked to them in the past - but seems like a long shot.
Wheeling or Morgantown or heck, maybe even Parkersburg? Ideally we would be closer to Pittsburgh.
Thanks everyone. |