so what have you been up too

Stewart Blair — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:19:09 +0000

In October-November, AMI started, its fall media lab. This time around we’re not doing so much media as community leadership. We’re planning an art show this January. We’re taking in local youth art for said art show. The reason for all this, is a lot of the youth here(like most other small towns) complain about how there’s nothing to do. AMI will be bring in some people to talk the AMI students about community leadership. We’re working on organizing for the art show. Also I started working on an Appalshop video brochure.

November-December-January, now we have signed different tasks to the students(music,art,etc). We’ve started a myspace account and started promoting the show. Also we’ve started to collect art. I’m really pumped about this I hope there’s a good turn out

http://myspace.com/appalachianyouth

Kentucky is suing the pharmaceutical company

Stewart Blair — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:20:14 +0000

A great radio program, produced by a Appalshop staff/youth trainer, aired this morning on NPR to several million people. Below is the link.

Kentucky is suing the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma for medical costs incurred as a result of addictions to the painkiller Oxycontin. Commentator Natasha Watts, who grew up in Blackey, Ky., tells how the town has been changed by prescription painkillers.

Listen to the NPR Story
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15143695

Learn more about the Appalachian Media Insititute and Natasha Watts.
http://www.appalshop.org/ami/issues.htm

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so what have you been up too

Kentucky is suing the pharmaceutical company