title: It's not about energy--it's about power!
abstract: Teri Blanton is a former chairperson and current fellow at Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, a statewide organization that works "for a new balance of power and a just society aimed at changing unfair political, economic, and social systems." In March 2014 she was a keynote speaker addressing the annual conference of the Toxics Action Center in Boston, Massachusetts. We are publishing her speech, presented to the many environmental activists from community- and labor-based organizations that work on state and regional concerns. Ms. Blanton energized the conference with her message of persistent organizing to attain justice against the threats posed to our communities, health, and environment by powerful forces who exploit our lives and labor for their profit and power. She calls upon us to build the power to make the transition to more sustainable and democratic human development.
authors.affiliation: Native of Harlan County, Kentucky.
authors.forename: Teri
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Blanton
mesh_terms: D004782:Environmental Health / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007629:Kentucky; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012935:Social Justice
keywords: Environmental Justice; Kentucky; climate change; coal