Community Planning Meetings
The Appalachian Community Economics (ACE) network has had a series of planning meetings striving to build a larger network of Appalachian individuals and organizations. All meetings are hosted in the coalfields and are geared to support and incorporate community participation in order to continue efforts for economic viability in Appalachia. There is both an organizing as well as learning component to each meeting. We strived to learn from our communities as well as organize our conference for the fall of 2008.
Below is a message from the last ACE planning meeting hosts in Eagan, Tennessee. Carol Judy of the Clearfork Community Institute (CCI) greets you all
Hi All,
We at CCI are delighted to welcome you to the Clearfork Valley in North-East, Tn. for the next ACE planning session. From 1966 to today people have taken charge of making change happen for the community. Land has always been needed and has always been difficult to impossible to acquire. I have learned lessons from the landless poor here and throughout the world that continue to motivate me to be pro-active in ways that give people secure access to a land base important to survival and things beyond. I call it a revival. We will invite some other locals to be with us for Saturday supper and evening session unless someone else initiates another schedule.
There could be music Saturday night with the Tennessee Rainwater Band just up the ridge. There are always welcoming Churches on Sunday.
