Ashley Funk

Appalachian rural organizer fighting for our rights to breathable air, clean water & a livable climate.

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

Listen to one of my hardest interviews yet, where I tell my Trump-loving dad my concerns about our future on @npratc https://t.co/40AB0b7x65

[Sam Adler-Bell @SamAdlerBell]

I'm drinking my iced coffee with a paper straw while the U.S. military burns through 269,230 barrels of oil a day.

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

.@modeshift @nytimes chose to ignore how new plastics production in the Ohio River Valley is risking the health of thousands for the profits of a few. From fracking to incineration, the plastics cycle is toxic to our communities. Unlike plastics, #WeAreNotDisposable

[Keith Schneider @modeshift]

Shell stirs interest in new chemical corridor along upper Ohio River. Also piece marks my 1000th byline in New York Times. A personal milestone.
https://t.co/jwZRZ9hen3

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

“I want these people to live. I want all these babies to live, and for these women to have good quality of life. I don’t want people to just get wet with a feeling of hope or change, I want to saturate the people.” - Brandi Rawls of Braddock, PA https://t.co/DOxzzBaxPe

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

To Kai Koerber, a 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas student, ”extra cops around doesn’t mean more people to protect him; it means more chances to become a victim of police brutality.” https://t.co/MX9f5LkLrM

[Veronica Coptis @vcoptis]

.@Shell has no answer about pipeline safety on their new website for the #falconpipeline. Guess we don't want to mention all the times other pipelines have polluted water supplies, caused sinkholes, or blown up.... #cleanwater #pipelines

[SaraPennington @sarapennington]

Kentuckians at @SenMajLdr Mitch McConnell's office this morning show him the widespread support for the #RECLAIMAct. Retired miner Larry Miller tells McConnell to support @RepHalRogers's win-win solution for also supporting black lung benefits at 13:09 https://t.co/LGiIrkgJeS

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

“We’re the protestors of tomorrow. The next generation is going to remember us. And they’re going to remember us telling your astute group here that we oppose the contamination of the Ohi:yo’ River" - Maurice John of Seneca Nation in Coudersport, PA https://t.co/SzccMOh2gH

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

A new coal mine in my community that we've been fighting for years got the final go-ahead. We need to create real alternatives to this industry in our rural communities for our climate, health, economies, and ecosystems - it's already too late. https://t.co/tDjd3UjRmk

[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette @PittsburghPG]

Settlement reached on conditions of new coal mine in the Laurel Highlands https://t.co/JevuGg7TqD

[deray @deray]

Black folks elected Doug Jones. FYI. #AlabamaSenateElection

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

“If I had a young son that was looking at the coal industry, I'd say look somewhere else,” - a retired coal miner in Greene County
https://t.co/JqU1XkmNQ2

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

When you are not willing to give up 0.94% of your 15% tax cut to help poor children, you are not to be trusted.

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

"The hope that we can empower intelligent people [to fix all our problems] serves to cover over the simple fact that the work of saving the planet is political, not technical" https://t.co/YSnx7WNwh9

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

Honored to be one of two folks arrested today as part of this action to shut down traffic to fossil fuel HQs in Washington County, PA. I'm hanging out in the tripod on the right! #wewontstop @RisingTideNA @NaomiAKlein https://t.co/FE0HJE1zN7

[Collin Rees @collinrees]

Update: Traffic is fully blocked & shut down. Partial list of companies being blockaded:

Haliburton
Chesapeake Energy
Range Resources
EQT
Consol Energy
Noble Energy
MarkWest Energy
Rice Energy
WPX Energy
Columbia Gas

The fossil fuel industry won't stop, so #WeWontStop either.

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

we all need to read @aditisjoshi's breakdown of what she calls the turmeric tax: "the price that Eastern traditions have to pay in order to enter into Western consciousness" https://t.co/B5hq0loxi7

[aditi joshi @aditisjoshi]

For the past couple of months I've been re-examining my capitalist practices and have realized that I bought into a myth that contributed to a bastardization of my own culture. I wrote a piece to understand and explain why. https://t.co/2JK29rLcWr

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

Another pipeline delayed because of persistent community organizing. Next step: putting a final stop to it in court. https://t.co/ydmNjkmxC0

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

Where I live & work in SWPA, retraining programs are only at 15% capacity. The same programs are reaching full participation in WV & KY.

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

PA miners are refusing retraining opportunities because of Trump's rhetoric. But coal isn't making a comeback. https://t.co/zNvwmUoZVx

[Miranda Crotsley @MirandaOutside]

.@vcoptis @CoalfldJustice when what you need to survive is what is making you sick. oof. people affected need to be supported to lead movements. Trust and invest in them! #LeadOnClimate

[Ashley Funk @funk_ashley]

"We need our relationships to be transformational, not transactional" -@vcoptis on inclusive organizing at @ClimateReality Conference