Sunrise Movement Greater Morgantown

10/23/2024

I just completed a quick public comment to EPA, thanks to WV Rivers Coalition. Today is the last day to comment, so please do so if you care about our air and water and have 5 minutes. You can find the form to support EPA regulating harmful chemicals currently being pumped into WV air and water at wvrivers.org!

05/09/2022

Summary:Movement for People's Democracy West Virginia has received a book collection from William C. Blizzard who died in 2009. He was the son of the Union Leader Bill Blizzard who led the march on Blair Mountain. In the spirit of hillbilly solida...

02/09/2022

02/07/2022

Before House of Hagar Fellowship on Sundays, there is a church service that meets at YSS. Many people call it “the homeless church”.

Today at the service, a worried Susan (from Street Moms, who leads the prayers) asked people to pray for a young family member in Morgantown that fell on the ice and hit his head so hard that he is now in icu and having emergency brain surgery.

George said, " Oh no!!!!! We need to take up a collection!!!!! He ran and grabbed the collection plate and started running around the church collecting what people were pulling out.
What was given has quite a resemblance to the "widow's mite"!
I have to think this might be one of God's favorite offering collections of the day-The treasure's of "the people".

In the collection plate was:the little money they had, the 2 new pairs of underwear they desperately need, the cigarette they really wanted, the shoe strings they are supposed to pull themselves up with ... and what was at first thought to maybe be drugs..turned out to be salt... salt!…and really had us contemplating what it really means to be " the salt of the earth"!
There is no “ homeless church” friends , there is only “The Church”, and this is what its love looked like today. 🙏🏼❤️

01/31/2022

Without the expanded Child Tax Credit, life is .The expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) helped families afford groceries, utility bills, school supplies—even things like tutoring, dance classes, visits to grandparents—and everything that makes childhood special.Click Join Campaign to acce...

01/25/2022

Direct action gets the biscuits ✊

Though West Virginia is known for coal miners’ strikes, workers in industries ranging from healthcare to fast food are organizing.

01/05/2022

National Labor Relations Board attorneys secured a bid to halt the dissolution of an environmental advocacy group, a West Virginia federal judge ruled, saying the board's prosecutors demonstrated that irreparable injury would result if an injunction was not granted.

12/15/2021

Berea College is deeply saddened about the death of bell hooks, Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies, prodigious author, public intellectual and one of the country’s foremost feminist scholars. She died at her home in Berea after an extended illness. Born Gloria Jean Watkins...

12/07/2021

The weather is turning crisper, and substantially colder evenings will be upon us soon. You can help purchase tents and sleeping bags for our most vulnerable neighbors (2-person tents are on sale on Amazon.com right now @ $20.89 each). We will giv...