Stop the bombs: local organizing with global reach / Ralph Hutchison -- RAIL solution: taking on Halliburton on the home front / Rees Shearer -- This land is your land: local organizing and the hegemony of growth / Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble -- Identity matters: building an urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati / Phillip J. Obermiller, ... [et al.] -- Appalachian youth re-envisioning home, re-making identities / Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty -- Resistance through community-based arts / Katie Maureen Mullinax -- Organizing Appalachian women: hope lies in the struggle / Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney -- The southern empowerment project: homegrown organizing gone too soon / Jane Rostan and Walter Davis -- Center for participatory change: cultivating grassrootssupport organizing / Craig White, ... [et al.] -- Faith-based coalitions and organized labor: new forms of collaboration in the twenty-first century? / Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan -- Talking union in two languages: labor rights and immigrant workers in East Tennessee / Fran Ansley -- Virginia organizing: the action is at the state level / Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter-- OxyContin flood in coal fields: "searching for higher ground" / Sue Ella Kobak -- Not your grandmother's agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's agrifood activism / Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings -- Mountain justice / Cassie Robinson-Pfleger, ... [et al.] -- Who knows? Who tells? Creating a knowledge commons / Anita Puckett, ... [et al.] -- North and South: struggles over coal in Colombia and Appalachia / Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie -- Conclusions: transformations in place / Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher.