Documentary Screening – “Running for the Mountains”

Documentary Screening – “Running for the Mountains” with important panel discussion.
Panel members:
Co producers/ Directors Julie Eisenberg and Babette Hogan
Janelle Kellman, former Sausalito Mayor, now candidate for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2026 elections.
Moderator – local KSVY radio host and Program Director Ronny Jo Grooms who is an experienced interviewer and story researcher.
Paul Corbit Brown, an activist featured in the documentary in West Virginia.

Special Appalachian music from local front porch players to open the show

Running for the Mountains, uncovers a story of dirty money and dirty politics – one that affects the entire nation.

in 2008, filmmakers Babette Hogan and Julie Eisenberg began following West Virginia native son and electoral activist Jesse Johnson. In his wake, they discovered a deep story of good people and dark money, devastation and defiance, history and hope. More than a decade later, with America divided, the climate in crisis, and the fossil fuel industry earning record profits, the story of Appalachia offers a dire warning for the nation – and a way forward.

From 2008-20024, the filmmakers documented the rise of then Governor Joe Manchin and other pro-extraction WV politicians, detailing financial conflicts of interest and cozy relationships with local media, law enforcement, and energy companies. Under their control, West Virginia was, and remains, a fossil fuel fiefdom. The political film with an environmental backdrop shows how the West Virginia playbook impacts the rest of the country.