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Don't Miss Climate Change Ground Zero Protest

Copenhagen, U.S.A.: December 7th 0
Posted 10 hours, 27 minutes ago
stripping massey

81-year-old Activist Leads Blockade, Courts Hear $85 Million Suit 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Big Coal giant and mountaintop removal king Massey Energy is getting stripmined of its "Friends of America" rhetoric, and charged for sponsoring job-taking, water-polluting and land-destroying operations.
Who Killed the Jobs of Van Jones and Coal Miners?

Labor Day of Infamy 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Less than 48 hours after a bizarre witch-hunt by right-wing Fox News commentator Glenn Beck brought down our nation's hardest-working and respected green jobs advocate, Van Jones, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship will host an equally bizarre Labor Day spectacle--or Don-A-Pullute-Za, as West Virginia Blue activists say--in the name of union-busted jobs and climate-change denial in Logan County, West Virginia.
$50,000 bail for jailed protesters

VIDEO: Weeklong Mountaintop-removal Tree-sit Ends 1
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Tree-sitting protesters in mountain-removal country have come back down to the ground -- but the fight continues.
time to change "friends and family" selections

Verizon sponsors climate-change-denying mountaintop-removal rally? 22
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Do 87 million Verizon Wireless customers, stockholders, and its Public Policy Development and Corporate Responsibility Department know that their company is a cosponsor of next week's climate change–denying, union-busting, pro–mountaintop removal rally organized by Massey Energy in Logan, W.Va.?
Are you with Don Blankenship or against him?

We are all from Wise County 2
Posted 3 months ago
Want to get really angry about health care and global warming? Not the ginned-up rage of the Obama-was-really-born-in-Kenya crowd, but an anger that fires you up to take action in the name of justice? Anger like the rage felt by so many white Northerners and Southerners in 1963 when they saw Birmingham's fire hoses turned on patriotic African-Americans, a rage so profound that they too joined the civil rights revolution?

Well I invite you, in a brief audio and video tour, to bear witness to what's happening in Wise County, Virginia.
GO YELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Mountaintop removal defenders disrupt July 4th music festival in West Virginia 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Mountain Keepers Music Festival took place this place this July 4th weekend at a park on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, an event organized by the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation in solidarity against mountaintop removal mining. But Saturday's fun was disrupted when some 20 supporters of Massey Energy, a coal company with mountaintop removal mining operations in the area, crashed the festival and threatened attendees verbally and with obscene gestures.
Coal River Mountain Action

The story of our civil disobedience against mountaintop-removal coal mining 3
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Several people asked for more information about the 23 June civil disobedience near Coal River Mountain. We need Dickens to describe the local situation, but you can glean something from a statement I was reading at the time we were arrested (reprinted below).
94-year-old Ken Hechler, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen join coalfield residents

Live at Coal River—mass arrests against mountaintop removal 2
Posted 5 months ago
Ken Hechler, the legendary West Virginia congressman, was arrested in a non-violent protest with NASA's celebrated climate scientist James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, Michael Brune (executive director of Rainforest Action Network), and Goldman Prize winner Judy Bonds, and dozens of other coalfield residents after crossing onto the property of leading mountaintop removal coal mining company, Massey Energy.
Like rats from a sinking Blankenship

University president quits Massey board after green group campaign 2
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
After a 14-week campaign by green groups, Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee stepped down from the board of directors of Massey Energy today.