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• Reckoning at Coal River

  Will media and nation bear witness to coalfield tragedy this week? 2

  Posted 5 months, 1 week ago

  A historic reckoning is taking place on Coal River in West Virginia this week -- and in Washington, DC, on Thursday.

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  Operation Appalachian Spring grows 1

  Posted 6 months, 1 week ago

  In three separate direct actions in the West Virginia coalfields yesterday, nonviolent protestors launched the new phase of Operation Appalachian Spring, a growing national campaign to stop mountaintop removal mining and raise awareness of the catastrophic potential of government regulated blasting near a coal sludge impoundment.

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