Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Slideshow of Actions
These are photos from the Kayford, Brushy Fork, and Pettus actions. More than half of our folks are still in jail, as we attempt to raise bail. Note that many of these people are facing a $100 fine as their maximum penalty, yet have $2000 bail. One West Virginia Resident, Sid, wasn’t allowed to post [...]
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Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Video of Picket at Pettus
Here’s a 10 minute video that covers the picket at Pettus, West Virginia yesterday. It also briefly goes over the actions that took place up on Kayford Mountain and the Brushy Fork impoundment. If you pay close attention, I give a speech at the end, cause I’m trying to raise funds to get my friends [...]
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
9 Anti-MTR Activists Being Held In West Virginia
Today, three different acts of civil disobedience confronted mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia, all under the banner of Mountain Justice. Six people locked themselves down to mining equipment on Kayford Mountain, bringing operations to a halt for hours. Two people kayaked out onto the Brushy Fork Coal Slurry Impoundment and proudly displayed a “No [...]
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Someone Drew A Comic About Me Without Knowing It!
Anyone who was around at Asheville’s May Day…
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Saturday, May 16th, 2009
What’s Left Of Kayford Mountain
Pictured above is a small portion of the mountaintop removal coal mining happening on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. The spot where we took this picture used to be the lowest part of the mountain, the part where the road comes up and over as the most accessible point. And it’s now the highest.
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Knockin’ Down Trees And Burning Them
I shot some photos in Mingo County of the coal companies continuing their efforts to destroy everything. In this case, it’s the burning of all the timber on the areas that they are planning on “developing.” They don’t even bother to turn the stuff into lumber. This picture is along Matewan Road, just south of [...]
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Mingo County, West Virginia
Last weekend, Mingo County West Virginia flooded something terrible. You see, the entire county is filled with strip mines and mountaintop removal sites. With no vegetation to keep soil intact, it just pours down the mountain and destroys towns. There’s a lot of nasty stuff going on in the area… they’re building King Coal Highway, [...]
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Border Patrol Fail
Now that’s where it’s at.
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Mountain Top Removal
This is not a plateau. Well, it is now. It’s the remains of a mountain in southwest virginia, Wise County. They blew it up to get the coal out, and they dropped what was left into nearby valleys, destroying entire towns. The kind folks at Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards told us where to find the [...]
