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Here are a couple of great articles by lefty author Naomi Klein about the anti-corporate movement of movements which converged in Seattle in 1999 at the shutdown of the World Trade Organization are re-converging around climate change in Copenhagen.
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Seriously, if you aren’t going to be Copenhagen, ask yourself why won’t you be in West Virginia defending Coal River Mountain on Dec 7?
As climate justice movements turn towards the floundering talks in Denmark, people in Appalachia are in the fight of ...
Historic 1930s photograph of a nurse in a starched cap and uniform, washing her hands in an improved, bacteria-controlled environment -- part of a Minnesota Health Department campaign to promote sanitation, and to prevent the transmission of bacterial ...
Scott Parkin is a Senior Organizer with Rainforest Action Network and organizes with Rising Tide North America. He has worked on a variety of campaigns around climate change, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, mountaintop removal, labor issues and ...
Today we took our protests against mountaintop removal national. Decision-makers from in New York and Washington D.C. have been getting the message loud and clear that mountaintop removal’s end must come soon. Hundreds participated today with ...
The coming trend in southern West Virginia as direct action heats up on mountaintop removal?
MADISON, W.Va.-Joseph Hamsher, 22, was sentenced to twenty days in South West Regional Jail for his participation in a Sept. 9 road blockade at Boone County’s ...
We’ve heard and seen evidence that Massey Energy is now clearing and blasting for coal extraction on Coal River Mountain. We’ve had a lot of victories in the past few months, but this is ours and our allies line in the sand. Coal River Mountain is the ...
DC residents with the activist group DC Rising Tide today publicly presented their demands that Pepco stop sourcing electricity from coal, and particularly coal from mountaintop removal coal mining. The activists made their demands for renewable ...
Growing up, we had an American Linden tree in our yard which annually provided a wealth of "helicopter seeds" for my enjoyment. These nature provided toys were (and remain) fascinating to me. I have played with and dropped countless of them, from a ...
The fun never stops in West Virginia coal country.
This morning, just before dawn, four individuals chained themselves across a haul road on a strip mining site in Kanawha County, West Virginia to protest mountaintop removal mining. Four more joined ...
