by Mason Adams / Mother Jones “Life in these mountains ain’t always been easy, so people around here take a stand when they see something they don’t agree with—and I’m one of them,” says walrus-mustached Jammie Hale in his thick southwestern Virginia […]
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Continue readingTake Direct Action Against Strip Mining via Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival (RAMPS). RSVP on Facebook here. Last week, Mountain Justice and Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival (RAMPS) stopped nine coal trucks and a coal barge after the Mountain Justice […]
Continue readingfrom Appalachia Rising [UPDATE: 22 arrested in sit-ins. For updates, photos, videos and details on how to support them, visit Appalachia Rising] (Washington, D.C.) — This morning residents from four states severely impacted by mountaintop removal coal mining began sit-ins in protest […]
Continue readingMountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transport in two locations Thursday morning protesting mountaintop removal. Five boarded a barge on the Kanawha River near Chelyan, West Virginia, with a large banner that read “Coal leaves, cancer stays,” and locked their bodies […]
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