Tag: Mountaintop Removal

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DemocracyNow!: The Struggle Against Mountaintop Removal: Leading Activist Mike Roselle Continues Fight Against Destructive Coal-Mining




James Guin McGuinness and Mike Roselle on Cherry Pond mountain, southern West Virginia, February 25, 2009. Roselle and McGuinness successfully halted coal production for about an hour on the mountaintop removal site as part of a sustained campaign of non violent civil disobedience that has surged in southern West Virginia this year.
James Guin McGuinness and Mike Roselle on Cherry Pond mountain, southern West Virginia, February 25, 2009. Roselle and McGuinness successfully halted coal production for about an hour on the mountaintop removal site as part of a sustained campaign of non violent civil disobedience that has surged in southern West Virginia this year. photograph (c) antrim caskey, 2009


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Breaking: Arrest warrant issued for Roselle

West Virginia State Trooper Sgt. Smith arrests Mike Roselle for laying down in the road with a banner on Massey Energy owned Edwight mountaintop removal coal mine site, Febraury 25, 2009, exactly 37 years after the Buffalo Creek disaster in Man, WVa.
West Virginia State Trooper Sgt. Smith arrests Mike Roselle for laying down in the road with a banner on Massey Energy owned Edwight mountaintop removal coal mine site, Febraury 26, 2009, exactly 37 years after the Buffalo Creek disaster in Man, W.Va.

Arrest warrant issued for Roselle

Rock Creek, WV — The Raleigh County Court issued a warrant for activist Mike Roselle this morning. Roselle has agreed to turn himself in at the State Police office in Beckley tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM.

For information call Climate Ground Zero

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Operation Appalachian Spring (OAS): Shut Down Mountaintop Removal


Five protesters cross the top of the Shumate coal sludge dam, minutes before they unfurled their banner which read, "Stop Blasting, Save the Kids," March 5, 2009. photograph (c) antrim caskey, 2009
Five protesters cross the top of the Shumate coal sludge dam, minutes before they unfurled their banner which read, "Stop Blasting, Save the Kids," March 5, 2009. photograph (c) antrim caskey, 2009


Join us this Spring — May and June, 2009 — for Operation Appalachian Spring (OAS).  We will coordinate action training camps for people to end the destructive practice of mountaintop removal through non-violent civil disobedience.

Massey Coal’s crimes against nature–on a daily basis in West Virginia– are terrorizing the local communities by blowing the mountains up from the top down and throwing the remains into headwater streams.

Come on down and help us stop this senseless destruction of the mountains of West Virginia. When we win here in West Virginia, we will be able to win in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia.

We will have non-violence and other trainings, a kitchen and people who can explain the illegal practice of mountaintop removal. We will work together to defeat Massey Coal and other coal companies who blow up mountains rather than actually mine. We are hoping to shut down the sites on an ongoing basis all summer long. But we need your help.

For more information contact Guin

email  guinstigator@yahoo.com

phone  304-854-7372

Check out our website at www.climategroundzero.org

Let’s make it a fun, exciting and worthwhile Summer!!