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IN THE NEWS

Clean Coal PR blitz falling flat in Denver
Huffington Post 8/28/08

The Battle to Save Coal River Mountain
Alternet 8/28/08

Ecocide in Appalachia
anatta blog 8/28/08

Some upset with mining agreement
Boone Standard 8/28/08

Wind vs. Pundits
It's Getting Hot In Here 8/27/08

Weekend in Wise
Mountain Justice Blacksburg 8/27/08

Restore Power to the People
Roanoke Times 8/27/08

Dust Or The Wind
San Francisco Chronicle 8/26/08

Big Coal’s Big-Time Lobby
Center for Public Integrity 8/26/08

Support windmills in West Virginia, not mountaintop removal, valley fills
Charleston Gazette 8/25/08

Wind power or mountaintop removal?
Coal Valley News 8/25/08

Deal reached in mountaintop mining dispute; notice remains in question
Herald-Dispatch 8/25/08

Winning with wind: Hope for Coal River Mountain
Coal Valley News 8/25/08

Dueling PR campaigns compete for coal's fate
Charleston Gazette 8/25/08

How Wind Farms May Really Replace Coal Mining
Alternet 8/25/08

Raleigh County Mountain at Center of Coal vs. Wind Debate
The State Journal 8/14/08


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RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS

September 19-21, 2008: Appalachian Community Economics conference
posted August 14, 2008
On September 19-21 in Abingdon, VA the Appalachian Community Economics conference will bring together people who want to build sustainable economies in areas traditionally dominated by the coal industry. Whether you have skills to share, want to learn how to make money with your skills or start a business, have a small business and want to network with potential customers, want to learn new skills that can help sustain you economically, or just want to work toward sustaining Appalachian life and culture beyond coal, then ACE is for you.


[UPDATED] July 20, 2008: Four arrested at Zeb Mountain
posted August 8, 2008

**UPDATE 8/8/08** There was no jail time or fines imposed by the Campbell county judge today. Your generous donations helped pay the $1156 in court costs. THANK YOU!

July 20th at Zeb Mountain four protesters were arrested in solidarity with United Mountain Defense, Three River Earth First!, Mountain Justice and coal-impacted residents of Appalachia.


Holding hands and singing Amazing Grace, with more than 50 protesters behind them, they crossed the line onto National Coal's property. Once across the line police calmly handcuffed and arrested them.


What Can I Do to Fight for Mountain Justice?
posted August 6, 2008

Looking for ways to get involved in the Mountain Justice movement? Want to help but not sure how to get started? Then check out the "What Can I Do?" quick list to help spark ideas and then contact us.
We need your help!


July 20, 2008 - 1 PM: March on Zeb Mountain!
posted July 8, 2008

United Mountain Defense, Mountain Justice and Three Rivers Earth First! ask you to march with us for Appalachia. This is a call for you to take a Sunday out of your life to help preserve some of the oldest mountains and watersheds on Earth. March with us in solidarity against the watershed annihilation machine known as mountaintop removal. This is a call not for any organization or group — but for the Mountains of Tennessee.


More recent events...


“Voices for Appalachia”
Written and Narrated by Hundreds
An Appalachia Portrait-Story Project

Artist Francesco di Santis joined us at our 2008 Mountain Justice training camp in Kentucky to continue work on his latest project “Voices for Appalachia”. Francesco is working with other regional organizations throughout Appalachia and the project has traveled to Mountain Justice Spring Break, the mountains of eastern Tennnessee, the Appalachian Studies Association conference and the Heartwood Forest Council.


Click for facts about Mountain  Top RemovalThere is a manmade ecological disaster of geologic proportions occurring in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians; its called mountain range -- or Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining. It is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage -- the destruction of watersheds -- and the annihilation of one of the most diverse places on earth.


Mission Statement

Mountain Justice seeks to add to the growing anti-MTR citizens movement. Specifically Mountain Justice demands an abolition of MTR, steep slope strip mining and all other forms of surface mining for coal. We want to protect the cultural and natural heritage of the Appalachia coal fields. We want to contribute with grassroots organizing, public education, nonviolent civil disobedience and other forms of citizen action.

Historically coal companies have engaged in violence and property destruction when faced with citizen opposition to their activities. Mountain Justice is committed to nonviolence and will not be engaged in property destruction.