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RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS May 9-10, 2008: Jam down at the Bank!
posted May 9, 2008
Mountain Justice is asking for musicians and others to join Action Jackson in a great big jam down at the bank on Friday May 9th and Saturday May 10th. Where will this jam be held? At any Bank of America or Citi location near you.
May 17-23, 2008: Mountain Justice Summer Camp
posted May 7, 2008
 We have found a great location for our fourth annual Mountain Justice
Summer Camp: Camp Blanton at Blanton Forest, in Harlan County,
Kentucky, in the heart of the eastern Kentucky coalfields.
We have a full week planned of workshops on Appalachian coal
mining, music and culture featuring well-known Appalachian activists,
plus hiking, Appalachian mountain music, dancing, campfires, and
excellent healthy food.
Register for camp now!
Preliminary schedule...
More info...
Already registered and looking for or offering a ride? Check out the 2008 Training Camp ride board...
Help Support Clean Energy: Sign the Mile Long Petition
posted May 7, 2008
 It's not too late to sign the petition!
Dominion Energy has proposed building a dirty coal-fired power plant in Wise County, Virginia that will pollute the
air and water, further destroy our mountains, and contribute to global warming.
Citizen’s of Southwest Virginia are standing up for their mountains and communities by leading a grassroots campaign to defeat the plant.
Micheal O'Connell's film, Mountain Top Removal wins Nashville film festival's Reel Current Award
posted April 30, 2008
 MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL, Michael O'Connell's revealing look at mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia, has been named the 2008 winner of the Reel Current Award. The winner is chosen and award presented each year by Al Gore to a documentary at NaFF that provides extraordinary insight into a contemporary global issue.
More recent events...
 There
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 Summer (MJS) seeks to add to the growing
anti-MTR citizens movement. Specifically MJS 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. MJS is committed to nonviolence and will
not be engaged in property destruction.
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