Come to Appalachia for
Mountain Justice Summer!

Mountain Justice Summer is a call to action for the people to stand up against the final destruction of our life supporting ecosystems - mountain range removal. We need your help to fight the coal companies. We need you. We can break the back of the massive destruction that lays waste to entire ecosystems and watersheds. We are asking for volunteers to dedicate a summer to our efforts. We see our call to action as an emergency plea, in desperate circumstances -- to rachet up the resistance to the atrocity of Mountain Range Removal before it's too late. The campaign began with the MJS action camp where participants had an opportunity to learn & share skills needed for the campaign.

Why Mountain Justice Summer?

Mountain Range Removal is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage, the destruction of entire watersheds and the annihilation of one of the most biologically diverse places on earth. And the perpetrators are turning it into the biological equivalent of a parking lot. The theft of our mountains is escalating as the coal companies strive to outdo one another in their orgy of destruction.

Redwood Summer started with an emergency call to action to save the Redwood Forests. This is our emergency call to action to save our mountains. Mountain Justice Summer will be the catalyst for a broad based resistance movement that will succeed in stopping Mountain Range Removal!

Food, housing, and camping have all been arranged. Welcome houses modeled on Redwood Summer have been established in Appalachian cities. Volunteers get routed through these houses for training before being sent into the coalfields. Campsites have been identified and food donations have been secured. Come to our home and help us protect the Appalachian Mountains.

During the summer you can hike, photograph, canvass, camp, cook and fight for the very survival of one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. We will be alternating between campsites near mountain range removal sites and time in various cities, towns and communities promoting educational tours and demonstrating at the headquarters of the greedy coal companies. It won’t be easy. Historically the Appalachian Mountains and her people have been considered a “Fourth World” by the greedy corporate carpetbagging coal corporations. They consider us a national sacrifice zone in their search for profits. But we are standing up and fighting back, and YOU can help us tip the balance.

Mississippi Summer hosted schools. Mountain Justice Summer will have teach-ins and workshops throughout the summer. Mississippi Summer had people going door to door. Mountain Justice Summer has a listening project that has been formed for folks to go door to door in threatened mountain communities to listen and talk about the our fears, hopes and dreams for the mountains we love and live in.

Mountain Justice Summer hopes to include plant identification, media escorts, pre-blast photography, endangered species identification, listening projects, demonstrations, tour promotion, non-violent direct action, camping, and in general raising hell for our mountains. The coal companies think they can destroy Appalachia without a fight. They are betting billions on our silence. They know that if people of North America find out about this theft of mountains, the outrage will destroy their attempted theft of a people's cultural heritage. The icon of the forest campaigns of the west coast are the redwoods. You will be able to say, “I helped save a mountain.” And you will leave a monument to your summer's work that will exist for eons.

Join the campaign as an organizer!

Coal companies have a history of violence, we are committed to nonviolence and to the safety of volunteers.

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