in West Virginia: Two DC Rising Tide activsts arrested at MTR coal protest

Published by Indymedia, Washington DC

On the morning of June 18th, Lisa Ramsden and Jeanne Kirshon of Rising Tide DC were arrested in W VA while taking action against a mountaintop removal coal mine. They were arrested with 12 others after entering a Massey Energy MTR mine site near twilight, Western Virginia.

14 Activists Arrested in Peaceful Protest to Stop Mountaintop Removal scaled 20-story tall machinery to call attention to nation’s worst form of coal mining in first ever ascent of a mountaintop removal site’s dragline

How mountains are torn down so coal can be fed to your air conditioner and your 600W gaming computer

COAL RIVER VALLEY, W. VA – In the early morning hours of thursday, 14 concerned citizens entered onto Massey Energy’s mountaintop removal mine site near Twilight WV. Four of them scaled a 150-foot dragline and unfurled a 15×150 foot banner that said, “Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining”. The climbers were on the enormous dragline, a massive piece of equipment that removes house-sized chunks of blasted rock and earth to expose coal, and remained there for over three hours. Meanwhile nine others deployed a 20×40 foot banner on the ground at the site which read, “Stop Mountaintop Removal: Clean Energy Now”.

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dc rising tide activists go to Mountain Justice Summer Activist Camp, visit mountain top removal site

activists from dc rising tide attended the week long mountain justice summer activist camp in West Virginia last week. while there, they learned new skills, met others in the environmental movement, heard great guest speakers (such as larry gibson and mike roselle), saw an inspiring film on coal, visited a mountain top removal site, and went to the Picket at Petus rally on Saturday (5/22).


photographs from kayford mountain


mountain top removal site. larry gibson on the right.


right- mountain top removal site
left- what it used to look like



larry gibson, keeper of the mountain


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article about the action: http://mountainjustice.org/actions/2009-05-23/index.php