Mountaintop removal tree-sit enters fifth day

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Run time: 03:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0RCV91sHAA   Posted on YouTube: August 29, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 30, 2009 By DU Member: Adenoid_Hynkel Views on DU: 788

 
starring the Mountain Justice activists vs. Hannity's new friend and complete piece of shit, Massey CEO Don Blankenship


More coverage from the Charleston Gazette's wonderful investigative reporter, Ken Ward:
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2009/08/28/blankenship-speaks-coal-will-wait-out-tree-sitters/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. support need - from a press release:

For those that can't come join us here in West Virginia, there's lots that you can do to support the tree sitters and the campaign from afar.

We need money to get these brave folks out of jail and money to continue to operate our base camp here in the valley and support future actions. Information on how to donate: http://climategroundzero.org/about-us/#support

We also need help amplifying the voices of the folks putting their bodies on the line to stop the blasting.

Click here to send a letter to the WV DEP and the Office of Surface Mining telling them to shut down the blasting on the Edwight Surface Mine.

Our friends at the Rainforest Action Network are also calling for letters to media outlets covering the trees expressing support for the sitters and opposition to MTR, as well as letters asking EPA Secretary Lisa Jackson to come to the coalfields and see the devastation of MTR first-hand.

The coal companies are feeling the pressure, so now we need your support more than ever.

For the mountains,

Climate Ground Zero

[winyanstaz]

2. This is so important for everyone to get involved with....

The damage being done is tremendous and irreversible for generations to come.
Mountains are important for our wind patterns, for the wildlife, for the plants, for our water supplies and the pattern that the water flows and for our future generations.
Please speak up or help by donating or doing whatever you can to help raise awareness of what is being done to our mountains.
The time to save the earth is now.
A big thank you as well to those brave souls that are doing the sit-in and making a difference on the earth with their actions.

[ro1942]

3. our gov.

it's hard to believe our gov. is allowing this mountain top removal to happen. the msm never questions

[Turborama]

4. Thanks a lot for posting this, it's great to see this sort of direct action taking place

If I could, I'd be on my way to help out right now.

Join the Action Campaign

July 25th, 2009
At our action camp in the coalfields of West Virginia, we provide for you and/or your affinity group a local action prep that includes a variety of trainings on: non-violent direct action, peacekeeping, legal observing, cultural awareness, local history, environmental consequences of mountaintop removal and legal updates.

Climate Ground Zero provides meals and tent space to all participants, but donations of food, supplies and/or money are welcome. Bring what you can, if you can!

Besides direct action participants, we welcome: trained medics and medical professionals, kitchen help, climbers, gardeners, video/photographers and journalists, organizers, hellraisers, back country explorers, orienteers, law students and professionals, computer programmers, scientists, eager-learners and hard workers.

If you’re interested, please contact us. We will ask you to provide two references.

Contact Info:

304-854-7372
[e-mail]

http://climategroundzero.org/join-the-action-campaign/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. UPDATE-they've been arrested - bail at $50,000

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4041177