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07-30-2006, 20:05
This came through to me fromt the WSPD tody for those interested. I know it is not actually on the AT but the appalachian region itself will be chipped away at over time.
Call to action to protect Appalachian mountains from mountaintop
removal coal mining - Aug. 4-6, Charleston, South Carolina.
National Governors Association Convention
This weekend, while United States governors are milling around in
luxuriant hotels and admiring old slave plantations, residents in the
coalfield regions of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee,
are experiencing firsthand the dire effects of mountaintop removal coal
mining. Because of the indifference and complicity of the governors of
these states, over 500 square miles of forested mountains have been
leveled in southern Appalachia, lost forever to the greed of politicians
and businessmen. So while America's state leaders are patting each
other on the back and rubbing shoulders with obscenely wealthy corporate
executives, let's get out there and let them know that we're not going
to sit idly by while they reduce the natural world to coal dust and capital
returns.
Come to Charleston, South Carolina, August 4th-6th! Join coalfield
citizens and community activists as we confront the injustices
perpetrated by a government driven by profit. With creative irreverence and insightful confrontation we will hold our supposed representatives
accountable -to their peers and to the public- for their insatiable
appetite for industrial expansion, and the havoc it wrecks on the land
and people of Appalachia!
For more information & details of the weekend's actions:
Email: [email protected]
Call: 843-723-5203
& get on down to Charleston!
Call to action to protect Appalachian mountains from mountaintop
removal coal mining - Aug. 4-6, Charleston, South Carolina.
National Governors Association Convention
This weekend, while United States governors are milling around in
luxuriant hotels and admiring old slave plantations, residents in the
coalfield regions of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee,
are experiencing firsthand the dire effects of mountaintop removal coal
mining. Because of the indifference and complicity of the governors of
these states, over 500 square miles of forested mountains have been
leveled in southern Appalachia, lost forever to the greed of politicians
and businessmen. So while America's state leaders are patting each
other on the back and rubbing shoulders with obscenely wealthy corporate
executives, let's get out there and let them know that we're not going
to sit idly by while they reduce the natural world to coal dust and capital
returns.
Come to Charleston, South Carolina, August 4th-6th! Join coalfield
citizens and community activists as we confront the injustices
perpetrated by a government driven by profit. With creative irreverence and insightful confrontation we will hold our supposed representatives
accountable -to their peers and to the public- for their insatiable
appetite for industrial expansion, and the havoc it wrecks on the land
and people of Appalachia!
For more information & details of the weekend's actions:
Email: [email protected]
Call: 843-723-5203
& get on down to Charleston!