Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: How Corporations Threaten Our Environment and Democracy

Mountaintop removal doesn't just destroy our environment—it completely subverts the democratic process. In their efforts to mine mountains for coal, large corporations deceive local communities, flagrantly break the law, silence journalists and buy out local governments.

In this conversation with The Nation and On the Earth Productions recorded at Chicago's Orrington Hotel, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains how corporations have illegally destroyed more than five hundred mountains and impoverished countless rural communities—and gotten away with it. Kennedy has long been active in the environmental justice movement, and his latest efforts to stop mountaintop removal mining are featured in the new documentary, The Last Mountain.

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[DCantillon1]

The world needs RFK Jr. in the White House

[mandyinseattle]

Robert Kennedy is my hero and epitomizes every wonderful plaintiff's lawyer doing the Lord's work. :)

[funnyoma1]

@DCantillon1 I agree but he'd prob get assassinated, The control the corps have over the ppl in the company towns of WV is legalized slavery. So horrible that what is still going on there is legal:)

[borisbmx]

america is insolvent, and the coal brings in much needed funds.