17 Arrests In Mountain Top Removal actions today

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17 people arrested in the Coal River Valley today. They were there to protest the inevitable massacre of nearly 1,000 people living in harms way of billions of gallons of toxic coal slurry sludge.

They were charged with trespassing and 2 were charged with littering (they left a 60ft banner floating in the middle of the sludge.

The 7 people you will witness being arrested in this video are being held at least until TUESDAY.
Obviously the police are willingly accepting their role as Hired Guns for the Coal Companies.

These courageous volunteers have been unprecedentedly slapped with 2,000 dollar bail... for trespassing.

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[wturner0018]

It's not your land either it's land owner land who get paid royalties if and only if they allow companies mineral rights. Companies cant just mine anywhere they want you don't even know the process that takes place...

[FluxRostrum]

@wturner0018 not true. if you own the mineral rights and sell them but don't own the surface rights.. the surface rights owner gets royally screwed.

[wturner0018]

@FluxRostrum I give you win you are so smart and witty I can't compare or relate. You must be quite the avid sportsman you probably live in the woods and are one with nature like that grizzly man from California that became dinner...

[FluxRostrum]

@wturner0018 I enjoy Jesco White I don't live like that but I can enjoy time with the family a few times a year.

[wturner0018]

@FluxRostrum Exactly liberal has no argument so it attacks typical...where are you from anyways?

[FluxRostrum]

@wturner0018 Exactly you assume anything not Conservative is liberal and if the argument doesn't fit doesn't fit the predetermined "right" answer you don't even hear it. .. hunting in WV use to mean getting out in the woods and tracking, with trees & rocks around its sport. Sitting on the edge of flattened mountain waiting for game to appear in your sites from up to a mile away.. doesn't take a lot of skill. if you perceive that as an attack then I guess that's the way you hunt. > Morgantown

[blueridger28]

Cops should be protecting the public they serve not the corporations wallet

[SereneiBE]

walking in the middle of the road.

>.> thats sort of dangerous.

[SereneiBE]

If they were going to remove the mountains in my area, i am willing to DIE to save them.

there are better ways to mine, strip mining and mountain top removal inside forests and sensitive ecosystems are not the way.

go underground.

[NonReturningStatus]

For another documentary that you can watch online and that tackles Massey Energy and Mountain Top Removal watch Recreating Consciousness - Coal Consciousness - Part 6 it deals with the same issues and is really compelling.

You can see the full video on Vimeo

[Truedear]

Few fight for humanity.

Wall St. Journal, 7/19: "The best community journalism seems to come from people who own the papers they operate. Perhaps the most inspirational example is that of the remarkable Gish family, which puts out Appalachia's legendary Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky. The Gishes have owned the Mountain Eagle—motto: 'It Screams'—for more than 50 years, during which the paper has never stopped shining a beacon into the darkest corners of its little section of coal country."

[jhatt25]

there is more energy in coal in the u.s. than all of the oil in the middle east!!!!! so keep crying bitches and we will keep mining

[jhatt25]

@murphyhurtme uneducated ignorant west virginians??? suck my hillbilly cock you hippie loser 

[terrec]

see, here is the problem. You want things done, you don't make a peaceful protest. You make people die

[murphyhurtme]

don't believe the bullshit these assholes are saying. they are fucking stupid and they don't know what they are talking about.

[murphyhurtme]

would you sell out your kids chance to grow up in the same beautiful west virginia that you did? for what? some shitty gas guzzler truck and a bullshit log cabin house up in the woods somewhere? is fucking up west virginia really worth that? do you honestly think these greedy motherfuckers would ever say okay we have done enough lets just shut down our profitable business that exploits uneducated ignorant west virginians? no they would fuck up every mountain in this beautiful state if they could

[murphyhurtme]

they do use the grip their media has on your average uneducated west virginia family to make you think everything is in your best interest. if your power company earns record profits and your utility bills are through the roof and higher than ever before who is benefiting there? who is benefiting when some jerkoff is taking a carribean vacation and you are trying to get the lights turned back on for your kids? give me a fucking break. it creates jobs but it is fucking your average working family