Judy Bonds on talking with pro MTR miners

I asked Judy Bonds about the prospects for talks between people for and against mountain top removal mining. Bonds said her opponents have threatened her. As it turned out, a couple of hours after I shot this video, the wife of a Massey Energy miner assaulted Bonds by slapping her in the face.

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[zappamannn]

So this assumption that all people who are speaking out against MTR collect welfare and eat government cheese is based on people that you know, a small percentage of people that you know that attended protests at the Coal River.

This is a nationwide movement. Scientists, doctors, professionals, retired folks, politicians and people of various ilk feel strongly about MTR.

[1canyonguy]

Go Judy!

[redskinschic]

Exactly what do you plan on doing with the tens of thousands of men and woman that are going to lose their jobs when you dumba**es shut down the coal mines??? I REALLY WANT TO TURN THE POWER OFF TO ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT BITCH ABOUT COAL MINING POISONING PEOPLE... I HAVE LIVED HERE ALL MY 39 YEARS AND IM FINE..... YOU TREE HUGGERS ARE ALL FREAKING IDIOTS!!!!!

[RockyMissouri]

It seems that she and the miners are opposite sides of the same coin- WIND ENERGY is the way to go.... For all of the miners---in ALL of out states....For your health, and for your children.....

[ShiftySixtySeven]

What a total dumbass. If she lives on the Coal River and does not like the society then leave. These people she stands against are miners, the community is a mining community. She is a broken record with the "blasting and poisoning" remarks. She has nothing to offer as an alternate to the minig, I assume the valley should just suffer the results of shutting down the industry. She needs to get a real life, move on from the valley and let the people go back to living thier mining lives.

[Joe77477]

it seems to me that anyone with a functioning brain in their head would understand that blowing up mountains is not good, and its not a sustainable way to get energy. It makes absolutely no sense (other than just plain ignorance) to me that we continue to blow up these holy mountains, which were once worshipped by the native americans and still has a spiritual connection to us, while we have plenty of other options to get clean sustainable energy. Not to mention MTR actually takes jobs away...

[eastwood203]

End the rape and pillage of our God -given Mountains.

[philbusa]

now this woman judy bigmouth bonds is a prime example of someone with too much time on her hands. these people just dont get it ,THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN,people have grown sick and tired of these extremest treehuggers and thier constant complaining.yet they all go home and do what TURN ON THIER COAL GENERATED POWER. again you people need a le ader with some guts. one that will shut off his or her power COMPLETLY,and so the world how it will work without coal ,guarantee youll be back.

[fuckyamountains]

Yeah, supposedly MTR is a problem in southern WV and eastern KY. People from NY, CA, CO, etc., which have no clue what exactly is going on, are coming in here protesting. They are telling people around the US that coal is polluting our state, they are blasting our homes off the foundation, they are running us out and lies like that.... I live right below a surface mine, I have no problem with them, my well water is fine!