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Appalachia Rising

September 28, 2010 Mountaintop Removal Opponents Host Party Send by Chattanooga Times Free Press Jeannie Cerulean poses for a portrait and talks about the Appalachia Rising movement at her home in Chattanooga on Wednesday afternoon. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Rising Appalachia | Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Rising Appalachia is a genre-bending force of sound that uses vocal harmony, lyrical prowess and diverse artistic collaborations to defy cultural clichs [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising! [VIDEOS] | Get Eco Now Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Appalachia Rising! , a national response to the unmitigated destruction of Appalachia's mountains, air and water through mountaintop removal coal mining started today in Washington, D.C. Individuals from around the country, [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Activists From West Virginia Call For End To Mountain Top Removal ... Send by tech Appalachia Rising will converge in Washington DC September 25th to the 27th for teach-ins, hoe-downs, and civil disobedience. They'll be drawing attention to a new study by a team of ecologists, hydrologists, and engineers that came out [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising! [VIDEOS] | Green X Pert - Green,Eco,Environment Posted by Zsolt Fazakas Mountaintop removal coal mining is bad stuff. It is destroying habitats and communities, poisoning people, and annihilating ancient mountains and national treasures. Appalachia Rising! , a national response to the unmitigated [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising: Climate Scientist Arrested At White House Gates ... Send by efjcollective Appalachia Rising is a mobilization of people against the practice of Moutaintop Removal. It involves a march on Washington DC, and has included direct action occupations at the Dept. of Interior, the Dept. of Homeland Security and the [...] Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising: Why It Matters | Melissa Waage's Blog ... Send by Melissa Waage Appalachia Rising, the first-of-its-kind mass mobilization to stop mountaintop removal mining, is coming to DC this weekend. Check out this short video, shot at our "Music Saves Mountains" rally in DC last week, to see why it matters [...] Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising! Mass Mobilization And Civil Disobedience To End ... Send by abigail Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington, DC, September 25-27, 2010, calling for an end to the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining. Mountaintop removal has already destroyed over 500 of the world's oldest [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Is Rising Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining | Coaled Send by ste96 I am a coal miner's great, great granddaughter. My grandpap Miller was killed in an Appalachian coal mine - and I am rising ? along with Appalachia. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Progressive Delmarva: Alt Country Sunday Night Send by duck around Thousands Call on Obama Administration to End Mountaintop Removal - *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* September 27, 2010 Appalachia Rising Thousands will converge today for Appalachia Rising, the largest national protest to end moun. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising: Join The Mobilization To Abolish Mountaintop Removal! Send by It's Getting Hot In Here (blog Webb is a central organizer for Appalachia Rising, the largest mobilization against mountaintop removal and surface mining in United States history. [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Day Of Action To End Mountaintop Removal The Dernogalizer Send by Matt Dernoga Appalachia Rising! will consist of two events. First, the weekend conference, September 25-26, Appalachia Rising! Voices from the Mountains will provide an opportunity to build and join the movement for justice in Appalachia through [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 About 100 People Arrested In Front Of White House While Protesting ... Posted by Zsolt Fazakas The rally, dubbed "Appalachia Rising," was organized by protesters from West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. In mountaintop removal mining, forests are clear-cut, explosives blast apart the rock, and machines scoop out [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachians Demand An End To MTR In Washington D.C. Today ... Send by Nancy Reinhart Teri at App Rising. Appalachians marched on the streets of Washington D.C. today, chanting and rallying to demand an end to mountaintop removal coal mining and the creation of a sustainable future for the region. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Solidarity At The Department Of The Interior ? 1000 Calls For ... Send by Caroline Henderson Carrying a banner reading, ?Appalachia is Rising, End Mountaintop Removal?, the 13 activists staged a sit-in in the building lobby and are currently refusing to leave until their demands are met. Youth stage a sit-in at Department of [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising -building Community/labor Alliances Posted by Zsolt Fazakas ?These are clips from 2 documentary films about the fight against strip mining in Appalachian Kentucky from the mid-60?s to the present ? On Our Own Land and To Save the Land and People. Clips Include archival and generally unavailable material of great leaders of the anti-stripmine movement like Un [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 E T E R N I T Y: Appalachia Is Rising Against Mountaintop Removal ... Send by Eternity My grandpap Miller was killed in an Appalachian coal mine - and I am rising -- along with Appalachia Rising, a group in Washington, DC today to protest the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining. [...] Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Protesters Gather In Washington To Rally Against Mountaintop Removal Send by www.wkyt.com Protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. Monday to call on the President to end mountaintop removal coal mining - a process environmentalists say is especially harmful to the environment. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Appalachia Rising! [VIDEOS] - OK4me2 Send by Kent Appalachia Rising!, a national response to the unmitigated destruction of Appalachia's mountains, air and water through mountaintop removal coal mining started today in Washington, D.C.. Individuals from around the country, [...] Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 Killing Mother: Appalachia Is Rising Against Mountaintop Removal ... Send by k mcnary wood Appalachia is Rising Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining | CommonDreams.org. Brave Appalachian people are finally finding a voice against the sociopathic industry that has ruined public health, devastated some of the most biodiverse [...] Rating: No stars. Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

September 28, 2010 AUDIO: Senate Candidate Johnson Joins Hundreds To Protest MTR In DC Send by Steven Allen Adams Listen as Jesse Johnson, the founder of the Mountain Party and candidate for U.S. Senate, describes events at Appalachia Rising, a protest event in Washington D.C. to protest the act of mountaintop removal mining. [...] Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Rate up / Rate down Report to moderator

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