Protest in Pettus, WV Highlights Dangers of Mountaintop Removal and Sludge Dams
May 25th, 2009 by admin
For updates or to donate to the legal fund see www.mountainjustice.org
Seventeen courageous Mountain Justice volunteers were arrested Saturday, May 23 in a three-part civil disobedience action in our continuing movement to end mountaintop removal. Six are still in jail with bogus, unprecedented, $2,000 cash-only bail amounts, slowing their release. Many of them were arrested for the first time with clean records, and all they did was cross a line onto coal company property. We are raising $18,000 to get them out of jail as we move closer to defeating King Coal. Fundraising has bailed out three others since this morning. Thank you all!
From Climate Ground Zero:
Please read the excellent article here by Jeff Biggers.
