Tag Archives: mountain top removal

Divestment Days and the “War on Coal”

Posted on February 9, 2015 by

Next weekend, February 13 and 14, hundreds of cities around the world will witness actions as part of Global Divestment Days, calling for an end to fossil fuel addiction and a transition to a clean-energy future. The Fossil Free coalition … Continue reading →

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Climate Change as a Class Issue

Posted on November 18, 2013 by

On a Monday morning a month ago I was sitting on the marble floor of the Squirrel Hill branch of PNC Bank in Pittsburgh, with a circle of activists protesting PNC’s financing of mountain-top removal (MTR) coal mining across Appalachia.  … Continue reading →

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Mountains or Jobs: A False Question

Posted on August 2, 2011 by

In June, I was lucky enough to be among some 250 protestors who walked for five days from Marmet, West Virginia, fifty miles south to Blair Mountain.  We traced the path coal miners had taken in 1921, which culminated in … Continue reading →

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