14 Activists Arrested in Peaceful Protest to Stop Mountaintop Removal scaled 20-story tall machinery to call attention to nation’s worst form of coal mining in first ever ascent of a mountaintop removal site’s dragline.

Journalists Kurt Mann and Paul Corbit Brown were arrested while reporting on the latest non violent protest in southern West Virginia. The journalists’ equipment has been confiscated because,” it is evidence in a crime,” according to Boone County sheriffs.

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