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The 3rd Annual Wellness & Water Conference focused on the threats to our water from chemical manufacturing & storage, mountaintop removal coal mining, and Marcellus Shale drilling, and explored measures we can take to safeguard our wellness and water with panels featuring scientists and affected residents, informational tables, open-space discussions and our featured speakers — Dr. Rahul Gupta and two Goldman Environmental Prize winners, Helen Slottje and Maria Gunnoe.

Speaking at anti MTR giant Larry Gibson's Memorial; photo journalist Paul Corbit Brown explains part of why social movements frequently fail.
http://www.paulcorbitbrown.com

Friends and family of Larry Gibson, the "Keeper of the Mountains," celebrated his life and legacy on Sunday, October 14 from 2 to 6 p.m. in Charleston, WV

The event was broadcast LIVE on http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom

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Speaker:  Victoria Gibson
Speaker:  Danny Chiotos
Speaker:  Chuck Nelson
Speaker:  Amber Whitington
Song:  "Stop Tearing the Mountains Down" Jane Branham
Reading: Sage Russo

Friends and family of Larry Gibson, the "Keeper of the Mountains," celebrated his life and legacy on Sunday, October 14 from 2 to 6 p.m. in Charleston, WV

The event was broadcast LIVE on http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/NewsRoom/MBN-LIVE

http://mountainkeeper.blogspot.com

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Song:  "There's a Balm in Giliad" & "Keeper of the Mountians" by Elaine Purkey
Invocation: Rose Edington

RAMPS pulled off the largest MTR direct action to date against the largest mountain top removal site in WV on Saturday.  The Hobet Surface Mine was shut down for about 3 hours through a series of coordinated diversions, lock downs, tree-sits and banner drops.   It has bee reported that this was the only mine in WV without beefed up security in anticipation of the publicly announced action.  It seems that they felt too big & scary to imagine that Tree Huggers would have the balls to walk onto their site.  The Police arrested about 25 people including atleast 3 cr

Today, hundreds of us will march onto a strip mine in West Virginia and shut it down.  Concerned community members and activists are preparing to take nonviolent direct action to do what the politicians, the regulators and the courts have been unwilling to do: to defend the land and the people; to stop strip mining.

http://RampsCampaign.org

If you would like to support the RAMPS Campaign, please consider donating at
http://bit.ly/mm-donate

Mo'Fo' @ http://stopthekaboom.alterjournal.org
Stop the KaBoom is an annual music fest to benefit organizations fighting Fracking and Mountain Top Removal.  This year 7/20-22 I VJed.
http://www.frackban.org
http://rampscampaign.org
Jen Osha http://auroralights.org

The Reel World String Band performed at the Whippoorwill festival on July 13th.
http://www.whippoorwillfest.com
http://www.reelworldstringband.com/

The West Virginia cultural museum hosted a panel on the importance of Blair Mountain to Union and Coal aficionados yesterday.  During the "official" panel there was hardly a mention of the current efforts of out of state coal mining companies to destroy this piece of history and the psychological & economic impact it could have as a tourist attraction. 

The last day of our 6 day march finds 1000 people marching up 1900 ft to the summit of Blair Mountain.

mo'fo'  http://www.friendsofblairmountain.org

A few days ago someone blocked the public access road to the Blair Mountain Battle Field with boulders that were clearly brought from a mine site.  This would prevent the march from using this state road turnout off the highway as a pick up and drop off spot for Marchers who intended to walk up the Public Road to the historic site.   A small group of marchers took the initiative to move those boulders with their bare hands.   They opened up the road while jeering miners, private security and state police looked on.  The action had been cleared by the Dept of Tr

The March on Blair Mountain has lunch at an camp spot of the original 1921 march and enters Logan County.

Marchers tell personal accounts of the impact o their lives from Mountain Top Removal and the battle to save their own personal histories and the sustainability of the land.   Spirits are high as the march passes through Madison WV.
http://marchonblairmountain.org

A little bit of Union History, morals & ethics in regard to the Blair Mountain Historic Battle Field; the site of the largest Armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.  10,000 union miners engaged in armed conflict with coal company thugs and the US Military over the Unionization of the coal mines in 1921.