This site has been shutdown and rebuilt a few times over the years. Many of the earliest posts have yet to be retrieved and republished. If you are trying to navigate the early years in the archives be sure to click the "tags" on posts to deliver all the materials that were published on the topic because some of them may have been reAdded to the site years later.
Sorry for the mess. Our lives are under construction, the best we can expect is a few Detour Signs along the way. ;~)
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/
Appalatin a Latin / Appalachian hybrid band played the Whippoorwill Festival July 13th.
http://www.appalatin.com
http://www.whippoorwillfest.com
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
