Victory at Blair Mountain

Topics: Coal

As a former community college history teacher that taught a lot of radical labor and anti-authoritarian history (never used those buzzwords though), I love that one of the two mountains saved by Lisa Jackson’s announcement last week was Blair Mountain.

Check out Jeff Biggers’ latest blog post about how rednecks and greens won the 21st century “Battle of Blair Mountain.”

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Now we just need to stop the remainder of mountains slated to be destroyed by mountaintop removal.

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Posted on 30 March 2009

Tags: coal

About the Author

Scott Parkin currently works as Rainforest Action Network's Senior Campaigner on the Global Finance Campaign targeting mountaintop removal, the government agencies which allow it and the banks that fund it. Scott has worked in anti-corporate globalization, anti-war, labor and environmental movements for over a decade. Originally from Texas, Scott lives in San Francisco. Scott can be found on Twitter: @sparki1969

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