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I Refuse to Be Silent: Statement from Joe Solomon
Today a friend and I interrupted a coal conference – one where industry funded scientists are trying to cast doubt on the clear evidence of the ravages of coal. These scientists are worse than a disgrace: their lies and willful misdirection condone the war the coal industry is waging on West Virginia and the people [...]
Protesters Disrupt Coal Industry-Funded “Science” Symposium
UPDATE 4/16 10:45 p.m. David Baghdadi had a bail reduction hearing today and was released on his own recognizance. He is out of jail and among friends. Thanks for all your support and to David for standing up to the legal system! UPDATE: Joe and David were charged in Charleston Municipal Court with trespassing, obstruction, and [...]
RAMPS Joins Ohio Residents to Shut Down Fracking Waste Storage Facility
New Matamoras OH – Ohio residents and allies from numerous environmental groups including Earth First! have disrupted operations at Greenhunter Water’s hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” waste storage site along the Ohio River in Washington County. Nate Ebert, a 33-year-old Athens County resident and member of Appalachia Resist!, ascended a 30 foot pole anchored to a [...]
Disturbing Greg Boyce’s Peace: StopPeabody Activists Kidnapped by Hotel Security
Two activists were arrested for distributing this flier near the apartment of Peabody Energy CEO Greg Boyce on Tuesday inside the Chase Park Plaza hotel and apartment complex. The activists were charged with disturbing the peace and released after eight hours in custody. Earlier that morning, a small group known as the “Chase Park Plaza [...]
Citizens Bring the Fight to Peabody; 12 Arrested
An unprecedented coalition of Navajo (Dineh) residents of Black Mesa, AZ, Appalachian residents, St. Louis residents, military veterans and labor unions brought the fight for our future to Peabody’s HQ today. Nearly 100 of us had a raucous rally opened with a prayer by Black Mesa native Don Yellowman, followed by speeches demanding Peabody stop [...]
Resistance makes the powers that be quake: Statement from a Protester at Peabody
I am in St. Louis today for many reasons. To stand in solidarity with the native people of Black Mesa and the Navajo nation, as they demand to have their grievances heard. To raise awareness with Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment against Peabody Coal for taking taxpayers’ money just for threatening to leave town, [...]
We are rising up together. Join us.: Statement from Protesters at Peabody
As a St. Louisan, I recognize the opportunity and obligation that I have to challenge Peabody Coal at its headquarters, right here in the city I love. From their offices in St. Louis, Greg Boyce and the other executives at Peabody Coal give orders to poison and displace our brothers and sisters in the coalfields, [...]
Standing on the sidelines will not ensure our safety: Statement from Protester at Peabody
I came to Saint Louis for graduate school, hoping to do research that would bring about technological solutions to climate change. Underlying this standard graduate student naivete was the far more ubiquitous and far, far more dangerous overreliance on and faith in technology. In the context of our world, where global industrial Capitalism reigns supreme [...]
Navajo, Appalachians, Veterans, and St. Louis Residents Confront Peabody Coal
ST. LOUIS, MO — About one hundreds of protesters are gathered in downtown St. Louis today outside of the Peabody Coal corporate headquarters. St. Louis locals were joined by Navajo residents from Black Mesa, Ariz., Appalachians from coal-burdened West Virginia, and supporters from across the United States to demand the cessation of strip mining and [...]
Letter from Black Mesa Residents to Peabody Execs
Dear Mr. Greg H. Boyce and other Peabody Officials, We have travelled from the Navajo Nation located in what is now the State of Arizona. We are in St. Louis on behalf of some of the elders from Black Mesa/Big Mountain who are impacted by the coal mining back home. This letter is to request [...]