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RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS October 17, 2008: Dominion 11's trial in Wise County, Virginia
posted September 29, 2008
On September 15, 11 people were arrested for blockading the entrance to a coal plant Dominion Power is trying to build in Wise County Virginia.
Please come support us at our trial on October 17 at 9:30 a.m. in at the Wise County Courthouse in Wise, Virginia, the seat of Wise County in Southwest Virginia.
September 15, 2008: Lockdown at Dominion construction site
posted September 23, 2008
 Protesters from across the country join Wise County VA residents to oppose power plant's impact on environment and health, and to demand a clean energy future.
Ten activists locked
down
to steel
barrels
and other devices to blockade two gates at the site.
September 12-14, 2008: Weekend in Wise, Wise County, VA
posted September 10, 2008
Join us for a Weekend in Wise County, in the incredible mountains of Appalachia.
The weekend will include tours of Mountaintop Removal sites, service projects,
local music, hiking and canoeing trips, as well as trainings on how to bring
the fight for a clean energy future back to your own home town. Meet the
folks leading the charge against the greed of coal and energy companies by
standing up for a brighter future. See the beauty of the land we are all
fighting to protect, and see the devastation that threatens the future of
Appalachia.
More recent events...
 “Voices
for Appalachia”
Written and Narrated by Hundreds
An Appalachia Portrait-Story Project
Artist Francesco di Santis joined us
at our 2008 Mountain Justice training camp in Kentucky to continue work
on his latest project “Voices for Appalachia”. Francesco is
working with other regional organizations throughout Appalachia and the
project has
traveled to Mountain Justice Spring Break, the mountains of eastern Tennnessee,
the Appalachian Studies Association conference and the Heartwood Forest
Council.
 There
is a manmade ecological disaster of geologic proportions occurring
in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians; its
called mountain range -- or Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining.
It is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage -- the
destruction of watersheds -- and the annihilation of one of
the most diverse places on earth.
Mission Statement
Mountain Justice seeks to add to the growing
anti-MTR citizens movement. Specifically Mountain Justice
demands an abolition of MTR, steep slope strip mining and
all other forms of surface
mining for coal. We want to protect the cultural and natural
heritage of the Appalachia coal fields. We want to contribute
with grassroots organizing, public education, nonviolent
civil
disobedience and other forms of citizen action.
Historically coal companies have engaged in violence and
property destruction when faced with citizen opposition to
their activities. Mountain Justice is committed to nonviolence
and will
not be engaged in property destruction.
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