Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All

by Shapiro, Tricia

• ISBN13: 9781849350235
• ISBN10: 184935023X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-02
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment-all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. Since the Mountain Justice campaign began in 2005, dozens of local coalfield residents, students. Earth Firsters, and others have been arrested in nonviolent protest actions against MTR. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Tricia Shapiro has been closely following and writing about efforts to end large-scale strip mining for coal in Appalachia since 2004. She lives on a remote mountain homestead in western North Carolina, near the Tennessee border.

Table of Contents

Flyover	p. 1
Mountain People	p. 7
A New Movement	p. 69
West Virginia	p. 159
Tennessee	p. 223
Beyond Mountain Justice Summer	p. 281
Climate Ground Zero	p. 303
Acknowledgments	p. 359
Glossary of Acronyms	p. 361
Index	p. 363
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