On January 31st local residents and activists associated with Mountain Justice and Rising Tide North America showed up to confront coal kingpins at their exclusive annual gathering at the public entrance to the Ritz-Carlton Resort in Key Biscayne, Florida only to find out that they could not demonstrate because they didn’t have a permit. After some hassle a permit was granted so long as the grassroots dissent was kept to a reasonable volume and confined within the designated area under the watchful eye of a unit of militarized law enforcement officers. Ethan, a nomadic Rising Tide and Mountain Justice activist has spent the past several weeks in the region organizing this demonstration and connecting with the local group ‘Save It Now Glade’ (SING) working to fight Florida Power and Light’s proposed 1,960 mw coal plant in their Glade County community. He is now travelling to join the Southern Energy Network for our 4th annual Southeast Student Rewnewable Energy Conference to share his experiences and connect students running the Campus Climate Challenge to Rising Tide North America and the local communities they are working to support.
more info can be found at www.risingtidenorthamerica.org and www.mountainjusticesummer.org.
