Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement
Here’s a video of yesterday’s action in Twilight, WV that shut down a 20 story dragline.
Watch the video here
14 were arrested after entering onto a minesite. Seven stopped the machine from operating, 2 documented the event and 4 scaled the machine to hang a banner that said “Stop Mountaintop Removal”
Scott Parkin is a Senior Campaigner with Rainforest Action Network and organizes with Rising Tide North America. He has worked on a variety of campaigns around climate change, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, mountaintop removal, labor issues and anti-corporate globalization. Originally from Texas, he now lives in San Francisco.
Great protest and great story telling video. We need more protests like this to raise the cost of coal a little closer to its true cost, so that renewables will become competitive. Thanks to the heros that made this protest and the video.