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Ken Ward Jr. at Coal Tattoo has details on the Appalachia Rising group meeting in Charleston to discuss their September trip to Washington, D.C., to drive home their message:
Appalachia Rising declares that we are not a national sacrifice zone. We will not stand idly by as we see our past and future blasted to rubble, our communities and mountains eliminated, and our neighbors poisoned as coal executives and their shareholders grow rich. Appalachians are not, and never will be, collateral damage. We are proud of our coal mining fathers, hard-working neighbors, and Appalachian past, present and future
An environmental disaster like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is ongoing in West Virginia, but it is supported by businesses and the government. We have to let them know our mountains are not going to come back when they're destroyed.
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