FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    11/21/09
Contact: Zoe Beavers 304-854-7372
Email: news@climategroundzero.org

PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dolen, joined them in direct support, holding a banner with the message “Save Coal River Mountain”.

Cross-posted from theupake.org - watch the video here:

http://the-uptake.groups.theuptake.org/en/videogalleryView/id/2519/

Video by Craig Stellmacher 

2009 Northland Bioneers Conference: Solutions frame environmental challenges

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Between August of 1998 and December of 1999, activists occupied neighborhood homes scheduled for demolition and parkland that was to be destroyed by highway construction. They lived in tepees, makeshift huts, tents and trees over two very cold Minnesota winters. They gathered petitions, shot "witness videos", attended hundreds of public hearings, educated the community, sat in trees they were trying to save, and participated in numerous acts of civil disobedience.

The Skills Tour, starring the new Earth Activist Training Permaculture Demonstration Bus (Permibus II), returns this weekend to Minneapolis, one year after a multi-agency task force, lead by the Minneapolis Police, impounded the bus, without cause, just prior to the RNC. Despite apprehension about the decision to return to the Twin Cities the Permibus Family decided not to be intimidated by police repression.