CGZ to Meet Marfork Coal Co. in Federal Court
At 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning (Feb. 23), four of the seven protesters arrested during the recent tree-sit on Coal River Mountain will be defending themselves in a Federal preliminary injunction...
View ArticleMcGuinness Appeals, Attesting His Innocence
After speaking with my lawyer today, it seems that I am free, for up to 30 days, pending an appeal for a retrial. So I do not have to turn myself in to the Southwestern Regional Jail tomorrow. We will...
View ArticleMassey uses SLAPP suits to silence mountaintop removal critics
Rock Creek, W. Va. — Massey Energy has filed a politically motivated civil suit, also known as a Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation (SLAPP) suit, against fourteen activists arrested last...
View ArticleCGZ Activists head to W.Va. Supreme Court
Roger Forman, representing Climate Ground Zero activists from five actions in the first half of 2009, will present his argument to the West Virginia Supreme Court as to why that court should hear our...
View ArticleMassey subsidiary president committed fraud in Federal Court, activists allege
MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 1, 2010 Massey subsidiary president committed fraud in Federal Court, activists say Notes: Court documents available as a zip archive (3.3 MB) BECKLEY, W.Va.—Marfork Mining Co....
View ArticleReverend Billy Performs Canonization Ceremony
When the Saints Go Marching In By Mike Roselle June 9, 2011 Part old time tent revival, part Broadway musical, laced with humor and above all infused with activism, the Church of Earthalujah puts on a...
View ArticleWitnessing the Subversion of Democracy in West Virginia
Rahall tells constituents that 90% of the work he does is “symbolic” Subversion of Democracy – Images by antrim caskey As a resident of the Coal River Valley in Raleigh County, West Virginia, I sat in...
View ArticleAP: EPA halts hundreds of mountaintop mining permits
EPA Halts Hundreds of Mountaintop Mining Permits read more on Coal Tattoo
View ArticleAP: WVa Hearing Postponed for Massey Protesters
WVa hearing postponed for Massey protesters By the Associated Press March 24, 2009 BECKLEY, W.Va. – Environmental activists who chained themselves to heavy equipment on Massey Energy property have...
View ArticleSlideshow: Final Four Released
Beckley, WV — The final four of seventeen people who were arrested this Memorial Day weekend after three separate acts of non violent civil disobedience on Massey Energy and Patriot Coal mine sites in...
View ArticleCGZ Activist Sentenced to Maximum Fines in Jury Trial
MADISON, W. Va. – October 15, 2009 – In the second jury trial of the Climate Ground Zero campaign, Mat Louis-Rosenberg appeared before Boone County Magistrate Byrneside to plead a necessity defense on...
View Article8 arrested on Kanawha Co. strip job, $16,000 cash-only bail
Dear friends- This morning, just before dawn, four individuals chained themselves across a haul road on a strip mining site in Kanawha County, West Virginia to protest mountaintop removal mining. Four...
View ArticleFOUR CLIMATE GROUND ZERO ACTIVISTS REMAIN JAILED ON TRUMPED UP CHARGES
CLIMATE GROUND ZERO P.O. BOX 166 ROCK CREEK, WEST VIRGINIA 25174 (304) 854 7372 climategroundzero.net PRESS RELEASE Wednesday, December 30, 2009 FOUR CLIMATE GROUND ZERO ACTIVISTS REMAIN JAILED ON...
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