~ download This is the Iraq War Peace Please Protest in Washington, DC.  I would say that I could easily exchange footage from any of the other 7 years protest and pretend to have been here except that most of the other 7 were larger.  There is an incident in this video that clearly demonstrates why this type of "resistance" will never accomplish anything.  See if you can find it. wanna buy me a beer?

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James "Guin" McGuinness discuses the realty of Jail Time for Non Violent Civil Disobedience actions to bring attention to the environmental cost of Mountain Top Removal.  ~ download http://ClimateGroundZero.org http://seedsofpeace.org/ wanna buy me a beer?

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If this opportunity escapes us, it will never present itself again. Twilight will be gone. The people there will be permanently displaced and the community will be boarded up and dozed down for its coal. Please help us stop the depopulation of Twilight. WE are the only chance that this town and its people have to exist in the future. Please help! Don't let Twilight be the next Lindytown.   http://MTRstopshere.com . wanna buy me a beer?

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Sometimes Getting There IS the Battle               this comes to us by way of the TCIMC Reminding us of its nationalist/fascist roots, as the carefully stage-managed 2010 Olympics gets underway in Vancouver, around a billion dollars have been expended on security theater measures. While Canadian authorities want to encourage people to attend the Olympics, Canadian border and customs officials (Canadian Border Services Agencies) have teamed up to suppress the movement of Indymedia and other independent media reporters into Canada. The deeply corrupt US Department of Homeland Security has also been hassling indy reporters denied entry overland into Canada. Indy journalists John Weston Osburn (Interview), Dawn Zuppelli and Ted Forsyth from Rochester NY IMC, and Martin Macias Jr. have all been harassed. Osburn was refused entry into Canada and abused by DHS; Macias was deported, then treated abusively by the DHS lunatics controlling entry on the Canadian border. There has been plenty of fodder for independent journalists to cover, as US & Canadian authorities gear up yet another 'live exercise' style mega-security psychological operation, featuring 'Medium' Range Acoustic Device sound cannon (MRAD, similar to the G20 LRAD), and the usual inept police attempts at false-flag provocateur and infiltration operations. More: Live portal: 2010.mediacoop.ca | No2010.com | Vancouver Media Co-op | Submedia.TV | Committee to Protect Bloggers | Student Activism and the Olympics | OlympicResistance.net: About | Crossing the Border into Canada | Schedule | Censorship Gallery - 2010 Legal Observer Program | CJFE Olympic Watch. The Vancouver Integrated Security Unit has been the highest-profile police unit hassling people, and apparently has refused to publicly rule out deploying agent provocateurs. Dec. 3: ORN Responds to Police Allegations of Undercover Cop | Vancouver Sun: Jamie Graham disclosed Olympic undercover operation. Anti-Olympic organizers point out the International Olympic Committee is a corrupt globalist institution parallel with the WTO, IMF and other organizations that funnel public money into private hands. Police repression, budget-busting graft, and gentrification/displacement are the three major features of the Olympics wherever they go, as noted by sports writer Dave Zirin (EdgeofSports.com) interviewed on Submedia.tv. After hundreds of millions of dollars in cost overruns leading to massive austerity measures including teacher layoffs in Vancouver, a poll estimated forty percent of BC residents support anti-Olympic protests. (Zirin in SI: People dreading Games) CBSA policy: MANAGING ACCESS TO CANADA: "Security: They have engaged in, or there are reasonable grounds to believe they will engage in, spying, subversion or terrorism, or they belong to organizations that have engaged in, or will engage in, these activities." Subversion probably equals "bad PR" in their minds. False Flag crib notes! Internet conspiracy researchers have noted various features of possible staged terrorist attacks that might be tried to justify the security spending: Could Vancouver 2010 be the next 9/11? (UPDATED 2-7-10) « Dprogram.net. Amusing factors include missing Canadian security uniforms, a missing two tons of ammonium nitrate involving Dyno Nobel, run by the father of CIA operative Michael Riconosciuto; Canexus shipping dangerous chlorine chemicals by rail; Iran & that recent 'Bin Laden' warning; the Canadian Parliament is 'prorogued' or suspended, possibly allowing emergency measures by fiat (NORAD says the PM can shoot down hijacked planes); a North American military integration or "Civil Assistance Plan"; the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has shut down; 2400 cancelled surgeries in BC-area hospitals; the dubious Israeli security firm ICTS/Verint, frequently involved with 'weird' terror incidents, has installed cameras in the Vancouver airport and elsewhere. Verint also provides the Internet "sniffer boxes" that illegally funnel Internet data via AT&T exchanges into the National Security Agency; sources have cited Verint tech as a backdoor for Israelis into the US telecom infrastructure; Peter Power, involved with the London 7/7 drills, is now @ the Canadian Center for Emergency Preparedness. (Tons more links here) The 2010 Olympics are also a "Joint Maritime Border Operation" of the U.S. and Canada and anti-journalist measures could be carried out under this rubric. Olympic Security/Zoning maps: http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/bylaws/2010/SCHEDC.pdf Free speech zones & homeless displacement: CBC News - British Columbia - 2010 Olympic security plans include 'free speech areas' ****** Feb 6: Committee to Protect Bloggers » Independent media reporter rejected at U.S./Canada border Martin Macias Jr., an independent media reporter from Chicago travelling to cover the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC, has been rejected by Canadian border agents and held without outside contact for at least 7 hours (as of 9pm) today. Macias arrived in Vancouver from Chicago (via Minneapolis) on a 11:30am Delta Airlines flight on Saturday, February 6, 2010. He was detained for hours by Canada Border Services agents in the Vancouver International Airport and questioned about his plans during the Olympics. Ultimately he was refused entry to Canada. He was then put on an Alaskan Airlines flight to the Seattle / Tacoma Airport (departing at 2:40pm). As of 9pm he had not been able to contact legal counsel or his travelling companion since before his rejection at the border. The information on his rejection was only made available through the US Consulate. It is routine for people rejected at the border to be interrogated by both Canadian and US border agents; he may well still be detained for questioning in the USA at this point. Although he is entitled to a phone call and legal counsel, nothing has been heard from Macias since about 2pm when he still expected to be able to enter Canada as planned. Martin was travelling to Vancouver for political events during the Olympic Resistance Network anti-Olympic convergence and to document the effects of the Winter Olympics on the communities of Vancouver. He was to leave Vancouver for the USA on Feb. 11. He was travelling with political organizer Bob Quellos of No Games Chicago, who was allowed to enter Canada. They were both to be picked up by Chris Shaw, a member of the Olympic Resistance Network, local Olympic critic, and author of ?The Five Ring Circus? who himself has been questioned and detained when travelling to a sports conference in the UK and repeatedly approached by members of the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit (Olympic policing body) regarding his political activities. Canadian border agents, police, and intelligence units have been actively surveilling, questioning and harassing opponents of the Olympic Games (and their associates and families) for years. Media, such as Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, have been subject to questioning and increased scrutiny as well. Macias (20 years old) was a leading member of No Games Chicago ? which successfully opposed Chicago?s bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is a youth organizer for the Chicago Environmental Justice Coalition, and Comite 10 de marzo, an immigrant rights organization. He is also a media reform activist with community radio station Radio Arte where he serves as the host/producer of First Voice, a radio news zine. He has covered the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Power Shift 2009 in Washington D.C., and local social justice issues in his community. He currently chairs the Peace Committee at the National Museum of Mexican Art. Macias can normally be reached through reclaimtheearth@gmail.com. Independent media, activists and opponents of the Olympics are gathering in Vancouver for the Feb. 10-15 anti-Olympic convergence organized by the Olympic Resistance Network. It begins with a two-day conference (Feb. 10-11) and a mass protest and march on the day of the opening ceremonies (?Take Back Our City,? 3pm Friday, Feb. 12 beginning at the Vancouver Art Gallery) organized by the 2010 Welcoming Committee, and continues with three days of political events and demonstrations. Visitors have been subject to interrogations, detention, and rejection at the Canadian border repeatedly and members of the Olympic Resistance Network have been interrogated at the US border and denied entry to the USA for speaking tours. Media Contacts: Bob Quellos: 773-531-2341. Chris Shaw: 604-710-8291 Update, 8 February 2010 ?No Games Organizer, Martin Macias, Deported From Canada? by Tom Tresser, Huffington Post Martin Macias, Jr., a credentialed freelance journalist who contributes to Vocalo.org, the online and new media outlet for Chicago Public Radio, was turned back from the Canadian border late Saturday night. Martin was a lead organizer for No Games Chicago, the all-volunteer citizens group that opposed the Chicago bid for the 2016 Olympics. Martin was part of the No Games delegations that went to the International Olympic Committee?s international headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland and then to Copenhagen, Denmark to deliver materials documenting the reasons why Chicago should not have been awarded the games. Martin was an invited guest a conference critical of the 2010 Vancouver games and the Olympic industry. ?I was in the passport line in Vancouver,? said Martin, ?and I told them I was a radio journalist and a student a Malcolm X College. The agent put a big circle and x on my ticket. I was pulled out the line and questioned aggressively for two hours. They wanted to know what I was going to do in Vancouver, who i was meeting with, who organized the conference and what they looked like. They took all my contact information and business cards of journalists and other people I was to connect with while in Vancouver.? Martin also said that he asked for a lawyer and was denied access to one. He demanded to know what his rights were. ?You don?t have any, they told me.? This image is from in front of the IOC Museum, June 2009, when No Games Chicago delivered it?s ?Book of Evidence? to the IOC and international press. After the questioning, the authorities put him on a plane to Seattle, where he is on his own. He is staying at a hotel using his pocket money for now until he can find another place to stay. His return ticket is still valid and Martin plans to stay in Seattle for the moment until he can figure out what to do next. Messages can be sent to Martin via his Facebook profile or email him at nino.azteco89 at gmail dot com. I had the pleasure and privilege of working with Martin on the No Games campaign and can say that Chicago is lucky to have such a young person so talented, knowledgeable and passionate about social justice issues. We always said that cities that host the Olympic games surrender their sovereignty to the IOC and must subordinate their laws to the whim and rule of a Swiss corporation. Now, it seems that this applies to entire nations. And while I am no legal scholar, Martin?s treatment seems to violate several clauses of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What happened to Martin could happen to you if you run afoul of the large corporations that now dominate international affairs. If you dare to criticize Big Policy that is closely aligned with Big Business, you also might find yourself on a watch list and thrown into a detention room and grilled by security forces with no recourse to legal counsel and then flown against your will to a destination not of your choosing. If you care to express your opinion about this treatment to a law-abiding U.S. citizen, you may want to contact the Canadian Consulate General at Chicago Two Prudential Plaza, 180 North Stetson Avenue, Suite 2400. Chicago, IL 60601. Tel: 1 (312) 616-1860 . ****** Committee to Protect Bloggers » U.S. independent journalist refused entry to Canada; questioned by U.S. Homeland Security Osburn filming at the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh, 2009. Photo: Lauren McChesney. U.S. journalist John Weston Osburn was detained by homeland security on his way back in to the States after being twice denied by Canadian Border Officials on his way into Canada to cover protests at the 2010 Olympics. While in the area between border posts, Osburn was told that he was in a ?no mans land,? and was denied the right to speak with a lawyer. ?I repeatedly told the officers that my rights were being violated and that I wished to be released. I felt humiliated, powerless and have rarely felt so unprotected,? said Osburn. ?The supervising officer made reference to making sure i had no weapons of mass destruction and that I wasn?t a terrorist, when it was obvious i have nothing to do with those things. This was all after i was thoroughly questioned and searched on the Canadian side which was two hundred yards away at most,? he said. Osburn travelled 2000 miles to Vancouver from Salt Lake City, Utah, with the aim of documenting protests to the 2010 Olympics. He has worked with Indymedia and the Glass Bead Collective in the US. Related Links Independent/crowd-sourced Olympics protest coverage can be followed at http://2010.mediacoop.ca/ Interview with Wes by Vancouver Media Cooperative VMC: Another independent journalist was turned away at the US-Canada border Tuesday on his way to Vancouver to cover protests at the 2010 Olympic Games. John Weston Osburn, a long time indymedia activist, drove 2,000 miles from Salt Lake City to cover Games with the Vancouver Media Cooperative. He was interrogated and denied entry into Canada, making him the second US journalist to be denied entry in the last four days. After he was turned around, he went back to the US and tried to re-enter Canada, this time at the truck crossing, where he was again denied entry due to past convictions for misdemeanors. This time, he flipped on his video camera to record the experience. Stopped by homeland security, Osburn was again interrogated about the Olympic protests. When he told homeland security that he wanted to speak to a lawyer, OSBURN: They told me I didn?t have that right, and I wasn?t in US or in Canada, I was in no mans land, as the officer described it. I asked again for my lawyer and he replied that he ?owned me,? he said ?I own you,? I was told to spread my legs and I was searched, then the put me in a holding cell, I was in the holding cell for about two hours, at one point I asked to use the bathroom, which they later allowed me to do but only, uh, they did so watching me. VMC: In a disturbing pattern of recent interrogations of journalists coming to Vancouver, border guards seized Osburn?s computer and notebooks. OSBURN: Basically they ransacked my truck, they went through and they took my journals, my sketchbooks, my computer, my digital camera, they thumbed through that, I?m assuming they made copies but that I don?t want to speculate on that, but they did definitely go through it. Then I was fingerprinted and I was photographed, when I asked if I had a choice of being fingerprinted and photographed I was told no, my tape of filming being turned away, they erased the tape. VMC: Osburn says he was prepared to have to deal with some issues at the border, but he was surprised by his experience. OSBURN: I was kind of expecting, I was expecting to get kind of shook down, but I wasn?s expecting the type of just, the animosity and just the humiliation. Even though it was only two hours, it was a really unsettling experience, because they made me well aware that I had no rights, they made me well aware that I had no rights and there was no one there to protect me. VMC: Though Osburn is the first to be interrogated by US homeland security, his experience shadows that of other independent journalists trying to enter Canada on the eve of the 2010 Olympics. Democracy Now! Host Amy Goodman was interrogated about the games in November. Last Saturday, US journalist Martin Macias Jr was turned away at the border. At least two other independent journalists were subjected to lengthy interrogations at the US-Canada border on their way to Vancouver to cover resistance to the 2010 Games. ******* Committee to Protect Bloggers » Rochester Indymedia journalist Dawn Zuppelli Detained at Canadian Border Rochester Indymedia journalist, Dawn Zuppelli, was interrogated and detained for over an hour by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on her way to cover protests at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC. Upon arriving at customs at the Vancouver International Airport, she and her colleague Ted Forsyth, also with Rochester Indymedia, were asked the obligatory questions as to why they were coming to Vancouver. Zuppelli was tagged for further interrogation and funneled off to a check point area sometime around 12:05AM on February 10. She was released sometime around 1:15AM. She was taken into a separate room with other agents and passengers. The room was outfitted with sterile metal desks, two sided mirrored window rooms, and plenty of customs officers donning bullet proof vests and latex gloves. Zuppelli and Forsyth were traveling on Alaska Airlines flight 701 via Seattle. The pair had been traveling for over 20 hours after a flight cancellation at Chicago?s O?Hare International Airport delayed and re-routed them across the country. The customs officer asked many questions regarding Zuppelli?s journalism work. Zuppelli explained that she was an independent journalist and the host of IndyTV, broadcast on local channel RCTV in Rochester, NY as well as online at IndyTV.Blip.tv and would be covering events around the Olympics. The customs officer asked to see her documents for her work assignments and seemed agitated that she did not have a clear written plan of her filming destinations while in Vancouver. The officer declared that none of her footage was to air on Canadian television and that she was not to earn any money for her work. After a thorough investigation of her bags, the officer took Zuppelli?s business card and entered the mirrored back room and did not return for another 40 minutes. Upon his return with another agent, he declared, ?I know what your planning to do here!? Zuppelli tiredly responded she did not understand what the problem was. The officer replied, ?We did a Google search on you and we know you do this kind of thing. What about the interview of you online talking after being pepper sprayed? You are here to protest and we know that.? Zuppelli assured the officers that she has been covering political protest mobilizations for many years and had no criminal background. The agent?s response was, ?You are allowed to be here but you can not do anything unlawful. We are going to track your movement while in Canada. We will create a special document to add to your passport and if anything was to happen you will be flagged.? Zuppelli was escorted to a room to have her photo taken which was then attached to a visitor record document. She was told that the visitor record document must remain in her passport during her entire stay. The document clearly stated that Zuppelli had to leave Canada by February 25. The document also stated that Zuppelli was ?Prohibited from engaging in employment in Canada; Prohibited from attending any educational institution and taking any academic, professional or vocational training course.? At the bottom of the document, in capital letters, was typed, ?This does not authorize re-entry.? Zuppelli said, ?The strange thing is how defensive they seemed about their own behaviour. One officer told me, ?I know you read the article about the journalist that was turned back. Well he wasn?t honest about the reasons he was coming. You?re allowed to come and protest; this isn?t Russia.?? The journalist that the agent was making reference to was (olympicresistance.net/content/independent-media-reporter-rejected-border-feb-6) Martin Macias Jr., an independent media reporter from Chicago and an anti-Olympic organizer for No Games Chicago, who was detained and deported on February 6. His story, much like that of (vancouver.mediacoop.ca/audio/2660) John Weston Osburn, a long-time Indymedia activist who was also interrogated and denied entry to Canada on February 9, illuminates a disturbing pattern of deportation and denials of entry for independent journalists looking to tell another side of the Olympic story in Vancouver. Upon being released, after a grueling day of travel, Zuppelli expressed gratitude that she was not being deported. The customs officer insisted, ?You know it?s not that easy to get deported.? However our google search shows otherwise. wanna buy me a beer?

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For 9 days 3 tree sitters stopped blasting on a mountain top removal site tha is adjacent to a coal slurry impoundment that is perched over top of a grade school.  It has been proven that if the dam breaks at least a 1,000 WILL die VERY quickly.It has also been proven that the Mountain they are blowing up for coal would be more profitable to the people and the state as a wind farm.  However once Massey energy blows up this mountain the wind potential will be ruined. Two tree sitters remain in jail on $2,500 cash-only bail, each, after stopping a blast on Coal River Mountain for nine days. CLICK HERE TO DONATE More info at http://www.climategroundzero.org. wanna buy me a beer?

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download ~ Author and Hepatitis C survivor Lloyd Wright explains how the FDA is beginning to march down the fascist path of CODEX Alimentarius.  In October 2009 the FDA blocked the import of Lloyd's Natcell Products from Canada and forced him to "destroy" 4 of his websites in order to comply with their wishes... so he could get the products into the country.  He has been importing these products for about 10 years and they are not being made in the US. AlternativeMedicineSolution.com LloydWright.org Thanks to the Internet Archive ... Here's HepatitisCfree.com in the wayback machine From 2008 wanna buy me a beer?

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Needs for urgent medical care mount while obstacles to receiving much-needed supplies continue. Related: Press Release: January 19, 2010Doctors Without Borders Plane with Lifesaving Medical Supplies Diverted Again from Landing in Haiti Voice from the Field: January 19, 2010Haiti: Saving as Many People as We Can MO'FO' @ http://doctorswithoutborders.org wanna buy me a beer?

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Subcomandante Marcos on Neoliberalism and the Media wanna buy me a beer?

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Santa heard from his friends at United Mountain Defense that the National Coal Corporation was blowing up the mountains and highland watersheds of East Tennessee. Santa decided enough was enough and delivered coal and switches to the naughty coal corporation.Santa Kung Fu battle at end of creditshttp://unitedmountaindefense.orgThet have internships! http://www.youtube.com/user/annebonnylives wanna buy me a beer?

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DOWNLOADSan Francisco's A.N.S.W.E.R. to Obama's pledge to Surge more troops into Afghanistan. edited to compliment ~ TomVee's Video ~ wanna buy me a beer?

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DOWNLOAD An intervention during the depoliticized, sanitized commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of Mario Savio?s famous speech. "We will not permit the museumification of Berkeley?s radical past, especially now, as we enter into a new cycle of struggle. The Free Speech Movement is not a way to sell coffee, nor is it a rhetorical sop the administration can use to pacify the existing movement." http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com http://www.youtube.com/user/occupyeverything http://www.savio.org wanna buy me a beer?

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On November 20th, 2009 students occupied Wheeler Hall at the University of California, Berkeley campus. They locked themselves into the second floor of the building and called for an end to the continued fee increases, the re-hiring of laid-off workers, and other demands stemming from the University's ongoing assault on the very nature of a public education. Before long hundreds and then thousands of supporters had gathered outside the building to support the occupiers, forming picket lines and challenging the police at every opportunity. All exits to Wheeler Hall were blockaded by supporters to prevent the occupiers from being arrested, while inside the police hammered the barricaded doors and threatened the students with arrests, beatings, and felonies. However, after twelve hours of occupation it had become clear that the University had to back down. If the UC police had attempted to drag the student activists out of the building a riot surely would have ensued, and the police were forced to allow the occupiers to walk out into the cheering crowd after only being cited with misdemeanors. While their specific demands were not met, students are hailing this as a major victory, the first round in a new movement for free education and in opposition to the government's policies of forced austerity and privatization. wanna buy me a beer?

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DownloadI'm not expressing my personal feelings about this action publicly.Here are the demands made of Governor Manchin today.  I'm happy with the demands.. Rescind mining permits on Coal River Mountain October 19, 2009 Dear Governor Manchin,   As residents of West Virginia?s Coal River Valley we write you to declare a state of emergency.  Coal River Mountain is our last mountain untouched by mountaintop removal and it is in imminent danger of blasting. This would not only threaten our communities, it would also destroy our chance to have permanent jobs and renewable energy through ridge-top wind power. You have the power to rescind these permits.    At any moment, Massey Energy could blast part of the Bee Tree site, on the containing ridge of the Brushy Fork sludge impoundment.  Brushy Fork impoundment, permitted to hold 9.8 billion gallons of toxic sludge, is the tallest dam in the hemisphere, and it sits on top of a network of abandoned underground mines.   We live in fear that the blasting could cause the dam to fail and create one of the greatest industrial disasters in our nation?s history. The emergency evacuation plan for the Brushy Fork sludge dam states that should it fail, a wall of water 50 feet high would hit Whitesville and result in the deaths of at least 998 people.  Given this risk, blasting should not be allowed until your Department of Environmental Protection has conducted a thorough geo-technical examination of the impoundment?s stability in regards to the underground mines.   "Yes, I'm not certain how close the -- I haven't actually been there to determine the how close the blasting is but blasting in the vicinity of a coal waste impoundment can cause problems,  can cause fracturing of rock and create situations where there might be stability problems with the impoundment," former MSHA engineer Jack Spadaro said.     At the same time, we also stand to lose our most valuable natural resources.  Massey Energy not only plans to blast the Bee Tree area, but has also applied for a new surface mine permit, in addition to permits for over 6,000 acres of mountaintop removal mining on the mountain.  If Bee Tree is blasted we lose 16 megawatts of wind potential, and the new permit is approved, we lose 30-40 megawatts of wind power. Between the two permits, we lose wind potential that could power over 10,000 homes.   Governor Manchin, you have the power to rescind these permits and urge your regulatory agencies to protect the people and land of West Virginia.  If you do not prevent mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain, we will lose nearly $2 million annually in county severance taxes, enough renewable wind energy to provide West Virginia with 1.2% of its energy, and jobs that will last forever and do not depend on the boom-bust cycles of coal.   The whole world is watching. Allies, nationally and internationally, are holding up Coal River Mountain as the symbol of a government?s choice to remain stuck in its old ways or build a healthy, prosperous future. Even at the United Nations meeting in Copenhagen in December, the most powerful leaders in the world will watch Google Earth?s flyover tour of Coal River Mountain, as one of approximately 15 tours of global crisis hotspots.  You have the power to show the whole world that West Virginia can blaze the way forward ? choosing permanent jobs and clean energy over threatening the lives of its own residents.   We are including three documents in this letter: 1) the heart of the letter ? a selection of our personal statements, collected during an emergency community meeting, 2) a cross-section of the Brushy Fork sludge impoundment and the old mine workings underneath, and 3) an aerial view of the sludge impoundment with the old mine workings highlighted.  We ask you to review these documents and that you choose not to risk our lives, but to work with us to create a better future.    Sincerely, Chuck Nelson, Glen Daniel, WV Lorelei Scarbro, Rock Creek, WV Diane Hodge, Ameagle, WV Delbert Gunnoe, Rock Creek, WV Judy Gunnoe, Rock Creek, WV BJ Lesher, Naoma, WV Jim Lesher, Naoma, WV Gary Anderson, Colcord, WV Barb Anderson, Colcord, WV Mike Maynor, Dorothy, WV Lessie Maynor, Dorothy, WV Emmett Withrow, Colcord, WVRoger Fraley, Dorothy, WV wanna buy me a beer?

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VIDEO LIST from United Mountain Defense Army Corp of Engineers Nationwide Permit 21 ENJOY!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gdn5qQ9IBs ACOE Protest in support of Banning NWP 21 Knoxville, TN 10-13-09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uSYnkxxoU8 Dan Roling of National Coal Corporation says United Mountain Defense is impacting their business more than a severance tax  10-13-09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zffajQERNcQ  Religious Comments at the ACOE Nationwide Coal Permit 21 hearing Knoxville, TN 10-13-09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9r_JXzsXyU Sample Comments at the ACOE Nationwide Coal Permit 21 hearing Knoxville, TN 10-13-09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGtGjyYzj0Y  Legal/ Lawyer Comments at the ACOE Nationwide Coal Permit 21 hearing Knoxville, TN 10-13-09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvsOXLCgbI Scientific Comments at the ACOE Nationwide Coal Permit 21 hearing Knoxville, TN 10-13-09 Dear folks,   I am sorry to hear of the negative expiriences of folks in Kentucky and West Virginia during the Army Corp Nationwide Permit 21 hearings.  It is truely saddening when you can't go to a public hearing and present comments in a "democratic" society.  The hearing in Knoxville was truely empowering which is probably the first of its kind for myself, we are winning.  I have had a whirlwind of video production since and finally got these six videos up online.    I would request that you send in written/ emailed comments to the Army Corp supporting the ban on Nationwide Permit 21 and make sure to request Alabama be added to the list of states where the ban on Nationwide Permit 21.  In case you didn't know Alabama has more than 100 active coal mines, many of which are surface mines.  email comments to: lrp.webinquiries@usace.army.mil   Matt Landon United Mountain Defense Volunteer staff person :)  www.unitedmountaindefense.org  **PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE TO ALL FACEBOOKS, MYSPACES, LISTSERVS, WEB PAGES--EVERYWHERE** We really, really, really need you to take a minute out of your day to contact the Army Corp of Engineers. We are making undreamed on gains in the fight against strip mining and Mountain Top Removal for coal--and as a result the coal industry is freaking the hell out. We need your help to push this momentum into ending blowing up our ancient majestic mountains for coal. Currently the Army Corp of Engineers is hosting a series regarding a rubber stamp called Nation Wide Permit 21 (aka NWP 21). At its essence its an automatic permit for strip mining. http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/diwms/news.asp?id=130 The Corp wants to change this to do individual permits. How important this is cannot be overstated. The mining industries public relations firms orchestrated shipping busloads of people to the hearings to intimidate and harass anti strip mine activist--shouting them down as they tried to testify, literally crowding some activist up against a wall while chanting requiring a police escort through their masses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtwceseZz4w These corporate financed efforts are reminiscent of the same tactics that were used in the health care shout downs, tea baggers and overt right wing fox sponsored activities. Many of the pro-coal people who testified escalated the anti-Obama anti-democrat tactics to an entire new level at these hearings. And they completely missed the point. They brought a knife to a gun fight. Shouting, threatening and bullying do not get in the administrative record--comments do. We can overwhelm the Army Corp of Engineers with comments and neutralize any advantage the tactics of the pro mountain top removal crowd. The Corp is accepting written comments until the 26th! We have over a week to bury them in comments. Help. We need you to take a minute to comment, email, write the Army Corp of Engineers to tell them you support the revocation of NWP in favor a permit by permit process. No two mountains are the same, no to streams are the same, no two strip mines are the same--the one size fits all practice that is NWP has failed miserably and need to be revoked. Additional points you can make are: 1. Northern Alabama needs to be added to the list. 2. No grandfathering of permits should be allowed. Past permits should be reviewed to make sure they meet the spirit and intent of the Clean Water Act. 3. The Corps has long recognized that ?the purpose of the NWP program is to reduce regulatory delays and burdens on the public, to place greater reliance on state and local controls, and to free our limited resources for more effective regulation of other activities with greater potential to adversely impact the aquatic environment.? 56 Fed. Reg. 14, 598?14, 605 (Apr. 10, 1991). Unless they've mistyped this, it could be very useful. Possible points to make about this: 1. Constantly fighting coal companies and failed agencies to protect our homes, lives, water, and communities is a much greater burden on the public. 2. We have no state or local controls. WVDEP is a failed agency that fails to control illegal coal company activity. 3. Nothing adversely impacts the aquatic environment more than burying it. You can email your comments directly to the Army Corp of Engineers at: lrp.webinquiries@usace.army.mil Written comments: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Attn: CECW-CO, Ms. Desiree Hann 441 G Street, NW., Washington DC 20314-1000 Call: Pittsburgh Regulatory Branch: (412) 395-7155 or Ms. Hann at (202)761-4560 Public Notice:http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/or/or-f/09-46.pdf FAX: (412) 644-2811 Please, please be polite--the opposition has been rude enough for everyone. We ask this not for any one person but for mountain people, not for any one mountain but for all of our mountains. wanna buy me a beer?

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DownloadThe Senior Citizens March to End Mountaintop Removal ended in a protest and press conference at Massey subsidiary Mammoth Coal Company on US-60, east of Cedar Grove, at 4:00 p.m. on Oct, 12th. Mammoth Coal Company is 25 miles from the march?s starting point at the state capitol in Charleston. At least 28 seniors between the ages of 50 and 88 put their feet to the pavement during the 25 mile walk, including Larry Gibson of Kayford Mountain and Jesse Johnson of the Mountain Party.  The march ended peacefully with no arrests or conflicts.  Baffled by this the army of corporate media teams were then forced to interview the elders about why the had marched and coverage was seen on every local TV station in Charleston.the 5 day march's 5 video playlist is herehttp://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EEA07AE3D69276F9 wanna buy me a beer?

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DownloadThirteen marchers, ages 53 to 88, walked the fourth five-mile stretch of their journey to the gates of Massey-owned Mammoth Coal Company Sunday. The route took them past American Electric Power?s Kanawha Valley coal plant in Glasgow, W.Va.. In the wake of Saturday?s banner drop at the Walker CAT facility in Belle, W.Va. security and one police vehicle met the marchers as they passed AEP?s entrance.http://ToddBurge.com wanna buy me a beer?

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DownloadTwo young people unfurled a banner which read, ?Yes, Coal is Killing West Virginia?s Communities?  off of the Walker CAT building in Belle, W.Va. Saturday afternoon. The youth are affiliated with Climate Ground Zero and say they acted in autonomous solidarity with the Senior Citizens March to End Mountaintop Removal, are affiliated with Climate Ground Zero. The marchers passed the Walker CAT building on today?s route. The March received its first physical harassment today. At 2:00 p.m.  a driver threw a cup of water on Micklem, who says he ?took it in  stride.? The march has attracted both support and derision from passerbys. Marchers who so choose still plan to commit an act of non-violent civil disobedience to protest mountaintop removal at the conclusion of the march at Mammoth Coal Company on Monday afternoon. http://mattea.com wanna buy me a beer?

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DownloadAfter marching for 5 miles today the seniors settled into the Universal Unitarian Church in Charleston for a fine Bus Cooked meal from Everybody's Kitchen & Seeds of Peace.  After the meal Larry Gibson kept the fire of determination lit for over an hour.  I've tried to boil it down to the core of the essential. Mo'Fo'@ClimateGroundZero.org wanna buy me a beer?

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DownloadDay 1 of a 5 day march covering 25 miles from Charleston, WV to it's end in civil disobedience actions at the front gates of Massey Energy owned, Mammoth Coal in Cedar Grove, WV.There will be an update video each day of the March. Mo'Fo'http://climategroundzero.org wanna buy me a beer?

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Made in Pittsburgh within five days of the G20 summit, by a team from Pittsburgh Indymedia, Twin Cities Indymedia, Glassbead Collective, and Mobile Broadcast News, a new documentary: "Democracy 101 (Rough Cut)".Democracy 101 is a look at the policing and pattern of issues that arise during from National Special Security Events. Made with footage from the recent repression of dissent in Pittsburgh, salvaged from the broken cameras, stolen video and arrested reporters.SOUND WEAPONS DEPLOYED ? JOURNALISTS ARRESTED ? PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS ASSAULTED ? CAMERAS BROKEN ? VIDEO CONFISCATED ? MILITARY ACTIONS AGAINST CIVILIANS ? FIRST HAND REPORTS FROM THE BATTLE ZONE View the 26-minute long video, from the makers of "Terrorizing Dissent" and friends at: http://rnc08report.org/archive/1198.shtml wanna buy me a beer?

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Press conference regarding the violation of the rights of Journalists and activists during and before the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. Download Part 1,  Download Part 2 wanna buy me a beer?

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