tree-sit

As a tree-sit protest in the Coal River Valley enters a new week to stop the strip mining operations at a former Massey Energy and current Alpha Natural Resources site, the New York Times is reporting today that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a key supporter of absentee coal companies and lobbies, reported "operating income of $1,363,916" from a coal brokerage firm.

Jeff Biggers: Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases Jeff Biggers 2011

Employees of coal baron Don Blankenship, the “scariest polluter in the United States,” have been blasting the tree-sit activists with air horns and flood lights.

Think Progress » For eighth day, climate activists block bulldozers at WV’s Coal River Mountain. 2010

As a tree-sit protest in the Coal River Valley enters a new week to stop the strip mining operations at a former Massey Energy and current Alpha Natural Resources site, the New York Times is reporting today that West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, a key supporter of absentee coal companies and lobbies, reported "operating income of $1,363,916" from a coal brokerage firm.

Jeff Biggers: Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases Jeff Biggers 2011

They were incensed about the tree-sit evictions, which they claimed had been careless and had endangered the lives of the activists.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

The Gohmann lockdown lasted more than three hours and was as skillful as the tree-sit camp had been.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

As part of an extraordinary and amazingly creative coalfield uprising campaign this year that has included numerous blockades of devastating mountaintop removal and dangerous coal sludge impoundment sites, school protests, sit-ins of state agencies, and most recently a weeklong tree-sit action that halted reckless Massey Energy blasting at a mountaintop removal site in the Coal River Valley, Micklem was joined by James McGuinness, 53, Joseph Hamsher, 22, and Fred Williamson, 75.

Jeff Biggers: Stripping Massey: 81-year-old Paratrooper Leads Blockade, Court Hears $85 Million Suit 2009

After her famous tree-sit (which ended in 1999), Julia moved to Oakland, California, where she has become a beloved and active resident.

Van Jones: A "Tree Sit" -- in S. Central LA?? The Return of Julia Butterfly 2008

Written in just twelve weeks, this gripping and moving memoir chronicles HIll's extraordinary two-year tree-sit to save a 200-foot redwood tree named Luna.

PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

To our surprise, the Portland Police, and the University of Portland Security patrolling the area, a tree-sit was well underway.

portland indymedia - features 2009

Police (ten officers in all including U of P security) began to tape off the area with crime scene tape to block off any pedestrian traffic from entering the immediate area around the tree-sit.

portland indymedia - features 2009