Mountain Justice Summer

We have found a great location for our fourth annual Mountain Justice Summer Camp: Camp Blanton at Blanton Forest, in Harlan County, Kentucky, in the heart of the eastern Kentucky coalfields.

We have a full week planned of workshops on Appalachian coal mining, music and culture featuring well-known Appalachian activists, plus hiking, Appalachian mountain music, dancing, campfires, and excellent healthy food.

Register for camp now!

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Already registered and looking for or offering a ride? Check out the 2008 Training Camp ride board...

May 9-10, 2008: Jam down at the Bank!
posted May 9, 2008
Mountain Justice is asking for musicians and others to join Action Jackson in a great big jam down at the bank on Friday May 9th and Saturday May 10th. Where will this jam be held? At any Bank of America or Citi location near you.

Help Support Clean Energy: Sign the Mile Long Petition
posted May 7, 2008

It's not too late to sign the petition!
Dominion Energy has proposed building a dirty coal-fired power plant in Wise County, Virginia that will pollute the air and water, further destroy our mountains, and contribute to global warming.

Citizen’s of Southwest Virginia are standing up for their mountains and communities by leading a grassroots campaign to defeat the plant.

Micheal O'Connell's film, Mountain Top Removal wins Nashville film festival's Reel Current Award
posted April 30, 2008

MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL, Michael O'Connell's revealing look at mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia, has been named the 2008 winner of the Reel Current Award. The winner is chosen and award presented each year by Al Gore to a documentary at NaFF that provides extraordinary insight into a contemporary global issue.

More recent events...

There is a manmade ecological disaster of geologic proportions occurring in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians; its called mountain range -- or Mountain Top Removal (MTR) mining. It is the ultimate in theft of a people's heritage -- the destruction of watersheds -- and the annihilation of one of the most diverse places on earth.

Mission Statement

Mountain Justice Summer (MJS) seeks to add to the growing anti-MTR citizens movement. Specifically MJS demands an abolition of MTR, steep slope strip mining and all other forms of surface mining for coal. We want to protect the cultural and natural heritage of the Appalachia coal fields. We want to contribute with grassroots organizing, public education, nonviolent civil disobedience and other forms of citizen action.

Historically coal companies have engaged in violence and property destruction when faced with citizen opposition to their activities. MJS is committed to nonviolence and will not be engaged in property destruction.