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RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS BREF! / MOUNTAIN JUSTICE ACTIVISTS' TRIAL DATE SET! DONATE TO THEIR DEFENSE TODAY!
posted July 3, 2008
 On the morning of June 30, 2008 , twelve activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! and Mountain Justice were arrested in Richmond, Virginia while participating in a blockade of the Dominion property on Tredegar Street.
Please help these courageous
frontline activists today by donating whatever you
can to their defense!
July 5-6, 2008: Mountain Keepers Music Festival
posted July 3, 2008
 On Saturday, July 5th and Sunday, July 6th, the annual
Mountain Keepers Music Festival will be held at Kayford Mountain's Stanley
Heirs Park . This concert is the premier music festival that celebrates environmental
justice in southern West Virginia.
July 20, 2008 - 1 PM: March on Zeb Mountain!
posted July 3, 2008
 This is a call from the Mountains of Tennessee to those who understand the value of a living forest, clean water and a place to call home. This is a call for you to take a Sunday out of your life to help preserve some of the oldest watersheds on Earth. This is a call not for any organization or group - but for the Mountains of Tennessee.
Help Larry Gibson surprise his bride-to-be...
posted June 26, 2008
Make this years Mountain Keepers festival the most memorable yet, even if you can't make it. Help Larry Gibson surprise his bride-to-be with the best wedding gift ever - a composting flush toilet!
MOUNTAIN JUSTICE ACTIVISTS HOLD FOURTH ANNUAL GATHERING
posted June 5, 2008
Action Camp equips Appalachian citizens to resist mountaintop removal
Photo by Mary Kroeck, Parson Brown Productions.
Blanton Forest, KENTUCKY - Last week, citizens young and old from coalfield communities across Appalachia flocked by the dozens to historic
Harlan County, Kentucky, for the fourth annual Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp...
What Can I Do to Fight for Mountain Justice?
posted May 30, 2008
 Looking for ways to get involved in the Mountain Justice movement? Want to help but not sure how to get started? Then check out the "What Can I Do?" quick list to help spark ideas and then contact us.
We need your help!
More recent events...
 “Voices
for Appalachia”
Written and Narrated by Hundreds
An Appalachia Portrait-Story Project
Artist Francesco di Santis joined us
at our 2008 Mountain Justice training camp in Kentucky to continue work
on his latest project “Voices for Appalachia”. Francesco is
working with other regional organizations throughout Appalachia and the
project has
traveled to Mountain Justice Spring Break, the mountains of eastern Tennnessee,
the Appalachian Studies Association conference and the Heartwood Forest
Council.
 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.
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