Freedom threatens the status quo
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Nikola Tesla invented the fluorescent light, radio, alternating current,...
conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=18336
...Tesla at the mercy of his financier, J.P. Morgan, who literally pulled the plug on his vision. Morgan, at the time the prime force behind General Electric Co., may have been unnerved by Tesla's claims that the technology could transmit "unlimited power" by wireless means. The word "free" did not translate well to Morgan. Again, the money flow came to a halt...
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at Blair Mountain
Jeff Biggers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers
After 500 mountains in Appalachia have been blown to
bits by mountaintop removal, one peak was most likely
saved today: Blair Mountain in West Virginia, the site
of the largest armed insurrection in the United States
since the Civil War, was officially approved by the
Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places to
be placed on the National Register.
This is a huge victory, as the tide continues to turn
in the movement to stop mountaintop removal in
Appalachia.
Some consider it the Bunker Hill of the labor movement.
But the great battle in 1921, when thousands of union
coal miners and World War I veterans donned their
uniforms and took up arms to liberate and unionize the
last coal camps in southwestern West Virginia held
hostage to ruthless outside coal companies, has emerged
as one of the great symbols of Appalachia's fate today.
Over the past several years, the Friends of Blair
Mountain--an organization of community and labor
activists, historians and environmentalists--have led
an even more epic battle to save the sacred mountain
site from a plan by coal companies to strip mine and
destroy Blair Mountain through mountaintop removal
operations.
The mountaintop removal war might soon be over. The
Rednecks won.
"Redneck" was the named given to the progressive
miners, as William Blizzard recalled in his wonderful
memoir, When Miners March, as they wore red bandannas
around their necks to distinguish themselves from
others. As the battle raged, and even bombs dropped,
President Warren Harding was forced to intervene with
military troops.
President Barack Obama needs to intervene against
mountaintop removal today. As three million pounds of
ammonium nitrate fuel oil are detonated daily in an
assault on Appalachia today, raining toxic dust on the
inhabitants and devastating watersheds as part of the
brutal mountaintop removal operations, it's time for
the federal government to stop this egregious violation
of human rights in the mountains.
Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers
of America, and a great West Virginia coal mining
native, should take note of the haunting parallels in
history: While over 500 mountains have been destroyed,
the once strong union movement has been gutted by
highly mechanized strip mining operations, and now only
500-700 United Mine Worker members are employed on
mountaintop removal sites in West Virginia.
Let's repeat that: There are roughly 700 UMWA members
employed at mountaintop removal sites in West Virginia
today.
It's time for Cecil Roberts and the United Mine Workers
to stand up for the mountains, the historic Appalachian
communities, and the economy, and demand an end to
mountaintop removal, and a return to more responsible
mining.
Ken Ward at the Coal Tattoo blog recently looked at
Roberts and mountaintop removal:
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2009/03/25/umwa-
to-epa-lets-talk/
To learn about other endangered American mountains,
see: http://www.ilovemountains.org/endangered/
Denise Giardina, the nationally acclaimed novelist from
the coalfields of West Virginia, and author of the epic
novel, Storming Heaven, once wrote:
"In the hundred odd years since the coal industry came
to this part of West Virginia, land has been taken,
miners have been worked to death, streams have been
polluted, piles of waste have accumulated, children
have grown up in poverty. But throughout all the
hardships, the hunger, the black lung disease and other
illness, and the scarring of the land, the mountains
have essentially remained. They were symbols of
permanence, strength, hope. No more. Nothing worse can
be taken from mountain people than mountains. The
resulting loss is destroying the soul of the people.
The destruction of the central Appalachian Mountains
robs the region of topsoil, timber, of indigenous
plants, of streams, and leaves behind floods, toxic
brews of sludge laced with mercury, and flattened
plains of inedible grass. But worst of all is the loss
of the mountain landscape, those rugged crags that lift
the spirits and touch the sky.
If one mountain were to be spared, one peak to bear
mute witness to the devastation that has gone on all
around, it might be thought that Blair Mountain would
be such a summit. Blair Mountain, after all, has been
the most dramatic witness to the struggle of legions of
coal miners to be free."
If only William Blizzard, the author of When Miners
March, were alive today to take part in this
celebration. His father, Bill Blizzard, the hero of
Blair Mountain, was tried and acquitted for treason.
For more information, see:
http://www.whenminersmarch.com/reviews.htm
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"Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation"
Pennsylvania Interfaith Climate Change Campaign
Energy Foundation
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http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1503-willing-executioners-americas-bipartisan-atrocity-deepens-in-somalia.html
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Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium
ccamu.ca
======
myspace.com/mmflint
http://www.habitat21.co.uk/greenhouse.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/LINKS.HTML#Energy
alara.co.uk
Nikola Tesla invented the fluorescent light, radio, alternating current,...
conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=18336
...Tesla at the mercy of his financier, J.P. Morgan, who literally pulled the plug on his vision. Morgan, at the time the prime force behind General Electric Co., may have been unnerved by Tesla's claims that the technology could transmit "unlimited power" by wireless means. The word "free" did not translate well to Morgan. Again, the money flow came to a halt...
======
Yesterday was Mitchell Day in the coal fields honoring UMWA leader John Mitchell and the winning of the eight hour day by union miners. last night our good friend Jeanne Cecil of the USWA held a very successful fundraiser for the Harmerville Miners statue. As mining and natural gas interests increasingly bring environmental devastation and anti-union attitudes to the stripping of Pennsylvania's environment, the attached story has immediate relevance.
Big Coal Defeat!
Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory
Big Coal Defeat!
Rednecks and Greens Announce Victory
Jeff Biggers
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers
After 500 mountains in Appalachia have been blown to
bits by mountaintop removal, one peak was most likely
saved today: Blair Mountain in West Virginia, the site
of the largest armed insurrection in the United States
since the Civil War, was officially approved by the
Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places to
be placed on the National Register.
This is a huge victory, as the tide continues to turn
in the movement to stop mountaintop removal in
Appalachia.
Some consider it the Bunker Hill of the labor movement.
But the great battle in 1921, when thousands of union
coal miners and World War I veterans donned their
uniforms and took up arms to liberate and unionize the
last coal camps in southwestern West Virginia held
hostage to ruthless outside coal companies, has emerged
as one of the great symbols of Appalachia's fate today.
Over the past several years, the Friends of Blair
Mountain--an organization of community and labor
activists, historians and environmentalists--have led
an even more epic battle to save the sacred mountain
site from a plan by coal companies to strip mine and
destroy Blair Mountain through mountaintop removal
operations.
The mountaintop removal war might soon be over. The
Rednecks won.
"Redneck" was the named given to the progressive
miners, as William Blizzard recalled in his wonderful
memoir, When Miners March, as they wore red bandannas
around their necks to distinguish themselves from
others. As the battle raged, and even bombs dropped,
President Warren Harding was forced to intervene with
military troops.
President Barack Obama needs to intervene against
mountaintop removal today. As three million pounds of
ammonium nitrate fuel oil are detonated daily in an
assault on Appalachia today, raining toxic dust on the
inhabitants and devastating watersheds as part of the
brutal mountaintop removal operations, it's time for
the federal government to stop this egregious violation
of human rights in the mountains.
Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers
of America, and a great West Virginia coal mining
native, should take note of the haunting parallels in
history: While over 500 mountains have been destroyed,
the once strong union movement has been gutted by
highly mechanized strip mining operations, and now only
500-700 United Mine Worker members are employed on
mountaintop removal sites in West Virginia.
Let's repeat that: There are roughly 700 UMWA members
employed at mountaintop removal sites in West Virginia
today.
It's time for Cecil Roberts and the United Mine Workers
to stand up for the mountains, the historic Appalachian
communities, and the economy, and demand an end to
mountaintop removal, and a return to more responsible
mining.
Ken Ward at the Coal Tattoo blog recently looked at
Roberts and mountaintop removal:
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2009/03/25/umwa-
to-epa-lets-talk/
To learn about other endangered American mountains,
see: http://www.ilovemountains.org/endangered/
Denise Giardina, the nationally acclaimed novelist from
the coalfields of West Virginia, and author of the epic
novel, Storming Heaven, once wrote:
"In the hundred odd years since the coal industry came
to this part of West Virginia, land has been taken,
miners have been worked to death, streams have been
polluted, piles of waste have accumulated, children
have grown up in poverty. But throughout all the
hardships, the hunger, the black lung disease and other
illness, and the scarring of the land, the mountains
have essentially remained. They were symbols of
permanence, strength, hope. No more. Nothing worse can
be taken from mountain people than mountains. The
resulting loss is destroying the soul of the people.
The destruction of the central Appalachian Mountains
robs the region of topsoil, timber, of indigenous
plants, of streams, and leaves behind floods, toxic
brews of sludge laced with mercury, and flattened
plains of inedible grass. But worst of all is the loss
of the mountain landscape, those rugged crags that lift
the spirits and touch the sky.
If one mountain were to be spared, one peak to bear
mute witness to the devastation that has gone on all
around, it might be thought that Blair Mountain would
be such a summit. Blair Mountain, after all, has been
the most dramatic witness to the struggle of legions of
coal miners to be free."
If only William Blizzard, the author of When Miners
March, were alive today to take part in this
celebration. His father, Bill Blizzard, the hero of
Blair Mountain, was tried and acquitted for treason.
For more information, see:
http://www.whenminersmarch.com/reviews.htm
======
"Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation"
Pennsylvania Interfaith Climate Change Campaign
Energy Foundation
======
http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/3/1503-willing-executioners-americas-bipartisan-atrocity-deepens-in-somalia.html
======
Community Coalition Against Mining Uranium
ccamu.ca
======
myspace.com/mmflint
http://www.habitat21.co.uk/greenhouse.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/LINKS.HTML#Energy
alara.co.uk
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