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Last Saturday, after 5 days and 50 miles, over 500 Marchers arrived at Blair
Mountain and rallied with hundreds more, bringing our crowd to over 1000 strong.
After hearing from incredible movement leaders, we took the March to the top of the
mountain and placed placed a memorial sign on the battlefield, commemorating the

A Busy week for the activists of Greenpeace Australia who did a banner drop outside BHP Billiton headquarters in Melbourne on Monday and followed it up midweek with erecting a Pollution Tax Collection Point at BHP’s Mount Arthur Mine in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales holding up a BHP coal train temporarily.

Hey all-not sure how many of you have been following the March on Blair Mountain, but the organizing has been pretty amazing.

Just to give some background: Blair Mountain was the site of the second largest armed insurrection (after the Civil War) in U.S. history. 8000-10000 miners fighting for union rights took up arms against the coalthugs. And now coal companies want to strip mine Blair Mountain. They'vealready stripped it of its historical preservation status and are nowseeking permitting to strip mine it. They've already begun strip mining onparts of it, so I hear.

Videos: Day 1 | Press Conference June 6 | Day 3 | Union miners support the march |

Hundreds of Thousands Protest Against Nuclear Energy Across Germany The biggest anti-nuclear protests Germany has ever seen by Nicole Goebel

Over 200,000 protesters took to the streets in Cologne, Berlin, Munich and Ham

Climbers are hanging from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
http://understory.ran.org/2011/05/23/breaking-news-ran-activists-unfurl-50-banner-chevron-guilty-clean-up-amazon/
calling on Chevron to take responsibility for its oil pollution in the

FIGHT MOVES UP A GEAR

[http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/local-headlines/fight_moves_up_a_gear_1_1633636]

[excerpted from LA Weekly Blogs]

Here's one way to get half-lidded 7 a.m. commuters to notice your niche environmental campaign:

Direct Action Against Agrofuels Plant in Scotland– Monday 16th May

Note – the environmental assessment for the Forth facilities describe their plan to import wood from north america, especially from the Southeastern US.  Many of these big burners in Europe are located in ports for ease of shipping access, but smaller facilities there and here in U.S.

March Against Mountaintop Removal This June

Blair Mountain, W.Va., is one of the most significant historical landmarks in
Appalachia -- the site of the largest uprising in American history since the Civil
War. It was there, 90 years ago this summer, that up to 15,000 coal miners rose
against the rule of coal operators, fighting for the right to live and work in