Climate Ground Zero presents: Non-Violent Direct Action in the Coalfields & Stories of Resistance
12/10/2009 8:00 pm
(Massey Energy blockade)
Climate Ground Zero presents:
Non-Violent Direct Action in the Coalfields & Stories of Resistance!
Andrea Lai of Climate Ground Zero will be speaking about the campaign of
non-violent direct action in West Virginia against mountaintop removal in
Appalachia.
"Climate Ground Zero uses a variety of tactics, from rallies and marches
and sit-ins to lockdowns to mining equipment and tree-sits. We work to
raise awareness and bring publicity to the issue of mountaintop removal
and coal, and its direct effect on carbon emissions and the growing
climate crisis.
Mountaintop removal devastates both the environment and people of
Appalachia; it poisons the groundwater and headsprings for the rivers
which supply drinking water for the entire northeast region, wipes out
indigenous species, demolishes some of the oldest and most biodiverse
mountains in the world, and brings countless health problems to the people
who live near mountaintop removal and coal processing sites."
Thursday, December 10th, 8pm
Sedition Books (901 Richmond Ave., Houston, TX)
www.seditionbooks.org
More info:
Andrea Lai
817 637 7256
aundylai@gmail.com
