Comments on: 2nd Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington a Smashing Success! http://ilovemountains.org/news/241 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 By: Sara Cowgill http://ilovemountains.org/news/241#comment-25754 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:01:15 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/news/241#comment-25754 Thank you for standing up and speaking out for my water, for our land, for our streams, for peace with the earth. “It’s like watching a beloved being repeatedly raped, stabbed, and strangled” my mother told me, looking at the land sites here in southern West Virginia.
West Virginia has been robbed, humiliated, starved, ignored and degenerated. The coal companies believe that our land is worthless except for the coal, and that we are worthless, with no exceptions. They think we can live like rats in cages, but Mountaineers are Always Free, and it’s in our Mountains, and due to our Mountains that we have that freedom.
The Coal companies owe the Appalachians. They can return the land and the mineral rights back to the State of West Virginia in exchange for the irreparable damage they have done here. The State can give the land back to the people, and we can start a big back to the land movement, encouraging sustainable agriculture, hunting and fishing, alternative power, re-stocking the streams, rebuilding our soil and our roots without exploitation from huge outside companies who’d kill us and our children without a second thought, as that is what they are doing.
Sorry, I’m going off again. It’s so hard not to stay angry at what is happening, it’s just I’ve been away since 1981 and I came home and this is what I find. It’s completely psycho, so I’m so glad you all see that, and you are helping to protect us and at least our water.

thank you, God bless you,
may your lives be rich in the truest wealth,

Sara Cowgill

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