http://ilovemountains.org/news/596 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:46:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 http://ilovemountains.org/news/596#comment-57400 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:46:38 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/news/596#comment-57400 I was at the “PUBLIC HEARING” on Tuesday, Oct 13, at the Charleston Civic Center..I did not have a shirt w/ yellow stripes down my BACK…I was surrounded and asked where I worked, and why I was there…I was asked to sign a ” friends of coal” petition, which I refused…I was then spit upon and threatened, w/ major bodily harm…( and THAT was just from the WOMEN!!!)…the “friends of coal ” LITERALLY kept me from entering the building..I was just behind a small group of maybe 6 people, 2 men, 4 women, from the “Climate Ground Zero” camp…they were treated MUCH worse by these so called “miners”…my name is John David Rose, I am from Clay county, WV…my e-mail is “jrx55@live.com”..I founded “Friends of The Mountains”..Clay , central WV local.We have “friends of the mountains ” shirts 4 sale, all profits go 2 END Mountaintop removal…and I MEAN END IT FOREVER.

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