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Mountain Justice : Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All by Tricia Shapiro (2010, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherA + K Press
ISBN-10184935023X
ISBN-139781849350235
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038593118
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Book TitleMountain Justice : Home Grown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMining, Environmental Conservation & Protection
Publication Year2010
IllustratorYes
GenreNature, Technology & Engineering
AuthorTricia Shapiro
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight15.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-925765
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal333.7816
Table Of ContentFlyover Mountain People A New Movement West Virginia Tennessee Beyond Mountain Justice Summer Climate Ground Zero
Synopsis"Shapiro is one of the few writers on this subject that actually understands the strategy, the tactics, and the internal politics of a dynamic and growing movement. This is environmental journalism at it best."--Mike Roselle, Earth First! founder and author of Tree Spiker Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment?all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. Since the Mountain Justice campaign began in 2005, dozens of local coalfield residents, students, Earth Firsters, and others have been arrested in nonviolent protest actions against MTR. "This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots effort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a fascinating account of why building solidarity across geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such struggles is so important but so hard."--Steve Fisher, editor, Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change "Tricia Shapiro has told us the heart of the matter--the dignity, the strength, the loving kindness of the folk who have given all that they have to save a precious and enduring place on the Earth."--Jack Spadaro, whistleblower and former director of the National Mine Safety and Health Academy Tricia Shapiro has been closely following and writing about efforts to end large-scale strip mining for coal in Appalachia since 2004. She lives on a remote mountain homestead in western North Carolina, near the Tennessee border., "Shapiro is one of the few writers on this subject that actually understands the strategy, the tactics, and the internal politics of a dynamic and growing movement. This is environmental journalism at it best."--Mike Roselle, Earth First founder and author of Tree Spiker Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment'all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia have invited volunteers from outside Appalachia's coalfields to help them bring national attention to this shameful practice, and abolish it. Since the Mountain Justice campaign began in 2005, dozens of local coalfield residents, students, Earth Firsters, and others have been arrested in nonviolent protest actions against MTR. "This on-the-ground, insider report of a grassroots effort to end mountaintop removal in Appalachia is a fascinating account of why building solidarity across geographic, age, class, and philosophical lines in such struggles is so important but so hard."--Steve Fisher, editor, Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change "Tricia Shapiro has told us the heart of the matter--the dignity, the strength, the loving kindness of the folk who have given all that they have to save a precious and enduring place on the Earth."--Jack Spadaro, whistleblower and former director of the National Mine Safety and Health Academy Tricia Shapiro has been closely following and writing about efforts to end large-scale strip mining for coal in Appalachia since 2004. She lives on a remote mountain homestead in western North Carolina, near the Tennessee border.
LC Classification NumberTD195.C58
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