Day of Direct Action Against Extraction April 20, 2011

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Communities around the world are under attack from extractive industries that poison our families, kill our loved ones on the job, and destroy the ecosystems we cherish. The BP oil spill was unfortunately just one of an endless string of disasters born of an economic system that must endlessly consume the Earth’s  resources.

Extraction is the act of taking without giving anything back. Extraction takes workers lives so  corporations can make a few more bucks. Extraction takes clean water and air and gives us blackened oceans and a climate in chaos. Extraction takes the natural wealth of communities and ecosystems and leaves behind poverty and ecological wastelands. Continue reading

Judy Bonds, One of our She-roes!

Judy Bonds, One of our She-roes!

Reason to Believe in Environmental Justice: Coalfields Hero Judy Bonds
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As the White House convenes the first ever forum on environmental justice today, millions of pounds of explosives detonating across the historic ranges and communities in our nation’s first frontier of Appalachia, it might be easy to slip into a state of despair over the future of besieged coalfield