Yo, climbers!
Too many mountains (over 450 of them and counting) have been erased from the landscape of West Virginia and the surrounding Appalachian States.
Now that process threatens a mountain that stands for so much more, Blair Mountain.
How would you pay tribute to a place that changed the course of the labor movement forever?
How would you pay tribute to a place that changed the course of the labor movement forever?
We stand at a fork in the road where we can either protect the West Virginia mountain where coal miners fought for their right to unionize, after enduring years of abuse at the hands of both law and coal thugs. Fragmentation bombs were dropped on miners, after machine guns were used to strafe their families and homes from a flatbed railroad car.
We can remember the struggle of these people to simply be treated like human beings, and protect the mountain that stands as a monument to their fight and sacrifices.
Or we can allow Big Coal to blow the top off Blair Mountain in exchange for a simple plaque.
A plaque would not replace Yorktown, or Gettysburg.
And all the plaques on earth cannot replace one mountain.
Tell the Army Corps of Engineers that a plaque won't do. Blair Mountain is an important part of our history and deserves to be off limits to mountain top removal mining.
Find out more and send your message here: http://action.
Tell the Army Corps of Engineers that a plaque won't do. Blair Mountain is an important part of our history and deserves to be off limits to mountain top removal mining.
Find out more and send your message here: http://action.
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