"Deep into the sadness and the madness of blowing up mountain tops is the long and traditional relationship between poor whites and the wealthy white men beginning during the colonial period of American history that continues into the present moment!
I know Americans don't like to go to the roots of problems preferring to remain somewhere along the surface area. It hasn't worked well for anyone in the long run. But, for this issue examine the history and the correlation between the above mentioned relationship and the other relationships important to the dysfunction of the tearing down practice our culture produced!" - Gregory E. Woods, 2.23.14
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| Julia "Judy" Bonds, activist. June 27, 2012 |
"A spitfire daughter of a West Virginia coal miner who worked as a Pizza Hut waitress before she became, in midlife, a leading voice of the grass-roots resistance to mountaintop strip mining, died Jan.3, 2012 of cancer at a hospital in Charleston, W.Va. She was 58."
That was how the Washington Post described Julia "Judy" Bonds who died in 2011 after becoming the face of mountaintop removal mining. She inspired a whole generation's fight to preserve their beloved Appalachia, as her daughter Lisa movingly recalls. http://earthjustice.org/
Judy is a reminder to everyone that nothing is set in life and that we must do what is right for the things we care about most, no matter how daunting the challenges are.
This photo mosaic was created using photo petitions from the thousands of people who have already shown their support for our fight. Won't you do the same? http://earthjustice.org/
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