Mountain Justice Summer...

hey, if you could take some time to read the article and the post and check out the MJS site i'd appreciate it since these are my friends here
~Dan

http://www.tnimc.org/feature/display/5430/index.php

www.mountainsummerjustice.org

hey y'all,

three activists were arrested today protesting shareholders of national
coal
at their annual meeting in knoxville, tn. the three arrested were chris
dodson,, from blacksburg va, and sequoyah, and john johnson from
knoxville,
tn. they are being held at the east town police department in knoxville,
tn,
and possibly being charged with assault.

We need help! if you can send money for jail support, please call our
jail
support line to pledge money so that we can tell the bondsman how much
we can
get. the jail support number is 865.384.7161. ask for chris.
or, email mountainjusticesummer@hushmail.com., and give us your pledge--
amount and your address- this pledge can help, used for collateral for
bond.

they are currently not being released-- the bond for john johnson was
set at
$22,000, and for chris at $10,000, and sequoyah at $12,000. they are
requesting a bond reduction- but need all the help you can muster!

here's the story:
the protesters went inside the hotel and found the door locked to the
conference room. national coal shareholders were locked safe inside. the
door
to the meeting was held open temporarily until a police officer blocked
the
line from entering the room. a police officer stood outside the door
while
protesters were chanting. the police arrived and asked the protesters to
leave. they complied and moved to the outside of the hotel were they
continued
to protest. the police began to gather and proceeded to arrest john
johnson.
the other two arrestees, chris and sequoyah - were arrested shortly
there
after.

natioal coal has a history of using lies and intimidation to silence
opposition. three activists with mountain justice summer were arrested
for
speaking out about the injustices of mountaintop removal. please help us
get
them out of jail and back onto the streets so we can continue our
campaign to
stop mountaintop removal!

mountain justice summer is a nonviolent campaign, involving no property
destruction. these three were participating in a long tradition of
nonviolent
civil disobedience, for the sake of out home, our mountains, and the
precious
appalachian ecosystems that allow us to live and breathe and thrive here.

these three need your help! please call or email and make a pledge and
support
the mountain justice summer campaign to stop mountaintop removal coal
mining!

for more information about the protest and updates about jail support
call
brian at 703.439.0725.

thanks for the support! we'll post more information as it comes.

 

SORRY TO HEAR THAT, WE HERE IN BALTIMORE, MD. HAVE SOME SERIOUS PROBLEMS GOING ON, AS WELL, THE Md. Dept. of the Environment, is outlaw, the air is really bad here. People dying of cancer. Keep the Faith, I don't know the EPA Bush's appointee's, disgusting, I say. Keep the faith brothers and Sisters.
lindasafley@hotmail.com
Trying to get to gathering, in WV, GOOD LUCK!