Ruth Tucker of Rock Creek, WV is arrested on charges of battery after slapping Goldman Environmental Prizer winner Julia "Judy" Bonds in front of the Goals Coal plant in Sundial, WV, June 23, 2009. More than two dozen others were arrested after peacefully sitting in the road in their protest against the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining.The peaceful demonstrators marched in silence, two by two, towards the Massey Energy-operated Goals Coal Plant, where about 200 coal...
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Ruth Tucker of Rock Creek, WV is arrested on charges of battery after slapping Goldman Environmental Prizer winner Julia "Judy" Bonds in front of the Goals Coal plant in Sundial, WV, June 23, 2009. More than two dozen others were arrested after peacefully sitting in the road in their protest against the ravages of mountaintop removal coal mining.The peaceful demonstrators marched in silence, two by two, towards the Massey Energy-operated Goals Coal Plant, where about 200 coal miners and their wives were waiting for the peaceful protesters, including NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and activist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested.
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