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Marsh Fork Protest, June 23, 2009(18 images)
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Hundreds of anti-mountaintop removal activists gathered today at the Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, WV, deep in the Appalachian mountains. Hundreds of pro-coal counter protesters also turned out, resulting in constant interruption of speakers and musical performers and culminating in charges of battery against local woman Ruth Tucker, who struck Goldman Environmental Prize winner Judy Bonds...
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  • The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • A wife of a Massey Energy worker continually heckled and yelled at performers, speakers and attendees of today's rally. The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Pro-Mountaintop Removal Mining counter -protesters repeatedly verbally attacked members of the cloth who were present to express their concerns about the human and environmental devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining..The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • This man asked each speaker in a yelling voice, "How'd you get here? Did you drive a car?" The man wanted to point out coal's connection to daily life..The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • West Virginia State Troopers had to restrain the rambunctous pro-coal crowd throughout the rally event...The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Mickey McCoy, from Inez, KY, the site where over 300 billion gallons of toxic coal waste flooded the watershed in 2000, spoke passionately about the harms of mountaintop removal coal mining. The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Actor and environmental activist Daryl Hannah spoke with both passion and knowledge of the perils of mountaintop removal coal mining to hundreds of people at an anti-mountaintop removal coal mining rally and protest in Sundial, WV today, June 23, 2009..The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Ken Hechler, 94 and former Representative for West Virginia, exits the stage in exuberance after he spoke to at least 350 people gathered for a rally and protest at the Marsh Fork Elementary School in Sundial, WV. Twenty-nine people were arrested in the front gates of Massey Energy owned Goals Coal company. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • As Bo Webb of Naoma, WV tells Dr. James Hansen about the massive Massey Energy owned coal complex that hovers above the Marsh Fork Elementary School in Sundial, WV. Dr Hansen and more than two dozen others were arrested today after they sat down in the road in front of the Goals Coal plant. The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • West Virginia State Troopers were out in full force today, June 23, for an anti-Mountaintop Removal rally and protest today that culminated in over two dozen arrests in front of Massey Energy owned Goals Coal plant in Sundial, WV. The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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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 protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Instead of marching to the front gate, protesters sat down at the entrance of the Massey Energy owned Goals Coal plant because there were over 200 coal miners and supporters blocking the gates to the coal complex. The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Susan Rosenberg and Dr. James Hansen were arrested today at the gates of Massey Energy-operated Goals Coal Comapny. At least 15 people were arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Moments before West Virginia state Troopers arrest Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading climate scientist, Dr. Hansen reads a prepared statement, urging the end to mountaintop removal and a clean energy future. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network (RAN) was one of the at least 15 people arrested today in front of Massey Energy's Goals Coal plant in Sundial, WV. The protest drew approximately 150 people protesting mountaintop removal coal mining and an additional 150 coal miners who were there to counter-protest. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Daryl Hannah, actor and environmentalist, is arrested at the front gates of Massey Energy owned Goals Coal plant. By photographer antrim caskey
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  • Veteran activist Winnie Fox was among the over two dozen arrested at an anti-Mountaintop Remova protest today in Sundial, WV. .The protest rally at Marsh Fork Elementary School featured musicans and speakers -- both were constantly interrupted by the counter-protesters throughout the day. The peaceful demonstrators marched 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 Nobel Prize winning NASA scientist James Hansen, actor and environmentalist Daryl Hannah, and 94 year old West Virginia statesman Ken Hechler, who were among the 29 people arrested. By photographer antrim caskey
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