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National Coal Corporation is a strip mining corporation in Tennessee read full story / add a comment

Over 2600 workers at the New River Valley plant in Virginia began strike action on Friday. read full story / add a comment

The Anti-Violence Project of the Equality Virginia Education Fund is wrapping up its first year and still needs LGBTQ identified folks to participate in its community survey. This information will guide the work of the project and ensure that the various experiences of our community members are addressed in working against violence. read full story / add a comment

HUD recently announced that it plans to begin the demolition of more than 5,000 public housing in New Orleans on December 15. The demolition of the city's public housing stock is the lynchpin of the manmade shortage of affordable that, more than anything else is preventing 150,000 working class, African-American Katrina Survivors now in exile from returning home. This article contains a call to action to activists in North Carolina and elsewhere in the country to come to New Orleans in December to help build the mass resistance in the streets necessary to stop HUD's bulldozers of ethnic cleansing. This national call was issued by New Orleans public housing residents and local non-resident supporters. read full story / add a comment

All Power to the Imagination! is a conference that will bring activists, academics, and grassroots organizers together for a weekend of listening, networking, discussing, and organizing. We will share ideas, tactics, experiences, and skills as well as theories, scholarship, and research to develop our radical vision for the present and future. read full story / add a comment

On the weekend of November 16-18, thousands will gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia for the Vigil and the Nonviolent Direct Action to Close the School of the Americas and to end the racist system of violence and domination that the SOA represents. Take a Stand for Justice!
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Anti-Authoritarian caucus will be held Saturday, November 17, 2007 at the convergence to shut down the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) in Columbus, Georgia. read full story / add a comment

Maria Gunnoe is a long time activist in the coalfields resisting mountaintop removal coal mining. Her and her family were nearly killed by flooding caused by a nearby strip mine several years ago. The flooding ended up washing away over 5 acres of her land which has been in her family for generations. In the wake of a recent court injunction against a new mine permit near her homestead, Maria has received several death threats. These are to be taken seriously, resistors in the coalfields have had there pets killed, houses burned, and attempts on their lives from coal company thugs. Below is her account of what happened read full story / add a comment

Coal company target of vandalism
BONNIE BATES / Staff Writer
http://www.thecoalfieldprogress.com/
Wise County, Virginia read full story / add a comment

Taking Precautionary Action:
The Southeast Conference on Mega-Dumps, Nuclear Power & Sewage Sludge
November 16 - 18, 2007
Proximity Hotel, Greensboro, North Carolina read full story / add a comment

When Bulldozers Burn, Baby
Posted Thursday, September 13, 2007 ; 06:00 AM

Law enforcement and coal operators need to be aware that as hard-core environmentalists are increasingly drawn here by the national attention heaped on Hosta and her cohorts, there will likely be those who take an even harder line.

Story by Chris Stirewalt read full story / add a comment

Report from the 75th anniversary celebration of Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. read full story / add a comment

Veteran Civil Rights and Social Justice Institution Celebrates Anniversary
With 3-Day Festival to Include Performances, Workshops and Discussions
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With chants of “Stop mountaintop removal, it kills!� and “No more coal!� some 40 protesters gathered around the Bank of America located on Patton Avenue this afternoon.

by Rebecca Bowe, Jon Elliston, David Forbes and Brian Postelle on 08/13/2007 read full story / add a comment