Friday, July 16, 2010
Climate Ground Zero Activists Charged
WEST VIRGINIA....
Climate Ground Zero activists Katie Huszcza, Colin Flood, Jimmy Tobias, and Sophie Kern have been charged with trespassing, obstructing and conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor after Huszcza and Flood chained themselves to a high-wall mining machine at a mine operated by Massey subsidary Marfork Coal Co. Wednesday night. Massey officials say the machine was being operated at the time. Massey says the protest was the latest act of civil disobedience in an ongoing campaign by activists to stop mountaintop removal mining, but the Marfork mine isn’t a mountaintop removal operation. The activists remained in jail Friday.
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