March 3, 2010
I've Been To The Mountain-Top Removal! And it's the Devil!
Photo by Dogseat
Have we been to the mountain-top?
Did we do all we could do?
JP Morgan rains down rock
Exploding loans from the Devil came due...
We are joining thousands of activist citizens who have opposed the removal of peaks in Appalachia for "dirty coal" mining. In resisting Consumerism, there is always an earth-justice motive, right in front of us. We remember leading Iceland citizens into their own super malls to oppose the big dams and aluminum smelters; and we recall opposing the super ferry in Kauai; and also singing to tree-sitters up in the redwoods.
When you start with such a general plea as "Stop Shopping" - your work can go in so many directions. Now, mountain-top removal, the shopping for energy that murders citizens living on the streams below and poisons the air at great distances - now this must be our cause.
The mountain activists are welcoming us because there is a role for New Yorkers - with JP Morgan Chase headquartered here, the branch bank chain store that kills off our indie shops. We will chase Chase out into the open. We promise our Appalachian friends that this city will not protect the bank that finances most of this violence against the mountains.
Reverend Billy
and the Life After Shopping Church
PS: Our "Fabulous Worships" in Bethlehem, PA this weekend, and next week at Theater for the New City in the village and St. Mary's up in Harlem - all the issues and their advocates, homelessness, peace and war, abusive eminent domain - we will all go to the mountain-top!
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Volunteers needed in Appalachia to fight the coal industry
I am SO happy to see that you have taken up the cause of abolition of Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining!!! This coal mining practice is out of control and is the fuel source that is used to produce all of the goods in the malls. If you want to come to Appalachia and stand with us to fight the coal industry please join us at our two upcoming training camps. There will be one March 12-20 in southwest Virginia at Natural Tunnel. More info at www.mjsb.org
The second camp will be May 26-June 6 in Letcher County Kentucky near Whiteburg. More info at www.mountainjustice.org
We also have internships and volunteer opps from where you live with United Mountain Defense based in Knoxville, TN. Check out our website at www.unitedmountaindefense.org or give us a call at (865) 689-2778 or through email at umdvolunteerhouse@yahoo.com
Till then, keep up the good work and we'll see you in the mountains,
matt landon Appalachian Organizer for United Mountain Defense
Mountain Top destruction
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
All blown to smithereens
America America
shame on you
GJO
thanks!
I'm an ex-pat Kentuckian living in NYC. Thank you for helping to save my home.
Keep spreading the word,
LLL
Mountains of thoughts
Sitting in Central park today I looked at the little birds and turtles in the lakes and trees and tried to imagine them being blown up by explosives or burred alive in a valley under the earth that had been removed from the peak and thrown below. These thoughts deeply upset me and and I took a moment of prayer & meditation ...(and then twittered about this issue from my iphone!).
Since learning about these atrocious acts I can't help but bring it up in conversation. I was delighted to hear others knew of it, and together we spread the word. I now cringe when I walk past a chase bank, and am beginning to realize how they are multiplying in NYC like rabbits...on every block!
Are the beautiful Sierra Nevadas that I'm named after next??
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