Mountain mobilization.

PositionOn the Line - Brief article

Lincoln County, West Virginia

On July 28, police arrested twenty people for an act of nonviolent civil disobedience against mountaintop removal. People walked onto Patriot Coal's Hobet mountaintop removal site and shut it down. Ten people locked themselves to a rock truck, boarded it, and dropped banners that said, "Coal Leaves, Cancer Stays." Earlier in the day, two people were arrested at Kanawha State Forest. Other protesters headed to the state capitol...

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