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Profiles in Courage

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We Still Live Here: Coal Activists Fight On in Heart-Wrenching New Film

As The Both of Me makes clear, the self-destruction of Appalachia has never ended.

Salon: We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia

Salon: We still blow up mountains to mine coal: Time to end the war on Appalachia

HuffPost: Reckoning in Appalachia: Why Coal Mining Outlaw Don Blankenship’s Conviction Matters

Appeared originally in Huffington Post: Reckoning in Appalachia: Why Coal Mining Outlaw Don Blankenship’s Conviction Matters

HuffPost: Obama Visits West Virginia on Coal Disaster Anniversary: Will He Finally Recognize Appalachian Health Emergency?

Appeared originally in Huffington Post: HuffPost: Obama Visits West Virginia on Coal Disaster Anniversary: Will He Finally Recognize Appalachian Health Emergency?

HuffPost: Rising Appalachia: 200,000 Say End Mountaintop Removal in Historic Petition

Appeared originally in Huffington Post: Rising Appalachia: 200,000 Say End Mountaintop Removal in Historic Petition

HuffPo: Blood on the Mountain: New Film Chronicles Coal’s War on Appalachia

Appeared originally in Huffington Post: Blood on the Mountain: New Film Chronicles Coal’s War on Appalachia

HuffPo: Regret to Inform You: Coal Blasting Rages On

HuffPo: Regret to Inform You: Coal Blasting Rages On

HuffPo: CREDO Launches National Drive to End Cancer-Linked Mountaintop Removal Mining

CREDO Launches National Drive to End Cancer-Linked Mountaintop Removal Mining

Guardian: There would be more regulation of coal mining if it didn’t just affect ‘hillbillies’

Guardian: There would be more regulation of coal mining if it didn’t just affect ‘hillbillies’

AJAM: Mountaintop Removal is a Crime: New Studies on Strip Mining Clear Way for Federal Intervention

AJAM: Mountaintop Removal is a Crime: New Studies on Strip Mining Clear Way for Federal Intervention