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Ken Hechler: 'We are going to need hellraisers to stop this devastating practice.'
UPDATE: "The Sword of Damocles hangs over Marsh Fork Elementary School."
"I started out an as activist, but founded it necessary to be a hell raiser. We are going to need hellraisers to stop this devastating practice."--Ken Hechler
Video of former US Representative Ken Hechler (D-WV), who introduced the first bill to end mountaintop removal and stripmining in 1971. As a hero to coal miners, Hechler led the campaign for better mining workplace safety and black lung laws and compensation. The 94-year-old Hechler was arrested at the Coal River action, along with coalfield residents and parents, 88-year-old West Virginia activist Winnie Fox, Daryl Hannah, and James Hansen, and Goldman Prize Award winner Judy Bonds, RAN director Michael Brune and many others.
Video link is here: http://www.youtube.com/
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Show AllThanks Ken, for the hell raising.
It is gonna take a lot more of that do stop this insanity.
Bravo to Ken Hechler and all the brave, determined folks resisting the criminal destruction of West Virginia's natural heritage. Jim Glover (below) says a lot more of that will be needed to stop the insanity. Agreed: so let us from farther away know how we can join with you. And all of us who are using electrical power in wasteful, frivolous ways...we have a continuing part to play as well. Time to recognize the steep and rising costs of our wasteful habits, and develop some new, more frugal, but life-giving ones.