Tag: massey energy
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3/3 Newspurge: March Forth to Nightmarika
9/11 updates: video: 1st responders weigh in on new 9/11 health act* meanwhile, 9/11 firefighter dies of cancer linked to toxic dust* tsa hit by new scandal as passenger boards plane with 3 boxcutters* fbi finds ‘no credible evidence’ of 9/11 cell call* background: how 9/11 was done* flashback: the 9/11 omission hearings from 9/9/04*…
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union & families sue to open fed probe into wv coal mine explosion
update: crack found in floor of wv mine where 29 died from democracy now: Just a few weeks before the April 20th explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf, twenty-nine coal miners died after an explosion at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. Although the Mine Safety and Health Administration…
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Interview w/Reverend Billy On Mountaintop Revival
The day before the Montcoal catastrophe was Easter Sunday and a group of activist/artists converged on NYC bank branches where they “deposited” mounds of murdered dirt from Coal River Mountain on the floors of ATM lobbies.
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west virginia worry: 25+ killed in massey coal mine explosion
25 dead in west virginia mine blast, worst since 1984 related: rev billy placed ‘holy hex’ on jpmorgan over wv moutaintop removal* from ap: A huge underground explosion blamed on methane gas killed 25 miners in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1984, and rescuers on Tuesday began a dangerous and possibly futile attempt…