community-based, non-corporate, participatory media
community-based, non-corporate, participatory media
Rally for Clean Energy—Health, Jobs, & Energy Independence
by matt toups
Thursday, Jun. 09, 2005 at 3:37 PM
mtoups@indymedia.org (email address validated)
On Tuseday June 7th, Mountain Justice Summer activists join locals from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia for a Rally for Clean Energy in downtown Pittsburgh. The rally was held in opposition to the National Coal Show held in the Convention Center that week.
imgp2699.jpg, image/jpeg, 2288x1712
(Above: Beverly Braverman of the Tri-State Citizens Mining Network of Washington, PA speaks at the pre-march rally downtown. Behind her is 8-year-old Rebecca Podrosky.)
Canaries in the Coalfields and Tri-State Citizens Mining Network organized a march and rally downtown to confront the Coal Industry at their national show at the David Lawrence Convention Center. Speakers addrsesed a crowd of 60-80 people at both ends of the march, marchers sung "16 Tons" and "Bella Ciao" with the Steel City Gum Bandits on the march, denounced the offices of Duquesne Light on Liberty Avenue, and ended outside the Convention Center as Coal Executives and their vendors gathered outside . Old and young residents came from Pittsburgh, where air quality is poor due to coal-fired power, from surrounding counties in Pennsylvania affected by longwall mining, and from West Virginia where the landscape is being destroyed by Mountaintop Removal Mining. Also, activists from Mountain Justice Sum mer travelled to Pittsburgh for the events.
On the previous Sunday a conference was held on Coal Mining's costs and empacts on communities, the environment, and workers, as well as realistic alternatives. See June 6th's Rustbelt Radio for coverage and audio of the conference.
Coal Kills -- Clean Energy Now
by matt toups
Thursday, Jun. 09, 2005 at 3:37 PM
mtoups@indymedia.org
coal_kills_convention_center.jpg, image/jpeg, 1384x1756
The crowd gathers outside the National Coal Show at the David Lawrence Convention Center. Convention attendees look down from above. (Conventions that day included both the Coal Show as well as a corporate meeting of American Eagle Outfitters)
Pittsburgh welcomes Longwall USA
by matt toups
Thursday, Jun. 09, 2005 at 3:37 PM
mtoups@indymedia.org
pittsburgh_welcomes_longwall_usa.jpg, image/jpeg, 1077x432
Seen at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
![[masthead]](/images/masthead_140.png)