Open Thread

Speaking out against mountaintop removal in the coalfields has serious consequences, bulletmarks courtesy of ?…

This headstone is in Larry Gibsons family cemetery.

Larry says that its easy to get the attention of national and even international media (he’s even spoken to the UN), but it is impossible to get a local paper to run a letter-to-the-editor opposing anything coal wants to do.

When they hang your pets, shoot up your family’s headstones, physically engage and intimidate you…thats not politics anymore. That is company sponsored terrorism.

About JW Randolph

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.