Sep
05
2012

Judy’s Plank: Democratic Party Platform Must Call for End to Mountaintop Removal Crime

http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/jeffbiggers/judys-plank-democratic-party-platform-must-call-end-mountaintop-removal-crim-0

The Democrats have nothing to lose. And everything to gain–especially the health and lives of residents in the coal mining areas of central Appalachia.

Calling it “Judy’s plank,” in honor of beloved West Virginia mountaineer Judy Bonds, whose untimely death in 2011 served as a wakeup call to the mounting humanitarian and health care crises from mountaintop removal mining, the Democratic Party platform should officially include a commitment for an immediate moratorium on the devastating form of strip mining at their national convention in Charlotte on September 4th.

 

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