Showdown in Coal Town: 16 Arrested in MJS Action
por Mountain Justice Summer Thursday, Jun. 02, 2005 at 9:54 AM
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For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elementary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up. Sixteen of the 150 participants in the Mountain Justice Summer campaign were arrested as they attempted to deliver a list of demands to the site's supervisor. Earlier in the day two campaign participants delivered the demands directly to Massey's head offices in Richmond Virginia.

Vivian Stockman with OVEC

Aerial view of the sludge dam situated above the school

Image showing the school and the coal loading silo a mere 160 feet behind it.