Tag: Appalachia
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Prisoners File Unique Environmental Lawsuit Against New Federal Facility on Strip Mine Site in Kentucky
Donate to support this grassroots legal challenge! Media Contact: FightToxicPrisons@gmail.com [Lawyers, prisoners and community activists available for comment.] Photos below by Jordan Mazurek. All images available for public use, courtesy of Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons Washington, DC — Lawyers with the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons and the Abolitionist Law Center (ALC) have filed…
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Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons
June 11 – 13, 2016 in Washington D.C. June 11 and 12th – Converge and Strategize June 13th – Mass Direct Action against the Bureau of Prisons FOR OVER A DECADE, June 11th has been a day of action in solidarity with environmentalists and anarchists imprisoned for their actions in defense of the Earth. The…
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Welcome to Appalachia’s Gulag Archipelago
By Skyler Simmons / Earth First! Newswire Exile in the Mountains It is hard to imagine the hollers and hills of southern Appalachia ever being a place of punishment. With its lush coves filled with ginseng, ramps, towering oaks, and tulip poplars. Its abundant springs, creeks and rivers teaming with trout, crawdads, and hellbenders. The…
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Proposed Half-a-Billion Dollar Federal Prison Plan in East Kentucky Not a Done Deal
Comment Period on Environmental Review Forced Back Open by Concerns from Local Residents, Environmentalists and Prisoner Rights Advocates Whitesburg, KY — On Friday April 1st, 2016, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced that it was forced to re-open a public comment period for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on a maximum security federal prison in…
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Mass Incarceration Vs. Rural Appalachia
Mass Incarceration vs. Rural Appalachia by Panagioti Tsolkas / Earth Island Journal The United States Bureau of Prisons is trying to build a new, massive maximum-security prison in the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky — and there’s a growing movement to stop it. The prison industry in the US has grown in leaps and bounds…
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