Blue Ridge Earth First!

APPALACHIAN RESIDENTS GATHER TO MARCH ON ZEB MOUNTAIN
Citizens opposed to National Coal Corporation mining the Sundquist Wildlife Management Area
Yet another action from Mountain Justice in Defense of the Appalachian Mountains!
Please support these individuals committed to
protecting the mountains of Appalachia by sending jail
support donations to the pay pal account at
www.unitedmountaindefense.org
You can also send checks to:
P.O. Box […]

As of 6pm yesterday, everyone is out of jail.  But, please keep those donations coming if your able.  We need to pay back friends that loaned money for bail and to cover upcoming legal costs.  To donate to BREF! please login to your paypal account and send your donation to Drumplaya112@yahoo.com More updates soon!

As of 4:30 pm the 12 Blue Ridge Earth First! activists remain in police custody awaiting bail. After speaking directly with the detained individuals, they are doing well but eager for their release. Bonding alone is going to cost $1,200 to $2,400 and BREF! continues to accept donations, both through paypal to Drumplaya112@yahoo.com or […]

Here is a link to Beth Wellingtons blog which contains more information regarding the action and arrest of 12 blue ridge earth first members. Please give your support to those 12 compassionate BREF! members who place our shared human interest above their own personal welfare. As of 2:30pm the activists are still being […]

Hello Fellow Activists,
This morning in Richmond, Virginia 12 activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! were arrested while participating in a blockade of the Dominion property on Tredegar Street. The blockade was to protest the development of Dominion’s coal-fired power plant in Wise County, VA and the construction of new reactors at […]

September 2006 – Dominion Power announces plans to build a dirty coal plant in southwest Virginia.
June 2007 – Mountain Justice holds a “cradle to grave” march from Mountaintop Removal mogul Massey Energy offices to Dominion offices in downtown Richmond to point out that from extraction to combustion there is no such […]

Thanks Asheville Ben for posting.
 

   
This past Tuesday (April 15th) I was blessed by my creator and honored by my friends to participate in a blockade that shut down Dominion Power’s headquarters for close to two hours at the beginning of the work day. The action was taken by Blue Ridge Earth First!, a Virginia-based chapter of the decentralized global […]

Come to Virginia to defend the mountains and all the life that dwells therein!
From May to August of 2008, Blue Ridge Earth First! will
be hosting volunteers in Virginia to work on the Mountain Justice
campaign to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Currently the main
focus of our work in Virginia is in challenging Dominion Power’s
proposed coal-fired […]

PLease Check out host group’s website for more info on how you can help support those arrested!
www.earthfirst2008oc.info
Blockade Shuts Down South Florida Power Plant Construction, 27 Arrested!
Feb 19th, 2008
Early Monday morning dozens of concerned community members from Palm Beach County and all over the nation put their bodies on the line to halt construction of FPL’s […]