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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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It’s called mountaintop removal and it is the most common mining in West Virginia and Appalachia generally. MTM SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED UNDER SMCRA MTM is a mining method that the United States government is largely responsible for creating. Another kind of mining made today’s news. It is just what the name implies.

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Humans@Work: How to Successfully Tackle HR Challenges

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Harassment, in the legal sense, is “a word that people throw around a bit too easily” says Jennifer Rodriquez, a labor and employment attorney with the Dallas based law firm Culhane Meadows. The law safeguards people from harassment based on race, age, and gender. Some jurisdictions have laws protecting employees’ political expression.

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Women Rise Up Against War: Rae Abileah of CODEPINK

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CODEPINK rejects the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law. And their actions caught like wildfire and have spread throughout the country (and world!)

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