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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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Public sector employees, since they work for the government, are protected from retaliation for expressing their views. He says First Amendment rights are not “something an employee can enforce against an employer”. Moreover, federal law protects employees’ right to discuss labor-related issues.

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Women Rise Up Against War: Rae Abileah of CODEPINK

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The phenomenal woman with the giant CODEPINK truck, Sam Zanne Joi, and I traveled through the deep South and Southwest, weaving our way through little towns in the Appalachian mountains with names like War, West Virginia, and Truth and Consequences, Texas. to create the foundations of a women’s movement for peace and justice.

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