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Hundreds March Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

Blair, West Virginia - Hundreds of people marched 50 miles through the West Virginia coal fields to Blair Mountain in opposition to the coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal, in which the tops of mountains are sliced off to get at the underlying coal. Blair Mountain, site of a historic 1921 battle between coal miners and the industry's hired gunmen, is now threatened with mountaintop removal.

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Image Description:	Blair, West Virginia - Hundreds of people marched 50 miles through the West Virginia coal fields to Blair Mountain in opposition to the coal-mining technique known as mountaintop removal, in which the tops of mountains are sliced off to get at the underlying coal. Blair Mountain, site of a historic 1921 battle between coal miners and the industry's hired gunmen, is now threatened with mountaintop removal.
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