Yesterday, four individuals halted blasting on Coal River Mountain. They are now charged with trespassing, conspiracy, obstruction, and littering; bail has been set at $2,000 cash-only per-person.
Nick Martin enjoying some cowboy coffee after his release from jail.
Early this morning, we were able to bail Nick Martin out of jail. He gladly gave his thoughts on the action, “I’m proud to have been part of something that successfully stopped blasting. This act of nonviolent civil disobedience is only a small piece of a resounding call to save Coal River Mountain.”
The powerful actions of our friends did not go unnoticed by community members. Bo Webb, a resident of Naoma said, “The people of the Coal River Valley who are threatened by this sludge dam failure are appreciative, at least I am very appreciative, and proud of these folks to risk arrest of themselves in order to protect this community.”
In light of his return home, Nick further stated, “I am glad to be out of jail and back in a loving community of friends, thanks to everyone who supported us during this action. I can’t wait to see the others and I hope we can bail them out soon.”
Laura Von Dohlen, Grace Williams, and Dea Goblirsch will remain in jail until we can gather enough donations to bail them out as well. Please donate to our legal fund in order to support our brave friends by clicking the “Legal” button below.
Why was the guy first priority for release? While the women are still in jail??
Cause he is so darned cute, that’s why!
Yea Sara, he’s real cute, sitting there with that CANCER stick between his fingers. Don’t preach to me about clean water,air or anything else Mr Martin until you clean your own act up.
oh! the voyeur strikes again with his dreaded wit and pointed commentary…
on cigarettes.
his verbal skills and rhetoric are fine tuned hippie berating weapons of scorn and criticism.
and he is always right.
i’m gonna quit nicotine today because of The Watcher’s sharp observations and pronouncements of truth.
Really?
lets make something real clear you hypocrisy hunting homeboy:
everyone on this planet as their own hypocrisies and weaknesses – you included. You are not Jesus or Buddha and neither is any activist. Nor does any activist claim to be perfect despite your straw man style arguments proclaiming otherwise.
AND, the notion that smoking cigarettes is pollution (self or otherwise) compared to what comes out of factory smokestacks and discharge pipes is PATHETIC and demonstrates only exceptional straw grasping attempts on your part.
AND, smoking cigarettes and using tobacco is a personal choice. Watching your land base being destroyed for short term profit is something imposed by external forces.
AND, since you seem to enjoy making anti-cigarette comments on this site I will pull a page from your playbook:
Why do you hate the American Tobacco Farmer? He has a right to gainful employment. The tobacco farmer needs to eat and he has a right to grow that tobacco. Why are you part of the liberal conspiracy to destroy the American Tobacco Farmer and the free market for nicotine laden products? Why do you hate my freedom?
I mean,
Really?
I HATE NICOTINE, AMEN WATCHER. Oh and the person referring to Buddha, he is a fake. Jesus is real. You lost that argument statement or whatever you tried to do….to me it was blah blah blah. All four protesters….GO home to your families for Thanksgiving! To the smoker…people say there cheaper in Kentucky….so please go there. Happy Thanksgiving
Hey smoker, I watched a loved one suffer for thirty days on a respirator before passing away from smoking related lung cancer, so you see I’ve ben there. I sincerely hope you have the courage for you and your loved ones to quit this filthy habit.
You need to get a job you dam bum….
man, I can’t believe y’all want to keep mountaintop removal going strong, but you want to destroy the good patriotic Americans that grow tobacco!
so you want to keep a way of life that destroys our land base (mountaintop removal), but you want to destroy a way of life (tobacco farming – flawed as it is), that keeps our land base intact …
Watcher lost kin to tobacco so he criticizes smoking…
guess what pal,
all these protesters have lost kin to mountaintop removal, so…
of course, I’d like to see what your fellow miners who enjoy a smoke or a dip have to say about y’alls desire to destroy the tobacco farmers of America and your unAmerican efforts to deny the rest of us our legal rights to use tobacco.
gosh, you tried point out “our” hypocrisy, but guess what?
Hey American,Alex,Gem or John, smoke all y’all want just do it indoors,I sure don’t care. In case you’r interested,according to the W H O ( World Health Organization) one billion,and that’s with a B pal, will die from smoking by the end of the century. 5.4 million die each year , or one every six seconds. If that don’t wise you up pal, nothing will.
The last time I checked the taxes on tobacco do not go back into the community as do coal severance taxes so find another excuse to defend your dispicable habbit. I would expect this reaction, there is a smoker in the WHITE HOUSE, who you depend on. By the way how about petitioning the great President and asking him to have activists and MTR miners over for a beer to find common ground while your at it. Everyone knows how much a beer has helped us find common ground. You are correct but it eats at you huh? It is your right and someday you’ll know how to take it when someone has THE EQUAL RIGHT to say don’t do it in my presence. See it’s hiliarious when something we say hurts. You guys can learn how to take us as we have come to learn how to deal with you. I sure hope someone is pedal powering your PC as you comment here, or I must say your nothing more than a hypocrite…who smokes. Winter officially starts soon, the Energy rate is going up, all trees should stand, oil is bad to burn, and natural gas is not as much in demand than we originally thought, and the sun is only out for about 10 hours a day. Stay warm!
How bout it american, let’s see your numbers of kin lost to mountain top mining compared to the numbers lost to you’r filthy, filthy equal opportunity habit.
I am more than uninterested in the unproductive arguing that’s going on in these comments, I’m a little depressed by it.
I am VERY interested, however, in how close the 3 people in jail are to being released. How much more money needs to be raised?
Thoughts are with them!