In other recent news regarding environmentalists running into trouble with the law, a United Mountain Defense volunteer, Matt Landon Jones and two journalists were recently arrested for trespassing in Knoxville, Tennessee after photographing at the site of the Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash disaster that occurred last year. “These arrests are part of a pattern of harassment of UMD volunteers by TVA,” said Jones. “TVA has tried to prevent United Mountain Defense from conducting independent water testing, deploying air monitoring, and working with the community of Roane County and they have consistently harassed me while doing this work.”
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This is so wrong
Sick. That’s like right out of Deliverance. But I’ve seen worse–pepper spray right into the eyes of protestors, from 2-3 inches away, and the resultant crying of young male and female student protestors, from pain and fear, in Humboldt County, northern California. (a peaceful sit-in protesting tree-logging).