Protesters call for the end of mountaintop removal for mining (many arrested) - pics

[Kadie]

Protesters gather in front of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.


Protesters, including a man on stilts called "Uncle Scam" gather in front of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.


Maggie Fry of Huntington W.Va. , shouts with other protesters in front of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.


Protesters gather in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.


A protester yells as he marches in front of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.



Law enforcement stand ready as protesters sit in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration calling for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.


A protester (R) is arrested for staging a sit-in as environmentalists and other protesters rallying outside the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2010, urge the Obama administration to end mountaintop mining. Hundreds gathered targeting a coal removal process they say pollutes water and causes other environmental calamities.


A protester (C) is arrested for staging a sit-in as environmentalists and other protesters rallying outside the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2010, urging the Obama administration to end mountaintop removal mining. Hundreds gathered targeting a coal removal process they say pollutes water and causes other environmental calamities.


A protester (L) is arrested for staging a sit-in as environmentalists and other protesters rallying outside the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2010, urging the Obama administration to end mountaintop removal mining. Hundreds gathered targeting a coal removal process they say pollutes water and causes other environmental calamities.


A protester is arrested for staging a sit-in as environmentalists and other protesters rallying outside the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2010, urging the Obama administration to end mountaintop removal mining. Hundreds gathered targeting a coal removal process they say pollutes water and causes other environmental calamities.


A protester (C) is arrested for staging a sit-in as environmentalists and other protesters rallying outside the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2010, urge the Obama administration to end mountain top mining. Hundreds gathered targeting a coal removal process they say pollutes water and causes other environmental calamities.


A protester is arrested in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration against the coal industry and call for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.


A protester is arrested in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 27, 2010, during a demonstration against the coal industry and call for the end of mountaintop removal for mining.

[Swamp Rat]

1. k&r

[gratuitous]

2. Today's null set

Popular media coverage of these demonstrators.

Meanwhile, let's have some more fawning reportage on the Tea Baggers as they continue their valiant struggle against orthography and the oppression of the overclass.

[Kadie]

5. Nothing on cable news?

No surprise. I guess everyone is going to have to start stapling tea bags to themselves to get any attention paid to them.

[COLGATE4]

3. Not to worry. With Senator Rand Paul your problems will all

be over. Now, nothing to see here - move along.

[Panaconda]

4. K&R n/t

[w4rma]

6. Looks like a media blackout of the event. (nt)

[Kadie]

13. Did any news channels cover it?

I only watched a bit of news tonight. Didn't see anything mentioned.

[Chemical Bill]

7. It's great to see the kids stepping up like that.

I wonder if the gray hairs I saw at Vietnam rallies thought that about me?

Bill

[flvegan]

8. Has anyone called them terrorists yet?

[stuntcat]

9. omg I wish I'd gone

I went to the march on the DC coal plant last year!! I was going to go today but I wimped out at the last minute, I can't drive and it takes so long to get there from my suburb of VA.. that's a horrible excuse, I know x(

These pictures are great, TY!!

[CBR]

10. K&R End mountaintop removal NOW!!! nt

[antigone382]

11. kick

and recommend.

[antigone382]

12. kick

and recommend.