Buses will be leaving from Southwest Virginia! The ride and meals will be provided by UMWA and the Citizens' Coal Council.

Want to have some fun? Sure you do. So plan on joining citizens groups from WV and KY, UMWA members from WV, KY and VA, and other concerned citizens from VA and DC at the rally to tell the stockholders of Massey Energy what a truly irresponsible company they are involved with. The rally will occur at the Jefferson Hotel, site of the Massey Stockholders meeting, beginning at approximately 9 am on April 16th and lasting until ?

Massey Energy subsidiary, Martin County Coal, is responsible for the 300,000 gallons of slurry spilled into the Big Sandy watershed in KY. The spill has been identified as the worst environmental spill in southeastern U.S. history. Other subsidiaries in WV have repeatedly been fined for numerous black water spills and just recently the WV Surface Mine Board ordered one of their major subsidiaries to seize operations for nine days because of a pattern of violations.

Most seriously, Massey companies neither care about the safety of their workers or the welfare of the communities they operate in. Recent statistics indicate that Massey companies were responsible for nearly 40% of the mine fatalities in WV.

SO, JOIN WITH OTHERS TO LET MASSEY STOCKHOLDERS KNOW WHAT A POOR CORPORATE NEIGHBOR THEY ARE!

9 am, April 16th - look for the crowd of angry citizens at the Jefferson Hotel!

for more details, contact:

Bill McCabe
Citizens' Coal Council
304-339-2523
stopcoalcrimes-AT-yahoo.com

The bus will leave Castlewood at midnight on Monday, and will arrive in Richmond in time for breakfast and gathering for the protest Tuesday morning. The bus will head back to Castlewood Tuesday afternoon.

For participants from the New River Valley, the bus will stop at the Ironto truck stop at exit 114 on I-81 between 2 and 3 a.m on Tuesday.

For more information on the bus, contact Jerry Stoward at 276-762-5537 (work) or 276-395-3770 (home).