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February 14, 2011

Opponents of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Occupy Kentucky Governor's Office 
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Fourteen people, including the 76-year-old writer and farmer Wendell
Berry, spent the weekend locked inside the Kentucky governor's office
demanding an end to mountaintop removal coal mining. Wendell Berry spoke
to the journalist Jeff Biggers about why he was committing civil
disobedience.

Wendell Berry: "Over these years, there's been one protest after
another. One march on Frankfort after another. One visit to a legislator
after another and last year we visited the governor. And all this has
been without any perceptible political effect. No acknowledgment even
that the problems exist. And so we're doing this simply as the next
logical step. We'd exhausted all other possibilities."



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