Yesterday I was checking my email one last time for the evening when an email message from Vern Haltom popped up...very sad news to end the day on that long-time activist Judy Bonds had made the transition. Jeff Biggers' tribute at Huffington Post will, I'm sure, be one of thousands in the next few weeks as we mourn the loss of a mountain warrior and advocate for our stewardship of planet Earth. Excerpt:
As one of the great visionaries to emerge out of the coalfields, Julia "Judy" Bonds reminded the nation that her beloved Appalachians had been to the mountaintop--and in her passing last night, thousands of anti-mountaintop removal mining and New Power activists from around the country are reminding the Obama administration and the country's environmental justice movement of Bonds' powerful legacy and parting words to "don't let up, fight harder and finish off" the outlaw ranks of Big Coal and end the egregious crime of mountaintop removal.
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