Protesters Remain Perched Above Bee Tree Mine

• {West Virginia}...Two strip-mining protesters, Catherine-Ann MacDougal and Becks Kolins, affiliated with Radical Action for Mountain People's Survival, have spent more than 10 days on a platform atop an oak tree 80 feet above the ground near the Bee Tree surface mine on Coal River Mountain in Boone County. The mine is owned by Virginia's Alpha Natural Resources. Their mission is to non-violently bring an end to strip mining in Appalachia.