Peabody Coal moves meeting to Wyoming to avoid protesters

[gejohnston]

and gets protesters.

http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/3-arrested-peabody-coal-shareholder-meeting-gillette

GILLETTE, WY-- Peabody Energy shareholders affiliated with Powder River Basin Resource Council, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), CO-FORCE (Coloradans for Fair Rates and Clean Energy), and Forgotten People from Black Mesa/Big Mountain in Arizona converged in Gillette, Wyoming, on Monday, April 29, 2013, at Peabody’s Annual General Meeting. Peabody has always held its meeting near its headquarters in St. Louis, but moved it this year to avoid public scrutiny. After the meeting, an activist affiliated with MORE was arrested dropping a banner saying, “Peabody Attacks: Pensions, Diné Lands, Climate.” 2 other activists were arrested for holding up banner in the parking lot that said "Peabody Abandons Miners."

[lob1]

1. K&R.

Paradise is a great song from a great album.

[rug]

2. News worth waiting for!

Keep it up Wyoming!

[montanacowboy]

3. I love that John Prine song!

having grown up in the coal fields of eastern Ohio and West Virginia, playing on the slag heaps of the Y & O Coal Co. I remember the houses where the miners lived and the store where they had to shop as they were paid in script. The creeks ran red with the runoff. My grandfather was killed in the coal mines. John L Lewis was king then and a Union Leader like no other. Those fucking coal companies - damn them to hell.