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Four Anti-Mining Activists Arrested in Virginia

HeadlineDec 30, 2009

In West Virginia, state police arrested four members of the group Climate Ground Zero on Tuesday on trespass charges stemming from an action in October. The four activists were all arrested at their homes. On October 10, the activists took part in a protest at the headquarters of Walker CAT, a firm that makes heavy equipment used in mountaintop coal mining.

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