Peacefully Protesting Coal-Fired Crimes Leads to Arrests

Peacefully Protesting Coal-Fired Crimes Leads to Arrests
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Yesterday eight peaceful protesters on Chicago's Fisk Coal Plant painted the message "Quit Coal" on the 450-foot smokestack looming over the city's Southside Pilsen neighborhood.

The protestors are scheduled to appear in court later today to find out their charges.

Eight different activists who were arrested across town for blockading a barge full of coal have been released and charged with misdemeanors.

Coal fired power plants kill between 13,000 and 34,000 people a year from heart disease, cancer, and respiratory illness. The Nation reported "Nearly 500 coal-fired power plants remain in use in the U.S.. Most of them, like Fisk and Crawford, are very old and very dirty."

With our health and lives at risk the time has come to Quit Coal in Chicago and across the nation.

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