Damon Morgan

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Our first stop on the Appalachian Tour was to meet Damon Morgan. Mr. Morgan is an 84-year old retiree who returned to his family land after a career on the railways. His plans for a quiet retirement were scuttled when mining companies began surveying his land for mountain top removal to get at the coal below. Mr. Morgan has received an education by fire in political activism, and has traveled to Central America to share what he has learned with indigenous people fighting to save their land.

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For more background and the human face of mountain top removal, see Erik Reece's Death of a Mountain