The Friends of Blair Mountain website says the event is set to begin in Marmet June 6.
Labor union members, preservationists, environmental activists and others plan to march 10 miles a day, arriving in Blair June 11 and making the final push to the mountain’s crest.
Blair Mountain was briefly added to the National Register of Historic Places, then removed when landowners complained.
Federal law bars sites from inclusion when a majority of landowners object.
The event commemorates the 90th anniversary of the 1921 uprising by organizing coal miners.
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Online:
Friends of Blair Mountain: http://www.friendsofblairmountain.org/2011/02/13/631/
But, oh no, the coal industry wants to destroy the most historic site in Logan Co. by the Mountain Top Removal Mining method.
The Blair Mountain site is a symbol that represents the people rising up against the dastardly coal industry to bring Union representation and human rights to the miners of the Southern coal fields.
The coal industry wants to remove this Union and human rights symbol from the face of the Earth.
This was something that the coal industry did not provide the miners at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Raleigh, Co. W.Va. or the Aracoma Alma Mine in Logan County.