Some things are better with their tops left ON.

Over 520 Appalachian Mountains have been destroyed, covering and poisoning more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams due to Mountaintop Removal coal mining.  More than 7 percent of Appalachian forests have been cut down.  Three million pounds of explosives are used in the mountains of West Virginia alone every working day.  Coalfield residents live with increased flooding, blasting that cracks the foundations of their homes, floating coal dust, and poisoned water supplies.  Mountaintop removal literally blows the tops off of mountains and destroys, not just the surrounding communities, but the headwaters of the entire Southeastern United States. 

We are ALL connected.  We ALL live downstream.

 

 
 

 

 

The Topless America Project


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**Topless America: 10-24-09 Chicago 350 Climate Action Video**

 


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The Mission of Topless America

Topless America is a collaboration of students, artists and activists stemming from many different backgrounds, geographical and cultural. We are dedicated to documenting the fight against America’s coal industry, and the preservation and protection of the land and people of the United States. Our mission aims to raise the public awareness of the origins of electricity and supports a higher perception of America’s relationship with energy.

Mountaintop Removal Mining
Although we are based in Chicago, Topless America is dedicated to the preservation of the land and heritage of American mountains. We support all artistic forms, which educate people on mountaintop removal mining and its irreversible damage to our environment, country and people. We strive to unite those from the east coast to the west coast in the fight against mountaintop removal.

Clean Air and Water
Topless America fights for the rights of Americans to have clean air to breathe and water to drink and bath in. We recognize that every stream, river and sea are connected and if one waterway is poisoned they all are poisoned. Topless America lobbies to fight for clean air and water for everyone. Currently we are lobbying the Clean Water Protection Act (HR - 1310) and the Appalachia Restoration Act (S - 696), which will stop coal companies from poisoning the headwaters and streams with heavy metals and chemicals.

 

We are currently in post production of our feature length documentary covering the last few years of the grassroots movement against mountaintop removal in the United States - tentatively titled "Topless America", release date TBA.
 


Contact Information

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Copyright © 2010 The Topless America Project - Photography by Mary Kroeck, Kat Wallace, & Amy Omernik
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