Why would we even care about Ms. Hannah being arrested and refer you to an article she wrote for The Huffington Post? The fact is, she’s a whole lot more than a great looking actress…
Daryl Hannah is an outspoken, gutsy activist who is willing to do a lot more than simply attach her face to a cause. She engages in the causes she believes in, like animal rights, saving our environment and many others and then fights for them.
Read about the lengths she (and others) are willing to go to stop mountain top removal (MTR). MTR is a devastatingly destructive form of mining and has already destroyed 2,000,000 acres in the Appalachian Mountains.
Coal companies have literally blown up over 500 mountain tops to access the coal seams and then dumped the refuse into the valleys below, killing over 3000 miles of headwater streams. The EPA just gave the go ahead for an additional 42 mountaintops to be blown off with another 6 permits pending.
By the way, if you look closely at Daryl’s wrist in the photo above taken in West Virginia, you’ll see she’s wearing the new “I’m Tired of Coal” bracelet. We introduced this bracelet to help support the efforts of our newest charity partners, the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and The Power Project, both actively involved in halting MTR and finding alternative sources of energy to coal.
