we're going watch week charleston west virginia the worst what do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for no school and also opens a lot of doors of the plank to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our communities this is a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tightening our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and for our kids of march fourth don't have them all. live at least for. burning of coal those for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that and humans have done it through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants in the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal one of the things that has to happen. is that the politicians the leaders o

for down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company defied all my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people who carry cholera we don't give a damn about the people on top of that mountain all we care about is profit we're making and it was the dollar i would have bought and the. know we were playing there and it is the vice president cultural production in eugene kids from massey coal one thousand nine hundred three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me for you to clear my family's cemetery and in ninety nine to now own the crater restful and eighteen goal when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen now even my own family. and i don't know about turned a corner how press the knob on a or that was there w

his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with a call come in to file my property here me i'm not family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people and carry cholera we don't give a damn about what they want to have them now and all we care about is property we will make and and that was the dollar i would have been and that's how i know we were playing there and that this is a widespread and cultural reduction in using kids from massey coal ninety nine three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites. eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me for you to clear my family cemetery and if one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now on the trade arrests in eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen not even own fami

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host: charleston, west virginia. jim on the democratic line. caller: the choice is simple for america. the party of hope versus the party of hate. the republicans hate public unions, they hate pop -- private unions, they hate welfare, they hate the port, the republicans hate the unemployed, the republicans hate health care for the poor. host: what about the overall themes of the democratic party versus the republican party and how it is playing out? guest: not playing out well for democrats this year. they are looking to lose anywhere between 20 and more than 40 seats in the house. they are going to lose probably at least five seats in the senate. the democratic party is not a good brand of this year for many reasons, but most of all, they have candidates running in districts that normally vote republican. the last two years, the last election cycle, people have not been excited about the republican party. now it seems there is just as anti washington thing going on. host: president obama has been hitting the trail and doing some speeches. his

host: charleston, west virginia. jim on the democratic line. caller: the choice is simple for america. the party of hope versus the party of hate. the republicans hate public unions, they hate pop -- private unions, they hate welfare, they hate the port, the republicans hate the unemployed, the republicans hate health care for the poor. host: what about the overall themes of the democratic party versus the republican party and how it is playing out? guest: not playing out well for democrats this year. they are looking to lose anywhere between 20 and more than 40 seats in the house. they are going to lose probably at least five seats in the senate. the democratic party is not a good brand of this year for many reasons, but most of all, they have candidates running in districts that normally vote republican. the last two years, the last election cycle, people have not been excited about the republican party. now it seems there is just as anti washington thing going on. host: president obama has been hitting the trail and doing some speeches. his

america never occurred to me so i went down to west virginia and i didn't know what to expect their memory i first knew i was driving outside of charleston and i saw the boom on one of the big drag line swinging above the hills and i pulled off the road and i hiked up through the woods to the top of this hill and i got this view down into this strip mine and it was just like hell had opened up before me. the money and the coal mining has always gone to the top and been siphoned out by the owners essentially whether their corporations are called barons like don blankenship it's a commodity business every penny they have to spend for safety for wages for health care or anything like that is money that they see coming directly out of their pocket and you know the history of coal mining is very clear on this there's no it's not a subtle thing you know this is an industry that views workers as disposable and views the landscape as disposable and it's all about getting the coal out of the ground as quickly. tolls and everything mounted love disco with you bottom yourself. and if you start out into madness you had to have those tools they don't