Activists To Rally For Mine Workers' Rights Today

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

Dozens of workers’ rights activists will rally outside the Press Club at 11:30A today to tell Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship - whose company owns the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia where 29 miners were killed on April 5th - that “lives are more important than profits.” Protestors will meet in the AFL-CIO lobby, 815 16th Street, NW at 11:20A and walk to the event. Email ammorris@aflcio.org for more information. - photo: Terry Cooper, his wife Michele, daughter Tera, 16, and son Justin, 11, comfort each other during a candlelight vigil in Montcoal, West Virginia April 10, 2010; photo courtesy John Gress/Reuters