West Virginia

A Fascist Organization Set Up Shop In Their Town, Residents Fought Back

July 27, 2026 Shane Burley, Truthout. Resist! Appalachia, Community Defense, Fascism, West Virginia

There is a certain symmetry to what we have experienced over the past decade of collapsing national consensus and far right radicalization. In cities and small towns around the country, people are watching as their friendships break down along lines of political or moral agreement, and as the shadow of white nationalism towers over even the most seemingly idyllic environments. This is the conflict that researcher and journalist Michael Edison Hayden found when looking at Berkeley Springs, a small and astoundingly beautiful corner of West Virginia nestled along the edge of Appalachia, where the anti-immigrant group VDARE, a popular far right publication founded in 1999 that mixed edgy Republicans like Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter with explicit white nationalists, decided to purchase a literal castle to use as its home base.

Private Profits Over Public Safety In Warehouse Fire

July 18, 2026 West Virginia Bureau, Workers World. Resist! Fires, pollution, Profiteering, West Virginia

Firefighters are fighting a massive fire at a plastics warehouse of Peoples Cartage in Parkersburg, West Virginia, while the surrounding community has been made to shelter in place as the state and federal governments monitor the air for noxious smoke. West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey declared a State of Emergency for Wood County as pitch black plumes of smoke were seen across the Mid-Ohio Valley. The specific cause of the fire is reportedly not yet known, but there is strong evidence that Peoples Cartage neglected safety problems.

Teamsters’ Beverage Market Strike Enters Seventh Week

June 25, 2026 John Case, People's World. Resist! Strike, Teamsters, West Virginia, Worker Rights

A sharp, existential struggle for Teamsters Local 175 in southern West Virginia has emerged from a punitive bargaining conflict scarred by blatant unfair labor practices into a strike that is now entering its seventh week. This is an extreme example of bad faith bargaining. Around 50 members of the union who work for The Beverage Market in the capital city have reported no progress in contract negotiations. Despite the absence of any evidence or claim of financial hardship, the company demands blatant and still unexplained wage cuts, job cuts, benefit cuts, and other demands, including a contract of “indeterminant” length that would force resignations and effectively wipe out the union.

Former Strip Mine Was Planned For A Prison Until Locals Stepped In

May 19, 2026 Taysha DeVaughan, Next City. Strategize! Indigenous Activism, Land Reform, Prisons, West Virginia

Last year, the Appalachian Rekindling Project made a big move. We bought 63 acres of former strip mine land in Letcher County, Kentucky. Our $169,000 investment disrupted plans for a $505 million federal prison complex that would have caged over 1,300 people, stopping a cycle of harm that has defined Appalachia for too long. This would have become the fifth federal prison in eastern Kentucky, part of a pattern that treats incarceration as economic development. Data collected in 2021 by The Sentencing Project illustrates that Black and Indigenous people are incarcerated at four to five times the rate of white people for similar offenses.

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program

May 16, 2025 Kim Kelly, In These Times. Resist! Black Lung, Coal Miners, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), West Virginia

In a rare occasion of good news for the nation’s coal miners, a decision this week in a lawsuit brought by one of their own will reverse at least some of the damage done when the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) offices in Morgantown, W. Va., in April. That’s when hundreds of those workers had suddenly found themselves out of a job thanks to a slapdash “reorganization,” as the Elon Musk-directed wreckers in DOGE termed it. As a result, the NIOSH Respiratory Health Division and the Coal Workers Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP), whose ongoing research and health screenings are critically important in addressing the black lung epidemic stalking Appalachia’s coal miners, were left unable to function.

Protest Against Trump, Project 2025 At WV Capitol Warns Those In Power

February 7, 2025 Caity Coyne, West Virginia Watch. Resist! Donald Trump, Federal Government, Project 2025, West Virginia

More than 100 people gathered on the stairs outside the West Virginia Capitol on Wednesday with protest signs and chants to speak out against recent actions from both state and federal Republican officials. The protesters decried policies from Project 2025, a right-wing set of ideals published by the conservative Heritage Foundation as a wish-list for Donald Trump’s presidency that are now starting to be realized through federal executive orders and actions. Protesters also shared concerns with Elon Musk’s new role in the federal government and lamented state-level movements that reflect those happening on the national level.

Despised: The Poor white Trash Manifesto, Part I

December 23, 2024 Danny Shaw, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Class war, Liberal class, Poverty, West Virginia, white America

There is a material reality behind this human schism and this mutual hatred, that of the privileged white versus that of the downtrodden white. It dates back centuries and hemispheres. Whoever is not a billionaire and groups us together, erasing our class differences, does so at their own peril, and our peril as well. To group all whites together is the priority of the ruling class. We poor whites have different resentments, spiritualities and worldviews from those of our class oppressors, though we often don’t recognize it, much less know how to express it. Leftist identity politics conflate us with the foreign reality of another social class. Whose agenda does this serve?

Staring Down The Barrel Of The Mountain Valley Pipeline

July 5, 2024 Deborah Kushner, Substrack. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Mountain Valley Pipeline, pollution, West Virginia

Communities along the ROW are frequently reminded they are collateral damage to MVP. Violations here range from the immediate danger of explosion to the discovery that some of the emergency numbers on the yellow and white poles along the route are wrong, to the lack of courtesy, such as heavy construction work immediately adjacent to a convening church on a Sunday morning. Despite the green-light for the MVP to go in service, on-the-ground work in these endangered communities continues to keep themselves aware and safe. Monroe County, WV is rural Appalachia. Few roads here are 2 lanes wide, and most are a single lane. Cars pass one another by both swerving off to their respective shoulders.

Around The Mountain Valley Pipeline, Farmers Losing Access To Clean Water

June 24, 2024 Eve Andrews, Ambrook. Educate! Environment, Farmers, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Pipelines, Water, West Virginia

There are some who say the water of Monroe County, West Virginia, is the purest and best-tasting in the world — or at least it was in the 1990s. The springs on Peters Mountain, which straddles the border with Virginia, won first prize at the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting four times in that decade, beating out — as farmer Maury Johnson will tell you — the renowned municipal water of New York City. Johnson’s family has owned over 200 acres of farmland in Monroe County for 130 years, in the verdant Hans Creek Valley. Coming around the bend of a two-lane road into the valley, you behold a patchwork of dandelion-dotted pastures where small farmers raise sheep, cattle, pigs, and even a paddock of wide-eyed, statue-still deer. Underneath that farmland is a geological formation called karst, which is found throughout the greater Appalachian region.

Mine Water Is Spewing Into This West Virginia Community

June 8, 2024 Ellie Heffernan, In These Times. Educate! Accountabiity, Corporatism, Environment, pollution, Water, West Virginia

Wolf Pen, W.Va.—Trees line Tina Christian’s driveway, and the rolling mountains of southern West Virginia rise around her yard. Her grandchildren play in the peaceful creek that twists through the woods behind her trailer. Or, at least, they did — until a geyser of dirty mine water shot out of an abandoned gas well behind the home in February 2023. It flooded the yard for weeks. Now, Tina and her husband, Jamie, are afraid to have their grandchildren visit at all. “I’d hate for them to come down here and visit and spend the night, and ten years down the road, they find out they’ve got cancer from playing at momaw and popaw’s house,” Tina Christian says.

Pipeline Protester Locks Herself To Excavator On Peters Mountain

April 21, 2024 Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. Resist! Direct Action, Fossil Fuels, Mountain Valley Pipeline, West Virginia

Lindside, WV - Early Saturday morning, a pipeline fighter using the name Vole locked herself to an excavator on the West Virginia side of Peters Mountain in the Jefferson National Forest, preventing Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) from finishing construction on both sides of the mountain, next to the Appalachian Trail. Banners at the site of the action read, "DESTROY ALL PIPELINES" and "LAND BACK," and a rally of supporters gathered nearby in the National Forest. After blockading pipeline work for 5 hours, Vole was extracted from her blockade and escorted off the mountain by law enforcement.

UAW Wins Organizing Election At Volkswagen Tennessee Plant

April 20, 2024 Luke Ramseth, Portside. Organize! Alabama, Auto Workers, Unions, United Auto Workers (UAW), West Virginia, Worker Rights and Jobs

United Auto Workers achieved a historic organizing victory Friday night at a Volkswagen AG plant in Tennessee plant as workers voted overwhelmingly to join the union following a three-day election. The vote count was 2,628-985, according to unofficial results released by the automaker, the union and a National Labor Relations Board tally posted on X. "Volkswagen Chattanooga workers voted in favor of union representation in their workplace this week," the automaker said in a statement. "The vote was administered through a democratic, secret ballot vote overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. ... We will await certification of the results by the NLRB. Volkswagen thanks its Chattanooga workers for voting in this election."

Palestinians, Supporters Demand City Council Call For Cease-Fire

January 8, 2024 Otis Grotewohl, Workers' World. Resist! Anti-War, Ceasefire, City Council, Israel, Palestine, West Virginia

Charleston, West Virginia - Over 200 Palestinian and pro-Palestine activists packed a City Council meeting in Charleston, West Virginia’s capital, on Jan. 3. The crowd attended the meeting in anticipation of a vote regarding a cease-fire resolution previously proposed by progressive City Councilmember Joe Solomon, with the support of Palestinian constituents. Solomon, the only Jewish member of the 26-member City Council, is an outspoken opponent of the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine. The purpose of the resolution was to pressure the U.S. Congress to stop funding the continuous murder of Palestinian people.

Pipeline Fighter Grandfather Arrested After Blocking Drilling At Elk Crossing

November 3, 2023 Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. Resist! climate crisis, Direct Action, Fossil Fuels, Mountain Valley Pipeline, West Virginia

Webster County, WV — Early Friday morning 11/3/23, pipeline fighter Jerome locked himself to a Mountain Valley Pipeline drill at the Elk River crossing in Webster County, WV. Jerome prevented construction for over 3 hours, at which time he was extracted by law enforcement and arrested. He was charged with 4 misdemeanors, and has been released from jail. A banner at the site of Jerome's blockade read "Doom to the pipeline!" "I am the father of 3 daughters and the grandfather—soon—of 5 grandsons," Jerome stated. "I am horrified by what climate change is already doing to all life here on Earth. And I'm even more horrified that we still envision and construct projects like MVP which will only worsen the warming and deepen the chaos.

Plan To Clean Up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends In Monster Lawsuit

September 24, 2023 Justin Nobel, DeSmog. Educate! Fracking, health, Legal System, Radiation, Veolia, Water, West Virginia

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Proponents hailed it as one of the most important environmental projects undertaken by the oil and gas industry in recent U.S. history. But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company.

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