Josh MacPhee
Called “strip mining on steroids,” mountaintop removal is the process by which mining companies literally rip the tops off mountains (usually with explosives), extract all the coal inside, and fill in the surrounding valley with the refuse from the mountaintop. Massive amounts of mountaintop removal in Appalachia is polluting headwaters, devastating bio-diversity in the region, and destroying a way of life for hundreds of thousands of people in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator, and activist living in Brooklyn, NY. His work often revolves around themes of history, radical politics, and public space. He co-edits Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture, organizes the Celebrate People’s History Poster Series, and is part of the political art cooperative Justseeds.org.
