Voices from the Mountains and Appalachia Rising travel to DC. More than a 1000 Appalachians and concerned citizens gather in DC to call for an end to mountaintop removal strip mining and the beginning to serious investment in sustainable economic diversification in Appalachia. The weekend included two full days of strategizing workshops, learning, featured speaker panels and discussions, cultural events, and entertainment followed by 2,000 people taking action at the White House and the agencies that permit mountaintop removal: the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Interior, and Army Corps of Engineers. We also paid a visit to the financiers of mountaintop removal at PNC Bank. 114 people were arrested while taking their stand in an act of non-violent civil disobedience at the White House.