About a dozen people from four different groups did street theater at the state capitol. It was fun to clap for Joe Manchin getting the award—even though Don Blankenship made a pretty good case that he deserved it more, and they got into quite a tussle over it. King Coal was there spreading money around and making evil remarks as usual but ended up lamenting for the good old days of the nineteenth century, after the young people with green jobs, and Ms Bug, swept the politicians off the stage. Everybody enjoyed my ms Bug costume--if you haven't seen the Walker machinery commercials defending mountaintop removal coal, you can find them here: http://www.walkercat.com/index.php/www/community/media
There is a report with two photos at itsgettinghotinhere; we will be adding video soon, hopefully also including the part I didn’t see, where an attempt was made to deliver the Foolie award to Manchin’s actual office.
If we had known the weather would actually be decent, we could have staged our event in a place with passers-by. Two TV stations were there but as far as I know a single 30 second clip was all that ran. A Washington Post photographer arrived in time for the second run-through (he and the reporter he's attached to are doing a story on mountaintop removal mining). But we got our own video, and we have the costumes and script (I’m not sure whether we still have the award or not), so perhaps there will be an encore performance some day…



