Mike Roselle is an American environmental activist and author. Roselle is one of the co-founders of the radical environmental organization Earth First!

Earth First!

Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group that emerged in the Southwestern United States in 1979. It was co-founded on April 4th, 1980 by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, and less directly, Bart Koehler and Ron Kezar....

, as well as of Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, USA. The organization was founded by Randy "Hurricane" Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, with the financial help of Fund for Wild Nature....

, the Ruckus Society

Ruckus Society

The Ruckus Society is a nonprofit organization that sponsors skill-sharing and direct action training camps for activists from impacted communities working on social justice, human rights, and environmental justice...

, and Climate Ground Zero

Climate Ground Zero

Climate Ground Zero , founded in February 2009, is a non-violent civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal mining based in the southern coalfields of West Virginia...

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Roselle states that he has been arrested about 50 times in his career; he says that "it's hard to remember them all anymore."

Roselle currently lives in Rock Creek, West Virginia, where he is campaigning against Massey Energy

Massey Energy

Massey Energy Company was a coal extractor in the United States with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. By revenue, it was the fourth largest producer of coal in the United States and the largest coal producer in Central Appalachia...

, a leading practicer of mountaintop removal coal mining.