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Mark June 23 on Your Calendar-One of Summer's Big Events
Stop Black Lung, Attend a Rally Thursday (May 8)
Couch Potato Alert-So Much to View!
Please mark your calendar now! Save Monday June 23, 5 p.m. (arrive a little early!) for a multi-state, multi-group action. This event was conceived at OVEC's Fourth Summit for the Mountains. Most likely, we will have actions in Lexington, KY, Charleston, WV and Pittsburgh, PA. (The Pennsylvania action may be elsewhere.) The focus will be mountaintop removal and, in Pennsylvania, longwall mining. We need you and your family and friends at these events! Stay tuned for more details. If you want to know more now, please e-mail your phone number and we'll give you a call.
MAY 8 RALLY-STOP BLACK LUNG DISEASE
On Thursday, May 8 at 11 a.m. at the State Capitol, please join the United Mine Workers of America in rallying against the Mine Safety and Health Administration's proposed new coal dust regulations. The MSHA proposal could expose miners to 4 times the dust currently allowed by law! Even under the current law, miners are still getting black lung disease! The UMWA says it needs as many people as possible to fight this proposal and protect coal miners. UMWA president Cecil Roberts is the keynote speaker.
FLYOVER FESTIVAL--ANOTHER BIG EVENT IN JUNE
Our friends at Kentuckians For The Commonwealth are hosting a free Flyover Festival on Saturday, June 14 (rain date Sunday, June 15) at the Hazard, KY airport. Activities include flyovers of mountaintop removal operations, lots of music and teach-ins-a family event. Visit www.kftc.org or call KFTC at 606-878-2161 for more information.
Please visit www.savethecleanwateract.org and fill in the form to tell your legislators you want them to stop Bush and Company's latest attack on the Clean Water Act. Learn all about it at this website. (And check out OVEC's photo of Monroe Cassady at the scene of the huge, Oct. 2000 mountaintop removal coal sludge impoundment disaster.)
The CD of music about mountaintop removal that was the brain child of Jen Osha, and which has had input from many creative folks, is nearing completion. The title is "Moving Mountains." We need a subtitle. Any ideas? If so, e-mail to vivian@ohvec.org for forwarding to Jen.
FTAA and River Series Remember to check the OVEC calendar website page for upcoming events. Find complete details there about the May 17 Conference on Free Trade Area of the Americas. THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 9. A $15 registration fee covers lunch and materials. Send name and address with check payable to Justice and Life Office to: Carol Warren, Justice & Life Office, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, 600 Shrewsbury St. #6, Charleston, WV 25301.
Another upcoming event posted on the calendar page: May 23 - 7:30 p.m. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship's (520 Kanawha Blvd. West, Charleston) River Series continues with guest speaker Rev. Fred Small, a UU minister from Littleton, MA, who will address "Wake Now My Senses: The Religious Imperative of Earth Stewardship."
If you have the skills to make social and environmental change, here's a way to use them! The Citizens Coal Council seeks a Program and Development Coordinator, to be based in Denver, Colorado. If you would like the complete job description, e-mail ccc6@mindspring.com.
COUCH POTATO ALERT--SO MUCH TO VIEW!
RAZING APPALACHIA May 20, 10 p.m.-The documentary "Razing Appalachia" airs as part of PBS's "Independent Lens" series. The film includes many activists you may well know.
HEADWATERS SERIES Watch the "Headwaters: Real Stories from Rural America" series on West Virginia Public Television at 10 p.m. beginning May 16-NINE stunning Appalshop documentaries, including many programs that will most likely be of high interest to OVEC members and supporters.
For the complete schedule: www.appalshop.org/headwaters
Selected programs: May 16--- A Place in the Country: Featuring a segment on S.A.F.E. (Stop Abusive Family Environments) in McDowell County, Ray Suarez from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer hosts this look at the challenges facing rural America and the efforts of grassroots community development groups around the country to help small towns and rural residents improve their economies and quality of life. (A co-production with the Center for Rural Strategies and Rural LISC)
June 13--- Rough Side of the Mountain: Documents the "steel ceiling" encountered by many poor rural communities as they struggle to develop new economies in hard hit areas.
June 20--- To Save the Land and People: A history of the early grassroots efforts to stop strip mining in eastern Kentucky, the program makes a powerful statement about the land and how we use it, and how its misuse conflicts with local culture and values.
July 4--- Coal Bucket Outlaw: Built around a day in the life of a Kentucky coal truck driver, the program gives Americans a direct look at where our energy comes from, and reveals the human and environmental price we pay for our national addiction to fossil fuels.
July 11--- Stranger with a Camera: An encore presentation of this award-winning exploration of the relationship between media makers and the communities they portray in their work.
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