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Granny D at Marshall University Today and Tomorrow
Judy Bonds Keynote Speaker for Amnesty International Conference
Help Generate Comments For The Environmental Impact Statement on Mountaintop Removal
GRANNY D IN HUNTINGTON TODAY AND TOMORROW
90-something, cross-country-walkin,' campaign-reform-activist Granny D (www.grannyd.com) appears today at Marshall University. Please stop by her table to learn about ways you can help Granny D register voters. Today, Tuesday, Nov. 4, she'll have a table set up in the memorial Student Center at Marshall University (on Fifth Ave.) from 9 - 11 a.m. and 3 - 5 p.m.
Tomorrow, Granny D will address a MAPS (Marshall Action for Peaceful Solutions) meeting at 7 p.m. in the Drinko Library Auditorium, on Hal Greer Blvd. MAPS will also be presenting the film "School of the Assassins," followed by two other brief documentaries about the School of the Americas-the "school" that has produced some of the world's worst human rights offenders. This meeting is part of MAPS' preparation for the Nov. 22-23 vigil and direct action at the gates of the U.S. military base Fort Benning in Georgia, home of the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), where the U.S. trains the military muscle that enforces the corporate agenda throughout Latin America.
JUDY BONDS KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Go Judy! On Saturday, Nov. 8 at 9 a.m. Coal River Mountain Watch's Judy Bonds will give the keynote speech for the Nov. 7 - 9 Amnesty International Conference, held in Shepherdstown, W.Va., at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center. For more information on this event see: www.amnestyusa.org/events/mid-atlantic/regionalconference.html.
Since winning the Goldman Environmental Prize for North America for her work to end mountaintop removal, Judy has received endless invitations to speak. Read more about Judy in the Sierra Club magazine.
HELP GENERATE COMMENTS ON THE MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL EIS
When Congress and Clinton were trying to change rules governing mountaintop removal valley fills, local, regional and environmental groups worked together, calling on all of our members to submit written comments to a government agency. Together we generated over 17,000 comments and the rule change never happened!
We once again must generate massive numbers of public comments, this time on the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on mountaintop removal.
Sure, the Clinton Era was back in the good old days when so-called public servants weren't quite so blatant about being corporate lackeys. To make a difference this time, we are going to have to greatly intensify our efforts toward generating written comments. Please help! Please talk with your friends and neighbors. Ask them to make comments. The ideal thing is for each person to write an individual letter, rather than sign a form letter. Please see www.sierraclub.org/sierra/coal/ and EIS Scam. Use these documents to build your own comments.
The deadline for comments to be submitted is January 6, 2004. Please don't wait till the last minute to get others involved in the commenting process!
Comments can be e-mailed to mountaintop.r3@epa.gov.
Ideally, snail-mail your own individual comments to:
John Forren U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (3EA30) 1650 Arch St. Philadelphia, PA 19103.
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