OVEC Action Alerts Archive - 2003

OVEC Action Alerts for 2003 are archived below
Current OVEC Action Alerts

December 18, 2003  Latest Newsletter On-Line; We Need Your Support; Clean Elections Act Moves Forward; Make Sure Your Vote Counts; A Holiday Ode To The Energy Bill; Moving Mountains CD; Job Openings With WV Rivers Coalition

December 3, 2003  Environmental Impact Statement Comments Needed; Reminder-Support Clean Elections Act; Road Show Rolling; Woody Harrelson's Website Asking Folks to Help End MTR

November 24, 2003  Get the Dirt Out—Take Action For The WV Clean Elections Act!; Calls on The Energy Bill Still Needed; Blair Mountain And MTR—Help Us Locate A Historian; Kennedy on MTR--Read Up, Act Up!; FTAA Protestors Brutalized By Miami Police; Catch Up On What Happened At The SOA Protest

November 20, 2003  PLEASE Call Today About The Energy Bill; Support The E-Council Lobby Team; No FTAA; Granny D Update

November 18, 2003  Bring Back Jack!; Please Call-In Tomorrow In Support of Clean Elections; Any Doubt Why We Need Clean Elections Reforms?; Call Today To Stop The Energy Bill; Easy Web Actions On The Corrupt Energy Bill

November 13, 2003  Spadaro In Salon; Spadaro On Earth; Two Events Tonight; Charleston-Area Folks--Please Come Out Monday Evening; Clean Elections On The Air; Judy Bonds And Cindy Rank Speak in Fairmont Nov. 18; Job Openings With CORA And KFTC

November 8, 2003 Get Mucked Tonight; Energy Bill Committee Meets Monday-Call your Legislators in DC; EPA Hearing From You; Help Spread the Word; Nov. 13 Clean Elections Forum; Lunar Eclipse Tonight; Granny D's Speech

November 4, 2003  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

November 1, 2003  Granny D In Morgantown Sunday; Appalachians And Activism; DECAF And Sludge; Hear Cindy; The Energy Conspiracy; Remember OVEC For Your Holiday Gifts

October 28, 2003  Please Come Out Tonight; Granny D and Thee; Easy Web Action for Clean Elections; Read Some More On Sludge; Blackwater Halloween

October 24, 2003  Please Come Out Tuesday To Support Cindy Rank; We Sue Army Corps of Engineers Over Illegal Permitting Practices; Protect the Abandoned Mine Lands Fund; Reminders; Weekend Sludge Reader

October 3, 2003  Correction; Come Out Oct. 11; Please Volunteer Oct. 18; New York Times Editorial-Rule That Work

September 24, 2003  Tonight--Bowling For Columbine; We Win!; Coal Sludge Impoundment Haring Tomorrow; Help Granny D in WV; Call Today For The Forests; Easy Web Action--Say No to Mike Leavitt!

September 19, 2003  Sept. 23--Meet With DEP Chief; Sept 23-Call-In For the Forests; Victory in Kentucky!; Easy Web Action for Clean Water; Dining for Clean Water; Reminders

September 12, 2003  Yes! Supreme Court to Hear The Miller's Case; Monday-Cheney in Charleston; OVEC Screens Bowling For Columbine; We Need You Sept. 22: Rally Our Folks In Raleigh; Save the Dates

September 9, 2003  OVEC Members Fight Arch Coal; Sign The Power Plant Principles Document Today; More Bush Whacks That Enable MTR and Threaten Environment Nationwide; Toxic Sludge Is Good For You--Meeting with ATSDR about the Sludge Spill; Depends on Your Definition of "Legal"

September 3, 2003 We win!; Please Write Today About Coal Trucks; MTR in Regional Publications; Upcoming Events, Including The WV Environmental Council Meeting This Saturday

August 28, 2003  Come up to Kayford Mountain this Weekend; Al Franken on Mountaintop Removal and Dan Radmacher; Crum and DEP 

August 25, 2003  Action Tomorrow Morning in Charleston!-Tuesday Aug. 26, 2003 at 10 a.m.

August 22, 2003  Earth First! In Tennessee Locks Down in Stop MTR Protest; Easy Web Action to Boot Griles; Sludge Lies and Audio; Stop Valley Fills-Support the Clean Water Protection Act; In Case You Wondered If "Free Trade" Affects You; This Weekend: Folklife Festival For Fun and Other Calendar Items; For A Little Inspiration

August 14, 2003  MTR Comment Period Extended!; Remember to Check Our Events Calendar

August 11, 2003  Mr. MTR (Griles) Grilled Again; Calling All Sludge Sleuths

August 4, 2003 This Evening Please Attend the Rescuing Democracy Forum; MTR Hearing Summary; Coal Truck Hearings Tuesday and Wednesday; Support the WV Environmental Council; Working Assets Works On MTR; OSM--What's In A Name?; Check On Us

July 23, 2003  Please Attend Tomorrow's MTR Hearing!; Read The News About The Kentucky Hearing; Ideas On Things To Say At The Hearing.

July 22, 2003  All About the EIS-We Need You!; Tune In Tomorrow--United Mine Workers President to Debate Massey Energy President

July 17, 2003  Rally with DECAF on July 19; Catch a Free Ride to the July 24 hearing; Call TODAY for the Forests; Rescue Democracy on August 4; Call For Fair Trade Not "Free" Trade

July 15, 2003  What's in That Coal Sludge?; Update on Actions for MTR Public Hearing; Helpers Needed for Enviro Booth; Take Action for Spadaro

July 9, 2003  Call for Comments on MTR EIS; Please Attend Public Hearing on EIS for MTR; And Another Hearing-DEP Proposes some MTR Regulation Changes; Truck Safety Hotline; Where'd That 'Coal Bucket Outlaw" Go?

June 29,2003  Please Attend Monday trial; Dave Cooper Back in Kentucky; Celebrate the 4th on the 5th on Kayford Mountain; Thanks for Coming Out June 23; Calendar Reminders

June18, 2003  Change in Richard diPretoro Memorial Service Time; Blackwater Canyon Needs Your Support; Take Action: Bill In Congress Could Stop Weight Increase on Coal Trucks Here

June 17, 2003  Take Action to Stop Mountaintop Removal June 23; Memorial Service for Richard diPretoro

June 9, 2003  Please Attend Tuesday Hearing; Reminder: Flyover Festival June 14; Help Spread the Word on June 23 Protest; Free Rides --Take It Easy; New WV Coin Design?; Punk Rockers Against MTR; Help Wanted

May 29, 2003  EIS on MTR; Griles Grilled on Bill Moyers' NOW Friday Night; June 23: Save that Date!

May 5, 2003  Mark June 23 on Your Calendar-One of Summer's Big Events; Stop Black Lung, Attend a Rally Thursday (May 8); Flyover Festival; Easy Web Action; Subtitle that MTR CD; Reminders; Job Opening at CCC ; Couch Potato Alert-So Much to View!

April 22, 2003  Bands for the Ball; Earth Day Speak Out; Come See Coal Bucket Outlaw; WVEC's Artists For The Environment This Saturday; West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Tour of Wind Farms; To Write the Right Stuff

April 14, 2003  News Flash! Judy Bonds Wins International Goldman Environmental Prize

April 12, 2003  Tickets at the Door for "Final Assault"; Religious Groups and Enviros as Terrorists? Will the Real Fruit Loop Please Stand Up?; Tree Huggers' Ball T-Shirts Are In; Ranger Rick Encounters MTR; Sustaining the Mountains: Ecological Citizenship for the 21st Century; MTR lawsuit in Kentucky; Easy Web Action; The History and Future of Transportation Speaker Series

April 9, 2003  Action April 21; Reminders; View from the Mountaintop; Job Openings; Call for the Artic Again-Today and Tomorrow!; Grilling Griles 

March 22, 2003  A Bit of Good News; Please Attend a MTR Permit Hearing; Upcoming Events; Help Bridge the Gap; Website on Energy Savings; Help Save Cheat Canyon

March 14, 2003  April 18 (Not 17!) for OVEC Fundraiser "Final Assault"; Help Spread the Word to Stop MTR; Hear Howard Zinn Talk on Terrorism and War

March 11, 2003  Housekeeping; Thanks to the Lobby Team; Call Gov. Wise on Coal Trucks; Protect Your Right To Protest—John Ashcroft in Charelston March 12; Mark Your Calendar For Treehuggers’ Ball; “Final Assault” As An OVEC Fundraiser; Call For The Arctic; Favorite Legislative-Session-Inspired Prose; Forestry Meetings You Can Attend—To Make A Difference

March 3, 2003  Overweight Coal Trucks

February 28, 2003  Party Tonight; All Out Push on Stopping Overweight Coal Trucks

February 26. 2003  No to raising the weight limit on coal trucks rally, noon, Tuesday March 4

February 18, 2003  Please Come to Hearing Tomorrow on Coal’s Rollback of Laws; Bad Coal Truck Bill Introduced; Thank Delegate Mahan; Sen. Snyder Wants to Head DEP; Senator Vic Sprouse on Overweight Coal Trucks and Citizen Response Attached: Our new billboard now up on I-64.

February 12, 2003  Bipartisan Bill Introduced--Would Reverse Bush's MTR-Enabling Changes to Clean Water Act; Coal and State Law--Keep Up the Calls; We Need You at E-Day; More Peace Activities This Weekend, Forest Organizer Wanted

February 11, 2003  Call on Coal Bill; Call On Overweight Coal Trucks; Peace Gathering in Spencer; Mountaintop Removal in Doonesbury Comic Strip; Son of the Patriot Act!

February 2, 2003  Despair Not; Clean Elections Reception Tonight and Press Conference Tomorrow; Rally at the Capitol Monday; Dust Buster Trial Goes to Closing Arguments; Tell Your Out-of-State Friends; Some News From the World Social Forum; MTR Play Auditions Today and Tomorrow; New Activists’ Tool; Kentucky Waterways Alliance Seeking Outreach Director

January 21, 2003  Clean Air Action Alert!: Senate To Vote to Block EPA's New Source Review Rollback

January 18, 2003  Coal Bucket Outlaw; Crunch Time (When the Going Gets Tough, the Slackers go South); Calendar; Comment on Blackwater Canyon Logging Road; Easy Web Actions: Beat Back the Clean Air Attack and Take Action for The Cerulean Warbler

January 4, 2003  Overweight Coal Truck Press Conference; Final Say?; Are The New Legislators Properly Oriented?; Acting Out; Protesting is Good For Your Health!; Throw the Book (Party) at Mountaintop Removal; MTR Flick; Stay Up To Date During the Legislative Session; New Student MTR Website

OVEC Action alerts for 2002