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Democracy Works--With Your Help!
Over 30 people have taken OVEC's voter registration training and those folks are now out
registering voters. OVEC wants to register 3000 people to vote in the
upcoming election, and we need your help to make this
happen. Please help! Once you've been trained, we pay $6.00/hr
for pre-approved canvassing, plus $2 for every registration completed
(on your own time or canvassing). For more information, please contact
Scott at the office, 304-522-0246. Scott can arrange a training
for you!
E-Council Fall Convention September 10- 12
Join OVEC volunteers and staff at the West Virginia Environmental
Council for its 15th
annual fall convention, this year at The Mountain Institute at
Spruce Knob, outside of Elkins, WV. Highlights include
workshops on environmental issues, nature excursions, organizational
and sustainable/small business booths, the traditional silent auction
and plenty of extra time to relax with old and new friends. For
detailed information and a registration form, see www.wvecouncil.org/misc/2004_fall_conv.pdf.
Or contact Denise Poole at 304-346-5905 or deniseap@earthlink.net.
Washington Post on Mountaintop Removal
Have you read the article "
Appalachia
Is Paying Price for White House Rule Change"? OVEC is
cited as a source for this
graphic accompanying
the story. If you can't retrieve the article online, reply to
this e-mail with "Post" in the subject line and we'll send
it to you.
Check out the Charleston Gazette Series on Abandoned
Mine Lands
Find out how the federal government is playing politics with your safety: www.wvgazette.com/section/Series/Abandoned+Promises.
Find out how the federal government is playing politics with your safety: www.wvgazette.com/section/Series/Abandoned+Promises.
"Mine Wars" this Saturday
August 28: 7 p.m. "Mine Wars" at LaBelle Theater,
311 D Street, South Charleston, WV. The
documentary's director, Bill Richardson, will introduce both
"Mine Wars" and "Feud" in this presentation
sponsored by the WV Labor History Association. Free! Richardson,
director of last year's "Feud" (a documentary on the
Hatfields and McCoys), continues his investigation of local history
with this look at the mine wars in southern WV and their influence
on American life. Using rare historical footage and letters written
by participants, Richardson shows a positive view of the union
struggle during this era, explaining what happened at the Matewan
Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Supporting the Thoughts on America Fund
The Thoughts
on America Fund supports the widest public dissemination of
writing that directly and artfully engages the historic challenges of
our time, and offers an alternative vision for a sane, sustainable,
and peaceful existence. Through essays in Orion magazine, OrionOnline,
and in book form, and in major news media, the Thoughts on America
Fund brings the voices of prominent American writers to bear on issues
of security and leadership in the emerging "new world
order."
Following on last year's historic full-page New York Times Op-Ad by Wendell Berry, Orion asks you to support two new full-page Op-Ads, by noted writers Rick Bass and Terry Tempest Williams, which should run in The New York Times during or around convention week. These two passionate and eloquent essays offer values-based testimony to the urgency of the times and provide a potent antidote to the often vacant rhetoric of the current electoral season. Ms. Williams article-ad (click here) mentions "the violence rendered to our souls" by mountaintop removal coal mining.
To support the fund, click here,
or send a check to:
Thoughts on America Fund
(payable to The Orion Society)
187 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Mark Your Calendar...
Excerpts from the listings on OVEC's events
calendar webpage:
September 4: Multi-Cultural Festival, Huntington's
Ritter Park. OVEC and the Huntington-Cabell Branch of NAACP team up
for this full day of multi-cultural fun! Food, music, vendors and
more! We need volunteers! Sign up for times! 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. E-mail abe@ohvec.org.
September 4: Book
signing with Mari-Lynn Evans, executive director of the upcoming PBS
miniseries “The
Appalachians:
America
’s First and Last Frontier” and editor of companion book
with same name, at Mountain
Made in Thomas, WV. Evans will show clips of the
documentary, discuss the legacy of logging and coal mining in West
Virginia.
September 8: 11:00 a.m. Justice Cabinet, Second
Floor, 403 Wapping St. Frankfort, Kentucky (park in the Public Library
parking lot). An event honoring Patsy Carter for her fight against
overweight coal trucks. Lieutenant Governor Steve Pence and
Vehicle Commissioner Greg Howard are scheduled to attend the event. .
September 10:
7 p.m. Book signing with Mari-Lynn Evans, executive director
of the upcoming PBS miniseries “The Appalachians:
America
’s First and Last Frontier” and editor of companion book
with same name, at Taylor
Books, 226 Capitol St., Charleston, WV. Evans will show
clips of the documentary, discuss the legacy of logging and coal
mining in West Virginia.
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