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Registration For OVEC's Organizer Fraudulently Changed
Organic Style Magazine Features Judy Bonds
WVRC Seeks Development Director
Nov. 6 Benefit Concert For OVEC And CRMW In Connecticut, CRMW Event Nov. 20
Mountaintop Removal News On The Air
Vote, Vote, Vote! Call your county clerk's
office for info on how to vote early, or click here or here.
You have until 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 to vote early at your county
courthouse.
Find Your Polling Place--On-line!
Quickly find where you vote on Election Day by
visiting MyPollingPlace.com.
Volunteer to Help Get Out the Vote
Thanks so much to all our volunteers who have been
making calls and taking voters to vote early! Please call Scott at the
OVEC office, 304-522-0246, if you would like to help in this non-partisan
effort to get out the vote. Project MoVote, based in Charleston,
is also looking for volunteers. Please call 346-8928, or toll free 866-982-3247, to help Project MoVote's
non-partisan effort to get out the vote. Please hit the streets this
weekend, wherever you are, to help get out the vote. Groups all over
the United States, such as CodePink, are mobilizing people, so it shouldn't be
hard to find ways to help in your community.
Read all about it by clicking here. Be sure
to report any problems you have by calling or visiting your
county clerks office or filing an Election Complaint Form with the Secretary
of State's office. Keep
track of election fraud by visiting this site.
In the November issue, Organic
Style magazine lists "50 heroes are making our planet a
better place!" Coal River Mountain
Watch's Judy
Bonds is 20th on that list, which includes some of the other
incredible, prominent people fighting for environmental justice
worldwide. Read the article by clicking here,
and vote for your top five from the list by clicking here.
PhD student and Coal River
Mountain Watch volunteer Bryan
McNeil has written an excellent article, Rights, justice, and solidarity across oceans (click the title to read). You may also want
to read Chad Montrie's To Save the Land and People.
West Virginia Rivers Coalition is hiring a
Development Director. Duties: membership growth and communication,
event planning and other fundraising activity. Requires: Organization
and communication skills, a flexible and dependable schedule, and a
passion for the mission of WVRC. Full time with benefits, salary and
incentive competitive. Send resume by 11/12/04: Dev't. Dir. Search,
801 N. Randolph Ave., Elkins, WV 26241.
-Nov. 6: Benefit concert
for OVEC and Coal River Mountain Watch in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Many thanks to
Rev. Mary Ramsey for conceiving of and organizing this event, titled
"Fiddlers in Concert for the Mountains." Tickets are
$12.00 prepaid, $15 at the door. Reservations: 203-375-8633 by credit
card. For directions, e-mail: mramsay@sbcglobal.net. Featuring: Judy Bonds,
winner of the 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize, Klezmer
fiddler, filmmaker, photographer, and author Yale Strom, and internationally acclaimed
author, composer, fiddler, and improvising violinist Julie Lyonn Lieberman, joined by
cellist Martha Colby, guitarist Len Cascia, and percussionist Marty
Quinn. More info under the Nov. 6 entry on the OVEC event calendar webpage.
-Nov. 20: 6 p.m.- 9 p.m.
The Salamy Building, 3817
Coal River Road, Whitesville,
W.V. Coal River Mountain Watch presents Mountain Heritage Night. Free
admission, free food, free live entertainment, and a free presentation
of " Appalachian Treasures." Pot -of-gold (fifty-fifty)
raffle. Everyone welcome! Bring your old photos, your stories and
memories.
National Public Radio's Justice Talking
features a debate, "The Future of the Environment," between
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Fred Smith of the industry front group that
calls itself the Competitive
Enterprise Institute. Of course, mountaintop removal is one of the
topics. Click here to
listen.
The Earth and Sky Radio Series
recently aired two segments on mountaintop removal. Click here and
here
to listen. Free Speech Radio News
also aired a segment (click
and scroll down to last entry) that mentioned mountaintop removal.
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