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OVEC Action Alert - October 28, 2004

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Registration For OVEC's Organizer Fraudulently Changed

Organic Style Magazine Features Judy Bonds

Some Excellent Reading

WVRC Seeks Development Director

Nov. 6 Benefit Concert For OVEC And CRMW In Connecticut, CRMW Event Nov. 20

Mountaintop Removal News On The Air


 Just Three More Days To Vote Early In WV!
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.
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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 866-982-3247to 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.

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 Registration for OVEC's Organizer Fraudulently Changed
Read all about it by clicking here. Be sure to report any problems you have by calling or visiting your county clerk’s office or filing an Election Complaint Form with the Secretary of State's office.  Keep track of election fraud by visiting this site

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Organic Style Magazine Features Judy Bonds
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.

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 Excellent Reads
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.

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WVRC Seeks Development Director
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. 

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Save the Dates!
-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 Building3817 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. 

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Mountaintop Removal News On The Air
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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