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Join Us Wednesday to Protest Blankenship
Please join members of the
Friends of the Mountains coalition at noon, Wednesday Nov. 10,
outside the Charleston Town Center Marriott, 200 Lee
St. East, Charleston, WV. See info below.
Thanks so very much to all of you who
worked to help Get Out The Vote! As a friend says, onward and
sideways! This sweet planet still keeps hurtling through space,
after all. For those of
you who were saddened by the results of the election, we sure
hope you haven't declared a total news blackout, moved to another
country or plumb seized up in shock! Snap out of it!
We hope you are still checking the newslinks we gather and
post for you on this
news page and this one.
On these pages, you'll find links to news of voting
"irregularities," the
invasion of Iraq, what a second Bush administration
means in terms of environmental and other work, as well as analysis,
incredulity and inspiration from various writers. If you worry about
no-paper-trail electronic voting machines, and if you agree that
this election really highlights the need for Clean
Elections, please see the "Events
Today" entries below. Please also see those entries if you
think the media played a major role in the elections, as you may
want to attend an event at Marshall University tonight. Also,
you may want to read Evidence
Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked, House
Dems Seek Election Inquiry and
Machine
Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes.
Like usual, we have work to do.
Angry about Massey CEO Don
Blankenship's (one click
here) buyout
of justice (another click
here)? We have the perfect opportunity to express our anger
and get out our message this Wednesday, Nov. 10. Blankenship
will be one of the speakers at the WV Governor's
Energy Roadmap Workshop on National Coal Issues.
We can bet that the people inside this meeting won't be wanting to
focus too much attention on the REAL national issues surrounding
coal--mountaintop removal and its huge associated costs, global
warming action and policy,
mercury poisoning, groundwater contamination, corruption of
politicians, the buyout of justice and democracy, acid rain,
rising asthma rates, the annual 30,000 early deaths from power plant
pollution in the United States....
Ok, so there are too many issues for us to
cover in our one-hour event! So, we'll focus on Blankenship's buyout
of justice and democracy, and how that affects our work to end
mountaintop removal coal mining. Please join members of
the Friends of the Mountains coalition at noon, Wednesday Nov. 10,
outside the Charleston Town Center Marriott, 200 Lee
St. East, Charleston, WV. (Park in the Town Center parking
building.) We promise some really fun street theater! For
instance, Don BlankCheck and the All Star Coal Barons will sing Brent
(formerly known as Ben,
words and music
by Michael Jackson).
We
are heading into this event with very short notice, so we really
need your help to get people out! Please let your friends in
Charleston know about this event. Arrange a carpool yourself.
Bring signs (if you need help
with ideas, reply to this e-mail), and come ready to
have some fun while standing up for the mountains and West
Virginia's future.
To help spread the word, we are asking you
to call "Head
On" with Bob Kincaid
Monday and Tuesday evening. This is a great opportunity to
express your outrage over a coal baron ousting and /or buying a
Supreme Court Judge. When you call, please ask people to come
to the protest. Call 1-800-620-9967. The radio show runs from 8 to
10 p.m. on Monday and from 7 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday. You can
listen live on the Internet at www.wwnrnewstalk620.com,
and on the air on WWNR Newstalk 620 in Beckley. Locally, call
in at 304-252-6200.
Electronic Voting
If you worry about no-paper-trail electronic
voting machines, take action. Today, Monday, Nov. 8 at noon,
WV-CAG, WV Citizens for HAVA, the National Association of Social
Workers-WV, and other statewide organizations supporting a
voter-verifiable paper ballot for all West Virginia voting systems,
will hold a press conference in the Governor's Press Conference Room
in the Secretary of State's Office, at the State Capitol in
Charleston. Joining us will be Bob Kibrick, of Verified
Voting, a national organization working for transparent,
reliable and publicly verifiable elections in the United States. Bob
will be in Charleston to testify before Sub-Committee A of the Joint
Judiciary which is considering whether to require a voter-verifiable
paper ballot for all voting machines used in West Virginia.
The Sub-Committee meets at 2 p.m. Monday in the House Judiciary
Committee meeting room at the Capitol. (Special thanks to WV-CAG
member and WV Citizens for HAVA founder, Hedda Hanning for working
with the staff of the interim committee to make Bob's visit to West
Virginia possible). For more info, or to get involved even if
you can't make the press conference, e-mail julie@wvcag.org
or call the CAG office at 304-346-5891.
Clean Elections --Today and
Tomorrow
This election sure highlights the need for
the Clean
Elections concept of
public financing for campaigns. Today, Select Committee F,
which is studying a bill that would enact real elections
finance reforms, will meet at 7 p.m. in the House Judiciary
Committee meeting room at the State Capitol in Charleston.
Legislative candidates raised nearly $3.5 million dollars from
various special interests during the primary election alone. If
you're interested in helping move this reform forward join us on
Tuesday, November 9 at 1 p.m. at the Citizens for Clean Elections
meeting at the South Charleston Municipal Building on the corner of
4th and D Streets, South Charleston. The meeting will be in
the second floor conference room.
Join us tonight, November 8, at 7 p.m. in
Smith Hall, room 154, Marshall University in Huntington, WV.
Prolific media critic Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR
(Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), will share his extensive media
experience. His writing has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Rolling Stone and Mother Jones. He
has also co-authored several books including,
Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News and The
Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's
Reign of Error.
This presentation, free and open to the
public, is sponsored by The White Rose and Marshall
University's Media Advocacy Group, in
conjunction with Multicultural Affairs. For more information contact
Zak Richards at richards25@marshall.edu
or Heath Harrison at harris40@marshall.edu
or Wolfman
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