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Help Folks Wear Their Hearts On Their Bumpers
Monday , Charleston 1 p.m.: We are close to real campaign finance reform victories! Select Committee F on Campaign Finance Reform will meet Monday, February 7 at 1 p.m. in the Senate Judiciary Chamber to discuss this issue. Your attendance at this interim meeting can make a real difference for Clean Elections in West Virginia. For more details, including talking points on fair and clean elections, click here. Also, please read Rev. Dennis D. Sparks' op-ed on why This state deserves clean, fair elections.
Monday, Huntington, 7 p.m.: Join Marshall Action for Peaceful Solutions and OVEC as we cosponsor an Arctic National Wildlife Refuge slideshow in the Don Morris Room, Student Ctr., Marshall University. For more info, see the next entry.
Tuesday, Charleston, 7 p.m.: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Slideshow. "Arctic Quest" is a superb slide presentation about the Arctic National Wildlife Refugee, the last great American frontier. Sponsored by the Alaska Wilderness League, the Sierra Club and the Friends of Blackwater, this program will be presented by Chad Kister, photographer and author of "Arctic Quest: Odyssey Through a Threatened Wilderness." The program will highlight current threats by the petroleum industry that would despoil this vast pristine wilderness and ancient culture for monetary benefit. You can attend this program for free in Charleston on February 8th at St. Marks, 900 Washington Street East. Parking is in the back of the building and you can enter from the back. The presentation will be in the dining room and begins at 7 p.m. Come and see spectacular images of North America’s arctic region, while finding out what is being done to counter these threats to YOUR public lands.
Thursday, Charleston 1 p.m.: Wow. People love a mystery. Thanks to all of you who responded to our last Action Alert! call to action. Please note the time has been bumped up to 1 p.m. for this Stop Mountaintop Removal action. E-mail vivian@ohvec.org if you want information on the what, where and why of this event.Wednesday, Feb. 16, Charleston: West Virginia Environmental Council's Legislative Blast Off Party from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at Perfater's Law Offices on Virginia St. East, in Charleston. Great entertainment from the VooDoo Katz and the Black Eyed Susans. Buffet with food from the Sahara Restaurant and home cooked goodies from volunteers. Suggested donation - $15.00 -- We need to fund the WVEC Lobby team!
March 30--Save the DateMarch 30 is the West Virginia Environmental Council's annual E-Day! at the State Capitol. Please ask for the day off now and start asking your friends and family to plan on attending this event. The astroturf (faux grassroots) "Friends of Coal" group will be having its own showing (complete with people paid to be there) at the State Capitol right after our day, so let's turn out in big numbers to show our legislators how many of their constituents want an end to mountaintop removal. See some of the fun from past E-Days! by clicking here and here.
The United State is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases (from the burning of fossil fuels). Life on earth is threatened with catastrophic global warming (follow the news here). Nevertheless, Bush refuses to sign onto the Kyoto Protocol, which goes into effect Feb. 16. For most of the world, Kyoto is a small first step toward curbing global warming. Click here to send a Kyoto Protocol Valentine to Humanity, via the Whitehouse.
Click here for info on the potential jailing of air pollution protestors.
From Julian Martin of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy--Dear Friends of the Appalachian Mountains: A few years ago the coal industry in West Virginia gave out free I (red heart) Coal bumper stickers. That bumper sticker appeared on coal company employee cars and trucks throughout the coal fields of West Virginia.
To counter the sentiment of loving coal at the expense of our beautiful mountains I produced the I (red heart) Mountains bumper sticker. I paid for the first 1000 and after that asked for donations from this email list. This appeal usually raises enough to pay the $750 that 5000 bumper stickers cost. Any shortfall has been made up by the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Donations have ranged from $5 to $700. Because the bumper stickers are paid for from donations we are able to provide them free to individuals and groups.
We have a new batch of 5000 to pay for. If you would like to help please make your check to:
West Virginia Highlands Conservancy (or WVHC)
PO Box 306 Charleston, WV 25321
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