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OVEC Action Alert - March 12, 2005 |
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The Legislative Session Heats Up--Take Action
Take Action for the Arctic Monday!
Mountaintop Removal and Flooding
"The Appalachians" PBS Series Airing
The Legislative Session Heats Up--Take Action
The West Virginia Environmental Council requests that you take these actions (click on the headlines):
--We simply MUST save the EQB! Make calls early next week.
--Check: www.wvoter-owned.org early next week actions you take for Clean Elections.
--Bottle Bill Needs Your Calls--Support the Sludge Safety Project
From US PIRG: If you haven't called yet, please take a moment to call 1-888-8-WILDAK (or 1-888-894-5325) to be automatically connected toll free to the member of Congress in your state who most needs to hear from you on this issue. Here's a sample message you can use:
"Hi, my name is _____, and I'm calling from _______. I urge you to oppose oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I don't want to see one of America's last wild places ruined for a miniscule amount of oil."
After you call, please let us know so that we can keep track of how many calls they have received. This is a crucial part of our work! Then, ask your family and friends to help by forwarding this email to them. To report your call, click on the link below or paste it into your web browser: http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=401&id4=ES.
Click here to get a glimpse of what might be lost forever if proposed gas wells are drilled on La Paix Herb Farm. If you have not yet signed the petition to protect this historic and environmentally friendly site, yet, please e-mail lapaix@westvirginia.net.
War is an environmental issue, as well as a human rights issue! (The coal companies' war on our mountains is also both a human rights issue and an environmental issue; some people are saying we cannot separate the two.) From noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, at Davis Park (Summers St. near Washington St., Charleston, W.Va.) please join the West Virginia Patriots for Peace in a vigil to mark the two year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. WVPFP says: Join our solemn and hopeful gathering as we raise our voices through music, poetry, and speakers, including former gubernatorial candidate and famous author, Denise Giardina. To remember the dead, we will have the Wall of Remembrance. To imagine peace, we will have art. Kids are welcomed and encouraged to come and participate in envisioning peace through art. Seeds for Peace will be given out in hopes for peaceful tomorrows. Information will be available about conscientious objecting and how you can help stop this war and prevent future wars. Together we can do so much, now is the time to stand up. More info: www.wvpatriotsforpeace.org/events.html.
Mountaintop Removal and Flooding
In the current issue of "Southern Exposure" journal, Journalist Penny Loeb and photographer Bob Gates present the truth about steep-slope logging, mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining and flooding. (Unfortunately, much of the information about the role of global warming in increasing storm intensity and frequency had to be cut from the article, but if you e-mail, I'll forward you those paragraphs.) For a pdf version (you'll need free Adobe Reader software to read pdf files) of the article, got to: www.sludgesafety.org/temp/loeb_flood.pdf.
"The Appalachians" PBS Series Airing
On March 8, the PBS series "The Appalachians" premiered in a Nashville theatre. Four years in the making, this 3-hour film moved the audience--some were crying, and the phrase "film of a lifetime" was heard. The movie airs on Nashville Public TV on March 20; May 18 is its air date on West Virginia Public TV. Click here for a listing of stations and air dates nationwide. The Nashville station has a good blurb about the film at www.wnpt.net/about/news/appalachian_news.html. See clips of the film, including interviews with author Denise Giardina and OVEC co-director Janet Fout: go to www.sierraclub.org/appalachia/, scroll down and follow the links.
There's a companion music CD and a companion book, which has been out for a while. Coal River Mountain Watch's Julia Bonds and I have essays in the book. You can read these essays: www.sierraclub.org/appalachia/bonds_essay.asp and www.sierraclub.org/appalachia/stockman_essay.asp.
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