OVEC Action Alert - March 18, 2005

Dates for Action!

March 19: Join Patriots for Peace Tomorrow, Saturday
Too Years of War is Two Too Many
See www.wvpatriotsforpeace.org/events.html and
www.dailymail.com/news/News/2005031817/.

March 31: Announcing Mountain Justice Summer Campaign
From noon to 3 p.m. come to the West Virginia State Capitol to demand an end to mountaintop removal! Join a multi-state, multi-group rally and concert announcing the Mountain Justice Summer campaign. Speakers from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and West Virginia, including Jack Spadaro. Music provided by Elaine Purkey, Paige Delparto, Matt Peters and Tonya Adkins. Join us at the stage near the back steps of the Capitol. Carpooling strongly encouraged. Drivers can drop off passengers at Greenbrier (exit 99 off I-77/64) and Washington Streets, then proceed to Kanawha Blvd., take a left, travel about a mile to the Moose Club parking lot on the right. Shuttles will bring drivers back to the event. (Or take your chances parking around the Capitol or Laidley Field, which has a shuttle to the Capitol.) Please bring your friends, family and neighbors out to help us kick-off this historic campaign! See www.mountainjusticesummer.org.

Save the Dates! 5th Summit for the Mountains
Mark your calendar now!  Please plan to attend the 5th Summit for the Mountains, from Friday evening May 20 thru Sunday afternoon May 22. This year's Summit will be held at Camp Virgil Tate, Sissonville, WV. More details soon!

PLUS--Mimi Pickering of Appalshop
March 26: 7 p.m.  The La Belle Theatre at South Charleston Museum, 311 D. St., S. Charleston. As Appalshop celebrates its 35 years of producing films and many other artworks about Appalachia, we celebrate honorary “Wvian” Mimi Pickering. Ever since she made her first film on the Buffalo Creek Disaster in 1972, she has been filming in West Virginia, Appalachia,and the world. Tonight we will honor her by showing two of several films she has made in West Virginia– CHEMICAL VALLEY, filmed in the Kanawha Valley after the Bhopal Disaster 20 years ago + HAZEL DICKENS– IT’S HARD TO TELL THE SINGER FROM THE SONG. This film was chosen as the best film at the 2004 Rural Routes Film Festival in NYC.  Mimi Pickering will appear in person. The South Charleston Museum is particularly proud to present Ms. Pickering – to celebrate Appalshop’s 35 years, to celebrate the woman who made two films about The Buffalo Creek Flood, and to honor an artist who has spent a  lifetime telling the beautiful and tragic stories of Appalachia on film. Visit Appalshop’s film website at http://www.appalshop.org/film/.