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• Volunteers Needed: WV Public Broadcasting Will Mention Our Groups on Air

• Clean Water Protection Act--What You Can Do To End Mountaintop Removal

• Two Most Excellent Op-Eds

• Events This Weekend--Military Service and Our Youth: Rights and Risks

• People in Action: May 24 and May 31 Photos

 Volunteers Needed: WV Public Broadcasting Will Mention Our Groups on Air
Volunteers needed Tuesday June 7  from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 600 Capitol St., Charleston.  OVEC is calling for three of our members from the Charleston area to join the West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club during a WV Public Broadcasting fundraising telethon. OVEC and Sierra Club will be recognized on the air during breaks while the telethon airs the documentary "Alone in the Wilderness." Please either respond to this e-mail or call the OVEC office at 304-522-0246 if you want to volunteer. We'll provide the first three people to volunteer with an OVEC T-shirt to wear during the broadcast (and to keep, of course).

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 Clean Water Protection Act--What You Can Do To End Mountaintop Removal
 Say Hello! to H.R. 2719 The Clean Water Protection Act.  Thanks to the good work of the folks at Appalachian Voices, this stream protecting act has again been reintroduced in Congress. Please contact your Representative and follow the steps here to ask them to support H.R. 2719, the Clean Water Protection Act.

Like all of us, this critter needs clean water to survive. The red-spotted newt (eft stage) doesn't like mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining at all, and hopes you will take action on its behalf (not to anthropomorphize its amphibian brain.) Photo by V.S. 05-30-05

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 Two Most Excellent Op-Eds
Speaking of what you can do to help end mountaintop removal, letters to the editors and op-eds are great ways to inform people and sway public opinion. Check out two excellent op-eds in today's Charleston Gazette, one from Julian Martin--There is no such thing as clean coal, and one from Bryan McNeil--Coal companies trample on public, private property. You can find contact information for just about any news media outlet in the United States by clicking here. Click here for a listing of West Virginia news media.

Reason to write: Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining at Kayford Mountain, WV. Photo by V.S. 05-26-05

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 Events This Weekend--Military Service and Our Youth: Rights and Risks
Reminder WV Patriots for Peace has two events this weekend. On June 3, an evening public forum and June 4, a training seminar for counselors, both addressing Military Service and Our Youth: Rights and Risks. For details, click here.

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 People in Action: May 24 and May 31 Photos
Click here and here to see photos from the May 24 and May 31 actions at Massey Energy's Goals Coal facility. Check the sidebars for news coverage of the rallies. Please plan to join us for future events!

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