OVEC Action Alerts Archive - 2007

OVEC Action Alerts for 2007 are archived below
Current OVEC Action Alerts

December 7, 2007  WOC On(Line) -- Write Those Letters to the Editor, Please! -- What's Your Connection? -- A Little Fodder For Your Letter  -- Take Action: Energy Bill, Climate Bill -- Volunteers Needed For Mountain Justice Spring Break 2008 -- Upcoming Events

November 20, 2007  Please take action by Nov. 23: Comment to OSM On Proposed Buffer Zone Rule Change -- HNN Video from Kayford Mountain -- Thanks for Caring!

November 7, 2007  Nov. 10: Blessing on the Mountains -- Nov. 23: Deadline to Comment to OSM on Proposed Buffer Zone Changes -- Calling All Musicians -- Sample Letter on the Buffer Zone for OSM

October 19, 2007  Reminder: Tomorrow--Prayer Vigil on Kayford Mountain  -- October 22 Hearing and Reading -- October 24: Buffer Zone Rule Change Hearings, Actions in Several States -- October 25: Public Energy Authority Public Hearing -- October 27: OVEC's 20th Anniversary Celebration -- October 30: SpeakOut! Training in Mingo County -- November 10: Blessing on the Mountain, Ansted, WV -- Keeping Up to Date

October 5, 2007  Oct. 24: Buffer Zone Hearings Set; Commented Period Extended to Nov. 23 -- Free Legal Service for Whistleblowing Miners -- Vote for Larry Gibson -- Powerful New Novel on Mountaintop Removal; Upcoming Non-fiction -- Oct. 20: Prayer Vigil on Kayford Mountain; More Items from the Calendar -- Eat for OVEC

September 24, 2007  Wed. Sept. 26: Federal Court Hearing -- Help The Whole Nation Hear

September 22, 2007  This Sunday Night:  Blair Mountain on History Channel Sunday Night -- If You Can Be in Charleston Thurs. Sept. 27: Public Hearing

September 17, 2007  WOC On(line)  -- Hey Feds: Buzz Off Any Buffer Zone Changes -- Meanwhile, At The State Level... -- That's Not Art and It's Not For Sale

September 7, 2007 Bush Wants To Change Buffer Zone Rule: Nationwide Push for Comments -- Tonight on PBS' Bill Moyers Journal: Mountaintop Removal -- How 'bout them links?

August 14, 2007  Tonight on CNN's Heroes: Larry Gibson--Defending the Planet -- Reminder: Say No! to coal-to-liquids at demonstration tomorrow -- Two New Books on Mountaintop Removal -- Speak Out: August 28 training for OVEC members -- Tomorrow, August 15: Tune in from 6-7 p.m. EST for "Almost Heaven?"

August 9, 2007  Aug. 15: Say NO to coal-to-liquid fuels; come to demonstration in Beckley, W.Va. -- Coal-to-liquids fact sheet--Plenty of reasons to say NO to coal-to-liquid -- The Electricity Fairy

July 24, 2007  Hearing on Mining Law in DC, Tomorrow, July 25 -- Kennedy and Mattea Visits Bolster Our Work -- Help Us Grub Out a Root Cause of Mountaintop Removal -- Help Us Lift Up Interns -- Upcoming Events -- A Bit of Background on SMCRA

July 3, 2007  Country Music Star Kathy Mattea Here Tuesday July 10 -- July 10--Make a Day of Speaking Out -- Help Us Tackle A Root Cause of Mountaintop Removal--Dirty Money in Politics -- July 7: Planetary SOS

June 26, 2007  Events This Week -- Please Write Letters to the Editor -- Update on June 18 Rally and Clean Water Protection Act

June 11, 2007  WOC On(Line) -- Updates on UN, DC Trips -- E-Action on Stopping Coal-to-Liquid -- Kentucky Actions on Stopping Coal-to-Liquid -- Events Calendar

May 14, 2007 Help Stop Mountaintop Removal: Urge Your Congress Person to Support HR 2169

May 7, 2007  Appalachian Coalfield Delegation at UN-Tuesday Press Conference, Concert  -- Help Stop Mountaintop Removal: Urge Your Congress Person to Support HR 2169 -- Mountain Justice Summer 3: Get Thee to Camp! -- The Other End of Mountaintop Removal: Take Action on Greenhouse Gases -- Help Support the Campaigners for a New Marsh Fork Elementary

April 11, 2007  Registration Deadline Today for Stop Mountaintop Removal Citizen Lobby Days -- Step It Up April 14--Actions Everywhere -- SOS: Save Our Squirrel

April 5, 2007  Big Victory! -- Photos--Demanding a New, Safe School -- Keep up the Momentum--Support Upcoming UN Trip -- Appalachian Spring -- Upcoming Events: Rising Tide Climate Tour and a Wild and Wonderful Land

March 15, 2007  Wherever You Are: Call to Action for Marsh Fork Elementary -- Mountain Justice Spring Break -- March 17: Events Marking 4 Years of War

March 9, 2007  Sludge Safety Project Update -- March 17: Concert for the Mountains -- March 10-18: Mountain Justice Spring Break -- March 20: Climate Crisis Action Day in DC -- Tell Your Senators Coal-to-Liquid is Nuts

March 5, 2007  In WV: Tomorrow, March 6: Last Lobby Tuesday-Please Call or Come Out -- Anywhere: Write Letters to the Editor About Mountaintop Removal -- Audubon photo essay on mountaintop removal, news, events

March 1, 2007  Reminder: E-Day Tomorrow March 2 -- Final Lobby Tuesday March 6 -- Mountain Justice Spring Break -- March 20: Climate Crisis Action Day-Come to DC

February 23, 2007  WOC On(line): OVEC's February newsletter is now online -- Sludge Safety Project Update -- Clean Elections Update -- Monday Feb. 26: Memorial to Mark 35th Anniversary of Buffalo Creek Disaster -- Friday March 2: E-Day! At the State Capitol

February 16, 2007  West Virginians:  Call Legislators on Coal Slurry Resolution -- West Virginians:  Dial For Democracy--Clean Elections -- People Everywhere: Take Action to Abolish Mountaintop Removal -- Calendar of events: Buffalo Creek Remembrance at State Capitol Feb. 26

February 10, 2007  West Virginians: We Need You For Sludge Safety Project's Lobby Tuesdays!

January 30, 2007  West Virginia: Clean Up Your Elections--Web Action and Call For Your Presence Thurs. -- Ratchet Up the Pressure--Call, Too, For Clean Elections -- Reminder: Tomorrow, Jan. 31 is Day of Action For Folks Everywhere -- Latest Add to the Calendar Page -- West Virginia Clean Election Talking Points

January 24, 2007  Feb. 1 Day of Action on Clean Elections for West Virginians -- Jan. 31: Day of Action for People Everywhere -- Current Events and Happenings Near and Far

January 16, 2007  Jan. 17: Comments Due on Greenbrier Coal Waste Plant -- Jan.17: E-Council  Legislative Kick-Off / Open House -- Save the Dates! -- Help Stop Mountaintop Removal No Matter Where You Live

January 11, 2007 Victory for Sludge Safety Project! -- Clean Elections--Hold That Feb. 1 Date, Move The Issue -- So Much To Do....