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Reminder: Tuesday Rally for Green Jobs and Healthy Mountains
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Burning the Future on WV Public TV Sept. 18; In Theaters from New York to LA
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Sept. 20 Conference in Huntington: Race, Politics and Stereotypes in West Virginia
Reminder:
Tuesday Rally for Green Jobs and Healthy Mountains
From 5 to 6:30 p.m. this Tuesday, Sept. 16, please come to the Rally
for Green Jobs and Healthy Mountains at the West Virginia State
Capitol. Help promote the development of wind power
on Coal River Mountain as a symbol of the change and commitment that
West Virginia, and the nation, must make if we are to solve the
energy and climate crises we face.
Rally details here.
Update: No
Blasting Yet on Coal River Mountain
~No matter where you live, please call or e-mail Governor Manchin~
Thanks to everyone who has responded to Coal River Mountain
Watch's
call to action. If you haven't contacted Governor Manchin,
please
watch
a video from CLEAN and then e-mail Governor Manchin to ask him
to support the
Coal River Wind Project. The Charleston Gazette
reported that Massey Energy was poised to begin blasting away
Coal River Mountain last Wednesday. But, gee, turns out all the
public attention helped the WV Department of Environmental
Protection notice that
the coal company didn't have all the necessary permits.
The situation at Coal River Mountain has garnered attention among nationally known group leaders, writers and bloggers. Please help keep up the pressure.
In the
News: Peace Fast for
the Mountains on Now
"As a federal appeals court prepares to consider a case that could
change (mountaintop removal coal ) mining," the
Associated Press reports, the West Virginia Council of
Churches has issued a call "for prayer and fasting as a way of
encouraging people to be temperate and peaceful regardless of how
the court rules." If you are partaking in the
prayer and fasting, please let
Carol Warren
know.
Burning the Future on WV Public TV
Sept. 18; In Theaters from New York to LA
The documentary
Burning
the Future: Coal in America will air on WV Public TV on
Thursday, September 18 at 9:30 p.m. Find the WV Public TV
station in your area
here. Read more about Burning the Future
here.
The film will also screen at assorted film festivals and events around the nation - click here for a list of showings or see the OVEC online calendar page. If you live near Pittsburgh, please print and post this flier to help spread the word about an October 11 screening of the documentary, sponsored by our friends at the Mountain Watershed Association and the Center for Coalfield Justice.
Reminder:
Sept. 19 -21: ACE the Future
The Appalachian Community Economics Conference takes
place Sept. 19-21 in Abingdon, Va. ACE will be a great opportunity
to learn about and share positive community solutions to some of the
economic problems here in Appalachia. Click
here for details.
Sept. 20
Conference in Huntington: Race, Politics and Stereotypes in West
Virginia
From the Huntington Herald Dispatch:
"Does racism play a part in West Virginia
politics?"
Scholars, statewide media representatives and community leaders will try to answer that question during a conference hosted by Marshall University called "Race, Politics, and Stereotypes in West Virginia" from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Don Morris Room of the Memorial Student Center.
Lunch will be provided for to all registered participants. E-mail conference coordinator Marybeth Beller at beller@marshall.edu to register by Sept. 15. Read more about the conference here.
October 5:
Blessing of the Mountain III
The Ansted Historical
Preservation Council will hold the Blessing of the Mountain III on
Sunday, October 5 at 3 p.m. Join community members on Fire Tower
Mountain, just above
Ansted, WV, as they join hands and hearts in
community. Folks will give thanks for the gifts of the earth and
seek Divine intervention and wisdom in the movement to end the
devastation created by mountaintop removal coal mining. Mountaintop
removal is a wound that won't heal - don't let this out-of-control
mining practice scar this community.
Directions (don't worry, signs will be posted): If traveling east from Gauley Bridge on US 60, head toward Ansted to mile marker 104. Continue another 0.1 mile, then turn left on to Rich Creek Road.
If traveling west from US 19 and onto US 60, head toward Ansted to mile marker 105. Continue 0.8 mile, then turn right onto Rich Creek Road.
From Rich Creek Road, travel 0.7 mile to Ansted Head Start. Turn left, stay on Rich Creek Road up the mountain. Travel .9 miles to a fork in the road and take the left fork onto a dirt road. Follow that road 1.2 miles to the Blessing site. (This site is accessible with small cars) For more info, call Roy at 304-640-3338, or Katheryne at 304-658-4224
WOC On(line)
Those of you who are OVEC members (hint:
join!)
should have received the September issue of Winds of Change
by now, unless you've indicated you wanted to opt out of receiving
the newsletter in the mail. Members and non-members alike now can
access this latest of our newsletters online
here. And everyone can keep stay abreast of some of the
daily energy-related news by checking
here
and
here.
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