Help End MTR and Help Coal Country Have a Party!

Call it a great excuse to have a party Thanks to Mari-Lynn Evans and Phyllis Geller, the makers of Coal Country, and the national Sierra Club, OVEC is asking members and supporters to host a house party.

You can do your part to educate friends, relatives and neighbors about the impacts of mountaintop removal by inviting them to watch a 40-minute version of the new film about mountaintop removal (some of you may have seen the full-length version at its West Virginia premiere at the State Culture Center in Charleston).

By registering online at the Sierra Clubs website beginning in early October, hosts or hostesses will receive a packet containing all the information needed to set up a house party.

Some details are still in the works, but heres what we know already. The house parties will take place from November 1014, leading up to the national TV premiere of Coal Country as part of the Reel Impact environmental film series on Planet Green, a digital cable network affiliated with the Discovery Channel.

Any host/hostess with a speaker phone will be able to join a short conference call with a local coalfield resident (hopefully someone featured in the film), to learn more or to ask questions about mountaintop removal.

Keep an eye out in early October for an OVEC e-mail action alert for more details on how you can host a fun gathering while, at the same time, doing your part to bring an end to the destruction of our mountains and communities. To see a trailer of Coal Country, go to the movie's website, article_26.html.