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• Volunteers Needed

• Tree Sitter Or No, You Can Help

• Get Legislative For the Mountains

• Easy Web Action: Tell Verizon What For

• Easy Web Action: E-Mail the EPA and the CEQ

• Action That Tales A Little More Effort: Shower Congress with Coal In America

• Labor Day Weekend Festival On Kayford Mountain; More Events

 Volunteers Needed
In less than two weeks, OVEC, West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and Coal River Mountain Watch should receive our shipment of Plundering Appalachia, a coffee-table sized books with loads of large photos and powerful essays. We need volunteers from each of West Virginia's 55 counties to help in our distribution plan. If you would like information on how you can help us distribute the book, e-mail vivian@ohvec.org with your name and county of residence. Since this is an open-subscription e-mail list, we may ask you to verify that you are a genuine friend of the mountains.  

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 Tree Sitter Or No, You Can Help
In the campaign to end mountaintop removal, it's ok that not all of us are up for tree-sitting or other types of civil disobedience that have resulted in about 100 arrests so far this year. There are, after all, plenty of ways to help end mountaintop removal. The Climate Ground Zero movement needs all kinds of help from people willing to garden and run errands, to people willing to make donations for supplies or legal defense funds. E-mail info@climategroundzero.org for details on how you can help. 

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 Get Legislative For the Mountains
Our Sludge Safety Project and our cemetery protection group will have a presence in upcoming Legislative Interim Sessions, as well as the 2010 Legislative Session. Reply to this
e-mail if you want information on how you can get involved.

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 Easy Web Action: Tell Verizon What For
Tell Verizon Wireless: Get out of bed with anti-environment extremists. Click here to take action.

News about this Massey-sponsored rally has been making its way around the Internet. Check here for links to many of the stories, posted over the last several days.

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 Easy Web Action: E-Mail the EPA and the CEQ
Mountaintop removal coal mining has destroyed close to 2,000 miles of Appalachian streams with mining waste. Entire communities have been permanently displaced by mines the size of Manhattan.

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 Action That Tales A Little More Effort: Shower Congress with Coal In America
Writer and DeSmogBlog's operations manager Kevin Grandia has a great idea. He writes, "I'm convinced that if we can get members of Congress to watch David Novack's film Burning the Future - or even just their staffers - we could open up a tiny window of opportunity that will allow for a reasonable conversation about an energy future in America that does not include coal. In my experience change never comes in the form of a single silver bullet idea, but from a series of meaningful actions that slowly builds to a tipping point. 

"Buying Novack's DVD, watching it and then walking it down (or mailing it) to the office of your member of Congress is one of these small but meaningful actions. Watch it first, so you can include a letter to your local representative telling them why they should watch this movie." Read more from Grandia on this idea here.

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Labor Day Weekend Festival On Kayford Mountain; More Events
This Weekend: Labor Day Festival on Kayford Mountain. Event starts at noon both Saturday and Sunday. Bring a covered dish. Good fun, good music, good friends. Directions to Kayford Mountain are here (scroll down).

Sept. 12: Coal Country screens at 8:00 p.m. at the Akron (OH) Civic Theater.  Ohio activist Elisa Young, OVEC volunteer Chuck Nelson and Coal River Mountain Watch members are scheduled to be at the event, along with actress Daryl Hannah and Grammy-winner Kathy Mattea.

Call Mary at 330-957-6167 or email pdaohio@gmail.com for information about how to sponsor the event, get reserved seating, and or be admitted to the private pre-movie reception. 

Sept. 12: Rally for the Mountains at Dollywood. Details here.

Sept. 21-25: 3 Rivers Climate Convergence in Pittsburgh, PA. Details here.