Trick or Treat for George Bush - No War!

OVEC folks joined with the West Virginia Patriots for Peace, Marshall Action for Peaceful Solutions (that's MAPS students Tony Curtis, Abraham Mwaura, and Maggie Fry pictured above) and others outside the Charleston Civic Center to protest the plans for war during President Bush's Halloween visit to West Virginia.

National Guard Col. Bill Raney, who is president of the West Virginia Coal Association, was seen scurrying into the venue. Perhaps he was on his way to deliver more money to Fossil Fuel administration, and to West Virginia Ccongresswoman Shelley Moore Capito? The Center for Responsive Politics says Capito is the current top recipient among all House members in contributions from coal and the mining industry: $82,250. The coal-burning electric utility industry gave her nearly $33,000 this election cycle, while oil and gas interests gave her $47,000. Now, Coal is getting its paybacks, as Bush and Co. push for an open throttle on mountaintop removal mining. War in the coalfields. War in the oilfields. It's the scariest Halloween we've ever spent.

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