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February 2007
Contents

Sludge Safety Project: People Power in ACTION
ANOTHER Legal Victory for Mountain States Environment
Waging Democracy in the Kindgom of Coal: OVEC and the Movement for Social and Environmental Justice in Central Appalachia 2002-2003
Help Out Sludge Safety Project 
Goodbye to Sibby Weekley
Surprise, Joe! Gov. Gets Special Delivery from 400 Kids
Big Victory in Boone County for Sludge Safety!
Slurry Communiqus
Bad Water? Better Organize Now to Help!
Sludge Safety Projects Handy-Dandy Guide to the Golden Dome
OVEC Works! - Thanks
Holding King Coal Accountable - It CAN Be Done
Truth IS Stranger than Fiction - Coal Mine Wants Charity Tax Break
And Another One: Coal Companies to Perform Virginia Highway Study
Buffalo Creek Remembered: An Act of Man Leaves 125 West Virginians Dead
West Virginians Take on the FAT CATS
This is THE Year for Public Funding of Election Campaigns
Security Of Electronic Voting Condemned
With Clean Elections, Could We Have Universal Health Care Too?
Support the Push for Clean Elections - Here's How to HelpRight Now
A True Freedom Bill: Public Financing Will Ensure Voters are Heard
Groups, Individuals Work for Environment: Much Vital Work Goes On Behind the Scenes
Going Before the UN: We Z New York, Again 
Gutless Wonders: Corps Issues MTR Permit in Secret
Whose Security are They Talking About When They Say Homeland Security?
Goodbye to Hazel Mollett
Selenium Slugfest: DEP Seems to Think Heavy Metals Are Good For You
Voices From the Mountains and Beyond
Way to Go Dustbusters! Sylvester Residents Win Another Round
Situational Science Man
My Family in West Virginia, and How MTR Changed It
OVEC Gets A New Voice in Washington, DC
Miscellany


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Winds of Change Newsletter, February 2007     See sidebar for table of contents

Support the Push for Clean Elections - Here's How to Help Right Now

Please contact your Senators and Delegates and urge them to support Clean Elections in West Virginia the West Virginia Public Campaign Financing Act (SB 118 and HB 2371) by calling 1-877-565-3447.

Clean Elections Talking Points:

4 Public campaign funding dramatically reduces the time candidates spend raising money, which allows candidates to focus on talking with voters.

4 Spending more time with voters makes elected officials better public servants because they understand what issues are important to their constituents.

4 Public campaign funding cuts out the financial arms race dialing for dollars that is unhealthy for our nations democracy because it silences the voice of the people.

4 Transparency is crucial to restoring public faith in the system.

4 Public campaign funding creates an opportunity for regular people to feel that they can make a difference with their small-dollar contributions to candidates they believe in.

4 Citizens believe that their representatives should answer to the people who voted for them rather than to those with the deepest pockets, and are fed up with the idea that money can so easily buy influence in our political process.

4 West Virginia legislators have been pioneers in their efforts to regulate 527s. By supporting public campaign funding, the West Virginia legislature will carry on its efforts to limit the corrupting influence of money in elections and restore public faith in government and elected officials.

4 With the recent barrage of stories of scandal and corruption, now is the time to strengthen our state campaign finance laws.

Do your part - pick up the phone and call. Today!

 

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