*** PLEASE *** Call Congress (end mountaintop removal coal-mining forever)

[Sapphire Blue]

Previous thread: Grandpa marches on DC for clean air and safe schools: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2107558

Please watch this video: Ed Wiley on Marsh Fork Elementary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9afd2K6xx_I

Please watch symbolman's video: http://www.tbtmradio.com/video/mtrgibson.wmv

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Please Call Your Congress Person

Appalachian Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, Pennies of Promise, OHVEC, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and an army of Appalachian people are in DC right now lobbying for ”The Clean Water Protection Act“ to help end mountaintop removal. Its absolutely the most phenomenal thing I’ve ever been a part of.

Please chip in by calling representative and ask them to Co-sponsor HR 2719, the “Clean Water Protection Act” and help end mountaintop removal coal-mining forever!

If you know the name of your rep, call the switchboard at 202-224-3121.
To find out the name of your rep, go here: http://www.house.gov/

More on the Clean Water Protection Act: http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/mtr/cwpa/

http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/avforum

Appalachian Voices: http://www.appvoices.org

Coal River Mountain Watch: http://webpages.charter.net/crmw/index.htm

Pennies of Promise: http://duke.securenet-server.net/~mnoerpel/pennies/?

OHVEC: http://www.ohvec.org/

Save Our Cumberland Mountains: http://www.socm.org/

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth: http://www.kftc.org/


Please help keep this kicked!

Thank you! :grouphug:

[Richard Steele]

1. Kicked and Recommended.

[Sapphire Blue]

2. Thank you, dicksteele!

:hi: Please call your Rep!

[Rainscents]

3. Will do!

K&R!!! :kick: :kick: :kick:

[Sapphire Blue]

4. Thank you, Rainscents!

:hi:

[Lochloosa]

5. And don't forget to watch symbolman's film about it. It's worth watching

http://www.tbtmradio.com/video/mtrgibson.wmv

[Sapphire Blue]

6. Thanks... it's an EXCELLENT video! I added it to the OP!

:hi: :hug:

[symbolman]

57. Thanks so much for the link of my work

some day when I get funding and can hit this hard I'm going to make a tell all that will ROAST these Coal companies, in the mean time this will have to do, so glad that so many others are pushing on this, give this thread a BIG Kick..

There are so many people dying in those mountains that I see it looking in my mind's eye to be as bad as Iraq, and it's our OWN COUNTRYMEN and WOmen, children, being KILLED for MONEY, pure and simple.

They are an OCCUPIED nation, by Heartless, Souless Corporations, aided with gusto by BUSH and CO.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Recommended

And kicked

[Sapphire Blue]

8. Thank you, Lone_Star_Dem!

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[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. No need to thank me

It's my pleasure to help share this information.

[calimary]

9. Just another American treasure on the ropes.

DAMN these people.

KICKED, dammit! (And recommended!)

[Sapphire Blue]

17. Thank you, calimary!

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[YankeyMCC]

10. k & r

[Sapphire Blue]

18. Thanks, YankeyMCC!

:hi:

[Iowa]

11. K&R

[goclark]

12. Kicking for a worthy cause! nt

[Sapphire Blue]

44. Thanks, goclark!

:hi:

[goclark]

51. It is my pleasure to kick in any way that I can. nt

[Solly Mack]

14. Recommended!

[Sapphire Blue]

19. Thanks, Solly Mack!

:hi:

[Lochloosa]

15. ...

[Sapphire Blue]

20. ...

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[Lone_Star_Dem]

16. I know that DU can find the time to make a call, we've proved that before

And it's for such a worthy cause.

Here's the link to find your congress critter. http://www.house.gov/

Here's the main switchboard number again, 202-224-3121

[Sapphire Blue]

21. And here's the list of 66 current co-sponsors:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:HR02719:@@@P

If your Representative is a co-sponsor, please call & thank him/her!

If not, please ask that they become a co-sponsor!

[Dystopian]

25. John Olver Rocks!!

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My rep is one of the co-sponsors.....I just knew he would be!


peace~

[Dystopian]

26. Also......

I met John Olver for the first time this summer...I thanked him for all he's done for children and families. He's got a 100% voting record according to the Children's Defense Fund......


peace~

[Sapphire Blue]

31. Even better to hear!

:toast: to John Olver!

[Sapphire Blue]

30. Good to hear that!

Mine is also a co-sponsor... I called w/a big 'Thank You'.

[pecwae]

22. Huge kick!!

Looking at those raped and ravaged mountains will absolutely break the heart. Thank you SB for all these important links. :grouphug: to all kicking this thread and taking action for the mountains, the water, the kids and Mr. Wiley.

[Sapphire Blue]

23. Huge 'THANK YOU', pecwae!

:hi: :hug:

[pecwae]

24. Just watched symbolmans video

Wretched, wretched! The coal companies have never cared about the earth, the people. I grew up looking at that shit and the stripping of western KY as well. I want to help. Those old mountains hold part of my soul.

[Sapphire Blue]

29. Here's Keeper of the Mountains Foundation website (Larry Gibson's site):

Keeper of the Mountains Foundation: http://mountainkeeper.org

[Dystopian]

27. KICK.....

Thank you Sapphire Blue for posting this...
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[Sapphire Blue]

28. Thanks for the kick!

:hug:

[Lars39]

32. ~

[SalmonChantedEvening]

33. Puntage!!

K&R !!!! :D

[Sapphire Blue]

37. Thank you, SalmonChantedEvening!

:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

34. Kick...

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[rainbow4321]

35. Went to see Kilowatt Ours( here's a link to calender of nat'l showings)

Very moving.. also gives tips on how we can cut down on coal dependency.

One scene had a man from the Southeast US looking at destroyed-for-coal land and said that he had been asked if he had any pics of the mountain that was no longer there. His response was that when the mountain was still standing no one thought it would ever be GONE so, no, there were no pics of it b/c no one felt a need to take pictures of it...they thought it would always be there.
They had DVD's available last night given in return for any donations that people wanted to give to keep the documentary's roadshow funded...we were told to show it to as many people as we could so more people would get educated on using less coal dependent electricity.

http://www.kilowattours.org/energy-conservation-film.php

The most significant cause of each of these problems is our dependence on coal-generated electricity in America. In other words, the solution begins at our light switches and power strips.

Today, more than 50% of our nation's electricity is generated from coal. In the southeast U.S., where household electricity use is highest, this amounts to more than 12,000 pounds of coal burned per home per year.

Buildings in America consume nearly 2/3 of all the energy we use. The typical American home emits twice the annual global warming emissions compared the typical car.

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Calender for the documentary showings around the country:
http://prem.calendars.net/kilowatt_calende

[Sapphire Blue]

40. Thank you SO much for this info & link, rainbow4321!

:hi:

[Sapphire Blue]

42. KICK - for Kilowatt Ours!

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[Sapphire Blue]

46. *** Kilowatt Ours *** DVD *** here:

http://www.kilowattours.org/energy-conservation-donation.php

[bobbolink]

36. kick

[Sapphire Blue]

38. Thank you, bobbolink!

:hi: :hug:

[dogday]

39. K&R

[Sapphire Blue]

41. Thank you, dogday!

:hi:

[symbolman]

43. Kick & R

We MUST stop this, Mr Gibson, a "Keeper of the Mountains" and the man in my film, told me that people there had a better chance of surviving VIETNAM all of that war, than they did the mining techniques of the corporations there, that's saying something..

Also the LARGEST man made explosion created outside of Hiroshima since the war was used in those mountains, I saw what was left, nothing but a putting green with seeded with non indigenous grasses and trees that create quick cover.

Besides the people, the animals have no where to go, and are being poisoned as well.

This a major catastrophe on a scale people can't even imagine.

Hope my little film was/is helpful, and that I can expand it at some point and make a feature. Killowatt hours is a fantasti work, and the best part of it is that it empowers people to do SOMETHING, simple changing all the lights out in your house for lower wattage, new generation bulbs can save millions in the end, and that will include LIVES.

Thanks to The Jewel of a Lady here for promoting these facts for all of us!

[Sapphire Blue]

45. Thank you once again, and SO very much, symbolman!

:hi: :hug:

[ismnotwasm]

47. What a awesome cause

I emailed Senator Byrd, and told him that I was hearing about this across the country. Together we CAN change things, I believe that.

Like they say at Baseball games, Make Some Noise!

[Sapphire Blue]

48. Thank you for emailing him your comments, ismnotwasm!

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[Individualist]

49. K&R

[Sapphire Blue]

50. Thank you, notsodumbhillbilly !

:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

52. Evening kick!

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[Sapphire Blue]

53. And another!

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[bliss_eternal]

54. Alrighty...

:kick::kick::kick:

[Sapphire Blue]

55. Keepin' on kickin'

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[Lone_Star_Dem]

56. A morning kick

For the coffee crowd

[Sapphire Blue]

58. Good morning, Lone_Star_Dem!

:hi:

[Sapphire Blue]

59. *** NEW THREAD *** Mr. Wiley is in Washington!!!

**HE MADE IT!!!** Ed Wiley (the W. VA Grandfather) Arrives in Washington: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2126022

[Cameron27]

60. Kicking

Important to keep our attention on this terrible situation.

My emails have been sent also.

[Moderator]

61. locking

Please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2117860&mesg_id=2126072