Communities, Welcome to the Community of Ragland, West Virginia
Help the People in this Community Stop the Destruction
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
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HELP SPREAD THE WORD — Join thousands who are standing up against the destruction of Appalachian mountains and communities and who are helping to spread awareness of the other inconvenient truth about coal: mountaintop removal. |
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THEY’RE BLOWING UP OUR MOUNTAINS AND THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW! Ask your representative to support the Clean Water Protection Act – a bill that would curtail mountaintop removal and protect clean water for millions of Americans. |
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TELL YOUR ELECTRICITY PROVIDER — “NOT IN MY NAME!” — Click on this link, submit your zip code and choose “Take Action” where you can print out a letter – tailored to your own electricity provider – asking them not to do business with companies engaged in mountaintop removal strip mining. |
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DONATE WHERE IT’S NEEDED MOST — The most immediate way to help the people fighting to save their homes and mountains near Ragland is to support Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. OVEC is dedicated to maintaining a diverse grassroots organization for the improvement and preservation of the environment through education, grassroots organizing and coalition building, leadership development and media outreach. Click here to donate to OVEC. |
November 20th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
When a corporation is allowed to destroy entire mountains to run video games 3000 miles away, Hell can’t be far behind.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Thanks for a brilliant way of showing the connection of energy source to the consumer. With that connection, we can understand better and take responsibility for our part in the coal extraction nightmare every time we plug in to the grid. Hopefully, the first step for each of us is to dramatically reduce our own electricity use and dependency on this extraction process, while increasing our energy conservation and calls for change.
May 18th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
Encourage President Obama to undue all the damage done by previous administrations.
Reclaim YOUR American heritage.
Reclaim YOUR mountains.
Join Me —
Kathy A. Johnston,
Tulsa, OK
Thank You.
January 7th, 2010 at 7:38 am
WE ONCE BUG IN THE MOUNTAIN TOP’S TO PLANT OUR SEED’S TO FEED OUR FAMILY. WE FISHED INT THE CREEKS AN RIVERS FOR FOOD.
WE WERE HUMANS.
NOW WE REMOVE OUR MOUNTAIN TOPS TO RETRIEVE BLACK GOLD TO POLLUTE OUR AIR, CREEKS AND RIVERS.
WHAT ARE WE NOW
support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
January 18th, 2010 at 2:08 am
We are very much against the raping of Southern West Virginia and these rich coal companies buying the candidates. Help me bring this knowledge to Christian Parkersburg residents. Join the Tea Party and we can win for all of us. Please help me educate them!
April 10th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
If your representatives are not listening to you, vote them out. PEOPLE before PROFIT! Vote for those who who listen and ACT on your behalf.
April 11th, 2010 at 12:09 am
We have been following the ILoveMountains.org website for a number of years. We click on the links and sign petitions, write letters, and make phone calls to politicians. We own a copy of “Coal Country” and lend it out to friends and relatives. Presently, we are following the Naoma Massey Mine disaster. We are saddened by the plight of the men who work for the Massey company.
August 29th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
I think mining should be banned all togeather. There are other things we can use instead of coal. There are no large trees anymore like before. The animals also suffer because of the coal industrys greed. There are other ways for power.Water can be used for it. Ozone layer is getting bigger every minute just to faten a mans wallet. When it is totally gone we all die in an inferno. Something for the crooked mining companys to think about.
November 6th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
my mothers family were from Delbarton, Ragland and other nearby communities. Most are dead now, many because of mine related illnesses. Some of her family include Henry Collins, her daddy. Sam Lowe, Emmett Sifford, Clyde Maynard brothers-in-law. They were mine workkers and thogh many are gone, none are forgotten.