Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.1003081708480.15781@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>,
Cyberculture <cyberculture@zacha.org>
Subject: Call-in Day Tomorrow: End Mountaintop-removal Coal Mining (fwd)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:08:57 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:39:08 -0500 (EST) From: Center for Biological Diversity <bioactivist@biologicaldiversity.org> To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: Call-in Day Tomorrow: End Mountaintop-removal Coal Mining Dear Alan, This week hundreds of activists are in Washington, D.C. taking action to end mountaintop-removal coal mining. You can be part of the action by picking up the phone and calling your representative on March 9, a national call-in day to end mountaintop removal. Mountaintop-removal coal mining is one of the most outrageous environmental and social-justice transgressions in America today, threatening the biodiversity and human communities of Appalachia. More than 500 mountains, 1.5 million acres of forest, and 2,000 miles of stream have already been annihilated by this practice. The deep pockets of Big Coal are working hard in Washington to block a bill called the Clean Water Protection Act that would undo the political loopholes that currently make it legal for coal corporations to blow up mountains and then dump the wastes directly into streams. Please call your representatives on March 9 and ask them to become cosponsors of the Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310. If they're already a sponsor, ask that they actively work to promote this bill and to ban mountaintop removal. ****************************************** Click here to find out more and take action: http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/t/5243/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=7035 ****************************************** Talking points for calls to representatives: * Introduce yourself -- give your name and city. * State that you're calling to urge Representative XXX to cosponsor the Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310. * The bill would undo the political loopholes that make mountaintop removal legal. * More than 500 mountains, 1.5 million acres of forest, and 2,000 miles of stream have already been annihilated by this practice. * If they're already a sponsor of the bill, ask that they actively work to promote it and to ban mountaintop removal. * Thank them for their time. ****************************************** Donate now to support our work: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5929/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=3389 Please take action on March 9. This message was sent to sondheim@panix.com. The Center for Biological Diversity sends out action alerts and newsletters through DemocracyinAction.org. If you'd like to check your profile and preferences, click here: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/profile/login.jsp. To stop receiving action alerts and newsletters from us, click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/content.jsp?content_KEY=6004. Center for Biological Diversity P.O. BOX 710 TUCSON, AZ 85702 1-866-357-3349