WVEC Action Alerts

February 1, 2005

WVEC Legislative Blast OFF Party

When: Wed. Feb. 16th ...from 6:30 to 10:30
Where: Perfater's Law Offices, 1311 Virginia St. East In Charleston

We will have great entertainment by the famous VOO DOO KATZ

And opening will be the exciting new band, THE BLACK EYED SUSANS

There will be a great buffet with food from the SAHARA and home cooked goodies from volunteers.

Suggested donation - $15.00 We need to fund our Lobby team.

Fight the good Fight...Please support us!

YOU'RE INVITED---

What:
"Healing the Earth, Healing Her People," environmental issues panel dealing with perspectives and experiences of Native Americans.

When:
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.

Where:
Gluck Theater, WVU Mountainlair

Panelists include:

2005 WVU Native American Elder-in-Residence, Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation (read more here or here).

Dr. Carol Markstrom, a prolific scholar and author who has studied environmental concepts and protection of sacred spaces and the impact of the uranium mining disaster in Navajo country, among a host of other Native American issues (read more here).

Tim Brown (Wuh tun nee), Delaware/Mohawk, is an award-winning human rights advocate dedicated to serving emotionally disturbed and handicapped youths.

ALSO: The panel will segue to Chief Lyons' keynote Elder-in-Residence public lecture: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. in G24 Eiesland Hall. A winner of the First Annual Earth Day International Award of the United Nations, the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor, the National Audubon Award, and a member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, he is the publisher of Daybreak Magazine and co-editor of Exiled in the Land of the Free. Chief Lyons has much to say about the relationships between the degradation of nature as a sacred entity and the perpetuation of war, racism and poverty.

Both the panel and lecture are free and open to the public! Everyone Welcome.

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