WVEC Action Alert
May 4, 2010
Below:
E-Council After work Benefit! Thurs. May 6th
KODAC HARRISON
At the Empty Glass-Charleston
6 to 8 ----chips and dips / Music and Poetry
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Vote Online to support Healthy Economies in Southern WV coalfields!
(From Build It Up! West Virginia Summer Program Planning Team)
***Please vote & Forward this message to friends & supporters!***
Hello friends,
I'm writing to ask you to take a step today that can help develop new and healthier economies in the Southern West Virginia coalfield communities. By a few simple, digital steps, and three votes, you can help jump start the grass roots "Build It Up, West Virginia! Summer Program" which is a Program where young West Virginians are coming together and reclaiming our state ourselves. Heard enough? Great. Go here and vote for the West Virginia Youth Action League's "Build It Up! West Virginia Summer Program".
The deadline for voting is May 15 and we have to have the most votes in order to win the grant - we need you to vote & spread the word now!
Here's how you can help:
1) VOTE 3x
2) FORWARD THIS EMAIL
3) RSVP & INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO THIS FACEBOOK FRIENDS
For years, communities in Central Appalachia, in parts of Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, have been standing up to defend their quality of life, the quality of their environment and the prospects for a brighter and better tomorrow for their children and grandchildren. For over a century, the coal industry has maintained a mono-economic stranglehold on many places in Appalachia, a stranglehold that has held the coalfields captive to the destructive whims of King Coal.
Today, coalfield communities are fighting harder than ever to stop the destruction of their mountains. They are also opening a new front in the struggle against King Coal's destruction. From West Virginia to Tennessee, grassroots groups are coming together to promote a new kind of sustainable, and diverse economic development that keeps wealth at home, rebuilds our environment and supports our communities for the long haul. The WV Youth Action League's Summer Program is one of these efforts, and it sure could use your votes
You can read more about some of these coalfield visions of sustainable development, among many other places, at Appalachian Transition Initiative, Appalachian Community Economics, Central Appalachian Prosperity Project. Below is a little bit more about the effort in West Virginia. Haven't voted yet? What are you waiting for?
See our project description below for more details about the amazing work coming out of West Virginia youth leaders. Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard to make this happen!
Thank you,
Daniel, Danny, Gary, Julia, Matt, Zoe
Build It Up! West Virginia Summer Program Planning Team
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For More Information on the WV Youth Action League and our Summer Program:
a) Check out the Summer Program's Youtube Video
b) Check out the Summer Program's Homepage
c) Apply for a Position in the Summer Program
d) Check out the WV Youth Action League's Homepage
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