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February 3, 2012 Capitol Eye -- pdf format here

February 1, 2012  Unite as ONE WV Supporting Justice for ALL on February 8

January 27, 2012 Capitol Eye -- pdf format here

January 20, 2012 Capitol Eye  -- pdf formaty here

January 18, 2012  "Demonstration for Democracy," Friday, January 20th, 11:30 - 5:00 pm -- "Windows and Mirrors: Reflections on the War in Afghanistan" Reception Friday, January 20th, 7pm

January 13, 2012 Capitol Eye -- pdf format here

December 26, 2011  Not Too Late to Make a Year-End Donation To Support Our Work!

November 2, 2011  OH’s Public Workers & Heath Care Reform need our help!

October 11, 2011  Events Statewide This Week - America Wants To Work!

October 9, 2011  Tell Senator Manchin: America Wants to Work!

September 21, 2011  Corporations Are NOT People

September 19, 2011  Meeting on Rising Electric Rates TONIGHT (Sept. 19) in Morgantown -- Special Screening of "Not in Our Town: Light in the Darkness" TONIGHT in Charleston -- Energy Film Series (Sept. 22-23) ~ Thursday ("Carbon Nation") & Friday ("GASLAND')   LaBelle Theater in South Charleston -- Kanawha Valley Sustainability Fair ~ Saturday (Sept. 24) in Charleston -- Intentional Community Gathering ~ Sunday (Sept. 25) in Charleston -- WV Environmental Council Fall Conference ~ Oct. 7-9, Camp Pioneer, Beverly

September 5, 2011  Real Solutions To Rising Electric Rates

August 15   August 2011 Congressional Town Halls: Manchin, McKinley Add Events to Schedules

August 12 Weekend Hot Dog Sales Celebrate Social Security, Promote Tax Fairness

August 10, 2011    August 2011 Congressional Town Halls: Hold Your Representatives Accountable

August 4, 2011  Public Meetings on Energy Efficiency

July 26, 2011  Two Actions: Tell Your Representatives in Congress To Back a Clean Increase in the Debt Ceiling/Rally Thursday to Support CWA Workers

July 19, 2011  Public Hearing on Marcellus Drilling in Wheeling Thursday Hearings Also in Morgantown and Clarksburg Next Week

July 12, 2001  Tell Senator Manchin "No Cuts to Medicaid"

July 8, 2011  Group to Rally Around Marcellus Shale Drilling, Fracking Regulations Monday, July 11 in Charleston

July 5, 2011  Tell the Public Service Commission that West Virginians Deserve A Stronger Energy Efficiency Program from FirstEnergy!

June 23, 2011  Action Needed to Save West Virginia's Train Service

May 24, 2011  Please Call Senator Manchin Today A Simple Message

May 18, 2011  Senator Manchin Needs To Hear From You!

May 3, 2011  Learn How the Affordable Care Act Impacts West Virginia's Consumers, Businesses, and Government

April 16, 2011  Tax Day: Make The Corporations Pay!

April 1, 2011  RALLY FOR WORKERS' RIGHTS

March 25, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

March 16, 2011  March 20: Stand Up for Working Families ~ Rally in Clarksburg

March 13, 2011  Ask Governor Tomblin to Regulate Gas Drilling or Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits!

March 10, 2011  WV Labor and Community Groups to Rally for Workers Rights and the American Dream

March 10, 2011  Good News! House Finance today passed both the Health Reform Bills

March 7, 2011  Health Insurance Exchange Bill Now In House Judiciary

March 4, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

February 28, 2011  Marcellus Shale Public HearingNational Popular Vote Bill stuck in House - needs to pass by Wed!

February 25, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

February 21, 2011  Act Now to Support One Person One Vote!

February 18, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

February 15, 2011  Marcellus Shale Public Hearing

February 11, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

February 9, 2011  Act Now to Support Unemployment Modernization

February 4, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

January 28, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

January 21, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

January 14, 2011  Capital Eye  (pdf)

January 5, 2011  Glen Beck Doesn’t Want You To Read This!

December 8, 2010  Please Call Congress and Demand No Tax Cuts for Millionaires!

December 6, 2010  Call Senators Today and Say "No Deals"

November 29, 2010  Ask Senators Manchin and Rockefeller to Help the Unemployed

November 23, 2010  Please Call Senators Manchin and Rockefeller Today! Extend Benefits for the Unemployed

October 20, 2010  Help Get Out the Vote From Home

September 9, 2010  Pick Up America Rally

August 31, 2010  Labor Day Party at the Whipple Company Store

August 9, 2010  Rally to Support Our Nation's Immigrant

August 4, 2010  Build It Up WV at the Charleston Woman's Club!

July, 29, 2010  Two Actions on the War in Afghanistan

July 27, 2010  Call Congress Now to Help Stop an Endless War

July 22, 2010  Don't let Medical Loss become Big Insurance Gain

July 14, 2010  Call Senator Rockefeller Today and Ask Him To Support Wall Street Reform

June 23, 2010  Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Reform

June 3, 2010  Please Call Senators Byrd and Rockefeller!

May 19, 2010  Kanawha Valley Sustainability Fair

May 19, 2010  Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Reform - Tonight in Morgantown

May 10, 2010  Remember to Vote Tomorrow! -- Public Town Halls on Health Care Reform Bill Happening Statewide!

May 4, 2010  May 5 ~ Free Local Green Building Workshop -- May 6 ~ WV Environmental Council Benefit -- May 12 ~ Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Parkersburg -- May 13 ~ Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Wheeling

April 29, 2010   April 30 ~ Screening  of "Not In Our Town" on Stand Against Racism Day -- May 5 ~ Public Workshop on Green Sustainable Building for West Virginia -- May 16 ~ Music Benefit for the WV Environmental Council -- May 22 ~ Kanawha Valley Sustainability Fair

April 14, 2010  Join Us to Prioritize Peace Not War, Tax Day April 15, 2010

April 15, 2010  West Virginians are paying their income taxes But Verizon gets $3.3 billion in tax-free profits?

April 7, 2010   Stop the Hate Rally

March 31, 2010  WV Citizen Action Group's Annual Spring Extravaganza is just around the corner, April 16, 2010,

March 29, 2010  Rally In Washington, DC - Thursday, April 1

March 25, 2010  Session Has Few Bright Spots -- Clean Elections Victory! -- WV-CAG Spring Extravaganza is April 16 - Tickets Available Now! -- The Good News -- Disappointing Session on Oil and Gas Issues -- Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- Verizon Sale Too Risky For West Virginians -- Health Reform Signed Into Law! -- Our Roane County Webmaster Walks the Walk  -- Announcements and Calendar Items

March 22, 2010  Thanks To YOU Health Care Reform Was Passed!

March 19, 2010   Health Reform Vigil

March 16, 2010  Good Jobs Now Rally ~ Tomorrow, March 17!

March 15, 2010  Tell the PSC to REJECT the Sale of Verizon to Frontier.

March 11, 2010  The Time to Pass Health Care Reform Is Now: The Critical Vote Could Occur Next Week

March 10, 2010  Urge Senator Walt Helmick (D-Pocahontas), the Senate Finance Committee Chair to place House bill 4130, the Supreme Court Public Financing Pilot Project on the committee's agenda.

March 5, 2010  House Passes Public Financing! -- Crossover Day Creates Bill Graveyard -- The Great Tax Shift -- SORO Bills - Good, Bad.  Please Come To the Public Hearing -- Join the Posse -- Petition Drive Wraps Up With PSC Rally -- Broadband Bill Dies in Subcommittee -- Voo-Doo Katz in the House -- Thanks To Our Volunteers -- Contact Your Legislators

March 3, 2010  March With Us On March 9 Against Big Insurance

March 2, 2010  Vigil TODAY at 6pm

February 28, 2010 Public Financing Passes Both House Judiciary and Finance This Week! -- March 9 - Big Insurance Protest in DC -- Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- Tired of Slow Internet Access? -- Groups and Legislators Come Out Against Verizon Sale To Frontier -- CAG Fundraiser Just Around the Corner -- Will SORO Bills Be Taken Up In Time? -- Recycling Bills Moving -- Things That Make You Go Huh? -- Contact Your Legislators -- Please Take a Moment to Renew Your CAG Membership

February 23, 2010 Please Join the Move-On Virtual March on Washington!  February 24!

February 23, 2010  The End of the Line

February 22, 2010  Supreme Court Public Financing Pilot Project (HB 4130) Passes Out of House Judiciary!

February 19, 2010

Rally for Health Care a Big Success -- Parliamentary Rules Mean Life or Death for Bills -- Finish Implementing the Federal Unemployment Modernization Act -- Subcommittee Advances Public Financing Pilot Project Bill -- Farm Bureau Cozy with Industry -- Something Strange is in the Air -- The Verizon Sale in a Nutshell -- Contact Your Legislators -- Volunteers Needed! -- Upcoming Events!

Feburary 12, 2010   Health Care Reform Rally ~ February 17/Shameless Republicans -- Collect Signatures Against Verizon Sale -- "Hallway" Deal Weakened Oil and Gas Rule/Surface Owners' Recognition Act Introduced -- Immigration Reform Boosts Economy -- Support Good Green Bills -- House Subcommittee Discusses Public Financing -- Supreme Corporate Cash Slow-Down -- Rail Planning ~ Support SB 527 -- From WV Blue Blog ~ WV in the Dark on the Future of Energy -- Have a Heart ~ And Thanks to Our Renewing Members! -- Lots of Calendar Items

February 9, 2010  Don’t Let Congress Cut Off The Lifelines of Our Communities

February 5, 2010 Prescription Fairness Coalition Pushes to Expand Access to Contraception -- Aggressive Progressive Rally Set For February 17/Health Reform Lives/Make the Banksters Pay! -- Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- Clean Elections Pilot Program Bill Sent to House Subcommittee -- Talk to Us! -- Governor's Budget Masks Cuts to Agencies, Programs and Services -- Surface Owners: Time to Speak Out -- Legislative Outlook -- Contact Your Legislators -- Lots of Great Upcoming Events! -- Please Renew Your Membership

February 4, 2010  Join Us Tomorrow to Talk Live With Senator Al Franken on Health Care Reform

February 3, 2020  Bitter Cane - Documentary Classic, Six Years in the Making

January 29, 2010  State of the Nation ~ Get 'Er Done! -- Consumer Advocate Nixes Verizon's Claims of Service Improvements -- Surface Owners Bill Introduced -- Election Protection -- Support Tobacco Tax Increase -- Legislative Support for Public Financing (for Judges) Strong  -- Contact Your Representatives -- Upcoming Events

Janury 22, 2010  Capital Eye  Health Reform Must Move Forward -- US Supreme Court Strikes Down Campaign Finance Laws -- House of Delegates Passes Tougher Ethics Rules -- Verizon/Frontier Testimony on Web -- What's Up With the Bottle Bill? -- Strengthening Drilling Rules and Protecting Our Water Resources -- Contact Your Representatives -- Upcoming Activities and Actions -- Please Renew Your Membership

January 15, 2010 Capital Eye  Governor Proposes Public Financing for Supreme Court -- AP Predicts Do-Nothing Session -- Why Consumers Should Oppose Verizon Sale -- Good Housekeeping -- Oil and Gas Issues:  A Premier -- Comprehensive Immigration Reform -- Contact Your Legislators -- Calls For MA Election Needed Now! -- Upcoming Events and Actions! -- Please Donate to CAG!

January 11, 2010  Please Take a Quick Action To Help Stop Verizon Sale!

January 8, 2010  No First Friday -- Help Stop the Sale of Verizon to Frontier - Lots of Actions You Can Take -- Advocacy Training This Monday in Huntington -- Join WV's Environmental On-Line Group

January 5, 2010  Concerned about the sale of Verizon's landlines to Frontier?

December 16, 2009  There is still work to be done to move health reform forward.

December 9   International Human Rights Day

December 8, 2009  Say no to Joe!  Senator Joe Lieberman is about to kill the public health insurance option.

October 28 Health Care Halloween Tomorrow, 4 - 5PM, Congresswoman Capito's Office -- Health Care Emergency Bus Touring Weirton, Wheeling, Parkersburg, Fairmont and Morgantown Tomorrow - Check it Out!

October 23, 2009  Health Care Halloween ~ Thursday, October 29

October 19, 2009  HONK-N-WAVE TUESDAY IN CHARLESTON

October 11, 2009  Town Meeting - Health Care Reform, Tuesday, October 13

October 7, 2009  National Call-In Day for Health Care Reform

October 6, 2009  National Call-In Days for Health Care!

October 5, 2009  Help Us Thank Senator Rockefeller Tomorrow!

September 21, 2009  Join Us Tomorrow at Lunchtime - National Day of Action on the Insurance Industry -- Quick Action - Fax Your Insurance Company and Senate Finance

September 18, 2009  Health Care Reform Summer -- WV-SORO Launches Video Project -- Will Commission Support Public Financing of Judicial Elections? -- Viral Membership Campaign - You're It! -- Thank You! -- Get Digital Figital With Us -- PSC To Rule On Electric Rate Hike Soon -- Legislature Looking Into Voting Machine Problems -- Upcoming Events! -- Please Renew Your Membership

September 14, 2009  September 17: Health Care Forum Thursday in Harrison County -- September 19: Fundraiser for West Virginia's Legal Assistance to Victims Partnership ~ Under the Stars at Terra Salis Garden Center -- Peace Actions All Week - Join In!

September 8, 2009  NATIONAL CALL-IN DAYS - TOMORROW AND THURSDAY!

September 3, 2009  First Friday - Tomorrow -- Sunday - Labor Day Picnic in Mannington -- September 10:  Symposium on Community and Law Enforcement -- Tell Us Your Electronic Voting Machine Horror Stories -- September 25 - 27: WV Environmental Council Fall Conference

September 1, 2009  Honk–n–Waves for Health Care Reform in Charleston Sept. 3 & 4

August 31, 2009  Print Out Your Own Health Care Rally Sign -- September 2 - Community Health Care Meeting in Charleston -- Morgantown Health Care Forum - September 3 -- September 4 - First Friday at CAG -- September 6 - Labor Day Picnic in Marion County with Congressman Mollohan

August 25, 2009  Honk and Waves For Health Care - This Week!

August 24, 2009  Counter Protest in Charleston TODAY - 4PM -- Rally Tomorrow at Representative Capito's Charleston Office - 11 AM -- Public Hearing on Judicial Reform This Friday -- Vigil To Mark One-Year Anniversary of Bayer Explosion - This Friday

August 20, 2009  Health Care Reform Events Across the State This Weekend!

July 29, 2009  Come Rally for Health Care on Sunday in Charleston

July 16, 2009  Canvass This Weekend for Health Care -- WVEC Summer Blast - Saturday, July 18 -- Ask Congress To Support Verified Voting -- Turn Around America Rally - August 2

July 7, 2009  Health Care Call-In Day Tomorrow - July 8 -- First Friday - July 10 -- Town Hall Meeting in Huntington - July 11 - Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) -- Town Hall Meeting in Marmet - July 11 - Health Care Reform and EFCA

June 21, 2009  Ask Our Senators Where They Stand on a Public Option for Health Care -- Join Us at a Health Care Conversation in Charleston ~ June 29

June 10, 2009  Send a Letter to the Editor -- One More Horror Story Needed -- Help Collect Petition Signatures on June 20

May 28, 2009  Sustainability Fair This Saturday! -- UUC Concert This Weekend ~ Andrew McKnight -- Urgent - Health Insurance Horror Stories Needed -- June 1 ~ WV for Affordable Health Care Fundraiser and Reception -- Be Our Facebook Friend

April 3, 2009  The Perils of "Crossing Over" -- Clean Elections Bill Has Wild Ride -- Thanks! -- Through the Eyes of a Legislative Intern -- Bad Surface Owners' Bill Dies This Week -- Election Bill Wrap-Up -- Upcoming Events and Actions -- Contact Your Legislators! -- Please Renew Your WV-CAG Membership

March 27, 2009 The Watch List -- Public Financing For Supreme Court Passes Out of Senate Judiciary -- Subcommittee A Passes Out Bottle Bill -- Surface Owners Ignored -- National Group Wants Heavier Trucks -- Health Care and the Federal Budget -- Join Earth Hour Tomorrow -- WV-CAG to Honor Two Progressive Women on May 1

March 23, 2009  Ask For Senators Byrd and Rockefeller to Support President Obama's Budget

March 20, 2009 Capital Eye   So Many Bills, So Few Good Ones -- Federal Issues Heat Up -- Your Calls Needed to Move Clean Elections! -- Where Are They Now?  Election Bill Recap -- WV-SORO Day Brings Out Landowners -- Make the Call For Clean Water -- Subcommittee Debates Bottle Bill -- Events and Public Hearings This Week -- Contact Your Legislators -- Please Update Your Membership

March 13, 2009 Capital Eye  Halfway Over the Hill -- Health Care and the Economy ~ Federal Issues -- Governor and Subcommittee Consider Bottle Bill -- Your Calls Need To Move Clean Elections -- SORO Calls Needed This Weekend! -- Update Your Membership! -- Contact Legislators and Governor Manchin

March 6, 2009 Capital Eye   Election Bills Are Blooming -- Quick Actions to Do THIS WEEK! -- Open Letter on Health Care Reform -- Calls Needed to Support Surface Owners' Bill of Rights -- Eastern Panhandle Events -- E-Day ~ March 11 -- PATH Rally -- Support CAG! -- This Week's Quote

February 27, 2009 Capital Eye Health Care Reform on Two Fronts -- Oil and Gas Industry Ambushes SORO Bill -- Public Financing Proposed for Legislature, Supreme Court -- Stop PATH Power Line Rally on E-Day! -- March 11 - E-Day! -- Same Day Registration and Other Voting Reforms -- Sustainable Kanawha Valley Initiative -- Send Your Questions to WV Public Broadcasting -- Contact Your Legislators!

February 20. 2009  Capital Eye Nuclear Bill Bombs, Bottle Bill Uncorked -- Voter Owned Elections Bill Introduced -- Bottle Bill Introduced in Both the House and Senate -- Contact Your Legislators -- Sign Up a Friend -- Lining Up SORO Bill Sponsors -- Upcoming Events -- Cartoon of the Week -- Please Renew Your Membership!

February 10, 2009  Senate Debate Costing 803 Jobs an Hour

February 2, 2009  Please join others from across the country in calling the US Senate today to ask them to pass President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan!! 

January 26, 2009  Urge the House To Pass Economic Recovery Package - Vote is This Week!  -- Ask Senator Byrd to Support Health Care For Children -- January 29 - Free Effective Advocacy Workshop -- February 2 - Town Hall Meeting on Economic Recovery  -- February 4 - Film and Discussion on Israeli/Palestine Conflict

November 17, 2008  Coalition on Human Needs

July 1, 2008  Stop Telecom Immunity

June 24, 2008  Stop Secret Money in Elections -- Call Legislators TODAY

June 17, 2008  Victory in the House!  -  Attend Meeting Tomorrow Morning To Protest Coonskin Park Destruction  -  Sign Clean Elections Petition On-Line and Pass It Along!  -  Join Thousands of Others and Tell Your High Gas Price Story On-line

May 14, 2008  Please call US House members and Senators on the three Iraq War related amendments that will be voted on in the House Thursday May 15 and sent to the Senate

December 11, 2007  Ask Congressmen Rahall and Mollohan to Say NO to a Blank Check for Iraq War

November 4, 2007  Coalition on Human Needs

November 3, 2005  National Call-in Week to Save Vital Services

October 26, 2005  Call WV Rep. Shelly Moore Capito and ask her to say "NO" to cuts in student loans and increases in fees

October 17, 2005  Tax Breaks and Budget Cuts Reflect the Wrong Priorities

September 19. 2005  Kanawha County Leaning Toward Optical Scan Voting System

September 15, 2005  527 Bill Heads to the Governor's Desk!

June 1, 2005  Urge County Election Officials to Choose Optical Scan Systems Over Touch Screens

March 23, 2005  Take Action for Clean Elections

February 23, 2005  Clean Elections Pilot Project bill is on second reading in the House Thursday

February 5, 2005  Fair and Clean Elections needs your help!

February 3, 2005  Clean Elections Update!

January 31, 2005  Clean Elections Meeting

January 19, 2005  Social Security

December 29, 2004  Please Call Senator Byrd's office!

December 16, 2004  Deliver A Senator To The House For Christmas!

October 15, 2004  Get Out the Vote Effort - Next Two Weekends Are Key

October 11, 2004  Boat to Vote; Ride the Trolley to Vote;  Help Get Out the Vote

August 31, 2004  Give Seniors & People with Disabilities a REAL Rx Benefit!

August 13, 2004 - Please Take 5 Minutes and Help Clean Up the Legislature

July 18 -Sept 6, 2004  Recycle Electronics at Office Depot

June  22, 2004  Protect Our Votes!  Rally June 22 for Paper Trails!

June 8, 2004  Solid Waste Authority Hearing

May 6, 2004  Last Minute Election Day Announcements!

April 5, 2004  Next Citizens for Clean Elections meeting--Monday, April 12th, 10:30 a.m. at the ACT Foundation

March 18, 2004  Ask Reps to support Voting Machine Paper Trail;  Tune In To Progressive Talk Radio - Available on Internet!

Archive of Past Action Alerts

March 14, 2004  WV Legislative Wrap Up

March 8, 2004  Saving the Environmental Quality Board (EQB)

February 27, 2004  Clean Elections News Flash

July 18, 2003  Public Hearings on Mountaintop Removal; Division of Highways and Public Service Commission Hold Public Meetings on Coal Trucks; Rescue Democracy

June 12, 2003  Urgent! Bill before Congress could halt coal truck weight increase in West Virginia

July 3, 2003  WV-DOT releases proposed list of coal haul roads; Commerce Committee of US Senate passes "Safe Highways and Infrastructure Protection Act" - Thanks for your letters!; "Coal Bucket Outlaw" on WV Public TV

March 7, 2003  Call on Wise to Veto Coal Truck Bill

March 3, 2003  Rally Against Overweight Coal Trucks

February 28, 2003 Act Now to Fight National “tort reform”!

February 27, 2003  We Gotta Stop Sb 583!

Febraruy 13, 2003  Take Action Against Overweight Coal Trucks!!

February 12, 2003  Action Alert on HB2122 - Medical Malpractice "Tort Reform"

January 30, 2003  Senate Judiciary Committee Passes All-terrain Vehicle Bill: Safety advocates urge passage of bill by full Senate

January 29, 2003  Bills Introduced To Improve Children's Health Coverage: Senate bills would make it easier to enroll in CHIP and Medicaid

October 9, 2002  Come Meet the Kanawha Valley Candidates! 

September 17, 2002  Hearing Set For Friday

September 12, 2002  The Mother of All Budget Digests!

September 3, 2002  Keep Reminding the Governor!

June 11, 2002  Governor's Truck Safety Work Group Hearing

May 5, 2002  WV Rivers Coalition Alert