Re: [EC] Fw: [Fwd: Re: CNN HEROES: A letter from Executive Producer, Kelly Flynn]

Allan, you are probably right about the IP address but it doesn't give a message that you can't vote again. Please, everyone on the FOM, the energy list, the CCL list and Mountain Justice lists do as Allan suggests and send to list serves you have access to and all your friends. If he wins this, it will be great publicity for the stop MTR cause.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/cnn.heroes/

Regina Hendrix

Allan Tweddle wrote:

Well that would be the civilized way to do it.

However, If you and everyone that I sent it to will forward the e-mail to everyone that you can, that will get a lot of votes as well.

I have one friend who has several thousand on a newsletter mailing list that he has runs in Wisconsin and he is distributing it to everyone.

I hope our combined efforts are successful...Larry deserves it for what he has put up with, lost, but never flinches or gives up.

Thanks

Allan

----- Original Message -----
*From:* Leroy Grey <mailto:3circles@3circles.net>
*To:* Allan Tweddle <mailto:allantweddle@msn.com>
*Sent:* Friday, October 05, 2007 4:51 PM
*Subject:* Re: Fw: [EC] [Fwd: Re: CNN HEROES: A letter from
Executive Producer,Kelly Flynn]

Thanks Allan.  I really appreciate people like Larry, who are
willing to stand  up for what is right.  That is what I've done
all my life, so I  understand there is always a cost involved.   I
tried voting multiple times, but the counter does not advance, so
I suspect they are using the IP addresses to limit more than one
vote from one computer.

Leroy

Allan Tweddle wrote:

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----- Original Message -----
*From:* Allan Tweddle <mailto:allantweddle@msn.com>
*Sent:* Friday, October 05, 2007 12:24 PM
*Subject:* Fw: [EC] [Fwd: Re: CNN HEROES: A letter from Executive
Producer,Kelly Flynn]

Family, Friends and Colleagues

I am asking you to take a brief moment to vote in the CNN
"Heroes" election for Larry Gibson of West Virginia.  He is
currently in third place.

Larry is a peaceful man, but his life and land is under attack. 
He is short in stature but very long in determination and
commitment to this land.  His home has been burned, he has been
shot at many times, while in his home and while driving.  He is
not well educated but he is well experienced in the horrors of
Mountain Top Removal Mining that are destroying his home and his
surrounding land.

His ancestors lived on this land from the mid 1800's, but it is
being dynamited away for the sake of expedient and illegal mining
by blowing off the tops of the mountains to reach narrow seams of
coal.  The courts have found these practices to be illegal, but
they are going through years of appeals and in the mean time the
mountain top removal mining continues.

Recently, even the family cemetery was bulldozed, graves, caskets
and all.

If any of you had to put up with what he is experiencing on a
daily basis, many of you would probably have taken up arms by now.

I urge you, if you are not familiar with Mountain Top Removal
Mining, also known as strip mining, check it out in the impartial
resource, Wikepedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_mine

But please, take a moment to help Dear Larry achieve the top
spot...vote for him on every computer that you have access
to...that's traditionally the West Virginia way...vote early and
often!

And it may help to stop the madness that has so far destroyed
thousands of square miles of mountains and over a thousand miles
of rivers.  In all my years of working with industry, I have
never seen such a total and callous disregard for the people who
live near by.  They poison the water, create enormous billion
gallon reservoirs of toxic sludge even within a few hundred yards
of schools. 

Larry is a small and powerful voice...please vote for him

Thanks

Allan

Allan Tweddle

Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum
Sir Henry Royce, 1924




----- Original Message -----
*From:* Regina Hendrix <mailto:regina1936@verizon.net>
*To:* All of FOM list <mailto:fom@lists.riseup.net> ;
mountainjusticesummer@lists.riseup.net
<mailto:mountainjusticesummer@lists.riseup.net> ; ec@osenergy.org
<mailto:ec@osenergy.org>
*Sent:* Friday, October 05, 2007 11:37 AM
*Subject:* [EC] [Fwd: Re: CNN HEROES: A letter from Executive
Producer,Kelly Flynn]

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/cnn.heroes/

Hi All:  See the attached memo from Danielle Berger at CNN. 
Please go
onto the site listed above and vote as many times as you can. 
This will
be very good publicity for us if Larry can win this contest.  We've
already gotten much benefit from the CNN piece.  Larry is now in
third
place and we need to move him ahead.

Thanks to all,

Regina

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Subject:
RE: CNN HEROES: A letter from Executive Producer, Kelly Flynn
From:
"Berger, Danielle" <Danielle.Berger@turner.com>
Date:
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:45:20 -0400
To:
"Regina Hendrix" <regina1936@verizon.net>

To:
"Regina Hendrix" <regina1936@verizon.net>


Regina,

Tell ALL your friends to log on and vote for Larry between now and
Monday at cnn.com/heroes.  Vote as many times as you like!  He will have
the chance to be recognized at the red carpet tribute in December.

dkb

-----Original Message-----
From: Regina Hendrix [mailto:regina1936@verizon.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:40 AM
To: Berger, Danielle
Subject: Re: CNN HEROES: A letter from Executive Producer, Kelly Flynn

Danielle:

Believe me, we appreciate all the help you've given. Our political 
situation in WV is such that we cannot get this type of publicity 
locally and so we depend on national and international sources to 
publicize our plight. I'm happy to say the out-of-state sources have 
responded admirably.

With your continued help, we will conquer this situation. The added 
attention to the necessity for stopping global warming will assist us
also.

Thanks again,
Regina Hendrix

Berger, Danielle wrote:

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Dear Mr. Gibson,

I am writing to thank you for your participation in the CNN HEROES 
initiative. As you likely know from your own personal experience, it 
has been a successful campaign, enhancing awareness of important 
issues and inspiring hundreds of thousands of viewers to reach out and

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help the many people in this world, like you, working hard to help 
others. We are so pleased that your stories have inspired our 
viewership to continue (and occasionally /begin/) the cycle of /active

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giving/, whether that be with their time, their support or their

money.

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As you may know, CNN HEROES profiles have been airing on CNN, Headline

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News, CNN en Espanol, CNN International and at CNN.com since May. CNN 
will also be honoring heroes during a live, global broadcast in 
December. Recipients will be selected from the pool of nominations 
collected on CNN.com, where viewers have been steadily nominating 
heroes they know. Unfortunately, certain legal restrictions render the

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heroes CNN has profiled ineligible for those particular tributes. 
However, one profiled CNN Hero will receive separate recognition at 
the show as visitors to CNN.com/Heroes are being asked to vote for 
their favorite on-air profile. You are eligible to be the Viewers' 
choice. Voting began, by category, on October 1^st .

Each of your profiles has contributed enormously to CNN's goal of 
inspiring individuals to act. In addition to stimulating action, your 
stories have motivated viewers to nominate their own heroes on our 
website. We appreciate your important role in this effort. 
Furthermore, we hope that being profiled on the CNN global networks 
has benefited your important work, as we wish you continued success.

Again, we are thrilled that this initiative has served as a successful

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call to action and that you have been a part of it. Please do not 
hesitate to keep us informed of any new developments.

Thank you again for your participation,

Kelly Flynn

Executive Producer

CNN Program Development

*CNN HEROES*