[Newspoetry] [newsletter-admin@gaia.votenader.org: :: votenader.org ::Welcome to our Nader 2000 newsletter!]

Tue Apr 25 11:52:09 CDT 2000

According to FAIR, Nader is 3rd among the cadidates. I'm psyched! Though,
I'm sure the CIA is already finding candidates for the "long gunman" who
will off him if he becomes prez. :-(

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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:07:10 -0400
To: <newsletter at gaia.votenader.org>
Subject: :: votenader.org ::Welcome to our Nader 2000 newsletter!
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Welcome to our Nader 2000 newsletter!

Through this weekly newsletter you will get updates about the latest
happenings in the Nader 2000 campaign: you can find out how you can
volunteer  (http://votenader.org/volunteer.html), how you and your friends
can make contributions (http://votenader.org/donate.html) and how to
ENCOURAGE OTHERS to VOLUNTEER and WORK to TRANSFORM THIS YEAR¹S RACE INTO AN
OPEN DEBATE ON CORPORATE CONTROL OF OUR DEMOCRACY AND OUR LIVES.
RUN RALPH RUN!!!

RALPH ON THE RUN
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During the first six weeks of this campaign Ralph Nader has traveled across
the country and denounced corporate control of government from State Capitol
buildings in Richmond, Virginia, Phoenix, Arizona, Des Moines, Iowa, and
Minneapolis, Minnesota.

University students, faculty and the public have heard him at the University
of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, Arizona State, University of
Arizona and University of Minnesota. He has appeared in Santa Cruz and
Sacramento, California, Reno, Nevada; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Wilmington,
Delaware; and Princeton, New Jersey.

He has been quick to take on local examples of corporate welfare.

In Toledo he dueled with the mayor over corporate subsidies for a new Jeep
plant that would displace homes and businesses. In Boston he decried use of
public money to enrich the owners of Fenway Park and their friends for the
expansion of the Green Monster into area neighborhoods now engaged in
redevelopment. 

In the Virginia statehouse he reminded Virginians that the state ranks
number two in garbage importation and that its state song- "Carry Me Back to
Old Virginia"- was now sounding like the corporate song of Waste Management
Inc. He denounced Virginia¹s Governor as rabidly anti-consumer.

Of course this is not all. He took the time to urge a California city
council to pass a resolution urging that corporations lose their dangerous
legal identity as persons. He also praised the federal court¹s decision
declaring Microsoft in violation of antitrust law, and spoke on threats to
biodiversity in Boston.

And if all of this were not enough, in Seattle he kicked off April as
"AntiGlobalization Month" in an appearance at the Seattle Town Hall, scene
of his famous debate on world trade during the Seattle uprising against the
World Trade Organization.  Nader spoke on the "Battle After Seattle."

On April 16 Nader participated in the Mobilization For Global Justice in
Washington DC. He received strong support and wild applause as he addressed
a blue-green coalition of more than 5,000 at a march and rally to protest
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whose policies undermine
labor standards and environmental conditions in developing nations.

IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING ON THE BALLOT
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We are currently on the ballot in 14 states. In the other 36 states we are
conducting petition drives to place Ralph Nader on the ballot in November.
Our goal is to complete this phase of the campaign by the end of June. The
rules set up in many states are designed to keep any party other than the
two established parties and their handpicked special interest candidates off
the ballot.  If you live in or near one of the following states, contact
your local green party office or the web site
(http://votenader.org/volunteer.html) for details on how you can help with
the petition drive.

Texas, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, Arkansas, Utah, Rhode Island,
Mississippi, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Utah, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington, Missouri,
Idaho, Montana, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois,
Michigan, Arizona, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Indiana, S Carolina, Georgia,
North Carolina.

OUR STAFF IS GROWING
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Our staff includes a campaign manager, a fundraiser, a field director, a
press secretary, a scheduler, a webmaster, and support staff. We are hiring
field organizers around the country. Volunteers have already helped us
tremendously with mailings, research, data entry, graphic design and phone
calls. THERE ARE MANY WAYS YOU CAN HELP: by drafting flyers, posting flyers,
outreach to universities, data entry, answering phones, designing bumper
stickers, pins, and yard signs among many other exciting things. BE A PART
OF THE HISTORIC RALPH NADER CAMPAIGN- YOU¹LL NEVER FORGET IT! Call us at
202-265-4000 to help.

You can help us compete with Bush and Gore's corporate millions by
contributing online (http://www.votenader.org/donate.html) or by sending a
personal check of up to $1000 to

Nader 2000 Primary Committee, Inc.
P.O. Box 18002
Washington DC 30036.

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