Fill ‘Er Up for Nader West Coast Tour
One week from today, we’re sending Ralph Nader off on a speaking tour to Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington.
Gas prices are hovering at $4 a gallon.
We think it’s important to have a rigorous public debate about whether or not the oil companies should be treated like a public utility.
Federal judge Ed Ludwig, for one, says we should make oil a public utility.
According to Ludwig, a public utility is "a business that provides an everyday necessity to the public at large" - such as water, electricity, natural gas, telephone service, transportation, cable TV and other essentials.
Ludwig says that even a modest threat of making oil a public utility would drive down oil prices.
What better way to fight back against the skyrocketing cost price of oil at the pump than to send Ralph Nader - the chief critic of corporate power and the oil industry - on a speaking tour?
Yesterday, we called on 100 of you to kick in $100 each to raise the $10,000 we need to fund the Nader/Gonzalez Get Out of Iraq and Tame the Giant Multinational Oil Company West Coast Tour.
Sixty-nine of you donated $4,996.
Thank you.
As you can see, our tank is almost half full.
We need another fifty of you to donate $100 or more each and Ralph will be on his way to Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington.
Come out and see and hear Nader and Gonzalez at the public rallies listed below.
And tell your friends and family.
Hope to see you on the road.
Onward.
The Nader Team
West Coast tour schedule:
Ralph Nader Rally
Friday, May 9th, 6:30pm
Phoenix, Arizona
Location: TBA_*
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
More info call (714) 292-8675 or nicole@votenader.org
Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez Rally
Saturday May 10th 3:30 pm
Women's Center, Santa Monica
1210 4th Street Santa Monica, California
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
More Info Call - (213) 841-6042 or la4nader@gmail.com
Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez Rally
Sunday May 11th 7pm
Roxie Theater
3117 16th Street San Francisco, California
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
More Info Call - (510) 914-8355 or events@votenader.org
Ralph Nader & Matt Gonzalez Rally
Monday May 12th 8pm
Rio Theatre
1205 Soquel Ave. Santa Cruz, California
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
More Info Call - (831) 466-0739 or events@votenader.org
Ralph Nader Rally
Tuesday May 13th 7:30pm
Benson High
546 NE 12th Ave Portland,Oregon
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
More Info Call - (503)484-6626 or events@votenader.org
Ralph Nader Rally
Wednesday May 14th 7pm
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Kane Hall Room 120
$10 contribution/ $5 student/low-income (no one turned away)
More Info Call - (206) 755-4262 or events@votenader.org
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