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<DIV><STRONG><EM><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080>there are things we can
do. judy</FONT></EM></STRONG></DIV>
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title=MObuszewski@afsc.org href="mailto:MObuszewski@afsc.org">Max Obuszewski</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 19, 2005 10:52 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Join the Buycott of Citgo</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=5><B><!-- #BeginEditable "Header" -->Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><B><!-- #BeginEditable "author" -->by Jeff Cohen<!-- #EndEditable --></B></FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><!-- #BeginEditable "Body" -->Looking for an easy way to protest
Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate
global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
<P>And tell your friends.
<P> </P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!--/endimage/-->Of the top oil
producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who
was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor.
The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the
Anti-Bush."
<P>Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary
of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to
Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas
stations in the US. (Click here <A
href="http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp"
target=_new>http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp</A> to find one
near you.) By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the
billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide
health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of
Venezuelans.
<P>Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does,
Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor
in Venezuela. A country with so much oil wealth shouldn't have 60 percent of its
people living in poverty, earning less than $2 per day. With a mass movement
behind him, Chavez is confronting poverty in Venezuela. That's why large
majorities have consistently backed him in democratic elections. And why the
Bush administration supported an attempted military coup in 2002 that sought to
overthrow Chavez.
<P>So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word.
<P>Of course, if you can take mass transit or bike or walk to your job, you
should do so. And we should all work for political changes that move our country
toward a cleaner environment based on renewable energy. The BUYcott is for those
of us who don't have a practical alternative to filling up our cars.
<P>So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in Venezuela.
<P><I>Jeff Cohen is an author and media critic (<A
href="http://www.jeffcohen.org/" target=_new>www.jeffcohen.org</A>) </I>
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Committee, 4806 York Road, Baltimore, MD 21212 Ph: 410-323-7200; Fax:
410-323-7292; Email: <A
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>"The master class has always
declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while
the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose--especially their
lives." Eugene Victor Debs</FONT></DIV>
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