[CUGreens] Fwd: Spitfire Tour

[Dean Myerson <greenstuff@deanmyerson.org>]

Can someone find out if this tour is doing Denver or Boulder?

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>     Friends,
>     The Spitfire Tour landed at the University of Kentucky on Wednesday
>night and it was a great day for the Green Party and Ralph Nader. If it
>comes through one of your colleges, be there.
>     We had a table. The Young Democrats and Young Republicans also
>requested tables. At least, the Young Republicans had the good sense not
>to show (but I'm still wondering why they asked for a table). The Young
>Democrats showed en masse, maybe 20 of them.
>     We had between 10-15 volunteers manning our table during the night.
>But we had the YDs outnumbered. We also had Greens at the Amnesty
>Internation table, the PETA table, the ACLU table, the Kentuckians For
>The Commonwealth (a fantastic group of progressive people here who have
>been raging against the machine for years) table. And then, another
>group who none of us knew walked in with Nader buttons and posters and
>bumper stickers. We thought it was a second Green Party of Kentucky. We
>met, and found out they were actually from AppalShop, a wonderful co-op
>group from Whitesburg, KY (far eastern). We soon became friends.
>     Many of the Spitfire speakers came out and mingled with us prior to
>the show. By the time the show started, the Young Dems had hightailed it
>out of there. But, before they left, their leaders asked if they could
>join our Coalition for Opening the Debates and speak at our protest at
>Danville on Oct. 5. They want to show their support for democracy.
>     The first speaker was Michael Franti of Spearhead. I think Nader
>2000 owes him some serious endorsement funds. He went on and on about
>how the Democrats have sold America out and how we need a new political
>party, and that party will be the Green Party. He urged everyone to vote
>for Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke.
>     Angelo Moore (Fishbone) took the stage wearing a Nader/LaDuke button
>on his pants. And the finale was Jello Biafra.
>     I think of the hundreds that attended, all will be voting Green
>after sitting through what they had to say. And most of them took our
>flyers on the planned protest in Danville at the vice-presidential
>debates.
>     We had a Friends of Nader sign up sheet and added two more pages of
>names to our lists; we sold our last Nader/LaDuke t-shirt and now have
>to order more. We raised more than $60 on behalf of the Nader campaign
>(most gave more than the 50-cents asked for on bumper stickers and
>buttons). We also have a lot more Nader yard signs up around the UK
>campus than you will see Bush or Gore.
>
>     When you're at an event like that, and surrounded by so many young
>people who care so much, it's hard to see how we will do anything but
>win in this election.
>
>     Ken Sain
>     Green Party of Kentucky
>     http://www.kygreens.org
>     http://www.openthedebates.org
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