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Thursday, October 21, 2004

Are you supporting Nader for some reason?

As a former Nader campaigner I think the following email would be helpful to any of you wonderful people who are thinking of voting for Nader this time.

MEDIA ADVISORY – October 20, 2004

Contact: Michelle Mulkey & Mike Smith, 415-901-0111; Sara Flynn,

212-584-2000



3 Million Alternative Newsweekly Readers To See Ads Placed in 10 Swing

States Urging Nader Supporters To Vote Kerry

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Barbara Ehrenreich, Bonnie Raitt & Tim Robbins To Headline

Telephone Press Conference Tomorrow, Friday, at Noon Eastern Time -

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Large ads are being placed in more than 20 alternative newsweeklies

urging Nader supporters living in 10 swing states to vote for John

Kerry in 2004. The ads promote a statement by over 70 former Nader

supporters including Noam Chomsky, Jim Hightower, Susan Sarandon, Ben

Cohen, and Cornel West endorsing voting for Kerry in all swing states.



“Our goal is to reach voters who have been almost entirely neglected

in this campaign: swing voters on the left,” said John Weiss, publisher

of the Colorado Springs Independent.  The ads will run in the following

states where the race is close and Nader is on the ballot: Colorado,

Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada,. New Hampshire, New Mexico

and Wisconsin.



“No one has gone after these millions of likely voters,” added John

Pearce, founder of TheUnityCampaign.org. “With almost every prominent

member of Ralph Nader's own, hand-picked ‘Citizens Committee’ for his

2000 campaign publicly uniting behind John Kerry in battleground

states, we have a message that needs to get out. The alternative

newsweekly papers were the perfect vehicle to reach these swing voters.

If enough potential Nader voters hear about this, Kerry will pick up

tens of thousands of battleground state votes.”



Placement of the ads was coordinated by the Alternative Weekly

Network, an advertising cooperative based in Sacramento, CA that

specialized in placing ads in 150 alternative newsweeklies that reach

nearly 20 million readers.



Reporters interested in covering this story are urged to participate

in the following press conference:



WHAT:     Telephone press conference with progressive leaders and

former Ralph Nader supporters urging citizens to vote for John Kerry.



WHEN:        Friday, October 22, 2004, 9:00 am, PDT/12:00 pm EST.

DIAL-IN INFORMATION: 888-455-9655

Conference PASSCODE:  530522

Conference MODERATOR: Parker Blackman



WHO:     Barbara Ehrenreich, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Robbins, John Pearce,

Founder, TheUnityCampaign,  Jeff Cohen, Coordinator, Vote2StopBush.com,

Eli Pariser, Executive Director, MoveOn PAC