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    <title><![CDATA[Need Roadtrippers Now]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/07/03/need-roadtrippers-now/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p> </p> 
  <p>Ralph Nader said on ABC's This Week that the Nader/Gonzalez campaign will be on at least 45 states in November.</p> 
  <p>Well, time to get it done.</p> 
  <p>Need a summer job?</p> 
  <p>We've got one for you.</p> 
  <p>Become a Roadtripper for Ralph.</p> 
  <p>Collect signatures to put the Nader/Gonzalez team on the ballot.</p> 
  <p>Optimum profile for a Roadtripper for Ralph - energetic, youthful spirit, personable, fun loving, adventure seeking, democracy warrior.</p> 
  <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-M9RxhIAI">Check out Ralph making the pitch for more roadtrippers in this video</a>.</p> 
  <p>Interested? Contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:mark@votenader.org">mark@votenader.org</a>.</p> 
  <p>By the way, in case you didn't notice, on Saturday, we launched our campaign to raise $40,000 in ten days - by July 6.</p> 
  <p>You&nbsp;<a href="https://www.votenader.org/forms/contribute/?c=070308">did it</a>&nbsp;in six days.</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-03T13:33:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Six Dollars for Six Percent]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/07/02/six-dollars/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p> </p> 
  <p> </p> 
  <p>Here's something you can do right now for Nader/Gonzalez.</p> 
  <p><a href="https://www.votenader.org/forms/contribute/?c=sixdollars">Donate six dollars now</a>.</p> 
  <p>Why six dollars, you may ask?</p> 
  <p>Because yesterday, CNN reported that Ralph Nader is at six percent in its most&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/01/cnn.poll.matchup/?iref=mpstoryview" target="_blank">recent national poll</a>.</p> 
  <p>And while the flip-floppers Obama and McCain might look down on six percent, we are excited.</p> 
  <p>Our goal of course is much higher.</p> 
  <p>Right now, our goal is ten percent in the national polls.</p> 
  <p>Why ten percent?</p> 
  <p>Because ten percent gets us into the Google sponsored&nbsp;<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=3p6Iwu4xMaY">debates</a>&nbsp;in New Orleans on September 18.</p> 
  <p>If we get on the Google sponsored debates, we're convinced Nader/Gonzalez will move toward 20 percent.</p> 
  <p>At twenty percent, people see a three way race.</p> 
  <p>When people see a three way race, everything is possible.</p>And we believe that in this momentous election year, everything is possible.]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-02T13:50:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[We're Having a Party!]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/07/01/having-a-party/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>We're having a party!
        </p> 
  <p>A Nader/Gonzalez House Party!</p> 
  <p>  And we're inviting you to be one of 100 Nader/Gonzalez supporters to host a House Party on Saturday night July 26, 2008.
  <a href="http://www.votenader.org/houseparty/">Sign up now</a>.</p> 
  <p> With the help of modern technology, you can have Ralph Nader right there with you in your living room. </p> 
  <p>If you choose to be one of the 100 to host a house party, we will send you a remarkable documentary <span class="caps">DVD</span> about Ralph Nader - <a href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/unreasonableman/">An Unreasonable Man</a>  and the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WellrionoAc">Awake from Your Slumber <span class="caps">DVD</span></a> starring Ralph Nader and Patti Smith - both autographed by Ralph Nader. </p> 
  <p>Plus, we'll throw in a special collector's edition Nader/Gonzalez button.</p> 
  <p>The purpose of the National Nader/Gonzalez House Party Day?</p> 
  <p>Raise $100,000 to help put Nader/Gonzalez on at least 45 state ballots.</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-07-01T15:53:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ten Dollars, Ten States, Ten Days]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/28/ten-dollars-ten-states-ten-days/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Let's start with this.</p> 
  <p>We need&nbsp;<a href="https://www.votenader.org/forms/contribute/">$10</a>&nbsp;from you to get Nader/Gonzalez on ten state ballots in ten days.</p> 
  <p>So, if you haven't donated to Nader/Gonzalez yet, now is the time - please&nbsp;<a href="https://www.votenader.org/forms/contribute/">give ten dollars now</a>.</p> 
  <p>Our goal - $40,000 by July 6.</p> 
  <p>We have more than fifty young, energetic roadtrippers busting it on the ground all around the country for Nader/Gonzalez - the only candidacy that will shift the power from the corporations back to the people.</p> 
  <p>(If you think Obama is that guy, think again. Obama is moving in the other direction - running away from the people into the arms of the corporations. Check out Obama’s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/11349.html">most recent flip-flop</a>&nbsp;on giving immunity to telecom corporations under the government surveillance and wiretapping bill. And then watch Ralph Nader say no to wiretapping&nbsp;<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=KeUHj04euBw">here</a>.)</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T03:26:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nader on ABC’s This Week Sunday]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/26/nader-on-abcs-this-week-sunday/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Ralph Nader will be a guest on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Sunday June 29, 2008. (<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/images/ThisWeek/ABC_listing_080411.pdf">Check here for broadcast times in your area</a>).</p> 
  <p>By the way, there are many definitions of &quot;talking white.&quot;</p> 
  <p>Here's our definition, from the Nader/Gonzalez dictionary:</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-26T20:58:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Words, Words, Mere Words]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[<p> </p> 
  <p> </p> 
  <p>Senator Obama said earlier today that I haven't been paying attention to his campaign.</p> 
  <p>Actually, I have.</p> 
  <p>And it's clear from Senator Obama's campaign that he is not willing to tackle the white power structure - whether in the form of the corporate power structure or many of the super-rich - who are taking advantage of 100 million low income Americans who are suffering in poverty or near poverty.</p> 
  <p>Senator Obama is opposed to single payer national health insurance.</p> 
  <p>Why?</p> 
  <p>Because he favors the health insurance giants over the millions of Americans in poverty or near poverty who are uninsured or under-insured. Eighteen thousand Americans die every year because they cannot afford health insurance, according to the Institute of Medicine.</p> 
  <p>Senator Obama wants to expand the military budget which is loaded with waste, fraud and abuse - instead of cutting it and investing the long ignored peace dividend in the inner cities with good jobs and public works - including schools, clinics, and libraries.</p> 
  <p>Why?</p> 
  <p>Because he fears and favors those thousands of lobbyists in charge of enlarging the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us against.</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-26T02:37:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[Riding the Rails]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/25/riding-the-rails/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>
by Ralph Nader</p> 
  <p> With the rapid expansion of federal spending responding to the perceived national security requirements after 9/11, passenger railroad supporters looked forward to a tripleheader.
</p> 
  <p>
First passenger railroad service would have to be upgraded and expanded to facilitate mass population evacuations from cities during attack emergencies.
</p> 
  <p>
Second, by embarking on a “national defense” passenger rail program, there would be less consumption of gasoline and less gridlock on congested highways.
</p> 
  <p>
Third, the energy efficiency of transporting people by intercity rail and commuter rail would diminish some of the buildup of greenhouse gases.
</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-25T16:45:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[What's Your Breaking Point?]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/24/whats-your-breaking-point/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Tomorrow, Senator Obama has a choice.</p> 
  <p>He can vote to defend the American people and the U.S. Constitution.</p> 
  <p>Or he can vote with the snooping Bush White House and the telephone companies.</p> 
  <p>The
bill in question grants immunity to the phone companies that illegally
participated in the White House's warrantless wiretap program.</p> 
  <p>Obama says he will seek to remove the immunity provision - but will vote for the bill if that doesn't succeed.</p> 
  <p>Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) calls the bill a capitulation to the phone companies and to the White House.</p> 
  <p><a href="http://feingold.senate.gov/%7Efeingold/statements/08/06/20080619f.htm">According to Senator Feingold</a>,
under under this bill, &quot;the government can still sweep up and keep the
international communications of innocent Americans in the U.S.&quot;</p> 
  <p>Last
October, Obama said he would &quot;support a filibuster of any bill that
includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.&quot;</p> 
  <p>Now he says he will vote for it.</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-24T15:12:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Nader Challenge]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/23/the-nader-challenge/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Which Presidential candidate would eliminate the billions of dollars
in corporate welfare we pay every year to the ethanol industry?</p> 
  <p>Obama!</p> 
  <p>Wrong. (According to today's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/us/politics/23ethanol.html?hp">New York Times</a>,
Obama actually has very close ties to corn ethanol industry - an
industry that Ralph Nader has called &quot;a multifaceted monstrosity
radiating damage in all directions of the compass.&quot;)</p> 
  <p>Many people still consider Obama the progressive candidate in the race.</p> 
  <p>He's not.</p> 
  <p>He's just another corporate candidate.</p> 
  <p>Who's the progressive in the race?</p> 
  <p>Ralph Nader.</p> 
  <p>To drive home the point, today we launch The Nader Challenge.</p> 
  <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYxHSITrKM">Check out the video here</a>. </p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-23T20:02:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title><![CDATA[You've Got Issues]]></title>
    <link>http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/06/21/youve-got-issues/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>You've got issues.</p> 
  <p>But don't we all?</p> 
  <p>Yes we do.</p> 
  <p>And by popular demand.</p> 
  <p>Lo and behold.</p> 
  <p>The new, improved - and updated - Nader/Gonzalez&nbsp;<a href="http://www.votenader.org/issues/">issues page</a>.</p>]]></description>
    <dc:date>2008-06-21T15:14:00Z</dc:date>
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