[SfN] awesome press release

[Zachary Miller]

These are great things to mention in any articles or letters to the
editor that anyone writes. This movement is huge and here are some
numbers to show it.

http://www.votenader.org/press/001015CampaignBuilds.html

October 15, 2000
Press Release

CAMPAIGN MOMENTUM BUILDS AS NADER ENERGIZES PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT

* On Oct. 13, in the largest political rally of the presidential
campaign, Ralph Nader sold out Madison Square Garden in New York. More
than 15,000 people turned out to hear Nader talk about ?the politics
of joy and justice,? and hear speeches by supporters Susan Sarandon,
Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, Michael Moore and Phil Donahue, and musical
sets by Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco and Ben
Harper. Madison Square Garden was the sixth Super Rally of the Nader
campaign - events that have drawn the largest crowds of any of the
candidates in this election. In the past six weeks, more than 12,000
people paid to hear Nader speak at the Target Center in Minneapolis,
10,000 at the Key Arena in Seattle, 12,000 at the Fleet Center in
Boston and more than 10,750 at the Portland, Ore. Coliseum. On
Oct. 10, at the Pavilion at the University of Illinois in Chicago,
Nader drew an overflow crowd of more than 9,500. Two more Super
Rallies are planned in Texas on Oct. 18 and Oakland, Calif. on
Oct. 21.

* On Oct. 10, the Nader/LaDuke 2000 Campaign reached its goal of
raising $5 million.  The money was raised entirely through individual
contributions, with an average donation of less than $100. The
campaign accepts no political action committee contributions, and does
not raise soft money.

* Nader/LaDuke are officially on the ballot in 43 states and the
District of Columbia.  The nationwide ballot-access effort involved
the work of tens of thousands of volunteers working on petition
drives. Six lawsuits were brought by the campaign to challenge onerous
ballot-access laws crafted by the two-party duopoly. Successful
outcomes in West Virginia and Illinois led to Nader?s inclusion on
those state ballots.

* Students for Nader are organizing on more than 850 campuses
nationwide. Students are finishing a massive voter registration drive
and are holding voter education events such as teach-ins, student
debates and protests against Nader?s exclusion from the presidential
debates.  An estimated 25,000 students are active in the campaign.

* More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition demanding
Nader?s inclusion in the presidential debates. Polls show that 64
percent of the American public wants Nader to be included in the
debates. At the first presidential debate Oct. 3, Nader was denied
access to the debate viewing room, for which he had a ticket, and
Nader will soon file a lawsuit against the Commission on Presidential
Debates. Another lawsuit filed by Nader challenging the corporate
funding of the Commission was heard in an expedited appeal by the
First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Oct. 5.

* Ralph Nader is the only presidential candidate to have visited all
50 states. Nader continues to travel from state to state almost daily,
and he is drawing crowds in the thousands at rallies across the
country as his support grows and poll numbers continue to rise.

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