| Message Number: | 145 |
| From: | yvorobey Æ umich.edu |
| Date: | Mon, 23 May 2005 13:03:59 -0400 |
| Subject: | Re: Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott! |
Or this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1925236.stm Quoting Lisa Hsu : > contrast with this article, which makes chavez's reign seem less glorious? > > http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/22/venezuela.comic.relief.ap... ml > > > On 5/23/05, Christine Kapusky wrote: >> Spread the word! >> >> >> >> Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by CommonDreams.org >> >> Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott! >> >> by Jeff Cohen >> >> >> >> 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. >> >> And tell your friends. >> >> >> 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." >> >> 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 >> http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp 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. >> >> 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. >> >> So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word. >> >> 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. >> >> So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in >> Venezuela. >> >> Jeff Cohen is an author and media critic (www.jeffcohen.org) >> > > >

