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?
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/05/22/venezuela.comic.relief.ap...
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> On 5/23/05, Christine Kapusky   wrote:
>> Spread the word!
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>>  Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
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>> Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
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>> by Jeff Cohen
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>> 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.
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>> And tell your friends.
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>> 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."
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word.
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>> 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.
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>> So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in 
>> Venezuela.
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>> Jeff Cohen is an author and media critic (www.jeffcohen.org)
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