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Dear MoveOn member, We hope you're having a relaxing and peaceful holiday. Unfortunately, with the New Year coming, we must prepare to respond to elements of the Bush administration as they crank up their push for war. In anticipation, we're planning the next stage of our "Let the Inspections Work" campaign. Thanks for all your support in making this possible. We now have collected more than $400,000 in donations for our ad campaign, of which about $130,000 has been used on two full page New York Times ads and a USA Today ad. You can see these ads on our home page at MoveOn.org. Two weeks ago we announced a follow-on radio campaign, and we've received hundreds of radio scripts from members. Thanks so much to those of you who took the time to create and rate these scripts. You can see all this incredible work at: http://www.actionforum.com/forum/index.html?forum_id=251 We've recorded the top rated ad, written by Betsey Binet of Los Angeles, and we'll be running it during the week of January 6th in Washington D.C., on local news-radio stations. Here's the ad, in RealAudio format (a 178K download): http://www.moveon.org/radio/bell48kps.rm We decided to run a 30 second radio ad rather than a 60 second ad, to be able to run it more often. So this is an abbreviated version of Betsey's ad, but very effective, we think. Thanks, Betsey. And thanks everyone for the great submissions. The ad campaign will ramp up in January. We've just begun. Stay tuned. Perhaps the biggest impact of our work is that our efforts have helped catalyze other mainstream coalition efforts. For example, we are founding members of the Win Without War coalition, which has received a tremendous amount of media coverage, including a recent piece in Salon. Here's an excerpt: THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT GOES MAINSTREAM Salon.com / December 12, 2002 http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/12/12/peace by Michelle Goldberg "The Win Without War coalition includes the National Council of Churches, NOW, NAACP, the Sierra Club, MoveOn, Working Assets, Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, Physicians for Social Responsibly and Veterans for Common Sense. Taken together, these groups represent a vast swath of America -- the National Council of Churches alone indirectly represents 50 million congregants -- and they aim to channel their millions of members into antiwar activism. "The broad-based support for Win Without War's message is evident in the fundraising to disseminate it. MoveOn, an online progressive organization that formed to fight President Clinton's impeachment, solicited donations on its Web site to pay for the New York Times ad, which cost $40,000. In less than a week, it had raised $370,000. Of course, the American public has always been very skeptical about the Bush administration's obsession with Iraq. Efforts by elements of the administration to sell this war are simply not working. A recent poll by the LA Times shows a remarkable erosion of public support, highlighting that "Only 26% said they were willing to support war if the United States acted alone." (See the complete USA Today article below.) Opposition to war in Iraq is broad and mainstream. There is good news for the coming New Year: the American people do not support a uni-lateral, pre-emptive war. We will not stand idly by. Thanks for all you do. And Happy New Year, -Wes Boyd President, MoveOn.org December 26, 2002 P.S. To sign the "Let the Inspections Work" petition go to: http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/ Contributions to support our efforts can be made at http://www.moveon.org/support.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ======================================================================== Ongoing: Exhibition of paintings, Art Chamber, Calangute www.goa-art.com Dec 23-Jan 7: Dayanita Singh's photo exhibition, Art House Tel 2276123 Jan 18-19: International kite carnival at Morgim beach, Pernem ========================================================================
