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FROM: Josh
Tickell
Director, FUEL
Founder, The Veggie Van Organization
Author, From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank
Dear Friend in the Green Community,
There is an exceptionally important film that will release in Los
Angeles next weekend - the 13th, 14th and 15th of February in two
theaters - the AMC Broadway on 3rd Street in Santa Monica and the
Sunset 5 Leammle in West Hollywood. The film is called FUEL - it is a
powerful indictment of our fossil based political system and a clear
vision for how to repair our broken economy with Sustainable Green Energy - not 5
years from now - but today! As President Obama attempts to pass a plan
to reconstruct America, this film, which has in it the formula for
solutions for our ailing communities - must be seen by citizens across
the country- NOW. FUEL is not backed by a major distributor, and the
film has been blocked, time and time again, from being seen in
conventional ways. BUT it has a heart and soul that has moved audiences
to TEARS and to ACTION - in every theater where it
is screened. After test screenings in Texas and Oregon and Washington,
audiences changed laws, enacted new policies, created community
gardens, erected wind turbines and cleaned up dirty school buses. Made
by over 1,000 people during the last 11 years, FUEL is a people's movie
that speaks to the heart of what Americans everywhere are demanding - CHANGE.
It is only with your help that FUEL will succeed next weekend in Los
Angeles. In order to be considered a success and go to national theater
screens, FUEL must to be seen by
2,000 people at each theater. While that number may sound small,
getting 4,000 people to come out and vote for green, sustainable change
with their dollars on a weekend is a challenge. In short, it will not
happen without a groundswell of support - your support.
Friends, I have spent the last 23 years of my life doing little else
other than working for change in green energy. I began doing this
because, living amongst the petrochemical industries in Louisiana, I
saw members of my own family get sick and die from acute pollution
related cancers. My
own mother had 9 miscarriages. It has not been an easy road
these past two decades fighting for green energy. But I have learned
one thing that does make a difference - community. Using the power of
community we can accomplish anything.
Too long have we been slaves to the interests of big oil and big coal.
The dirty politics that has resulted from a near monopolization of our
energy - from the time of Rockefeller's Standard Oil - to the Southern
Company and ExxonMobil of today - has threatened our democracy at every
turn. Friends, these industries now threaten the very future of our
nation. If left unchecked, they will suck the remaining little money
from our national coffers, co-opting the presidents' new bill into a
thinly veiled incentive for oil and coal (already $50 billion of appropriations is
included for the oil and nuclear industries). Nothing sickens me
more than these industries masquerading as 'green,' purposefully
obfuscating the issues with their slick commercials and billboards.
I will not stand by and let this nation, and a great leader, be taken
over once again by dirty companies and dirty politicians. And that is
exactly why I made FUEL and exactly why I need your help. Because I believe you
don't want to stand by either.
Many of you have written to me over the years asking what you can do to
make a difference. Now is your opportunity. I need you to get every
person you know out to the theaters next weekend. I mean everyone. FUEL
plays to audiences rich and poor, young and old, Republican and
Democrat. Its message isn't full of blame or shame - it's just straight
and funny and it tells the story of how American people can take their
country back.
We
need you - every single one of you. We need your help here in
our office in Santa Monica on the phones. We need you to forward this
email to everyone you know. I need you to be part of our street teams.
If you think you can give 3 hours of your time, give 5. If you think
you can give a day, give two. We need people to poster the town, to
hand out postcards at health food stores, gymnasiums, colleges,
parties, events and to answer phones, to drive around with magnets on
your car - to do whatever it takes to get people into the theaters next
weekend in Los Angeles. This country must hear the message of FUEL -
that every person deserves clean food, clean water, clean air and clean
energy - and we have the solutions - NOW.
So I invite you, humbly, to join with me and the FUEL team - to
volunteer with us during the next week - to bring as many Los Angeles
residents to the movies for a very special experience - an experience I
guarantee will change their lives and the lives of so many more.
Here is how you sign up to help: send
an email to streetteams@thefuelfilm.com with your name, email address
and phone number or simply call us directly at 310-452-7731.
For more information about FUEL, visit our web site at
http://thefuelfilm.com
And remember, your ticket to this movie is a VOTE for GREEN SUSTAINBLE
CHANGE that will be heard across the nation and around the world.
Humbly and in service of our planet,
Josh Tickell
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This email was sent to summerhaven_la@yahoo.com by office@thefuelfilm.com.