[Lapg] Fuel the movie needs your help, so it can better help us! Go see it Feb 13 - 15 here in LA

Fri Feb 6 17:32:08 PST 2009

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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 at 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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