Amherst, MA Draft Gore Group

It was suggested on the Sept. 16 conference call for the Steering Committee of America for Gore that supporters may wish to vote to support the Quill Book Award for "The Book of the Year" to Al Gore for his book, "The Assult on Reason", which has been nominated. This would be a fitting additional recognition to add to the enthusiasm for Al becoming a presidential candidate.

I will attach a reference to this award and to the voting page on the web.

Regards,
Dick Stein

Some of the lyric's of the song "Run, Al, Run" by Amherst, MA musician, Paul Kaplan, are featured in the excellent article, "Citizen Gore" in the New York Review of Books, Vol. 54, No. 14, Sept. 27, 2007. The article says:

"One can listen to a folk song in the style of Woodie Guthrie's lighter numbers, called "Run, Al, Run" by Paul Kaplan, whose refrain is":

Run, Al, Run
How can you lose when you've already won
Way back before all the damage was done
Now your the number one favorite son
So run, Al, run

Draft Gore
Massachusetts
www.mass4gore.com

For Immediate Release
Contact: Fred Koed
617-710-7512

Statewide draft campaign for Gore begins Sept. 18

A new statewide grassroots political organization will launch a petition drive September 18 seeking to make Massachusetts the first state to place former Vice President Al Gore on a Democratic presidential primary ballot.

I recommend an excellent book, "The Solution Is You - An Activists Guide" by Laurie David. She is the producer of Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" and offers much inspiring and useful advice to those seeking ways to change the political scene. It is a short book, 71 pages, available in paperpack from

Fulcrum Publishing
4690 Table Mountain Drive, Suite100
Golden, CO 80403
800-992-2908
www.fulcrumbooks.com

It also may be ordered from Amazon

Folks,

I have recently mailed 25 copies each to Gore groups in Michigan and Iowa of a DVD of Paul Kaplan's presentation of his song, "Run, Al, Run". I'll be happy to provide copies to any interested at a cost of $1.95 each to cover preparation and mailing. Please e-mail me if interested.

Dick Stein

Kerry Lusignan and I have been attempting to arrange a meeting with our Congressman, John Olver, to discuss several matter of interest. So far, we have not been successful. I have written another letter, attached, sent both by e-mail and U.S. mail expressing our views and with the hope that such a meeting may be arranged. You may be interested in reading the attached letter.

Kerry Lusignan and I have been attempting to arrange a meeting with our Congressman, John Olver, to discuss several matter of interest. So far, we have not been successful. I have written another letter, attached, sent both by e-mail and U.S. mail expressing our views and with the hope that such a meeting may be arranged. You may be interested in reading the attached letter.

An excellend editorial referenced below, "An Egghead for the Oval Office" by Eugene Robinson appeared in the June 1 Washington Post. It very well makes the point that the next president should be one who reads newspapers and books, bones up on history, understands the relationship between enerhy policy at home and U.S.

Dear Draft Gore Massachusetts,

Folks,

Parts of Al's new book have been published along with excellent
articles in this week's TIME and in next Sunday's NY Times Magazine.
This offer a penetrating view of Al's ideas, but also indicate his
reluctance to enter the race, We need an extraordinary effort to
let him know how much he is needed. A good opportunity may
be his appearance on the May 22 "Larry King, Live" show on CNN.
For this, I have sent in the following whuch I hope bmay be considered.

"You say you would only run under “extraordinary
circumstances”. Al, you have made the case that our

Dear Folks,

In response to the diturbing news referred to below, I was moved to write Al Gore another letter which I hope reaches him. We need an all out effirt to convince him that becoming a candidate is a necessary duty to the world.

Dick Stein
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May 10, 2007

The Office of the Honorable Al Gore

2100 West End Avenue

Nashville, TN 37203

Dear Vice President Gore,

I am sorry to bother you with a third letter, but a news item this morning inspired me to make a strong response which I hope reaches you.

You have3 been aqsked to write Al Gore in an effort to persuade him to become a candidate. The following is my letter. I urge you to compose and send your own We need demonstrate t5he great support which I believe will be forthcoming.
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May 3, 2007

The Office of the Honorable Al Gore

2100 West End Avenue

Nashville, TN 37203

Dear Vice President Gore,

A good experience on May 2 was participation in an environmental convocation at Amherst Rehional High School. Several hundred students gathered to watch a showing of a portion of Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth”, followed by a panel discussion in which I perticiparted, along with a radio commentator, an Episcopal priest, a geology professor, and an engineer. The student enthusiasm was refreshing. I brought along a pocket full of Gore buttons whih were eagerly sought, and my supply was soon exhausted.

An article “Draft Gore movement seeks traction in valley” appeared in the May 1, 2007 (Northampton, MA) Daily Hampshire Gazette. This described the efforts of the Northampton and Amherst groups and included quotes from Dick Stein, Kerry Lusignan and musician Paul Kaplan, among others. It refers to the URLs on the web for the groups and gives the YouTube address for Kaplan’s song, “Run, Al, Run”, the lyrics for part of which are published

An exciting event occurred at Smith College, Northampton, MA on April 28, 2007. This was the Sustainable Energy Summit 2007 – Community Action for a Clean Energy Future. It was attended by over 250 enthusiastic concerned citizens searching for the solution to what may the most serious problems faced by our civilization. A plenary lecture was presented by Richard Heinberg, widely regarded as one of the world’s formost educators of the “peak oil” crisis.

Here is a video on You Tube by Dick Stein appealing to Al Gore to become a candidate. Dick is a the Organizer of the Amherst, MA algore.org group and he made this appeal on Apr. 15 following his participation in the Step It Up activities at Pulaski9 Park, Northampton and at Hampshire College, Amherst. We'd be delighted to have you join us to assist with this much needed effort. Please contact Dick at 413-549-0245 or at

rsstein1@mac.com.

The Amherst, MA algore.com group participated in the Step It Up event at Hampshire College on Apr. 14. The following ariticle appeared on the front page of the Sunday newspaper:
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Springfield Republican
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Festival calls for action on climate
By ALEX PESHKOV
apeshkov@repub.com

Paul Kaplan has provided the lyrics of his song, "Run, Al, Run". Please note that itb is copyrighted,

Here it is:
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Run, Al, Run

Chorus: Run, Al, run

How can you lose when you already won

Way back before all the damage was done

Now you’re the number one favorite son

So run, Al, run.

1. I went to the movies and what did I see?

I saw a great big man from Tennessee

To walk the red carpet must be fun

But there’s a time to walk and a time to run. Chorus

2. Lots of good senators think they’ll win