> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> July 21, 2000
>
> Sixty-two environmental leaders from 18 states announced today the
> formation of ENVIRONMENTALISTS AGAINST GORE, and urged people who care
> about protecting America's environment to listen to their conscience
> and vote for anyone but Democratic candidate Al Gore.
>
> "Gore is getting the endorsement of some national environmental groups
> only because they are so afraid of George Bush, and so intimidated by
> the Gore campaign's where-else-can-you-go attitude," said Tim Hermach,
> one of the organizers of Environmentalists Against Gore.
>
> "Vice President Gore has a long record of making campaign promises
> about protecting America's natural heritage and then breaking his
> promise every time one of his political supporters wants to do
> something that would damage or destroy our forests, rivers, and
> streams, oceans, even our National Parks," Hermach added.
>
> "If George W. Bush wins the election, then at least we could expect the
> national environmental community to really fight for tougher pollution
> enforcement and genuine protection of our living life-support system,"
> said David Brower, another founder of Environmentalists Against Gore.
> "From Alaska to the Everglades, New Jersey to California, the Vice
> President talks about being an environmentalist, but he's sold out
> American citizens, workers, taxpayers and the environment more times
> than we can count. He sides with clear-cutting timber barons, big
> sugar, big oil and real estate speculators over forests and watersheds,
> parks and wildlife. And we lose those fights because when Al Gore sells
> out, national environmental groups come to his aide, claiming the
> problem lies somewhere else, with Congress or federal agencies. But we
> all know the buck stops at the White House."
>
> All the environmental leaders supporting the organization released this
> statement: "Many of our members support Ralph Nader, and others believe
> that even having George W. Bush in the White House, under the eye of an
> energized environmental community, will lead to better protection for
> nature and wildlife than we can expect from Al Gore. We've seen Gore
> turn his back on the people of Appalachia while mountains and streams
> are illegally destroyed by strip miners. We've seen Gore talk about the
> importance of preserving our forest heritage while refusing to stop
> cutting it down. He is increasing the logging of what's left of our
> publicly owned native and old-growth national forests and monuments as
> we speak. Al Gore talks about the catastrophic threat of global
> warming, yet shows very little leadership to stop it. We've seen him
> talk about fighting sprawl while he's promoting sleazy real estate
> deals that would move industrial jobs away from urban Miami onto
> farmland between two National Parks. We've heard him lecture the world
> about preserving nature in the tropics when he is encouraging the big
> sugar plantations to continue polluting our own Everglades. We've read
> candidate Gore's press releases about protecting our beaches from
> offshore drilling, and then watched Vice President Gore say it is none
> of his business if his own Administration promotes offshore drilling in
> Florida, California, and Alaska. We've watched Gore pretend not to know
> about it when his own White House staff and the federal agencies turn
> the Endangered Species Act into a tool for extinction. And just this
> week we watched Al Gore refuse to advocate breaching of four Snake
> River dams rejecting the recommendations of scientists and federal
> agencies. <bold>We believe that people, nature and wildlife, in the
> United States and in the world, will be better protected if we return
> to an honest national debate about the role of the environment in our
> lives and economy, instead of the cynical, orchestrated charade Vice
> President Gore is engaged in"
>
> For more local, regional and national information call:
> Moisha Blechman 212.869.1630
> Lee Christie 541.386.8891
> Ronnie Cummins 218.226.4164
> Janet Fout 304.522.0246
> Dan Hamburg 707.467.0329
> Tim Hermach 541.688.2600
> Denise Joines 206.286.1235 x12
> Tracy Katelman 707.629.3599
> Bryony Schwan 406.543.3747
> Jeffrey St Clair 503.657.5295
>
>
> Environmentalists Against Gore
>
> July 21, 2000
>
> 1) We can't get what we want by voting for what we don't want.
> 2) We can't win by submitting to fear of imagined Republican actions.
> 3) We can no longer condone or reward the long and established record
> of dishonesty, smoke & mirrors, shell games and betrayal.
> 4) We can't get good & honest people to run if we repeatedly fail to
> support the ones that do.
> 5) We demand Fair & Open Debates - and honest politicians.
> 6) We demand that People and the Public Interest receive the importance
> now given to corporate cash and political supporters.
> 7) We realize that false friends can often do more harm than known
> adversaries.
>
> Voting Our Principles & Hopes, Not Our Fears.
>
> affiliations listed for identification purposes only
> Cindy Allsbrooks - TX - Headwaters & NFC - (409) 653-3982
> Patricia Awerbuch - PA - Independent - (610) 359-1931
> Florence Barone - MI - Michigan Land Use Institute - (231) 882-4723
> Caroline Bauman - Lincoln County Chapter, Oregon LCV - (541) 547-3075
> Moisha Blechman - Greenhouse Network - (212) 869-1630
> John Borowski - OR - Environmental Science Teacher - (541) 929.5224
> David Brower - CA - Sierra Club, Earth Island - (415) 788-3666
> Jasper Carlton - CO - Biodiversity Legal Foundation - (303) 926-7606
> Michael Carrigan - OR - Oregon Peaceworks - (503) 585-2767
> Lee Christie - OR - Audubon and The Nature Conservancy - (541) 386-8891
> Patricia Clary - CA - Californians for Alternatives to Toxics - (707)
> 822-8497
> Michael Colby - VT - Food & Water - (802) 563-3300
> Carla Connally - AL - Wild South - (256) 974-6166
> Karen Coulter - OR - Blue Mountain Biodiversity Project - (541)
> 468-2028
> Ronnie Cummins - MN - Pure Food Campaign - (218) 226.4164
> Murray Dailey - MI - North Woods Wilderness Recovery - (906) 225-1938
> David Dilworth - CA - Friends of the Forest - (831) 624.6500
> Michael Donnelly - OR - Friends of the Breitenbush Cascades - (503)
> 581-2616
> Melanie Duchin - AK - Greenpeace - (907) 278-2502
> Ray Fenner - MN - Superior Wilderness Action Network - (651) 646-6277
> Sara Folger - MT - Predator Conservation Alliance - (406) 587-3389
> Janet Fout - OH - Huntington Tri-State Audubon - (304) 522-0246
> Rick Gorman - NY - Native Forest Council Regional - (718) 530-5663
> Dan Hamburg - CA - ex-Congressman - Voice of the Environment - (707)
> 467-0329
> Tim Hermach - OR - Native Forest Council - (541) 688-2600 or (541)
> 953-5293
> Carol Hoover - AK/CA - EYAK Preservation Council - (415) 454-2436
> Deborah Howes - OR - Oregon Wildlife Federation - (503) 286-3634
> Denise Joines - WA - One Northwest - (206) 286.1235 x12
> Tracy Katelman - CA - EcoForester/Activist - (707) 629-3599
> Joe Keating - OR -Chapter Chair of Sierra Club's Oregon Chapter, -
> (503) 234-2613
> Don Kegley - United Steelworkers of America - (509)-483-9126
> Steve Kelly - MT - Friends of the Wild Swan - (406) 586-0180
> Jeff Kessler - WY - Biodiversity Associates - (307) 742-7978
> Leeona Klippstein - CA - Spirit of the Sage Council - (626) 744-9932
> Cecelia Lanman - CA - EPIC Emeritus - (707) 923.3614
> Martin Litton - CA - Grand Canyon Dories - (415) 851-2616
> Gwen Marshall - OH - Protect Biodiversity In Public Lands - (513)
> 761-6978
> Emily Miggins - CA - Founder, Re-Think Paper - (510) 636-9019
> David Orr - UT - Glen Canyon Action Network - (435) 259-1063
> David Ortman - WA - past Director, NW Office, Friends of the Earth -
> (206) 789-6136
> Karen Picket - CA - Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters - (510) 548-3113
> Pat Rasmussen - WA - Leavenworth Audubon Adopt-a-Forest - (509)
> 548-7640
> Ruby Lee Rose - CA - Planet, Mind, Soul, Spirit - (415) 868-2767
> Susan Schock - NM - Gila Watch - (505) 388-2854
> Bryony Schwan - MT - Women's Voices for the Earth - (406) 543-3747
> Lewis Seiler - CA - V.O.T.E. Action Committee - (415) 435-2522
> Dr. Fraser Shilling, - CA - Sierra Club - (530) 753-1678.
> Scott Silver - OR - Wild Wilderness - (541) 385-5261
> Robin Smith - OH - ex-EPA, NFC Office - (614) 538-9344
> Jeff St Clair - OR - CounterPunch - (503) 657-5295
> Alan Stein - CA - Fmr Director, Salmon Bay Protective Assn. - (707)
> 937-4700
> Kent Stromsmoe - CA - Forestry Monitoring Project - (925) 372-8619
> Charlotte Talberth - NM - Levinson Foundation - (505) 995-8802
> Dr. Bron Taylor - WI - Univ of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Professor - (920)
> 424-7183
> Larry Tuttle - OR - Center for Environmental Equity - (503) 221-1683
> Ray Vaughan - AL - Environmentalists FOR Nader - (334) 265-6529
> Brian Vincent - CA - American Lands Alliance - (530) 265-3506
> Paul Watson - WA - Sea Shepherds - (360) 370-5500
> Meca Wawona - CA - New Growth Forestry - (707) 462-2114
> Tom Weis - CO - Greenfire - (303) 245.8178
> Chuck Willer - OR - Coast Range Association - (541) 758.0255
> Margaret Hays Young - NY - NYC Sierra Club - (718) 789-0038