>X-eGroups-Return: >[log in to unmask] >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] (Unverified) >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: Erwin E Klaas <[log in to unmask]> >Mailing-List: list [log in to unmask]; contact [log in to unmask] >Delivered-To: mailing list [log in to unmask] >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 11:09:34 -0500 >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [halletts] an example for us > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >Special Offer-Earn 300 Points from MyPoints.com for trying @Backup >Get automatic protection and access to your important computer files. >Install today: >http://click.egroups.com/1/6347/16/_/671269/_/967824572/ >---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > >WOW! Does anyone know of any "earthicans" living in Ames? Please forward >this to any kids you know who might want to help save the Ichetucknee, or >the South Skunk. > >Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:41:10 -0000 > From: "earthIcan " <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: MILLION KIDS e-MARCH > >SEPTEMBER 1, 2000 > >My Fellow Kids, >( http://www.riverdrops.com ) > >My name is Sam Leydon, I am 13 (14 in Nov.), and I live in >Jacksonville Florida with my Dad and Mom, and my brother Pete (12.5). >My dad is an artist, mom is a CPA, and both Pete and I are >homeschooled and love Soccer, Rugby, and lots of cool music. >I need your help to save the Ichetucknee River from a 180 MILLION >dollar Cement Plant being built by Anderson Mining and Development, >that will destroy this Rivers springfed headwaters. The Ichetucknee >Springs State Park is visited each summer season by kids, and >families, scouts and church groups, and just groups of friends >enjoying a great moment of beauty and peace in the unspoiled and >pristine North Central Florida backwoods as they float lazily down >tree covered winding ribbons of ice cold water, so clear you can see >the sparkle in Mother Nature's eyes as the sun filters down thru the >centuries old, 70ft tall, Florida Cypress trees. About 200,000 kids >play in the Ichetucknee Springs and River each year.The Ichetucknee >is Mother Nature's perfect waterpark for grandparents and kids to >play together. >Lets you and I send a message from the Kids of Florida, and Kids from >all across America, from Orlando to Chicago, from New York, and >Canada, and kids from England, and Ireland, and Russia, and Kids from >Japan, and Kids from Australia, and just from any and every where >there are kids, that we kids want Governor Bush to DENY the Cement >Plant its permit to DESTROY the Ichetucknee River.. >I have come up with a super cool idea ! >you and I, united and working together, can show the World, Anderson >Mining, and Governor Bush, just how smart and involved kids of >the "e.generation" can be, and by showing our strength, we kids can >become a louder voice in the running of this world, as well it should >be that we kids are heard on matters of protecting the environment. >No "kidding". >The "grown-ups" have given us a World of hunger, pollution, war, and >poverty, and, since this new Millennium is OUR Millinneum, we kids need >to step in and make the grown-ups STOP tearing the place up before we >kids even get a shot at running this planet. >At the rate the "grown-ups" are going, they will leave us very little >to build on. It's us, the kids of 2000, that will have to live in >this mess with our own kids in the year 2025. >Together, we kids can take on the BATTLE OF ICHETUCKNEE, and focus all >our kid-time and creative skill, for just two weeks, and we will make >history by e-MARCHING ONE MILLION e-mails to Governor Bush, and >getting Governor Bush to DENY the permit for the Cement Plant, and >WIN the Battle of Ichetucknee! >we will call it the "MILLION KIDS e-MARCH", a "virtual" e-mail March >to The Governors Office. >The "MILLION KIDS e-MARCH"...That sounds way cool!!!!!!!! >This is what you do! >I have built a website, and put it on the internet. >Its called RIVERDROPS, at hhtp://www.riverdrops.com and we will call >ourselves "earthicans". Divided we are just a bunch of drops, but if >we are UNITED, Kids can be a mighty river that can wash mountains >into the sea and bring LIFE to a desert valley. >Each one of us will become an "earthican", and take the pledge to >protect the earth with PEACE. EDUCATION, AND ACTION . >You will go to the Riverdrops website, and send an e-mail to Governor >Bush, a message from the "earthicans" to save that RIVER! >I am planing for Victory, and there is set up already a huge 4 day >Victory Party,( free for kids, grown-ups have to buy a tickets!) for >the Ichetucknee River, a outdoor World Celtic Music Gathering, called >MUSIC OF THE RIVERS( MOTR) with 47 Way cool bands, rock, folk, Punk, >Ska, techno, country, Tex-Mex, tribal, new age, surf, and hip hop, >coming to Metro-Park downtown on the River( St. Johns) from Russia, >France, England, Scotland, Canada, Wales, and from New York, Chicago, >San Fran, L.A., Boston, Atlanta, and Texas. My brother Pete and I, >with some Help from our parents,and some friends are the ones who >picked all the bands, and they are some very, very ( VERY !) KEWL >Bands!!!!!(You can check them out here at the MOTR website >http://www.musicoftherivers.org ) >The entire 4 day MOTR is contracted to be webcast, with audio and >video, LIVE on a website called celticTV, so you can be there with >me; plus its being filmed for a TV special, and a film being made >about this whole KIDS vs Governor Bush Battle of Ichetucknee. (very >awesome..they are doing a documentary of this MILLION KID e- >MARCH..... WE WILL BE WRITING HISTORY TOGETHER) >I will be posting pictures every day, at www.riverdrops.com with a >state by state, city by city , contry by country,world wide update >daily, from our stat board reports, to news with the Riverdrops and >the earthicans all over Florida, and the www world. You will be able >to check in every day for the next two weeks to see how your city and >state is growing in earthicans! I will have a page where you can >watch the Ichetucknee river being saved drop by kid riverdrop! >The only way I can get more Riverdrops to form this mighty river of >change, is to for you send this e-mail on to hundreds of others. Use >you website to promote the riverdrops website, and put a link to >riverdrops on all your outgoing emails for the next two weeks, and we >will be having our Victory Party together, where ever you from, live >from MOTR together, here, on the internet, and I will look out thru >that screen you are reading this e-mail on right now, and we will >share the victory of the first e-Battle of the New Milleneum. >And after the Ichetucknee River, kids will e-MARCH again, and again, >and one river at a time, and one war at a time, and one forest at a >time, and one starving nation at a time, until,the war to save Mother >Earth. >Today is the day we begin the MILLION KIDS e-MARCH to take back this >planet . >Today we save the Icheucknee. >And, tomorrow we will save the World. >Adopt a drop of the Ichetucknee River, by going to the RAINDROPS >website, and e-MARCH your e-mail to Governor Bush, and save this >river one drop at a time. >Pledge to the Earth that " I CAN ", and become an earthican. >You WONT BE ALONE, YOU WILL BE WITH KIDS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. >Together, a million of owners of tomorrow, kids, just like you, can >save the world, one river at a time. >Today, we fight the Battle of the Ichetucknee River. >And one day, at the turn of the next century, our own great >grandchildren will boast to be of pure earthican blood, heirs to a >free, clean, and peacefull world that began with you, the first >generation of a NEW breed of humans, the earthicans. >We make our pledge for PEACE, EDUCATION, and ACTION, and all the rest >will fall in place. >We kids cannot afford to wait till 2025 to get into the game. >In 25 years, if we leave the "grown-ups" unsupervised to long, they >look to be very capable of completly scwrewing-up what little clear >sky's, green forest, and blue water there's left in the ol' gal! >Let us kids go kick some e-BUTT! >My Fellow Kids! >Let's e-MARCH ! >Thanks, >Sam Leydon >Jacksonvile Florida, USA >www.riverdrops.com > > >***** E-MAIL THIS, POST IT ON FORUMS, IN E-GROUPS, AND ON MESSAGE >BOARDS. send it to Radio Stations, magazines, TV shows (like the >Rosie Show, Letterman, Leno, MTV,Today Show, WB, FOX,ect..), and any >national and local tv shows that will talk to you about this, and to >newspapers,....YOU AND I, AND ALL THE KIDS, WE TAKE OUR INHERITANCE >TODAY WITH A VICTORY HERE AT THE BATTLE OF ICHETUCKNEE ; FOUGHT >SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 14 , YEAR 2000 ...................YOU MUST BEGIN TO >e-MARCH NOW.. WITH EVERY MINUTE YOU WAIT TO e-MARCH, THE BULLDOZERS >ARE PULLING DOWN MORE TREES AT THE CEMENT PLANT CONTRUCTION SITE.. >ANDERSON MINING BEGAN THE BULLDOZING THIS PAST MONDAY AUGUST 28 WITH >A CHAMPAIGNE "GROUND BREAKING " CEREMONY ATTENDED BY LOTS OF GROWN- >UPS IN EXPENSIVE SUITS.................THERE IS NO TOMORROW LIKE THE >ONE THAT THEY ARE PAVING OVER TODAY! >********************************************************************** >********************************************************************** >********************************************************************** > > > > > > >Community email addresses: > Post message: [log in to unmask] > Subscribe: [log in to unmask] > Unsubscribe: [log in to unmask] > List owner: [log in to unmask] > >Shortcut URL to this page: > http://www.onelist.com/community/halletts - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To get off the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask]