Priscilla the Biofuel Bus Will Ride Again- With Your Help!

Help Priscilla Ride Again!

Greetings most revered kin and supporters. You are likely familiar with the work of the Oxygen Collective over the years and we are looking to you now to do something we have never done before- ask for your help in a very specific way.

After years of mobilizing masses to defend the old growth forests of the northwest, bring aid workers to the people of New Orleans and ignite action across the country for social justice, independent media, anti war efforts, corporate responsibility campaigns and alternative energy usage, our flagship vessel and Mobile Action Center- Priscilla the biofuel bus- blew her transmission transporting a CIIS permaculture class from Boone's Farm to the Bay.

She has been sitting idle for over a year now- and it is time for her to ride again. She has a strong engine with hundreds of thousands of miles of life left, a new $3000 electrical system, and all the bells and whistles our years of love and investment have built to make her an efficient and effective agent of change. More than that, she has the momentum of hundreds of peoples blood, sweat, tears and intention behind her, and she is ready to do the good work again.

Realistically, it will cost $10K to get her fixed and on her feet again, and we can't do it ourselves. So we are reaching out to our community to show your support in a tangible way and usher in the next era of o2 insurrectionary undertakings.

We were recently contacted by our close allies at the Sustainable Living Roadshow and asked if they could use Priscilla for their upcoming and Bad Ass national barnstorming tour. (Check it out at www.sustainablelivingroadshow.org-they have put together a totally cutting edge tour with a crucial message and impressive alliance of members) This is an amazing opportunity for them and for us to achieve national, mainstream exposure to a myriad of issues relating to sustainability and energy usage in an election year. But we need to raise these funds fast to make it happen- faster than any foundation or traditional source of grants can really respond.

The SLR folks have said they will match us dollar for dollar, making it just $5 grand we need to raise. I just received a commitment from a good friend of ours for $500 and she suggested I contact our greater circle of like-minded kin to see if others will match her. I will be the first to do so- meaning we need just $4000 more to get make this go! If each of you who supports our mission and the kind of actions we do were to make a donation appropriate to your budget, we will be back in action by summer's end.

If you have seen the bus on the road, you know she is a unique asset to the movement and a powerful force for inspiring audiences and galvanizing energy to important issues. A contribution to this mechanical repair is an investment in the future work of all those who will utilize this bus as a tool for social change- and especially in the vision of the Oxygen Collective and the Sustainable Living Roadshow.

If you can match Ginger and I at $500, please do- but if $100 or $20 is what's possible for you, that is still extremely helpful and greatly appreciated-with broad enough support, and so much already committed, even small donations may make the difference.

We can accept checks made out either to me (Mac Sutherlin)- with Oxygen Collective written in the memo- or if you want your donation to be tax deductible you can make it out to the Sustainable Living Roadshow-also write O2 in the memo. My address is 430 Ashland St. Ashland, OR 97520.

Huge gratitude to all of you- this is grassroots community support at its finest- may all of our work support one another's into a tightly woven network that grows stronger as we go and lifts us each up to our most capable selves!

In solidarity,

Laurel and the O2 crew.

Posted by laurel at July 11, 2008 10:32 AM | Category(s): Frontpage