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PRESS
RELEASE
-- Christmas 2000 -- EmpowermentBooks.com
offers lower book prices, coupons and deals as a Christmas Gift.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Previous Press Releases
Press release #3 -- Christmas 1999 --
EmpowermentBooks.com
and EmpowermentStores.com launched as a Christmas Gift --
Websites offer 60's style Empowerment Books, Consumer Info, and an Affiliate
Program.
Merry Christmas!
This press release was also posted at http://www.internetwire.com/technews/tn/01986049.dsl
on 12/22/99.
Press release #2
-- Gift of 60s-style Empowerment from
EmpowermentResources.com -- July 4, 1999.
Press release #1
-- Gift
of 60s-style Empowerment from EmpowermentResources.com -- 12/25/98.
If you work for the media and want additional
information on EmpowermentResources.com, EmpowermentBooks.com, and/or
EmpowermentStore.com, please contact
me and I will provide you with the latest information I have.
Also, please credit this educational, news, and/or entertainment resource.
- Ed Harding.
Sample letter to the editor
Sample News Story on the EmpowermentResources.com website
4 Sample Classified Ads for EmpowermentResources.com
How Much of an Impact has this website had so far?
Note: please credit this educational
or news resource. If you
get information for your media coverage and/or media entertainment from this website, please credit this website, so people can look at the original source material. Please
credit either EmpowermentResources.com,
EmpowermentBooks.com, and/or
EmpowermentStores.com/.
(Their formal titles are EmpowermentResources.com
-- Tools for Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology,
EmpowermentBooks.com -- Books
for Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology, and EmpowermentStores.com -- Empowering the Consumer.)
Please be sure to e-mail me at empower@EmpowermentResources.com
and/or contact me to let me know about your news coverage or
use for media entertainment. Thanks.
Sample letter to the editor
Are you interested in personal growth, social change, and ecology? If so,
I invite you to check out EmpowermentResources.com
and EmpowermentBooks.com.
Would you like to empower yourself to improve your life and possibly help
improve society as well? If so, I strongly encourage you to check out
EmpowermentResources.com and EmpowermentBooks.com. "Knowledge is power. Empower the
People."
EmpowermentResources.com
and EmpowermentBooks.com
offer over 700 links and more than 500 books on Empowerment, including
books on
getting organized, time management, economizing or saving money (also known as
"voluntary simplicity"), assertiveness training, self-healing, healthy living,
holistic health, exercise, stretching, stress control, healthy food, alternative medicine,
nutritional supplements, organic gardening, and ideas for increasing the fun, love, joy,
and happiness in your life. EmpowermentResources.com and
EmpowermentBooks.com also offer resources
for social change, including books and links on cultural empowerment, political
empowerment, political organizing, and building an ecologically sustainable
society. And they offer fun utopian novels like Ecotopia and Island.
EmpowermentBooks.com,
working in association with over a dozen online booksellers, music stores, and
video stores, also offers a huge selection of millions of new books, used books,
music CDs, and videos to choose from, including the ability to search dozens of
online stores at once for the book, CD, or movie you're interested in.
I also invite you to check out EmpowermentStores.com,
where you can quickly search for the lowest prices on the Internet for many
consumer items. It also offers consumer info and access to Green goods and
convenient online shopping.
If you took part in the social change movement in the
60's, or if you're interested in personal growth, social change, and ecology, or
if you believe in peace, environmentalism, feminism, civil rights, human rights,
unions, and social justice, I strongly encourage you to check out www.EmpowermentResources.com
and www.EmpowermentBooks.com.
- Ed Harding
Sample News Story for EmpowermentResources.com
and EmpowermentBooks.com
Here is a sample news story for your publication. Feel free to
condense it. If you run a story on the website, please e-mail me at empower@EmpowermentResources.com and/or
contact me to let me know about your news coverage.
Thanks.
If you're interested in personal growth, social
change, and/or ecology, or if you identify with 1960's or Green values, then check out the
Internet Web sites "EmpowermentResources.com
-- Tools for Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology" and "EmpowermentBooks.com
-- Books for Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology".
EmpowermentResources.com
offers a large Green Guide to Empowerment
Resources on the Internet with over 620
links.
EmpowermentBooks.com
offers over 500 recommended empowerment resource books for sale plus a huge selection of millions of new and used books, music CDs, and videos
to choose from. EmpowermentBooks.com provides immediate access to more
than a dozen online booksellers, music stores, and movie stores, and a powerful
search engine that lets you search dozens of online stores at once for the book,
CD, or movie you're interested in.
Also, EmpowermentStores.com
allows you to quickly search for the lowest prices on the Internet for many
consumer items. It also offers consumer info and access to Green goods and
convenient online shopping.
"EmpowermentResources.com -- Tools For Personal Growth,
Social Change, and Ecology" is conveniently divided into sections on personal
empowerment resources, cultural empowerment resources, political empowerment resources,
and resources for building an ecologically sustainable society, in addition to
EmpowermentBooks.com, EmpowermentStores.com, info on the Greens, consciousness-raising information, some good political ideas, computer and
Internet resources, links to the main
Internet search engines, info and links on building and promoting your own Internet
website, and more.
Personal empowerment resources include
websites on personal empowerment guides such as The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog, The
Womansource Catalog and Review, and What Color Is Your Parachute? Job Hunting
Online, as well as info on holistic health, co-counseling, mind technology, simple or
frugal living resources, food coops, health food stores, vegetarianism, personal growth
centers including Esalen and Omega, a Green singles group, and a spirituality site with
info on most of the world's major religions.
Cultural empowerment resources include Utne
Reader, Co-op America, info on and links to intentional communities and communes, the
Rainbow Family, hippy.com, EcoMall, and women's, African-American, Hispanic, Asian
American, Native American, and other global, national, and countercultural regional lists
of good websites. It mentions that The Emerging Culture by Paul Ray explains that there are 44 million Americans
with Green values (24% of the American adult population). And it includes regional
links, including links to "America's 10 Most Enlightened Towns" and "The
Most Enlightened Town in Every State and Canadian Province", from the May-June '97
issue of Utne Reader.
Political empowerment resources include
national political groups like the AFL-CIO, NOW, and Greenpeace, social
change-oriented businesses like Working Assets, good Internet resources like IGC (the
Institute for Global Communications), WebActive, and the Electronic Activist, and
fundraising resources. They also include magazines such as Mother Jones, The Nation,
Z magazine, and E magazine, the Greens/Green Party U.S.A., other Green and left-wing
groups, a few radical groups, info on how to organize a union, left-green buttons,
bumperstickers, and T-shirts for sale, and other lists of social change websites.
Resources for building an ecologically
sustainable society include a list of important books, including Ecotopia, Gaia:
An Atlas of Planet Management, and State of the World 1999: A Worldwatch Institute
Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society. They also include the Real
Goods Trading Company, EcoMall, info on electric cars, ZPG (Zero Population Growth), NPG
(Negative Population Growth), Planned Parenthood, and organic gardening and farming links.
EmpowermentBooks.com
offers over 500 recommended empowerment resource books for sale
on over 24 topics related to personal growth, social change, and ecology, plus over 3
million books, 400,000 CDs, 100,000 movies, 65,000 audio books, and over
850 magazines to choose from. Many of these these
items are sold at a discount. The 500 recommended books include the best empowerment
resource books and books on self-empowerment and personal organization, voluntary
simplicity, working, healthy living, holistic health and alternative medicine, organic
gardening, fun, friendship, love, and kindness, joy, happiness, and pleasure,
spirituality, traveling, alternative education, intentional communities, worker
cooperatives, left-green politics, political organizing, radical history, building an
ecologically sustainable society, and utopian/ecotopian visions.
4 Sample Classified Ads For EmpowermentResources.com.
4 SAMPLE CLASSIFIED ADS FOR
EMPOWERMENTRESOURCES.COM
1. A 31-word ad under "EMPOWERMENT", "BOOKS",
or "WEB SITES":
"EMPOWERMENTRESOURCES.COM -- TOOLS
FOR PERSONAL GROWTH, SOCIAL CHANGE, AND ECOLOGY-
http://www.EmpowermentResources.com/.
http://www.EmpowermentResources.com/.
Over 700 links, 500 recommended books
and over 3 million books to choose from, and much more."
2. A 9-word ad under "EMPOWERMENT", "BOOKS",
or "WEB SITES"
"EmpowermentResources.com -- Tools
for Personal Growth, Social Change, and Ecology.
3. A 1-word ad under "EMPOWERMENT", "BOOKS",
or "WEB SITES"
"www.EmpowermentResources.com"
4. A 1-word ad under "EMPOWERMENT", "BOOKS" or "WEB
SITES":
"www.EmpowermentBooks.com."
If you find this website useful and you edit or publish a
newsletter, newspaper, magazine, e-zine, or journal, I would greatly appreciate it if you
could run one of these classified ads for free in your publication. (Even a 1-word
ad would help me out.) Thanks.
How Much of an Impact has this website had so far?
My perception is that the media, including The Washington Post,
comic strip writers, and to some extent TV and advertisers seem to be focusing much more
on Green themes than during the recent heyday of Newt Gingrich's Republican
revolution. This website and websites that I link to almost certainly assisted this
process. I know that thousands of people have viewed my website and that my website
and my online bookstore, with over 700 links and over 500 recommended books for sale, offer a great deal of information.
If you have information to share with me about how this website
(and/or my own actions) have influenced the media, please contact me and let me
know. (If you state that your information is "private", "off the
record", or "anonymous", I will respect that.)
Note: "having influenced" is not the same
as "being responsible for." How you use the data in this website and other
websites that this website provides links to is your
responsibility. To quote a Si Kahn song, "It's not just what you're given, it's
what you do with what you've got."
EmpowermentResources.com can be contacted
at:
Empowerment Resources
P.O. Box 3190
Silver Spring, MD 20918
http://www.EmpowermentResources.com
empower@EmpowermentResources.com
301-779-9769
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