We all need to write something. If it is in the paper once a week or more people will start to get the message. The buttons are good idea, maybe stickers too I dunno. Anything that would help would be good.

I take it that you help work on the website...maybe use that clout to contact John Strand, the High Plains Reader editor (at jas@hpr1.com) and recommend to John that we coordinate plans on what each group does. John is excellent at providing coverage of such causes, and has good ideas on getting things into the public eye. Instead of acting independently, I would strongly suggest doing that. Be sure and let us know when you get the website updates, and then I'll link to that all over the place, and let people know. I would recommend you asking Atomic Coffee if they'd be willing to have buttons there for sale for Ralph's. Doesn't hurt to ask, and they're pretty understanding people. Yes, I know Atomic Coffee has been pretty quiet, but my 'inside man' (aka, my boyfriend who practically lives at Atomic Coffee), says it's only because the owner's lawyers tell her to keep mum about things...she DOES want to stay in the area and cares about the downtown. It's a place to be sure and get traffic and see the buttons, especially if there is a sign somewhere like in door or in bathroom, or by a display of the buttons by the checkout...