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Songs to Save the Seashore, May 8, 2005

Great Music, Worthy Cause!
Sierra Club is hosting a great benefit to stop the drilling on Padre Island National Seashore. The benefit at Antone's in Austin, Texas, will feature some of the best singer/songwriters in Texas and abroad. Those include Michael Fracasso, Eliza Gilkyson, Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Dale Watson and Carolyn Wonderland with Ruthie Foster. This will be another night to remember for Sierra Club's Padre Island Campaign. For more information. Tickets are $25 and are available online at Front Gate Tickets or by phone at 512-389-0315 and in person at Waterloo Records and all Frontgate Outlets.

STOP THE DRILLING! Protect Padre Island National Seashore

The Sierra Club and a growing number of individuals and allies are proposing a real solution that will be a win-win for everyone, including the Texas school fund that benefits from oil and gas revenues at Padre Island. Why doesn't President Bush, on behalf of the American people who own the park, buy the oil and gas rights at PINS and retire them forever - just as he proposed to do a few years ago at Big Cypress National Preserve in Florida. With a buyout, the park visitors win, the Park Service wins, local businesses win, the Texas schoolchildren's fund wins, oil and gas interests win, and this valuable and irreplaceable coastal wild land and the wildlife that it contains will remain as it was intended to remain - a priceless legacy for our children and grandchildren. Sign the petition

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