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SpeakOut.com Challenges New Yorkers to Speak their Minds
SpeakOut.com Launches Billboard Campaign in New York City

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- May 24, 2000 -- SpeakOut.com, the non-partisan Internet activism portal, has purchased four billboards to promote the site in New York, home to the country's most outspoken citizens.

"New Yorkers certainly know how to make their voices heard," said Ron Howard, New Yorker and Chairman and CEO of SpeakOut.com. "SpeakOut simply provides them with the tools to actually do something about the issues they care about."

The billboards are located at 11^th Avenue at 28^th Street, 11^th Avenue between 42^nd and 43^rd, 42^nd Street between 8^th and 9^th Avenues and at the Williamsburg Bridge - Brooklyn Bound. The ads were posted in early May and will run through August.

Graphics for the billboards can be found below.

About SpeakOut.com

Based in Washington, DC, Speakout.com is a new non-partisan Internet activism Web site whose primary mission is to enhance the democratic process by enabling citizens to make a direct impact on the decisions that affect their lives. Officially launched in February 2000, SpeakOut.com users enjoy a wide variety of news and information content tailored to their interests and activism tools allowing aggregated messaging to a vast array of public officeholders, candidates, business leaders and news executives.

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