If you haven’t seen the OreoMobile show, which has been touring South Carolina since early June, you have another chance on July 8. The rolling civics lesson will offer its short program at the Unitarian Church in Charleston, 4 Archdale St., at 11:30 Sunday morning. If you’re in the area, check it out. You’ll get some perspective on this country’s budget priorities, some free toys and Oreos. Bring your own milk.

The movable feast stopped at the Network’s board meeting June 9 in Columbia. It was entertaining and appalling in equal measure. The presentation was fun; the statistics frightening.

Activist Aaron Rubin launches a pack of Oreos into the crowd at the Network’s June board meeting in Columbia.

Here’s a bit of Aaron’s press release:

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OreoMobile Goes to Church

You might think giant Oreo cookies would give kids a belly ache. But the giant Oreos aboard the OreoMobile—coming to historic downtown Charleston at the Unitarian Church—actually explain how to make South Carolina kids healthier.

Using giant Oreos as props, OreoMobile actors will dramatize in a 10-minute show how America can provide health insurance for the 102,595 South Carolina kids who lack it.

Here’s what else the OreoMobile illustrates:

If the Pentagon trims $60 billion currently wasted on useless weapons, not only could the U.S. begin reducing the deficit, and help millions of starving children in impoverished countries around the world, but the states also would receive enough money to make local dreams come true.

Proportionately, South Carolina would receive $500 million every year, enough money to:
1) provide health insurance to all 102,000 kids in SC who don’t have it,
2) renovate and modernize all of SC’s K-12 schools over 10 years,
3) offer job training to SC workers laid off by large companies and
4) create thousands of high-paying jobs in alternative energy industries.

Most Americans, including those in South Carolina, want their taxes spent the way the OreoMobile illustrates, according to recent polling by the Program on International Policy Attitudes. “Canceling Pentagon weapons systems designed to fight the collapsed Soviet Union is not being weak on defense,” said Ben Cohen. “It is rebuilding our schools, providing health care for our kids, training our workforce for decent jobs, reducing our dependence on foreign oil, and creating a good quality of life for all of us.”

Cohen is now President of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities which sponsors the OreoMobile. Cohen is undertaking this project on behalf of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities and not on behalf of Ben & Jerry’s.

For more information, contact Aaron Rubin at 917-273-0406 or aaron@sensiblepriorities.org.