From: Sarah Thompson <righter@aros.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 06:02:58 +0800
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Subject: ALERT:INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995 (fwd)
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>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 01:44:01 -0700
>From: molly@aros.net
>Subject: ALERT:INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995 (fwd)
>To: andelain@aros.net, matti@community.net, CAPSTACK_T@MSdisk.WUstl.EDU,
>        will@btsslc.com
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>     CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE NET CENSORSHIP LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS
>
>    On Tuesday December 12, 1995, Join With Hundreds of Thousands
>                  Of Your Fellow Internet Users In
>
>                  A NATIONAL INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST
>
>      PLEASE WIDELY REDISTRIBUTE THIS DOCUMENT WITH THIS BANNER INTACT
>                REDISTRIBUTE ONLY UNTIL December 20, 1995
>________________________________________________________________________
>CONTENTS
>        Internet Day of Protest: Tuesday December 12, 1995
>        What You Must Do On Tuesday December 12, 1995
>        List of Participating Organizations
>        Where Can I Learn More?
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST:  TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995
>
>Outrageous proposals to censor the Internet demand that the Internet
>Community take swift and immediate action. We must stand up and let
>Congress know that we will not tolerate their attempts to destroy this
>medium! Please join hundreds of thousands of your fellow citizens in a
>National Day of Protest on Tuesday December 12, 1995.
>
>As you know, on Wednesday December 6, 1995, the House Conference
>Committee on Telecommunications Reform voted to impose far reaching and
>unconstitutional "indecency" restrictions on the Internet and other
>interactive media, including large commercial online services (such as
>America Online, Compuserve, and Prodigy) and smaller Internet Service
>Providers such as Panix, the Well, Echo, and Mindvox.
>
>These restrictions threaten the very existence of the Internet and
>interactive media as a viable medium for free expression, education,
>commerce.  If enacted, the Internet as we know it will never be the
>same.
>
>Libraries will not be able to put any books online that might
>offend a child somewhere.  No "Catcher in the Rye" or "Ulysses" on the net.
>Internet Service Providers could face criminal penalties for allowing
>children to subscribe to their Internet Services, forcing many  small
>companies to simply refuse to sell their services to anyone under 18. Worst
>of all, everything you say and publish on the net will have to be "dumbed
>down" to that which is acceptable to a child.
>
>As Internet users, we simply must not allow this assault against the
>Internet and our most basic freedoms to go unchallenged.
>
>On Tuesday December 12, the organizations below are urging you to
>join us in a NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST. The goal is to flood key members of
>the House and Senate with phone calls, faxes and email with the message
>that the Internet community WILL NOT TOLERATE Congressional attempts to
>destroy the Internet, limit our freedoms and trample on our rights.
>
>Below are the phone, fax, and email address of several key members of
>Congress on this issue and instructions on what you can do to join the
>National Day of Protest to save the Net.
>
>______________________________________________________________________
>WHAT YOU MUST DO ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995
>
>1. Throughout the day Tuesday December 12, please contact as many
>   members of Congress on the list below as you can. If you are only
>   able to make one call, contact House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Finally,
>   if the Senator or Representative from your state is on the list
>   below, be sure to contact him or her also.
>
>2. Urge each Member of Congress to "stop the madness".  Tell them that
>   they are about to pass legislation that will destroy the Internet as
>   an educational and commercial medium.  If you are at a loss for
>   words, try the following sample communique:
>
>   Sample phone call:
>
>        Both the House and Senate bills designed to protect children
>        from objectionable material on the Internet will actually
>        destroy the Internet as an medium for education, commerce, and
>        political discourse. There are other, less restrictive ways to
>        address this issue.
>
>        I urge you to oppose both measures being proposed in the
>        conference committee.  This is an important election issue to
>        me.
>
>   Sample letter (fax or email):
>
>        The Senate conferees are considering ways to protect children
>        from inappropriate material on the Internet.  A vote for either
>        the House or Senate proposals will result in the destruction of
>        the Internet as a viable medium for free expression, education,
>        commerce.  Libraries will not be able to put their entire book
>        collections online.  Everyday people like me will risk massive
>        fines and prison sentences for public discussions someone s
>        somewhere might consider "indecent".
>
>        There are other, less restrictive ways to protect children from
>        objectionable material online. This is an important election
>        issue to me.
>
>3. If you're in San Francisco, or near enough to get there, go to
>   the Rally Against Censorship from Ground Zero of the Digital Revolution:
>
>   WHEN: Monday, December 11, 1995  12:00 - 1:00 PM
>   WHERE: South Park (between 2nd and 3rd, Bryant and Brannon) San Francisco.
>   SPEAKERS: To be announced
>   BRING: Attention-grabbing posters, signs, and banners that demonstrate
>        your committment to free speech and expression, and your feelings
>        about Congress.
>   FOR UPDATED INFORMATION (including rain info):
>        http://www.hotwired.com/staff/digaman/
>
>
>### THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT ###
>
>4. Mail a note to protest@vtw.org to let us know you did your part.
>   Although you will not receive a reply due to the number of
>   anticipated responses, we'll be counting up the number of people that
>   participated in the day of protest.
>
>
>      P ST Name and Address           Phone           Fax
>      = == ========================   ==============  ==============
>      R AK Stevens, Ted               1-202-224-3004  1-202-224-1044
>      R AZ McCain, John               1-202-224-2235  1-602-952-8702
>        senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov
>      D HI Inouye, Daniel K.          1-202-224-3934  1-202-224-6747
>      R KS Dole, Robert               1-202-224-6521  1-202-228-1245
>      D KY Ford, Wendell H.           1-202-224-4343  1-202-224-0046
>        wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov
>      R MS Lott, Trent                1-202-224-6253  1-202-224-2262
>      R MT Burns, Conrad R.           1-202-224-2644  1-202-224-8594
>        conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov
>      D NE Exon, J. J.                1-202-224-4224  1-202-224-5213
>      D SC Hollings, Ernest F.        1-202-224-6121  1-202-224-4293
>        senator@hollings.senate.gov
>      R SD Pressler, Larry            1-202-224-5842  1-202-224-1259
>        larry_pressler@pressler.senate.gov
>      R WA Gorton, Slade              1-202-224-3441  1-202-224-9393
>        senator_gorton@gorton.senate.gov
>      D WV Rockefeller, John D.       1-202-224-6472  n.a.
>        senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
>
>   Dist ST Name, Address, and Party     Phone            Fax
>   ==== == ========================     ==============  ==============
>      6 GA Gingrich, Newt (R)           1-202-225-4501   1-202-225-4656
>             2428 RHOB                      georgia6@hr.house.gov
>     14 MI Conyers Jr., John (D)        1-202-225-5126   1-202-225-0072
>             2426 RHOB                      jconyers@hr.house.gov
>      1 CO Schroeder, Patricia (D)      1-202-225-4431   1-202-225-5842
>             2307 RHOB
>     18 TX Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D)      1-202-225-3816   1-202-225-3317
>             1520 LHOB
>      6 TN Gordon, Bart (D)             1-202-225-4231   1-202-225-6887
>             2201 RHOB
>
>
>4. Forward this alert to all of your wired friends.
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>WHERE CAN I LEARN MORE?
>
>At this moment, there are several organizations with WWW sites that now
>have, or will have, information about the net censorship legislation and
>the National Day Of Protest:
>
>American Civil Liberties Union (ftp://ftp.aclu.org/aclu/)
>Center for Democracy and Technology (http://www.cdt.org/)
>Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org/)
>Electronic Privacy Information Center (http://www.epic.org/)
>Wired Magazine (http://www.hotwired.com/special/indecent/)
>Voters Telecommunications Watch (http://www.vtw.org/)
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>LIST OF PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS
>
>In order to use the net more effectively, several organizations have
>joined forces on a single Congressional net campaign to stop the
>Communications Decency Act.
>
>
>American Civil Liberties Union * American Communication Association *
>American Council for the Arts * Arts & Technology Society * Association
>of Alternative Newsweeklies * biancaTroll productions * Boston
>Coalition for Freedom of Expression * Californians Against Censorship
>Together * Center For Democracy And Technology * Centre for Democratic
>Communications * Center for Public Representation * Citizen's Voice -
>New Zealand * Cloud 9 Internet *Computer Communicators Association *
>Computel Network Services * Computer Professionals for Social
>Responsibility * Cross Connection * Cyber-Rights Campaign * CyberQueer
>Lounge * Dorsai Embassy * Dutch Digital Citizens' Movement * ECHO
>Communications Group, Inc. * Electronic Frontier Canada * Electronic
>Frontier Foundation * Electronic Frontier Foundation - Austin *
>Electronic Frontiers Australia * Electronic Frontiers Houston *
>Electronic Frontiers New Hampshire * Electronic Privacy Information
>Center * Feminists For Free Expression * First Amendment Teach-In *
>Florida Coalition Against Censorship * FranceCom, Inc. Web Advertising
>Services * Friendly Anti-Censorship Taskforce for Students * Hands
>Off!  The Net * Inland Book Company * Inner Circle Technologies, Inc. *
>Inst. for Global Communications * Internet On-Ramp, Inc. * Internet
>Users Consortium * Joint Artists' and Music Promotions Political Action
>Committee * The Libertarian Party * Marijuana Policy Project *
>Metropolitan Data Networks Ltd. * MindVox * MN Grassroots Party *
>National Bicycle Greenway * National Campaign for Freedom of Expression
>* National Coalition Against Censorship * National Gay and Lesbian Task
>Force * National Public Telecomputing Network * National Writers Union
>* Oregon Coast RISC * Panix Public Access Internet * People for the
>American Way * Republican Liberty Caucus * Rock Out Censorship *
>Society for Electronic Access * The Thing International BBS Network *
>The WELL * Voters Telecommunications Watch
>
>(Note: All 'Electronic Frontier' organizations are independent entities,
> not EFF chapters or divisions.)
>
>________________________________________________________________________
>        End Alert
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>                         Paula Davidson
>                  mesoelectronic hunter/gatherer
>      davidson@cs.unca.edu    http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/
>  Specializing in Exploration and Tool Use on the Matrix of the Net
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Sarah Thompson, M.D.
righter@aros.net
Executive Director, Women Against Gun Control
PO Box 271307
Salt Lake City, UT 84127-1307
(801)328-9660 - voice
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