Fw: Take action @ fundiing for PBS & NPR

["Nancy Harvey" <nanner@totalspeed.net>]

Hi folks!

In case you have not seen this, I'm forwarding another way for you to do
activist work on the web on the important issue of funding for PBS and NPR.

Thanks.

Nancy Harvey
Boulder

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> Help save PBS and NPR!
>
>   -Dagny
>
>   On NPR's Morning Edition last week, Nina Tottenberg said that if the
>   Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of the
>   National
>   Public Radio (NPR), NEA & the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). PBS, NPR
>   and
>   the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts
of
>   each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services,
some
>   government officials believe that the funding currently going to these
>   programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen
as
>   not worthwhile.
>
>   Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS equal $1.12 per person
> per
>   year, and the National Endowment for the Arts equals $0.64 a year. A
>   January
>   1995 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that 76% of Americans wish to
> keep
>   funding for PBS, third only to national defense and law enforcement as
the
>   most valuable programs for federal funding. The Senate and House
>   appropriations committees each have 13 subcommittees with jurisdiction
> over
>   many programs and agencies. Each subcommittee passes its own
appropriation
>   bill. The goal each year is to have each bill signed by the beginning of
>   the
>   fiscal year, which is October 1.
>
>   The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of
support
>   for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices
>   heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who
>   believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the
>   President and the Vice President of the United States.
>
>   This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name
to
>   it so that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, & the NEA.
>
>   **HOW TO SIGN & FORWARD: (IT'S EASY!)
>
>   Please keep this petition rolling. Do not reply to the sender of the
>   message. Please "sign" by adding your name below, and forward to others
to
>   sign. If you prefer not to sign, please send to the E-mail address
>   indicated
>   below.
>
>   DON'T WORRY ABOUT DUPLICATES. This is being forwarded to several people
at
>   once to add their names to the petition. It won't matter if many people
>   receive the same list as the names are being managed. This is for anyone
>   who
>   thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of $1.12/year of their taxes,
a
>   petition follows.
>
>   If you sign, please forward on to others. If not, please don't kill it--
>   send it to the Email address listed here:
wein2688@blue.univnorthco.eduor
>   kubi7975@blue.univnorthco.edu
>
>   ****If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th, etc., signer this
>   petition,
>   please forward a copy to: Wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu This way we can
>   keep
>   track of the lists and organize them. Forward this to everyone you know,
>   and
>   help us to keep these programs alive. Thank you!
>
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