From Bowery Electric Sent Tue, Jan 27th 1998, 06:05
From Bowery Electric Sent Tue, Jan 27th 1998, 06:05
> Subject: NEA petition > NEA, NPR & PBS petition > This petition is being passed around the internet. Please add your name > to it in hope that funding can be maintained for the NEA, NPR & PBS. > This is being forwarded to several people at once to add their names to > the petition. > 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 (not back to me). If not, please don't kill it -- > send it to the email address listed here: xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxx > > PBS, NPR (National Public Radio), 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 $.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. Each year, 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 if you > believe in what we stand for. This list will be forwarded to the > President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, > and Representative Newt Gingrich, who is the instigator of > the action to cut funding to these worthwhile programs. > > *If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th, etc. signer of > this petition, please forward a copy to: xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxxorthco.edu. > > If that address is inoperative, please send it to: > xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx. > > 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. > -------------------------------------------------------- > NOTE: It is preferable that you SELECT the entirety of this letter > and then COPY it into a new outgoing message rather than simply > forwarding it. > -------------------------------------------------------- > 416) Arlene Hamilton, Everett, WA > 417) Irina Rudakova, University of Washington, Seattle, WA > 418) Persephone Miel, Internews, Moscow, Russia > 419) Michael J. Mead, New York, NY > 420) Spiro C. Lampros, New York University, New York, NY > 421) Kelly Sheehan, Brooklyn, NY > 422) Henry Kimsey-House, Sebastopol, CA > 423) Cynthia Loy Darst, Los Angeles, CA > 424) David Darst, Los Angeles, CA > 425) Arline Berman, Atlanta, GA > 426) Laura Davis, Atlanta, GA > 427) Carole Billingham, Denver, CO > 428) Sonja M. Hansen, Seattle, WA > 429) Rebecca Crichton, Seattle, WA > 430) Cedron Sterling, Seattle, WA > 431) N'Shama Radha Sterling, Seattle, WA > 432) Jim Ekberg, Seattle, WA > 433) Carol Ruth Summers, Seattle, WA > 434) Ken Jenkins, Novato, CA > 435) Todd Stock, Los Gatos, CA > 436) Donald Rose, Los Angeles CA > 437) Tony Puryear, Venice, CA > 438) Eric Finke, Venice, CA > 439) Janet Forman, New York, NY > 440) Lynda Hansen, NY, NY > 441) Richard Weise, Nashville, TN > 442) David Madson, Albany, CA > 443) Rick Wise, Albany, CA > 444) Bill Rogers, Mendocino, CA > 445) Rita Hovakimian, San Francisco, Ca > 446) Tracy E. Longacre, San Francisco, CA > 447) Anita G. Barfield, San Francisco, CA > 448) Penelope M. Warren, San Francisco, CA > 449) Edward G. Guggenheim, San Francisco, CA > 450 Thao N. Lam, Riverside, CA > 451) Antonio Rauti, Riverside, CA > 452) Carlotta Domeniconi, Riverside, CA > 453) Stephanie Fonder, Riverside, CA > 454) Sohail Nadimi, Riverside, CA > 455) Shirin Etessam, San Francisco, CA > 456) Jahanshah Javid, Albany, CA > 457) Haleh Nazeri, NY, NY > 458) Larry Weissman, NY, NY > 459) Jackie Medel, Los Angeles, CA > 458) Lynn Cantor, Los Angeles, CA > 459) Alec Bartsch, Los Angeles, CA > 460) Kim Wohlenhaus, Louisville, KY > 461) Tanya Savory, Louisville, KY > 462) Suzanne McDermott, Charleston, SC > 463) Jack Williams, Columbia SC > 464) Caroline Aiken, Atlanta, Ga. > 465) Jef Jaisun, Seattle, WA > 466: Roberta Penn, Seattle, WA > 467: karen garrett de Luna, Seattle, WA > 468: Sara Jinks, Seattle, WA > 469: Heather Kravas, Seattle, WA > 470: Jason Starkie, Seattle, WA > 471: Clarence L. Brooks, Jr, Seattle, WA > 472: Dan Froot > 473: Jennifer Miller > 474: Karyn Riegel, NY, NY >475: Julia Smith >476: Heather Smith, Chicago, IL >477: Zachariah Taub, Chicago, Il >478: Selima Ani, Chicago, IL >480: Peter Avirom, St.Paul, MN. >481: Megan Callan, Honolulu, HI >491: Elizabeth Stampe, San Francisco, CA >492: Meryl Block, San Francisco, CA >493: Alec Meltzer, Philadelphia, PA >494: Amy Hammersmith, Philadelphia, PA >495: Jackie Kendall, Palatine, Il >496: Etoy Ridgnal, Washington, D.C. >497: Michael Eisenscher, Oakland, CA >498: Carmela Marner, London, UK >499: Deborha Holmes, NYC, NY. >500: Sasha Frere-Jones, NYC, NY. 501: Lawrence Chandler, Brooklyn, NY 502: Martha Schwendener, Brooklyn, NY ___________________________ sasha frere-jones 295 greenwich street suite 356 nyc 10007 212 596 2074