roundtable: ALERT: Call Congress TODAY for Internet Day of Protest

roundtable: ALERT: Call Congress TODAY for Internet Day of Protest

ALERT: Call Congress TODAY for Internet Day of Protest

Shabbir J. Safdar (shabbir@vtw.org)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:10:01 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:10:01 -0500 (EST)
From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" <shabbir@vtw.org>
Message-Id: <199512120510.AAA01701@panix3.panix.com>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject:  ALERT: Call Congress TODAY for Internet Day of Protest


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     CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE NET CENSORSHIP LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS

	  REMINDER!  JOIN TODAY'S INTERNET DAY OF PROTEST
		    TUESDAY DECEMBER 12, 1995

	SENATE CONFEREES ARE EXPECTED TO CAST A DECISIVE VOTE
		      ON THIS ISSUE TODAY.

      PLEASE WIDELY REDISTRIBUTE THIS DOCUMENT WITH THIS BANNER INTACT
                REDISTRIBUTE ONLY UNTIL December 20, 1995
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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.

Today, over sixty online activist organizations are inviting you to
join us in a NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST against unconstitutional Internet
censorship legislation. 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.

1. Call or fax Congress and tell them to "stop the madness".

   Sample communique:

	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.

	**** THIS NEXT PART IS VERY IMPORTANT ****

2. 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.

3. Call as many members on this list as you possibly can.

      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

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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/ or finger vtw@panix.com)

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