I am with you! It is really a pain in the patookus to have to hear some
amazingly backward(in my thinking) talk by a lot of people today. But
again I live in the bible-belt Georgia, its to be expected, I guess, but
it still shocks me sometimes.
Bertina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 18 Feb 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am writing because I am so steamed I could SCREAM! Please support me on
> this! I volunteer to lead a small group of students (20, K-5) at the local
> elementary school in an Earth Club. Last meeting we talked about treating
> animals ethically. I handed out some stuff that PETA sent me. We
> discussed, at the meeting, everything that was handed out. We talked about
> what we did and how we lived and some other alternatives (like being
> vegetarian, buying products made by companies that don't use animal
> testing, etc.) No preaching! Honest!
>
> Today, I got a phone call from the PTA president at school who told me she
> had an irrate mom at her door today regarding the material I had sent home
> and would I please tone it down... !!!!! Pardon me for trying to expand
> the horizons of the unfortunate children here in the vast cultural
> wasteland we call the suburbs! I only want to present these kids with some
> info so that they will know THERE IS A WORLD OUT THERE!! Do you think I
> should drop my plans to enlighten them about pesticides and organic
> produce??? Has anyone else run into this? I am not, did not, and will not
> try to tell ANYONE how to live--I'd just like the chance to expand a few
> horizons. sigh!
>
> Thanks for reading and letting me have a place to vent. It is very
> frustrating to be the only "liberal" in a conservative town. It is very
> difficult to raise enlightened children who will care for the Earth when
> the rest of the community wants to shut out the messages. I'm glad you're
> all out there so I know I'm not alone... am I???!
>
> Diana
>
>
>
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Feb 18 11:19:45 MST 1995
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 10:25:25 -0800 (PST)
From: William Affleck-Asch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NOW is OnLine (and not just me)
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]/PC_3.2.3_Beta_2>
Hopefully someone sent this already, but here's the skinny on the
National Organization for Women's email address and WWW Home Page. Am
hacking to see if FTP and Gopher also work there. Nice not to be the
only site other than Sarah Stapleton-Gray's WWW Feminist Home Page ...
William Affleck-Asch | The above is my personal opinion only and does not
Seattle | necessarily reflect the opinions of any of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | many organizations I belong to or represent. :-)
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The following message was received here just after I sent out my
announcement about the NOW web page. Since Mary-Elise provides more
information than I was able to, I'm forwarding this note to my NOW list.
Since some of you are on both my NOW list and Mary-Elise's list, some of
you have already read this stuff. My apologies.
-- Bill Willis, NNJ-NOW
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<< forwarded message from Mary-Elise Haug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >>
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I thought that you all might be interested in seeing this press release
from National NOW about a web page.
World Wide Web pages can be accessed through e-mail for text-based
information.
Instructions:
send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
don't put anything in the subject line.
The request goes in the text area.
To get the NOW page type:
send http://now.org/now/home.html
The mail server sends the document back in the form of an e-mail message.
In the documents you receive, you'll find that numbers in brackets, such
as [7], represent the document's hypertext references. At the end of the
message the addresses (URL's) for the link will be present.
To get the linked document copy that HTTP reference and submit another
message to the listserv.
Enjoy.
Mary-Elise
Ross and Sarah are in the process of delivering the following Press
Release to sites on the net that they think will be appropriate.
For Immediate Release Contact: Diane Minor
February 15, 1995 Jeni Hyder
NOW ARRIVES ON THE INTERNET TO COMMEMORATE
SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S 175TH BIRTHDAY
The National Organization for Women today commemorates the 175th
birthday of suffragist Susan B. Anthony by unveiling its own homepage on
the Internet's World Wide Web. The Web page can be found at:
http://now.org/now/home.html
The organization can also be reached by E-mail at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
An Internet presence will allow NOW to reach a wide public audience
through this rapidly expanding medium. It will enable NOW both to
efficiently inform the media, and thereby the public, and to
collaborate with other organizations.
This exchange of information and resources with feminist activists and
organizations will reach around the world, providing new links with
women in countries where the cost of travel and communications has been
an impediment. This is especially important this year, with the Fourth
World Conference on Women Aug. 30 to Sept. 15 in Beijing.
NOW's presence on the Internet is expected to expand the universe of
people who are aware of NOW and educated on women's issues. And as the
number of state and local NOW chapters active on the Net grows, NOW's
internal democracy and grassroots leadership will be strengthened by
cross-fertilization and increased access to information.
Kim Gandy, NOW Executive Vice-President, said that the "increased
presence of strong women's voices in cyberspace will surely make it a
friendlier, less hostile place for women and girls. NOW will be a welcome
and welcoming presence for anyone who wants advance the cause of women's
equality."
###
The page is now up and we are looking for constructive criticism. It will
grow as Sarah has the time to program it and people provide her and me the
documents to add. We right now have many documents that are not yet on-line.
We especially could use net addresses for other NOW organizations on the
Net, since I am sure that Washington state is not the only one up, but is
the only one we are aware of.
Could you please forward this message to other members of the Internet
CIC, I don't have addresses for them.
Please ignoreall the typos in my notes. Netcom is really slow today and I
am typing ahead a great deal.
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Naturally, copy of file is in FTP site of ftp.eskimo.com in feminist
directory, file name is NOW.Online.TXT (DOS version is NOWONLINE.TXT)
