---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:08:22 -0700 From: PFAW Activist Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Big Bird Lives to See Another Day
================================================================ People For the American Way June 24, 2005 ________________________________________________________________ BIG BIRD LIVES TO SEE ANOTHER DAY Late yesterday afternoon, the House of Representatives rebuked Right Wing attacks on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! Thanks to your efforts, Democrats and Republicans banded together to overwhelmingly restore $100 million in funding to the CPB by a vote of 284 to 140. [1] And while this will undoubtedly help secure the financial future of independent public broadcasting, its political future is still very much in doubt. Ken Tomlinson, head of the CPB, continues to work to turn it into a mouthpiece of the Republican Party. And today his right wing agenda advanced one step further when he succeeded in getting Patricia Harrison, formerly a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, named as president and chief executive of the CPB. While saving public broadcasting financially is important, it is even more important that we protect the independence and integrity of its programming. That is why we ask you to join us by signing a petition calling on President Bush to fire Ken Tomlinson and replace him with someone who respects the vital role that independent public broadcasting plays in our society. Click here to sign our petition demanding President Bush fire Tomlinson: http://pfaw.kintera.org/tomlinson [1] To view the record of the vote click here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll305.xml ________________________________________________________________ People For the American Way 2000 M Street, NW | Suite 400 | Washington, DC 20036 http://www.pfaw.org/ 1-800-326-PFAW | 202/467-4999 ================================================================ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manage your People For profile and e-mail subscriptions at: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=16853 To ensure that People For e-mails are not diverted to your spam or bulk folders, please add [EMAIL PROTECTED] to your address book and/or "safe list." Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. Replies will not be read. To contact us online, please use the web form at: http://www.pfaw.org/go/contact_us To remove yourself from this mailing, please go to http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M69605515608825016002765
