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Wed, 15 Jun 2005
From Move On to... you... via me...
Dear friend,
Thank you. Your name has been added to the petition and your comments
will be delivered to your senators and representative.
Please take a moment to invite your friends and colleagues to sign.
You can just forward the sample letter below.
Spreading the word is critical, but please only pass this message
along to those who know you, of course -- spam hurts our campaign.
Thanks, for all you do.
Sincerely,
--The MoveOn.org Team
Here's a sample message to send to your friends:
Subject: This time, it's for real: Save NPR and PBS
Hi,
You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress
is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it's actually true.
(Really. Check at the bottom if you don't believe me.)
Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS:
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and
PBS, starting with "Sesame Street," "Reading Rainbow," and other
commercial-free children's shows. If approved, this would be the most
severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull
the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch.
The cuts would slash 25% of the federal funding this year ($100
million) and end funding altogether within two years. The loss could
kill beloved children's shows like "Clifford the Big Red Dog,"
"Arthur," and "Postcards from Buster." Rural stations and those
serving low-income communities might not survive. Other stations would
have to increase corporate sponsorships.
Already, 400,000 people have signed the petition. Can you help us
reach 500,000 signatures today?
http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/
Thanks!
P.S. Read the Washington Post report on the threat to NPR and PBS at:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=745
Posted at 17:06 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink]
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Taking The Revolving Door To New Heights
From Progress
Report:
Exxon Announces Merger With White House
Yesterday, it was announced that the former chief of staff of the
White House's Council on Environmental Quality, Philip Cooney, who
resigned five days ago after it was disclosed that he had doctored
government climate change reports in favor of the oil industry's
position, has been hired
by Exxon Mobil. While Cooney will now sit at the other side of the
table at the White House's energy meetings, his job will remain the
same -- to do the bidding of the oil industry.
COONEY'S MAGIC MARKER ALTERED SCIENTIFIC REALITY: Just last week, the
Government
Accountability Project, a public interest group that promotes
government accountability, disclosed documents to the New
York Times that showed Cooney " repeatedly edited government
climate reports in ways that play down links between [greenhouse gas]
emissions and global warming." One of the sentences that Cooney crossed out
stated the following: "[Global] warming also will cause reductions in
mountain glaciers and advance the timing of the melt of mountain snow
peaks in polar regions." Cooney, who has no scientific training, wrote a
note stating that the section "stray[ed] from research strategy into
speculative findings," a position which goes against the findings of
the scientific community that the greenhouse effect is accelerating changes in the climate.
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