Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 08:23:20 -0800 (PST) From: jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: IMPORTANT LIST ANNOUNCEMENT Starting today, December 1, 1996, The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project mailing list will be transferred to another list wrangler. She will do all list-related stuff, including subscribing and unsubscribing people sending messages etc. IF YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL SUBCRIBER, you do NOT have to do anything: all those currently receiving our emailings will continue to receive them...your address will be transferred over. IF YOU RECEIVE THROUGH SOME LIST TO WHICH WE SEND AND IF YOU STOP RECEIVING, THAT MEANS WE NO LONGER SEND TO THAT LIST AND YOU'LL NEED TO WRITE TO THE ADDRESS BELOW TO SUBSCRIBE AS AN INDIVIDUAL. STARTING NOW, SEND ANY INFORMATION YOU WISH CONSIDERED FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THIS LIST TO richter@eecs.berkeley.edu DO NOT SEND TO jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu as you will get an auto-reply indicating that you have to resend to address shown above. INFORMATION SUITABLE FOR CONSIDERATION FOR THIS LIST HAS TO DO WITH K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS ISSUES RELATING TO LGBTQ PEOPLE. As with any transition, there may be some bumps and wrinkles. As with any change, there will inevitably be some differences as to how the list is run (that's the prerogative of the list wrangler!!) The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project's fantastically helpful Web site will remain your first and best resource. It will continue to be updated, as usual. These are exciting times...the Nabozny court victory (see Web pages at http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/Old/appeal.html and http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/Old/jamie.html and http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Wisconsin/suit.html and http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Resources/nabozny.html if you just joined the list) means we have turned a legal corner in our struggle for educational equity. Now is the time to leverage that win, in every state and every school in this country. Make sure all school administrators and policy makers are aware of the decision. It is also, nonetheless, time for me personally to take a sorely needed, indefinite sabbatical from doing email for three or so hours daily. My "real" job has become incredibly stressful (you know, the Dilbertesque kind of downsizing and reorganization nightmares, with too few people left to do too much work). I've been doing The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project list every morning before work, and some evenings and most weekends. Now I need that time to get fit again, the better to cope with the job stress, and to get OUTdoors more often, the better to relax. It is EXTREMELY fortunate that Jean has stepped forward and volunteered to take over the list, else it would have been discontinued. Please extend her every kindness. ** Please note that I will no longer respond to ** The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project related inquiries, and I ** will not even log on to this account very often. ** Please refer whenever possible to our Web pages, ** as, truly, whatever we know we have put up ** there for all to share. Our goal has always been to put the information YOU, the activists in the field, needed at your fingertips so you could access it at will. We have also tried to link the country so people can a. not reinvent the wheel of progress if someone somewhere else already has a good resource, strategy, soundbite, etc. b. network with each other and form coalitions c. LEVERAGE gains made in one area in your own area: use the keeping up with the times, the standards, etc. arguments. We believe in systematic, systemic work. We believe that we can hasten progress toward the goals we all share by going to the HIGHEST system POLICY level and EDUCATING the policy makers. This "top down" approach is meant to complement, synergistically, other strategies employed by other activists. Working with you all over this period of time has been one of the most gratifying experiences of my entire life. When Margaret Mead said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. INDEED, IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT EVER HAS," ... she was talking about YOU!!! Jessea Greenman p.s. PLEASE **UNSUBSCRIBE** and FROM YOUR DISTRIBUTION LISTS. I've unsubscribed from those i can, but others of you have added me to your personal lists from which only you can unsub me. Thanks. THIS IS an auto-reply. IF YOUR MESSAGE IS RELATED TO THE PERSON PROJECT, PLEASE READ ON, CAREFULLY. If your message is a personal one to jessea, i'll get back to you eventually (i will only log on to this account once or twice weekly rather than daily as was the case until now). On December 1, 1996, The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project mailing list was transferred to another list wrangler. That person will do all list-related stuff, including subscribing and unsubscribing people sending messages etc. STARTING NOW, SEND ANY INFORMATION YOU WISH CONSIDERED FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THIS LIST TO richter@eecs.berkeley.edu ALSO SEND TO THAT ADDRESS ANY SUBSCRIPTION/UNSUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION. THIS IS an auto-reply. IF YOUR MESSAGE IS RELATED TO THE PERSON PROJECT, you have to resend to address shown above. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and FROM YOUR DISTRIBUTION LIST. ** Please note that I will no longer respond to ** The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project related inquiries, and I ** will not even log on to this account very often. ** Please refer whenever possible to our Web pages, ** as, truly, whatever we know we have put up ** there for all to share. The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project. Curricular policy reform advocacy, k-12 (Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally) The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is an all-volunteer effort CHECK OUT OUR FREE INFO-LOADED WEB PAGE AT http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/