Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:55:30 -1000 From: Mia H H Lam Subject: FW: NEA/NPR (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 10:17:02 -1000 From: Patricia Shields Subject: NPR / NEA & PBS SURVIVAL Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 09:34:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Rogbotmaio@aol.com (by way of Robert A. Miller) To: ramiller@interport.net Forwarded: Dear Friends, The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the issue of whether public funding to an artist can be linked with the idea of whether the art is 'decent.' After the Robert Mapplethorpe "scandal" not so long ago, Congress passed a law that for an artist's art to receive public money via the National Endowment for the Arts, it must be deemed decent. NPR Morning Edition this morning, Nina Tottenberg said that if the Supreme Court supports Congress, it is in effect the end of NEA. Then, there's the question of Congressional funding: Funding for NPR / NEA & PBS This petition is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so that funding can be maintained for the NEA, NPR & PBS. Please keep this petition rolling. Do not reply to me. Please sign and forward to others to sign. If you prefer not to sign please send to the e-mail address indicated or return to me. Thanks. This is being forwarded to several people at once to add their names to the petition. It won't matter if many people receive the same list as the names are being managed. This is for anyone who thinks NPR/PBS is a worthwhile expenditure of $1.12/year of their taxes, a petition follows. If you sign, please forward on to others. If not, please don't kill it - send it to the email address listed here: >> wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu PBS, NPR (National Public Radio), and the arts are facing major cutbacks in funding. In spite of the efforts of each station to reduce spending costs and streamline their services, some government officials believe that the funding currently going to these programs is too large a portion of funding for something which is seen as not worthwhile. Currently, taxes from the general public for PBS equal $1.12 per person per year, and the National Endowment for the Arts equals $0.64 a year. A January 1995 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicated that 76% of Americans wish to keep funding for PBS, third only to national defense and law enforcement as the most valuable programs for federal funding. Each year, the Senate and House Appropriations committees each have 13 subcommittees with jurisdiction over many programs and agencies. Each subcommittee passes its own appropriation bill. The goal each year is to have each bill signed by the beginning of the fiscal year, which is October 1. The only way that our representatives can be aware of the base of support for PBS and funding for these types of programs is by making our voices heard. Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends if you believe in what we stand for. This list will be forwarded to the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, and Representative Newt Gingrich, who is the instigator of the action to cut funding to these worthwhile programs. *If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th, etc., signer of this petition, please forward a copy to: wein2688@blue.univnorthco.edu. This way we can keep track of the lists and organize them. Forward this to everyone you know, and help us to keep these programs alive. Thank you. -------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: It is preferable that you SELECT the entirety of this letter and then COPY it into a new outgoing message rather than simply forwarding it. Or if option is available, do a SEND AGAIN. [Deleted list. filemanager@qrd.org]