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Turn off for service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa Covi)
Mon Jan 15 15:53:58 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:51:30 -0800
Reply-To: Lisa Covi <covi@ICS.UCI.EDU>
From: Lisa Covi <covi@ICS.UCI.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
I thought this is interesting, even though it's unconventional.
Perhaps one of your chapters might want to adopt TV-Turnoff Week to
encourage people to pledge hours to do service when they might
otherwise be watching TV.
Yours in TV addiction,
Lisa
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:36:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Monte Burke <mburke@essential.org>
Subject: New: TVFA-Announce - National TV-Turnoff Week
Are you worried about how much TV Americans watch? Are you
distressed about the negative impact that excessive
television-watching has on public health,families and
communities, the environment, education and literacy?
TV-Free America is establishing a new list for educators,
parents, citizens and journalists seeking information about the
second annual National TV-Turnoff Week, April 24-30, 1996.
The huge success of the 1995 TV-Turnoff (more than 1,000,000
people and 4,000 schools participated) demonstrated that a solid
one-week recess from TV helps establish conditions that allow for
more family interaction, reading, volunteering, exercising,
enjoyment of nature, taking part in community affairs, thinking,
creating and doing. Momentum is rapidly growing for the 1996
Turnoff in which we expect 3-4 million people to participate.
National TV-Turnoff Week is endorsed by dozens of national
organizations including the: American Medical Association,
American Federation of Teachers, Natural Resources Defense Fund,
National Association for the Education of Young Children,
National Association of Elementary School Principals,
American Psychiatric Association, National
Parenting Association, Children's Defense Fund, Congress of
National Black Churches, Literacy Volunteers of America and
Libraries For the Future.
TV-Free America is a national nonprofit organization the
encourages Americans to reduce, voluntarily and dramatically, the
amount of television that they watch in order to promote richer,
healthier and more connected lives, families and communities.
More than 50% of TVFA's funding comes from individual
memberships.
Among the resources this list will furnish are:
1) Information on how to become actively involved in the
National TV-Turnoff Week and TV-Free America;
2) Articles from TVFA publications and national news stories
about our programs;
3) Lists of studies, recommended reading, facts and statistics
about TV.
To subscribe to TVFA-ANNOUNCE, send the following command to
<listproc@essential.org> in the body of the e-mail message:
SUBSCRIBE TVFA-ANNOUNCE YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME
For example: SUBSCRIBE TVFA-ANNOUNCE JOHN DOE
This list is moderated by Monte Burke, Campaign Organizer for
TV-Free America.
List owner: Monte Burke, one-time spammer who has since learned
a very important lesson. <mburke@essential.org>
Monte Burke email: mburke@essential.org
TV-Free America
1322 18th Street, NW #300
Washington, DC 20036
ph:202.887.0436
fax:202.887.0438
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