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New: TVFA-Announce - National TV-Turnoff Week
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:36:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Monte Burke
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
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.
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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