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networking with other college activists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Thu Feb 8 16:49:11 1996
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU
To: seta@MIT.EDU, vsg-action@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:46:34 EST
These new email lists for networking with other activists have just
come to my attention. Thought I'd pass it along.
-Laura
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From: alans@MIT.EDU
To: action95@MIT.EDU, shihadeh@caller.infi.net
Subject: useful e-mail lists
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 09:57:44 EST
To: Multiple recipients of list <can-rw@pencil.math.missouri.edu>
revised: 1/28/96
We are writing because the Center for Campus Organizing (CCO) is
setting up some additional mailing lists to promote communication
between campus activists. This effort is part of an online project
called CANet -- the Campus Activists' Network. The Center for Campus
Organizing (CCO) is a national clearinghouse based in Cambridge, MA,
USA, originally established in 1991 as the University Conversion
Project. CCO does most of its work offline, promoting progressive
activism and investigative journalism on college campuses. We invite
any campus groups working for social justice to participate in CANet.
We have not yet added you to any mailing lists. We are asking you
to try one or more lists which address the topics listed below. Since the
lists are new and will be moderated (actually the term we are using is
"facilitated"), your mailbox will not be deluged.
The Campus Activists' NETwork is currently divided into 14 areas that
you may subscribe to individually. Circulation figures are in parenthesis:
1 ACTION96 -- For those working on a March 14, 1996 National Day of Action
for Access to Education, Affirmative Action, and Immigrants' Rights
2 CAN-ALERT -- Action Alerts of the Center for Campus Organizing.
Not a discussion list; subscribe for infrequent, "emergency" alerts.
3 CAN-ALUM -- Alumni Network. For college alumni who used to be
campus activists.
4 CAN-BC -- Boston Center. Discussion only for campus activists in
Boston area and those intersted in a local center for student activism.
5 CAN-AR -- Anti-Racism. For campus activists involved in
anti-racism activities. Facilitator(s) sought. (100)
6 CAN-EC -- Economic Conversion. For campus activists who want
to cut the military budget and put the money where it's needed. (150)
7 CAN-ER -- Educational Rights. For people who are organizing against
tuition increases and efforts to cut funding for higher education. (600)
8 CAN-FAC -- Faculty Activist Network. Sponsored by CCO and Teachers
For a Democratic Culture; responds to attacks on higher education.
9 CAN-RW -- Right Wing Alert. A discussion about responding to efforts
by well-funded Right Wing groups to dictate politics on campus. (200)
10 CAN-SR -- Social Responsibility in the Curriculum. For those
working to get peace studies, ethics in science, multicultural
requirements, or environmental studies into the curriculum.
These four lists ask new subscribers to state their involvement
in campus activism, in order to help keep the discussion relevant.
1 CAN-YFN -- Young Feminist Network. For people who are involved in
feminist campus organizations or who want to start one. (150)
2 CAN-AJ -- Campus Alternative Journalism. Restricted to people who
are creating alternative campus media or who want to do so.
3 CAN-LAW -- Law Student Activists. A network of law students interested
in public interest law, legal cases affecting student activists.
4 CCO -- For CCO campus contacts, who must apply in writing to be a
liason to activists on their campus. For an application, please
send email to cco@igc.apc.org or call (617)354-9363!
With few exceptions, it is not possible to send mail to any of these
lists unless you subscribe first.
- --How to subscribe and unsubscribe to one of these lists-------------------
You can subscribe yourself to any of these lists by sending a message to:
CANET@PENCIL.MATH.MISSOURI.EDU
with a subject of "canet" and a message body (or "message text"):
sub <NAME-OF-LIST> Yourfirstname Yourlastname
i.e. if Wendy Roberts wanted to subscribe to can-er, her email message
should simply say:
sub can-er Wendy Roberts
CANCELING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION
You can unsubscribe yourself to any of these lists by sending an email
message to canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu with a subject of "CANET" and body:
unsub <NAME-OF-LIST>
- --Receiving your mail in "digest" form-----------------------------------
If you'd rather receive a few "bundled" mail messages than lots of little
ones, try the putting "set <list> mail digest" in a request, i.e.
SUBSCRIBE CAN-SR Moon Zappa
SET CAN-SR mail digest
would subscribe Moon Zappa to the Social Responsibility list, and then
change her mail delivery mode to "digest" which means that messages will
be accumulated and sent to her in "bundles." To turn bundling off, send
a message to canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu containing the line:
SET CAN-SR mail ack
Bunding of mail is usually needed only on very popular lists.
- --Future CANet lists; other campus lists; CANET advisors --------------
In January of 1996 we will establish a CANET advisory board that will
make decisions on adding lists to the system. If you are interested
on serving on the advisory board, please send us email describing
your activist qualifications at facil@pencil.math.missouri.edu .
Our current policy for expanding this system is not to add lists in
areas where effective campus activist focused lists already exist.
Here is information on lists in four such areas:
AMNESTY-D Serves Campus Human Rights Activists (Amnesty Int'l)
SEACNET Campus Environmental Groups (Student Env. Action Coalition)
QUEERCAMPUS Serves l/g/b/o Campus Communities
Here are instructions on subscribing to these lists:
Name of List Send "Subscribe <listname> <your name>" message to:
amnesty-d amnestyd-request@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
seac+announce listserv@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu
queercampus MAJORDOMO@vector.casti.com
- --For More Information-----------------------------------------------
When you subscribe, you will receive additional instructions about
sending mail, guidelines for discussions, etc. If you want that information
now, send an email message to CANET-INFO@PENCIL.MATH.MISSOURI.EDU.
Finally, since computers can only do a small part of what is necessary
to promote activism on campus, we want to let you know how to contact
our office, get copies of back issues of our newsletter (with graphics
and charts), and get human advice on your campus organizing. Please
call Jeremy, Nicole, or Rich from 11am-7pm e.s.t., at:
UCP/ Center for Campus Organizing, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142
617-354-9363 e-mail: cco@igc.apc.org http://envirolink.org/orgs/cco
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