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[struggle4progress]

<snip> That means it's time to do more than make the annual pledge. Today's the day to call or e-mail your representative in Washington to protest:

• A proposed $100 million cut (25 percent) in the CPB appropriation passed last year for fiscal 2006.

• The proposed elimination of Ready to Learn, a demonstrably successful preparedness program for kids and families that provides children's programming, family workshops, kits for educators, online resources and the like -- a program so successful that President Bush's budget recommended a $23 million appropriation for it.

• The proposed elimination of appropriations for digital technology infrastructure, despite a congressional mandate that TV stations gradually switch to digital equipment.

• The proposed defunding of a $21 million program that provides matching funds for capital expenditures. <snip>

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2. I assumed the bullets after a colon count as part of the paragraph ..

.. in which the colon lies, when the bullets themselves do not comprise complete sentences. Sorry!