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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-16-07 01:04 PM
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SAVE Small, Indy Publications from Time-Wanker's Self-Serving Postage Hike!
The future of independent magazines like Ms., Mother Jones, The Nation, etc. is at
risk with a massive new postage hike!

The U.S. Postal Service has accepted a Time Warner proposal that would significantly
increase postage rates for smaller magazines, while reducing costs for the nation's
largest publishers like Hearst and, you guessed it, Time Warner.

Ms. is working with Free Press, a national non-partisan organization working to
reform media, and the Media Consortium, including Mother Jones, The Nation, American
Prospect, The Progressive, In These Times, and other independent media to send a
massive number of letters protesting this unfair postage hike.

Please take a minute now to cosign a letter demanding that the rules are changed.
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/feministmajority/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11086&t=ms.dwt

Time Warner's plan was chosen - with almost no public awareness - instead of another
proposal that would have imposed a more equitable increase for all magazine
publishers. If and when it is implemented as scheduled in July, the Time Warner plan
could force many smaller publications out of business.

This proposal unfairly hurts smaller, cutting-edge publications like Ms., at a time
when we need independent media more than ever. You can count on Ms. magazine, not
"big corporate media," for the real story on the issues affecting women in the U.S.
and worldwide.

Don't let Time Warner and the corporate media win - please cosign a letter demanding
that Congress step in to stop the unfair postage hike and save independent media!
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/feministmajority/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11086&t=ms.dwt

For A Strong Feminist Media,
Katherine Spillar
Executive Editor
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-16-07 01:13 PM
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1. K&R
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-16-07 01:41 PM
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2. Thanks...shameless...
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-16-07 02:44 PM
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3. This is important.
We need small independent publications as much as we need the internet.
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