Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03353; Thu, 8 Feb 96 16:47:46 EST Received: from M1-142-1.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04880; Thu, 8 Feb 96 16:46:13 EST From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU Received: by m1-142-1.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA09962; Thu, 8 Feb 96 16:46:35 -0500 Message-Id: <9602082146.AA09962@m1-142-1.MIT.EDU> To: seta@MIT.EDU, vsg-action@MIT.EDU Subject: networking with other college activists 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 ------- Forwarded Message 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 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 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 - --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 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 " 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 ------- End of Forwarded Message