[ACLU-NM] Call Congress now. House vote today on public broadcasting cuts.

[Kimberly Lavender]

free press
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The House is scheduled to vote today on drastic funding cuts for PBS,
NPR and other public media. The cuts are part of the partisan campaign
to both defang and defund public broadcasting.

Your calls and letters to Congress are making a difference. We need your
help now to support two amendments that would put the money back IN
public broadcasting while taking the politics OUT of the funding
process.

Call your representative now to save public broadcasting.
<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=21580199&url_num=2&u
rl=http://www.freepress.net/act/savepbs> 

Kenneth Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
is engaged in a deliberate campaign to bully programmers to produce
shows that echo the White House line. His cronies in Congress are
slashing funding for the news, children's and cultural programming
Americans trust.

Reps. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) and Diane Watson (D-Calif.) have
introduced an amendment that would block Tomlinson from meddling in
noncommercial programming. And Reps. David Obey (D-Wis.), Nita Lowey
(D-N.Y.) and James Leach (R-Iowa) have offered an amendment that would
restore $100 million in funding stripped out by the Appropriations
Committee.

Call now and urge your representative to support both amendments.
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rl=http://www.freepress.net/act/savepbs> 

In the past two weeks, millions of Americans have spoken out against
efforts to gag and starve public broadcasting. You can help us further
by forwarding this e-mail and telling five friends to join the campaign.

Together, we can put the public back in public broadcasting and wrest
control of our media from the hands of Washington politicians and
partisans.

Onward,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
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P.S. To learn more about the Free Press campaign to save public
broadcasting, visit www.freepress.net/publicbroadcasting. 
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