From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: ANNOUNCING: "AFSC" WEEKLY AUTO-POST
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:48:35 GMT

In addition to the daily "Today's Quote..." and the periodic
automatic-post "public service announcements (about Paper Tiger
Videos, PeaceNet/EcoNet, Credit Unions, Socially-conscientious
investing etc)...

...and joining our "Friday Night Videos", the Tuesday's "Alternative
Radio Presents", each *Wednesday* starting next week (barring bugs in
the routines) we will periodically auto-post:

		"THE AFSC RESOURCE LIBRARY"

Taken from their Peace Education Resource Catalog (AFSC stands for
American Friends Service Committee -- as in Unitarian Universalist
Service Committee, etc. Readers of misc.activism.progressive (MAP) may
already be familiar with FCNL or the Friends Committee on National
Legislation).

Note that we realized, as with Alternative Radio, that the AFSC
catalog we have online is not up-to-the-minute; in fact not up to
1992. However, what we have is a good deal of if not the great
majority of the most current catalog (ie, the current catalogs minus
latest releases), which are still very timely and valuable, and
pending these organizations getting online themselves or otherwise
providing us with updates, we simply to not the the human-power to
needed to constantly update these [In fact, you don't want to know how
long the AFSC file has sat in my directory (albeit available via the
Automatic Archiver to anyone) before I finally braved the emacs
batch-mode programming to set it up as an auto-post --HB].

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In the future, we would like to add a "Book Corner" auto-post, or,
since the main publisher of progressive books seems to be South End
Press, to put the South End Press catalog online for weekly auto-posts
(by section, say) to MAP. So far South End has not reacted with
bubbling enthusiasm to our friends at NLNS's suggestion that they put
the catalog online but maybe they can be enticed into providing us
with disks, eventually -- far preferable to the still quite
considerable efforts required to scan-in, proof-read, edit, etc, from
scratch.

If you can encourage South End (or Z magazine) to come online, provide
us with disks, etc, please do. In fact the same goes for the Nation
(now *occasionally* using their PeaceNet accounts nation@igc.org), In
These Times, and others -- including local student/community
publications. We *can* help find them technical support if necessary
(please contact us at pach@pencil.cs.missouri.edu if you have
"contacts" or ideas).

MAP has some 15,000 readers you might want to mention, other groups
(alt.activism, talk.environment, etc) adding well over 100,000, and
the UseNet at some 2 million.

I have also become convinced that a crucial goal for us online
activists is to bring Nation/In These Times (any other weeklies of
note?) fully online to counter-balance the disturbingly rapid spread
of right-wing (pseudo-balanced by "mainstream") publications like
_National Review_ and _Insight_ which are now being disseminated on
the FreeNet (with some 30,000+ readers) together with e.g. Washington
Post and *no* left/progressive choices, and by ACC, the American
Cybercasting Corporation, to some UseNet locations (E.g. usa-today.*
newsgroups at U. of Chicago).

Please contact us at pach@pencil.cs.missouri.edu if you are interested
in helping of have suggestions.

End of announcement-within-announcement; the "header" from the AFSC
auto-posts follows.

Harel Barzilai
Founder, Activists Mailing List (AML, Spring '90)
Co-founder, Co-moderator, ACTIV-L (Fall '90)
Co-founder, Co-moderator, misc.activism.progressive (MAP, '91) -- UseNet
Facilitator, justice.econ, zmagazine, chomsky.views -- PeaceNet (IGC)
Temp Facilitator, labor.grad.org -- LaborNet (IGC)


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