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Raise
Your
Voice!
Students
with
Drug
Convictions
Losing
Financial
Aid
July
1st
4/21/00
Tens, perhaps hundreds of
thousands of students will lose all federal financial aid under a provision
of the Higher Education Act (HEA) passed in 1998, going into effect July
1. Several things are needed to help get this destructive law repealed:
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Visit http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com
to send a letter to Congress supporting H.R. 1053, a bill to repeal the
HEA drug provision. Tell your friends and other like-minded people
to visit this web site. Follow up your e-mail and faxes with phone
calls; our system will provide you with the phone numbers to reach your
US Representative and your two US Senators.
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Educators are needed to endorse
our sign-on letter to Congress. If you teach or are otherwise involved
in education, or are in a position to talk to educators, please write to
us at [email protected] to
request a copy of our educators letter and accompanying activist packet
-- available by US mail or by e-mail.
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Please contact us if you are
involved with organizations that have mainstream credibility that might
endorse a similar organizational sign-on letter -- organizations endorsing
already include the NAACP, American Public Health Association, ACLU, United
States Student Association, NOW, and a range of social, religious and other
groups.
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We urgently need to hear from
students who have been affected by this law, especially students who are
willing to go public.
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We need students at more campuses
to take the reform resolution to their student governments. Campuses
recently endorsing it include University of Michigan, Yale University,
University of Maryland, University of Kansas, the Association of Big Ten
Schools, Douglass College at Rutgers University and many more. Visit
http://www.u-net.org
for information on the student campaign and how to get involved.
(The site being updated this coming week, but is still useful even now.)
Visit http://www.RaiseYourVoice.com
and make your voice heard!
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Issue #134, 4/21/00
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