I never add my name to an electronic petition because it is my opinion it is
useless. I have heard that they are ignored and only original written
communication with a signature is effective. I have also heard that form
postcards are ignored in preference for an original letter (environmental
and human rights organizations use these). Anyone could fill in any name on
an electronic petition. The ones I have seen have a name and
city/state/country. There are many causes dear to my heart but I would
never use an electronic petition to voice my opinion. Comments, please?
Anne Angelou
Records Analyst
-----Original Message-----
From: Vicki Walch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 6:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: NHPRC -- sign the electronic petition to restore funding
Posted on behalf of the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force:
The President's budget recommendations for Fiscal Year 2006 slash or
eliminate more than 150 federal programs. In that budget, the National
Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has been targeted to
receive NO funding. This includes no funds for the grants program and no
funds for staffing to support the NHPRC programs. It effectively eliminates
NHPRC.
The Council of State Historical Records Coordinators, the Society of
American Archivists, and the National Association for Government Archivists
and Records Administrators are working collaboratively to address this
threat to NHPRC and NARA. Archivists across the U.S. are rallying to save
NHPRC while also ensuring that NARA has sufficient funding to sustain its
current programs and continue to advance in areas that benefit all archival
repositories and every citizen of the United States
As part of our efforts to continue to express to Congress interest in
restoration of funding for NHPRC, we have created an online petition. Please
consider signing this petition, and please forward it to any listservs,
email groups, or organizations and people you feel would be interested in
helping with this effort. It is a quick and easy way for many people to
assist. The petition will be forwarded to the House Appropriations
Committee and Subcommittee on Treasury, Transportation, HUD and the
Judiciary in late May. The petition can be access at:
www.savearchives.org
and click on the "petition" button.
If you have not received a previous action alert on this issue, we encourage
you to also write a letter to your members of Congress. For information on
writing letters of support, see any of the following websites:
www.savearchives.org
www.coshrc.org
www.archivists.org
Thanks for your efforts to save this important program for archives!
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Members of the NHPRC Joint Advocacy Task Force
Council of State Historical Records Coordinators:
David Carmicheal, Sandra Clark, Kathleen Roe
Society of American Archivists:
Nancy Beaumont, Peter Gottlieb, Rand Jimerson, Joan Krizack, Richard
Pearce-Moses
ARMA International:
Stacey Moye
National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators:
Timothy Slavin
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