[Dewey-Darrow] Fwd: AT$T boxes on parkway- meeting reminder

[Adam Finlayson]

Friends--

Please see this message from our neighbor, Dickelle Fonda, regarding  
a meeting to discuss the AT&T VRADs and how we can work with state  
and local officials to get neighborhood input before decisions are  
made on our behalf.  The more people that show up the more of a  
message it sends to our legislators that communities should be  
engaged about policies that affect us.

--Adam


From: SugrCreek at aol.com
Date: October 14, 2008 5:47:57 PM CDT
Subject: AT$T boxes on parkway- meeting reminder

REMINDER   THURS AT 7PM TALK TO YOUR LEGISLATORS
Please consider joining us at this meeting-   this is about more than  
ugly boxes- it is about state government , under pressure from  
telecom lobbyists  making decisions in favor of corporate interests  
and profits ; preempting the authority of municipalities and the  
voice of citizens; it is also about a corporation which opposes net  
neutrality, and who conducted wireless surveilance on citizens for  
the current administration- and then was granted retroactive immunity  
by Congress to protect them from civil litigation.

Please join us to discuss this with your state legislators.!!!!!

AT&T Utility Box Blight
Coming to a Neighborhood...
Near You
Compliments of AT&T
and the Illinois Legislature
They are called VRADS (video ready access devices)
and they are appearing on 99 public parkways, alleys
and easements throughout Evanston, the state of
Illinois and 22 states around the country. A franchise bill
allowing this was passed unanimously by our State
legislature; it over rules the power of citizens and their city  
government in
favor of corporate competition and profits.
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Come learn more...and ....
Ask your legislators WHY?
Rep.Julie Hamos
Sen. Jeff Schoenberg
Rep. Elizabeth Coulson
Thursday, Oct. 16 • 7pm
Robert Crown Community Center • Room A-B
1701 Main St • Evanston
For more information go to: http://act.stopthebox.org/


Send this email to anyone who you think may be interested

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to  
recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences"
(Audre Lorde 1934-92)


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