From seppley@alumni.caltech.edu Fri Jul 28 14:25:30 1995 Comments: Authenticated sender is Subject: (Fwd) CANET: e-mail lists for campus activists Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 22:19:58 -0700 From: Nathan Newman Subject: CANET: e-mail lists for campus activists (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list LEFTNEWS ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 95 21:28:25 EDT From: Rich Cowan To: 187-l@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU Subject: CANET: e-mail lists for campus activists Dear Friend, revised: 7/21/95 We are writing because the UCP's Center for Campus Organizing is setting up some mailing lists to promote communication between campus activists. This project is callet CANet -- short for the Campus Activists' Network. The Center for Campus Organizing is a national clearinghouse based in Cambridge, MA, USA, originally established in 1991 as the University Conversion Project (UCP). CCO promotes progressive activism and investigative journalism on college campuses. We invite other campus groups working for social justice to participate in this project. We have not yet added you to any mailing lists. We are asking you to try one or more lists which address the topics listed below. Since the lists are new and will be moderated (actually the term we are using is "facilitated"), your mailbox will not be deluged. The Campus Activists' NETwork is currently divided into eleven areas, each of which may be subscribed to individually. Starred (*) lists are high-volume discussions with over 400 subscribers at this time: 1. CAN-EC -- Economic Conversion. For campus activists who want to cut the military budget and put the money where it's needed. 2. CAN-RW -- Right Wing Alert. A discussion about the campus response to Right-wing trends in the US and on Campus.* 3. CAN-SR -- Social Responsibility in the Curriculum. For those working to get peace studies, ethics in science, multicultural requirements, or environmental studies in the curriculum. 4. CAN-AR -- Anti-Racism. For campus activists involved in anti-racism activities. Facilitator(s) sought. 5. CAN-YFN -- Young Feminist Network. For people who are involved in feminist campus organizations or who want to start one. 6. CAN-ER -- Educational Rights. For people who are organizing against tuition increases and efforts to cut funding for higher education.* 7. CAN-FAC -- Faculty Activist Network. Sponsored by CCO and Teachers For a Democratic Culture; working on "Is Truth for Sale?" project. 8. CAN-ALERT -- Action Alerts of the Center for Campus Organizing. Not a discussion list; subscribe for infrequent, "emergency" alerts. The last four lists are restricted subscription: 9. CAN-AJ -- Campus Alternative Journalism. Restricted to people who are creating alternative campus media. 10. CAN-BC -- Boston Center. Discussion about setting up a new Boston Center for Campus Activism. Restricted to Boston area activists. 11. NETWORK -- For campus contacts working on a networking project that has been initated to followup the March 1995 National Day of Campus Action Against the Contract With America. To subscribe, please register your name, address, phone number, and name of your campus group with the Center for Campus Organizing (contact kowan@ai.mit.edu). 12. SCO -- For State coordinators in the network project. With few exceptions, it is not possible to send mail to any of these lists unless you subscribe first. --How to subscribe and unsubscribe one of these lists------------------- You can subscribe yourself to any of these lists by sending an email message with a subject of "CANET" whose body consists of the following: SUB to the electronic mail address: CANET@PENCIL.CS.MISSOURI.EDU Since the public lists CAN-AR, CAN-EC, CAN-SR, CAN-RW, and CAN-ER are linked to CAN-ALL, subscribing to one of these five lists while you are subscribed to CAN-ALL will result in duplicate messages. CANCELING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION You can unsubscribe yourself to any of these lists by sending an email message with a subject of "CANET" whose body consists of the following: UNSUB to the electronic mail address: CANET@PENCIL.CS.MISSOURI.EDU --Receiving your mail in "digest" form----------------------------------- If you'd rather receive a few "bundled" mail messages than lots of little ones, try the putting "set mail digest" in a request, i.e. SUBSCRIBE CAN-SR Moon Zappa SET CAN-SR mail digest would subscribe Moon Zappa to the Social Responsibility list, and then change her mail delivery mode to "digest" which means that messages will be accumulated and sent to her in "bundles." To turn bundling off, send a message to canet@pencil.cs.missouri.edu containing the line: SET CAN-SR mail ack --Future CANet lists; other campus lists; CANET advisors -------------- We are currently forming an advisory board to this project which will make decisions on adding lists to the system. If you are interested on serving on the advisory board, please send us email describing your activist qualifications at facil@pencil.cs.missouri.edu . Our current policy for expanding this system is not to add lists in areas where effective campus activist focused lists already exist. Here is information on two such lists, SEACNET and QUEERCAMPUS: Name of List Send "Subscribe " message to: seac+announce listserv@ecosys.drdr.virginia.edu (serves campus environmental groups) queercampus MAJORDOMO@vector.casti.com (serves l/g/b/o campus communities) --For More Information----------------------------------------------- When you subscribe, you will receive additional instructions about sending mail, guidelines for discussions, etc. If you want that information now, send an email message to CANET-INFO@PENCIL.CS.MISSOURI.EDU. Finally, since computers can only do a small part of what is necessary to promote activism on campus, we want to let you know how to contact our office, get copies of back issues of our newsletter (with graphics and charts), and get human advice on your campus organizing. Please call Jeremy, Nicole, or Rich from 11am-7pm e.s.t., at: UCP Center for Campus Organizing, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142, 617-354-9363 e-mail: ucp@igc.apc.org