AOL to block nonprofit email - Please sign MoveOn's petition NOW. Pass it on!

[Guest guest]

Civic and political organizing online is under attack by America Online. We need

to fight back quickly.

 

MoveOn has prepared an online petition to fight this move. It's at:

 

http://civic.moveon.org/AOLemail/

 

The issue: Online political groups, issue groups, charities, and other

non-profits who have large memberships will essentially be priced out of the

Internet.

 

How? AOL just announced plans to charge groups with large membership lists every

time they send an email, charging what the New York Times calls the " electronic

equivalent of a postage stamp " for EACH RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS every time an email

is sent.

 

The only way for groups to be sure members receive their emails would be to pay.

If they don't pay, your emails could go into a black hole - or be " stripped of

images and Web links. " If AOL succeeds, other companies will follow - so we need

to fight back today.

 

Silence is assent. Time is short. The radical corporate right is on the march.

Whether or not you're an AOL user, please sign the petition NOW.

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

" When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have

peace. "

Jimi Hendrix

 

http://www.lightmovie.com/thelight/TheLight.html