From: borden@netcom.com (David Borden)

  The following announcement comes to you courtesy of the Drug Reform
  Coordination Network (DRCNet).  For more info, email "drcnet@netcom.com",
  or contact: DRCNet, P.O. Box 381813, Cambridge, MA 02238-1813, phone:
  (617) 648-2655, fax (temporary): (617) 646-0657.

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(Information on MTV drug policy documentary included below -- please read).

Many of our subscribers have contacted us recently, wondering if DRCNet was
still in business!  We are; the recent dearth of bulletins has resulted from
a combination of hectic schedules and a political situation that was
relatively static -- until about a week ago, when it once again exploded.
Several important notices will be sent out to you very shortly (or are
included together with this one if you get notices by post.)

Issue #2 of the The Activist Guide should be printed tomorrow and will be
distributed in hardcopy and electronically to our subscribers.  We apologize
for being behind schedule in newsletter production -- but wish to assure our
hardcopy subscribers that you will receive a full 12 issues of The Activist
Guide, even if that takes more than a year.

E-mail subscribers:  some of you have taken the initiative to repost DRCNet
announcements on electronic forums, bulletin boards, perhaps even printed
them out and made photocopies.  This is greatly appreciated.  I ask that
those of you who are redistributing DRCNet announcement please tell me as
soon as possible, so that I can send you the special posting format (the one
used on the UseNet -- includes DRCNet background and contact information).
Also, the DRCTalk strategy forum is open to all who are interested: to
subscribe send e-mail to "listserv@netcom.com" with the line "subscribe
drctalk-l" in the body of the message.

Many e-mail subscribers have been generous and have purchased newsletter
subscriptions or made donations, or encouraged friends of theirs to
subscribe.  You are helping DRCNet pay its bills and do promotion, and we
are grateful.

Updated information for new subscribers: $25 for full membership, $18 for
newsletter only, $10 for rapid response team only.  Electronic versions will
continue to be distributed at no charge.  The decision to raise subscription
rates was the result of a more realistic assessment of costs, particularly
promotional costs.  Existing subscriptions at old rates will of course be
happily honored.

One hot news item that didn't make it into the newsletter:  MTV is airing a
one hour special on drugs, including many aspects of the Drug War and the
reform movement.  STRAIGHT DOPE: An MTV News Special Report on Drugs, will
air on Tuesday, August 23 at 10 pm EDT (Premiere), Saturday, Aug. 27 at 1
pm, 5 pm and 8 pm EDT, and Sunday August 28 at 2 pm and 7 pm EDT.  The Drug
Policy Foundation has asked us to help get the word around about it.  This
is a good opportunity to educate some people, so please tell anyone whom you
think might be interested.

Two bulletins related to the Crime Bill are on the way (or enclosed).  These
are extremely urgent, so we hope that DRCNet members will act quickly on
them and if possible redistribute them.  Thank you all for your
participation; together we can bring about change.


  - David Borden

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DRCNet is a non-profit entity dedicated to getting the word out to activists
on what you can do to work for reform of the nations drug laws and other
related laws and policies.  DRCNet solicits information from national and
state level activist groups on how people can help them work for reform, and
makes frequent announcements by e-mail, fax, mail and phone to its "rapid-
response team".  DRCNet also publishes "The Activist Guide", a monthly
"what you can do" drug policy reform journal.  Full membership in the
Drug Reform Coordination Network is $25, and includes The Activist Guide
and membership in the rapid-response team.  Newsletter alone is $18 for 12
issues, and rapid-response team alone is $10.  (All material is available
by e-mail for free.)  For more information on DRCNet's publications and
educational outreach projects, contact:

DRCNet, P.O. Box 381813, Cambridge, MA 02238-1813
(617) 648-2655 / (617) 646-0657 (temporary fax#) / email: drcnet@netcom.com

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