Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 06:45:22 -0800 (PST) From: jessea@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Jessea NR Greenman) Subject: ACTION ALERT: Hoekstra Hearing Scheduled ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! ACTION ALERT! TO: NACYSO Colleagues FROM: Rea Carey, NACYSO Coordinator A hearing (newly) entitled, "Parents, Schools and Values," has now been scheduled for Tuesday, December 5th and Wednesday, December 6th. (The hearing had been twice scheduled and postponed under a different title.) It is being held under the auspices of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (which Hoekstra of Michigan chairs) of the House Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. There will be three panels of speakers over the two-day hearing. Names of speakers have not been released. The hearing is likely to serve at a forum for radical rights attacks on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students as well as the programs that serve them. Please CALL or FAX your House Representative and voice your concerns about the hearing. NOW is the time to educate Members of Congress about the services in your area that are designed to support GLBT young people to lead healthy lives! To be connected to your Member of Congress, call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or see below. Send an instant, automated message to your Representative through the Human Rights Campaign's site on the World Wide Web at http://www.hrcusa.org. Additional Action Alerts will be sent out as new information is released. For up-to-date information on the hearing, please call the Action Line of the National Advocacy Coalition on Youth and Sexual Orientation at 202-736-1719. [The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project adds, from our files, the information below. For more backgroun information, please use your Web browser to go to http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ If you don't have a Web browswer, email us and we'll send you some of the background information sent out by email in the last two months about these hearings. Suffice it to note, for now, that Traditional Values Coalition head Rev. Lou Sheldon is behind them, and he is a professional homophobe.] *****ACTION STEPS***** 1) Contact Rep. Peter Hoekstra's office and insist that his subcommittee CANCEL the hearing on "Parents, Schools and Values." Members of Congress were elected to work on critical problems facing this country, NOT to wage attacks on youth and their families! Hoekstra's office: (202)225-4401. (Majority Chief of Staff: Jay Eagen, 202 225-4527). You can email Congressperson Hoekstra , though you will get an email form response telling you that he will not snail mail respond to anyone outside his district. 2) Call the other subcommittee members and give them the same message! U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. (Minority Chief of Staff: Gail Weiss (202) 225-3725).) Subcommittee: Republicans: Hoekstra (Mich.) Chair; Barrett (NE); Ballenger (NC); Cunningham (CA); McKeon (CA); Castle (DE); Weldon (FL); Goodling(PA). Democrats: Sawyer (OH) Chair; Martinez (CA); Reed (RI); Roemer (IN); Scott (VA); Green (TX). 3) Call your own Representatives and express your concerns about the hearing. U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121. COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES (202) 225-4527 Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Majority: 9 / Minority: 7 LHOB = Longworth House Office Building RHOB = Rayburn House Office Building CHOB = Cannon House Office Building Member State/District House Office Room Phone ====================================================================== Peter Hoekstra, Chairman R -MI, 1122 LHOB, (202)225-4401 TELLHOEK@HR.HOUSE.GOV Bill Barrett , R-NE, 1213 LHOB, (202)225- 6435 Cass Ballenger, R-NC, 2238 RHOB, (202)225- 2576 CASSMAIL@HR.HOUSE.GOV Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-CA, 227 CHOB, (202)225- 5452 Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, R-CA, 307 CHOB,(202)225- 1956 TELLBUCK@HR.HOUSE.GOV Michael N. Castle, R-DE, 1207 LHOB, (202)225- 4165 Dave Weldon, R-FL, 216 CHOB, (202)225-3671 FLA15@HR.HOUSE.GOV William F. Goodling, R -PA, 2263 RHOB, (202)225-5836] *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ YOU MAY RE-POST. Jessea Greenman The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project*; ph/fax: 510-601-8883, 586 62nd St. Oakland, CA 94609-1245 Gopher to "gopher.outright.com" Web sites: http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/ http://www1.usa1.com/~furball/glb/person.html/ http://www.pride.net/pridenet/person The P.E.R.S.O.N. Project is *always* looking for volunteer organizers. Please cc us (for our files) on correspondence you send or receive re our action alerts. *Public Education Regarding Sexual Orientation Nationally.