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- From: marty@world.std.com (Marty M HaleEvans)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.big-folks
- Subject: Rump Parliament (somewhat long)
- Keywords: buttons, fat acceptance
- Message-ID: <Bxzr56.81A@world.std.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:36:41 GMT
- Organization: Cicely Public Access UNIX, Cicely, AK
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- Hi, all --
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- Some of you wanted to see the material on Rump Parliament, so I've typed
- it up. It's one more source for us, anyway. (I can send copies of this
- privately, too, if anyone wants me to.)
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- RUMP PARLIAMENT
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- This organization began as a Mensa SIG, and became a private company in
- 1991. It's run by Lee Martindale, who lives in Dallas and describes
- herself as "Fat, 40+, and Fabulous". She is a freelance writer, singer and
- songwriter in addition to running Rump Parliament.
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- Rump Parliament Magazine -- "Dedicated to the many forms of Size Acceptance
- Activism. By and for readers who believe that worth is not inversely
- proportional to waistline."
-
- Send name, address, and $15/yr (6 issues) to:
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- Rump Parliament
- P.O. Box 181716 Allow 4-6 weeks
- Dallas, TX 75218 for delivery
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- Ms. Martindale also sells a number of buttons with slogans about size
- positive activism and fat admirers. They are $1.50 each, plus shipping and
- handling. (<$5.00 -- $3.00, $5.01-$10.00 -- $5.00, >$10.00 -- 25% of order)
- Send check or money order to the same address. Include name, address, cat.
- number, and quantity. Available buttons (with cat. number):
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- B001 Fat, Forty, and Fabulous! B002 Fat, Fifty, and Fabulous!
- B003 Diet Is a Four-Letter Word B004 Dieting Can Be Hazardous to
- B005 A Waist Is a Terrible Thing Your Health
- To Mind B006 FAT is NOT a Four-Letter Word
- B009 Fit B010 Hire People of Size...We Don't
- Active Charge By the Pound
- Totally Female B011 No Body Bigotry
- B012 No Weight Discrimination B013 No Dieting
- B014 Beauty Comes In All Sizes B015 Judge me by my work...not by
- B016 Not All Good Things Come In My Waistline
- Small Packages B017 Yes, I Know I'm FAT...SO???
- B018 Ask Me About Size Acceptance B019 Yes, I Know I Have Such a Pretty
- B020 Thin is "In"...but so is Face...It Goes with my
- High Unemployment Pretty Body
- B023 DeLuxe Edition B025 Built For Comfort, Not For Speed
- B026 No Fat Jokes B027 SIZE ACCEPTANCE ACTIVIST
- B028 Life Is a Feast... B029 Over Whose Weight?
- Why Be On a Diet? B033 Not Just Another Pretty Face
- B031 Deprivation B032 Fit
- Impossible Goals Active
- Eventual Failure Totally Male
- Torture B034 All This and Brains, Too!
- B036 SIZE POSITIVE B037 Hips! Hips! Hooray!
- B039 The only serious weight problem B040 Good Things Come to Those
- I have is society's Of Weight
- problem with serious weight B042 I'm Fat, Not Stupid
- B041 I'm Not Pregnant, I'm Just Fat B047 Fat and Fabulous!
- B048 Life is More Than B051 "Sexy" is an Attitude...
- Height/Weight Charts and I've Got an Attitude!
- B052 Activism = Adrenaline B053 One Passenger, One Plane Ticket
- B007 If I Can't Get There, It's B008 Storm The Barriers to
- NOT Equal Access Equal Access
- B043 Hell On Wheels B049 That which does not kill me
- B021 Confirmed, Devout, & better make DAMNED sure
- Practicing FA I don't get up!
- B022 Closet FA B024 No Bone Bruises
- B030 Rubens was RIGHT! B050 I (heart) FAs!
- B035 Rubens Had GREAT Taste In Women
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- I got this information from a brochure I requested in the mail. I don't
- have any link with this organization -- I don't even get the newsletter
- yet! I just like their attitude, and want to spread the information. Enjoy!
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- Marty
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- "Seems like there ought to be a way we could look each other in the eye
- To see we're all in this together, and put all thoughts of victory aside.
- Seems like there ought to be a way we could turn this fear into trust;
- No matter what you say, there has to be a way --
- Every living thing is counting on us."
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- Marty Hale-Evans M @ * O % 8 U
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