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Subject: 20/20 Vision Brochure
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/** headlines: 7.0 **/
** Topic: 20/20 Vision Information & Appl'n **
** Written  2:28 pm  Dec 17, 1992 by newsdesk in cdp:headlines **
/* Written 12:12 am  Jun 14, 1992 by jillaine in igc:twenty20.legis */
"ELECTRONIC" BROCHURE FOR 20/20 VISION

[NASA photo of globe]

It took billions of years to create.
Will you spend 20 minutes a month to help save it?

20/20 Vision has cut global issues down to size so you can do something
about them.

Have more good intentions than free time?  Every month 20/20 Vision
finds you the best 20 minute action you can take at home to cut military
spending and meet environmental and human needs.  20/20 Vision sends you
an action recommendation on a postcard with all the information you need
to write a brief letter or leave a phone message for policymakers facing
a critical decision.  And every six months, 20/20 Vision will send you a
report on the results of the actions you take.

Guaranteed:
-- no meetings.
-- no mountains of mail.
-- Our actions will take no more than 20 minutes a month.
-- We won't call you during supper.

20/20 Vision will turn the time you are willing to spend into time well
spent.

20/20 Vision contacts policy analysts in over a dozen national and local
organizations* to find you the best actions to take.  Each month you'll
receive action recommendations tailored just for you and your neighbors-
- recommendations that take into account who your elected officials are
and where they stand on the issues.

*20/20 Vision is endorsed and advised by: Greenpeace Action, SANE/FREEZE
Campaign for Global Security, Union of Concerned Scientists, Center for
Defense Information, Friends of the Earth, Council for a Livable World,
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Peace Links, Center for Budge and
Policy Priorities - Defense Budget Project, Friends Committee on
National Legislation, Interstate Freeze Lobbying Network, Jobs with
Peace Campaign, Peace Development Fund, Professionals' Coalition for
Nuclear Arms Control, Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament, Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom, World Federalist
Association.

20/20 Vision proves you can make a difference.

Our actions are so focused that you'll send the right message to the
right person just when it counts.  And your message will be heard.
That's because you'll be communicating along with thousands of other
20/20 Vision subscribers.  Policy-makers pay attention.  They change
their minds and they change their votes.

What 20/20 subscribers accomplish in 20 minutes a month.

-- In Oregon, Connecticut and Maine, 20/20 Vision subscribers got their
legislators to oppose the Stealth Bomber.

-- In Massachusetts, four hundred 20/20 subscribers writing to
legislators helped cut $80 million in military spending.

-- Nationwide, 20/20 subscribers successfully lobbied for taking money
from the MX missile and using it for cleaning up toxic wastes created by
the military in local communities.

Each month, 20/20 Vision identifies just one subject that needs your
attention most.  For example:  The Military and the Environment:  End
the Double Standard.

You get enough information to take effective action, but not so much
that you're overwhelmed.  For example:  Background:  The US Military is
our nation's #1 polluter.  Yet it is not required to comply with federal
and state environmental, health and safety regulations.  Under state and
federal environmental laws, businesses and local governments must clean
up their hazardous wastes and are penalized for mismanaging such wastes.
Military facilities should be subject to the same standards.  Senator
George Mitchell (D-ME) has introduced a bill (S1140) that would end the
double standard of exempting military facilities from environmental
laws.  Passage of S1140 would help protect communities from pollution
caused by local military facilities.

You find out whom to contact, when to contact them, and what to say to
make the most of your 20 minutes a month.  Example ACTION:  Call or
write Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA), chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee which helps set Pentagon priorities.  Ask him to end the
double standard and support S1140, forcing the military to comply with
all environmental laws.  Senator Sam Nunn, The US Senate, Washington, DC
20510; [phone].

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YES!  I WILL spend 20 minutes a month to help save the earth!

[ ] Here is $20 (or what I can afford ______) for my one-year
subscription to 20/20 Vision.

[ ] I like this idea. Here's an extra gift to help 20/20 grow.
     [ ] $25   [ ] $35   [ ] $50   [ ] $100  [ ] other $_____

Name:________________________________
Address:_____________________________
City, State, Zip: ___________________
Phone: ______________________________

Where did you first hear about 20/20 Vision?
_____________________________________

Please complete and send to:

20/20 Vision
30 Cottage Street
Amherst, MA  01002
[phone]

(Subscriptions and gifts for the lobbying work of 20/20 Vision are not
tax deductible.)
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