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- From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
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- Subject: Socially-Responsible Long Distance (was: AT&T Long Distance Boycott)
- Date: 9 Sep 92 12:34:30
- Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line
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- In-reply-to: ckd@eff.org's message of 2 Sep 92 14:53:27 GMT
-
- > There's always Sprint; heck, they've even heard of data
- > networking . . .
-
- =o= You can get a user interface to Sprint that's especially
- socially responsible: Working Assets Long Distance. They
- have nice features like:
-
- o Donating profits to socially reponsible nonprofit
- groups.
-
- o Bills come in on 100% post-consumer recycled
- unbleached paper.
-
- o They help you write letters to various people in power.
- For a small fee they'll send telexes for you. Or, one
- day a month, you can call them for free.
-
- I've found them cheaper than AT&T for my purposes (basically,
- I call friends all over the United States on a regular basis).
-
- =o= I think Working Assets is a profit-making venture, though
- my interest is their assistance of non-profit groups. In any
- case, I'm not associated with Working Assets (except as a
- satisfied customer), this isn't an ad, I'm not paid to say
- this, etc.
-
- =o= You can switch to Working Assets Long Distance by calling
- them at 1-800/CITIXEN.
- <_Jym_>
-
- P.S.: I've had prior reasons for dumping AT&T. Basically I
- switched over from them when they withdrew charitable support
- to Planned Parenthood because of fundamentalist criticism over
- the abortion issue.
-