----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Crawford" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 9:25 PM
Subject: Corrected address in ACB DVS alert.


> Correction: ACB was given the FCC address in error and please substitute
> our previous posting with this.
>
>                          ACB Action Alert!
>
> Descriptive video under attack.
>
> February 25, 2002
>
>       ACB learned this morning that the National Association of
> Broadcasters, the National Cable Telecommunications Association
> and the Motion Picture Association of America have filed a
> petition late last Friday at the FCC to stay the implementation
> of the video description rule until after the court appeal is
> decided.  This request is being made just one month before
> compliance is required from the industry, well into the period
> the industry was given as an extension to do the right thing, and
> at the eleventh hour just before blind and visually impaired
> people all over this nation have waited since the issuance of the
> order to finally have access to television programming.  ACB and
> our friends are outraged at this offensive action on the part of
> an industry that argues itself to be so-called socially
> responsible.
>
>       ACB asks all our members and friends to send electronic mail
> to [log in to unmask] with the subject line of "I support video
> description" and we will print the letter and pass it along to
> the Federal Communications Commission to let them know we support
> them in not retreating from their order and we need video
> description to be implemented on schedule in April.
>
>       It is urgent that everyone write since the industry has the
> money but we have the rights to access.  Please write to the
> Secretary of the FCC given below, give your name and address, why
> you support the requirement that industry start broadcasting DVS
> on schedule and reference MM docket number 99-339.  Feel free to
> let the FCC know what you think about the movie, cable, and
> television industry efforts to deny us our ability to access
> information available to everyone else who can see the
> television.
>
>       We can and will win this battle, but we need everyone to
> send in the email to us.  Those who wish to send letters can do
> so to the address below and we ask that you send a copy to me
> (Charles Crawford) at the National Office so we can meet our
> legal requirement to make sure the other side gets notice that
> people object to their request.  After all, even though the
> industry has the right to receive copies objecting to their
> request, maybe they ought to have to read all the mail we are
> forced to generate in order to give them a real sense that they
> are trying to deny real people with something we have fought hard
> to get.
>
>       Remember to send your email to [log in to unmask] with the subject
> line of "I support video description" and to address it to the
> Secretary of the FCC with your name and address, your objection
> to the request of the movie, cable, and broadcast industry to
> their asking to get off the hook, and be sure to reference MM
> docket number 99-339.  If you write a regular letter, then send
> it to the address below with the information I just mentioned and
> send a copy to me at the National Office.
>
> Charles Crawford, Executive Director
> American Council of the Blind
> 1155 15th Street, NW, Suite 1004
> Washington, DC 20005
>
>       Thanks and let's show the industry they can't just write off
> blind folks like we don't have the same rights as anyone else.
>
> Here is the name and address of the FCC Secretary.
>
>        Mr. William Caton, Secretary
>          Federal Communications Commission
>          445 12th St SW
>          Washington, DC 20554.
>
> Reference MM Docket no. 99-339.
>
>          Because copies of each letter must also be sent to the
> opposition, we suggest that folks address your letters to the FCC
> Secretary but be sure to send me a copy of the original either by
> email or in regular letters and there is nothing more that I
> would like then to bury them in an avalanche of support for video
> description!
>
>


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