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From: jadyer <>
Subject: [Old Bones CEMETERY-L] National effort to protect cemeteries
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:57:06 -0500


It looks as if we may have some energetic newcomers on the list--welcome.

Perhaps, it's time to review a project started right here on the Cemetery-L
to bring national pressure on our law makers concerning cemeteries all over
our country.

There is a petition drive in progress NOW. It is designed to request our
Nation's lawmakers to create a National Cemetery Protection Act which will
require each state to enforce the law concerning cemetery destruction.

We need a vast number of signatures to make this project a success. The
present number of signatures is 13,497. 100x's that number is needed to
make a serious impression on Washington. Come the end of November we will
have to re-evaluate our progress as to keeping the petition open.
Everywhere you think of as an appropriate place or group to contact for the
movement to go to Washington, think of as appropriate places to place a
petition or the URL for the on line petition. The word must be passed
around everywhere.

If all the energy called for to march on Washington were put into the
petition drive instead, we could succeed without all the individual finances
being expended. It costs a lot of money and time to drive or fly to Wash.
DC from the middle or western parts of the US. The money saved could be
donated for a legal/political fund to support the petition. After the Act is
written, it still will have to be voted on and passed. (Developers have a
lot of power in Wash. DC.)

There are two options for signatures. One is the on-line petition and the
other is the printable one which can be filled with signature and
snail-mailed to the address on the petition. All you have to do is click on
the URLs below and investigate each option.

Sign the National Cemetery Protection Act Petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/sg0001/petition.html
Pass along the information about the petition

Don't forget to take a copy of the petition for a National Cemetery
Protection Act with you to the meeting, party or reunion.
Get it signed and send it in.
http://www.savinggraves.com/petition/index.htm

These www addresses can be linked to any respectable web page.

JADyer



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