Gratis: Substance subscription

[Rich Gibson <rgibson@pipeline.com>]

Dear Friends,

George Schmidt has agreed to make the offer below to members of this 
list. To get the free Substance subscription, you will need to note 
to George that you are on this list. That's just to prevent 
unfriendly spammers from costing Substance a lot of money.

This is a good deal from Substance which deserves support from each 
of us. We need, very much, our own media.

best

r




> At 01:37 AM 7/11/2007, you wrote:
> > July 11, 2007
> >
> > Colleagues and friends:
> >
> > 1. Although many of you already subscribe to the print edition of Substance,
> > some don't. This summer, we are offering friends from different places a
> > complimentary three-month subscription to Substance so that you can 
> > test drive our
> > very important newspaper.
> >
> > As you know, the high stakes juggernaut we are now all facing in No Child
> > Left Behind began in several states in the old Confederacy and in one city
> > (America's most segregated) during the 1990s. Chicago, along with 
> > Texas, Florida,
> > and a handful of other places, has been at the center of the 
> > bourgeois attack on
> > public schools behind the screen of "standards and accountability" 
> > since 1995.
> >
> > And only Substance has been covering that attack critically since that date.
> > Yes. Only Substance. We exposed the union busting privatization 
> > attacks of the
> > 1990s and with our friends at PURE and a handful of other places (many now
> > defunct, having been strangled by corporate "philanthropy") exposed 
> > the abuses
> > of high-stakes testing in Chicago while the corporately funded publications
> > (e.g., Chicago Catalyst) were twisting and turning in every 
> > direction promoting
> > "school reform."
> >
> > I could go on.
> >
> > This summer, we are upgrading our website and preparing for our 33rd year of
> > continuous publication.
> >
> > Let us know if you want to take a look at Substance in print, the only
> > independent and critical voice against corporate (and test-based) 
> > "school reform" in
> > Chicago since the whole thing began here in 1995.
> >
> > If you want to take advantage of this offer, please e-mail a response with:
> >
> > Name
> > Address
> > City, State, ZIP
> > Phone
> > e-mail
> > Institution at which you work (or are retired from)
> >
> > If you already subscribe to Substance, thanks again.
> >
> > George N. Schmidt
> > Editor, Substance
> > www.substancenews.com<BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR>
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