Message
to
our
Readers
1/9/00
Dear DRCNet supporter: If you are reading this, then your and DRCNet's respective Internet service providers have successfully weathered the Y2K transition. We hope that everyone had a healthy, safe and restful holiday and a happy start to the new year. As we stand on the precipice of the 21st century (yes, we know, technically it doesn't begin until '01), much is changing on the drug war front, both in the United States and around the world. Here at DRCNet, we are committed to keeping you up to date on the status of the war and the growing efforts in the name of peace and sanity. We are committed, too, to providing you with situational and ongoing opportunities to be part of the solution. Over the coming months, DRCNet will continue in our efforts to overturn the drug provision of the Higher Education Act of 1998, scheduled to go into effect on July 1. (See http://www.raiseyourvoice.com for more info.) We will continue to provide guidance and support to Students for Sensible Drug Policy. We will be launching a web site and Internet campaign to bring attention to the murderous comments of Judge Judy ("give 'em dirty needles and let them die") Sheindlin and to pressure her sponsors to disassociate themselves from her show. (An action alert will appear in your mailbox next week.) We will soon have web pages up for several states across the country, and adding more fast, allowing reform supporters to e-mail or fax their state legislators on the hot drug policy reform issues in their own states. We are also working to build The Week Online into the premier news source on issues of drug policy and reform. Toward this end, we are adding reporters to cover specific issues and regions, and will soon complete a redesign of our online version. Our syndicated radio show, DRCNN, will be re-launched in the spring, and we hope to have it aired on stations across the country. We also hope to add more audio and video components to our site and to our coverage of the issues at hand. This, of course, is just a partial list of the work, projects and campaigns that the Drug Reform Coordination Network has planned for the coming year. DRCNet's primary goal this year will be to build our subscriber base to a level of major political and social impact. For this, we need your help. Use our materials, forward the alerts to friends, family and colleagues. Talk about the issues with others and urge them to become part of the solution to the problems of criminal markets, corruption, skyrocketing prison populations and costs, easy access for children to dangerous substances, the spread of HIV and other blood-borne pathogens and the diminution of our Constitutional rights. Lastly, if you can, consider supporting this work by contributing to DRCNet (non-deductible) or to the DRCNet Foundation (deductible). Our on-line focus allows us to do a lot of good on a very small budget, but it does cost money to keep our doors open and our small staff fed and clothed. You can donate by credit card through our registration form at http://www.drcnet.org/drcreg.html or call us at (202) 293-8340 -- or just send a check to: DRCNet, 2000 P St., NW, Suite 210, Washington, DC 20036. Whether or not you can donate at this time, we thank you for your interest and participation in this important and growing movement. Together, we will usher in a century of peace and freedom. Happy New Year.
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