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Article #904Socially-Responsible Long Distance (was: AT&T Long Distance Boycott)
From: Jym Dyer
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 12:34
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 12:34
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> 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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!agate!jym From: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach Subject: Socially-Responsible Long Distance (was: AT&T Long Distance Boycott) Date: 9 Sep 92 12:34:30 Organization: The Naughty Peahen Party Line Lines: 34 Distribution: na Message-ID: <JYM.92Sep9123430@remarque.berkeley.edu> References: <1992Sep1.130800.14354@news.acns.nwu.edu> <MJB.92Sep1163324@oak7.doc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Sep2.134252.4475@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <CKD.92Sep2105324@loiosh.eff.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: ckd@eff.org's message of 2 Sep 92 14:53:27 GMT