<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Tian, Jie</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jtian@exchange.fullerton.edu">jtian@exchange.fullerton.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:51 PM<br>Subject: FW: Petition for Secretary of the Arts<br>To: "<a href="mailto:chinginchen@gmail.com">chinginchen@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:chinginchen@gmail.com">chinginchen@gmail.com</a>><br>
<br><br>
<div vlink="purple" link="blue" lang="EN-US">
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Tahoma">Hi Ching-In,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Have you seen this? Important. Please share.
</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma"></font> </div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Thank you!</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Jie</font></div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">
<hr>
<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
<hr size="2" width="100%" align="center">
</span></font></div>
<div>
<div>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0in;" valign="top">
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3" face="inherit"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: inherit;">Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Please take a moment to sign this petition!! <br>
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html</a><br>
<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Secretary of the Arts </span></b><br>
<br>
To be seen and heard, we must be at the table. Here's our chance...<br>
Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for Centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this,
and the country needs the arts -- now more than ever. <br>
<br>
Please take a moment to sign this important petition, and pass it on to your friends and colleagues. It only takes a moment, and if we in the arts community don't do it, then who will?<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html" target="_blank">http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html</a><br></span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
</div>
</div>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~~~~~<br>Ching-In Chen<br>THE HEART'S TRAFFIC (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press forthcoming 2009)<br><a href="http://www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp">www.redhen.org/arktoi.asp</a><br><a href="http://www.chinginchen.com">www.chinginchen.com</a><br>