Sunday, June 26, 1994 (No. 8) ============================================================================= *** Part I & II. General Information *** ============================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents # of Lines ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Legal Students/Scholars in U.S.A., Please Join Our Committee .......... 16 2. We Need More Participation on the Net ................................. 42 3. The Difficulties the CBS Incident Fighters Meet and Some Suggestions .. 68 ============================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Legal Students/Scholars in U.S.A., Please Join Our Committee .......... 16 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Netters, since the set up of fcbs-l network, much has been done and we need to move further into the legal aspect of the CBS Incident Committee. As many of our committee members are either not in the legal fields, or not in the U.S.A, so we need your help to contribute more in legal field. If you are a legal student/scholar and are in U.S.A., please join our committee. CBS Incident Committee is a neutral Task Force consists of CSS from all sections of the community. Our 60 core members are grouped into more than a dozen subcommittees working in different aspects, such as News-Release, Protesting Letters, Survey, Research, etc. Barely four weeks have passed since we started from a mere computer account. We not only got the attention of Chinese media, but also English media. Next stop, we want to encounter our chief rival, the CBS itself. We need your support and participation. Without your support, we can not move further. If you are angered by CBS report, please join us, If you can redistribute our message, pleas join us, If you are a student/scholar leader of your local area/school, please join us, If you are a legal student/scholar, please join us, If you are a CSS, please join us! Mi Mi Sr. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. We Need More Participation on the Net ................................. 42 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Mi Mi, Thank you for the prompt reply. I'll need sometime to read it. The amount of messages posted is obviously less resentfully(or I am wrong?).Is this because of the MODERATION? I feel less comfortable to see fewer participants(getting the impression from fewer posters) for such massive fight against the media giant, CBS. We need everyone's help(or more accurately, participation) as far as s/he is concerned about this matter. I guess I would be less enthusiastic toward this fight if my posters were regularly end up in moderator's trash. I understand that some posters are really annoying, but we are not a "NOBLE" group(I hope this WORD gives the right impression for what I mean). I also understand that the huge amount poster will cost a lot of precious time of the organizers, like yourself, but I guess this is what takes to finish this fight. I tend to believe that people have their own sense and will be selective. Don't worry about the little "impurity" will spoil our movement. I might be wrong. I just thought that you may want to heard some different voice for a "change" :-). Again, I admire your work. I will follow the steps, fighting for our right. Sincerely, Lin, Zhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. The Difficulties the CBS Incident Fighters Meet and Some Suggestions ... 68 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Mi Mi Sir and CBS Incident Committee: CBS' report on potential spy has irritated and outraged a wide range of people among CCS. I'm writing to express my concern about this incident and my respect for you, for what you have done, and for what you intend to do for CCS. The CBS incident is probably the biggest event since CSPA. The CBS incident fighters will meet more difficulties than CSPA fighters did, since there was no direct side effect of CSPA on the US side and there was assistance from Congressmen because of their political purpose. This time, however, no help from politicians is to be expected, meanwhile CBS will be engaged in a deadly fight for its reputation. Besides, CBS Incident Committee(CBS-IC) will meet, and probably has met the shortage of man power and financial sources. Based on these considerations, the discussion of what we should do, what we can do, and what we should and can immediately do should be given priority. I would like to give you my opinions. Organization: 1. Form a committee to coordinate the activities(you have done). 2. Hire a legal counselor or get some Chinese law students. CBS-IC has to keep all activities by its name legal. 3. Form groups under the committee to deal with separate things. Activities: 1. Hire a lawyer or get some Chinese law students to investigate the CBS report. Find out what we want based on law. 2. It is impossible for CBS-IC to do every thing which CCS wants. CBS-IC has to concentrate most of its limited power to the weakest points of CBS. A boycott is probably what CBS is afraid of the most. CBS-IC should focus on this. Reputation is another weak point for CBS. So try to contact the media, especially the competitors of CBS, and report the event. They know how to handle it. What CBS-IC should do is to make them interested in this incident, e.g. advertise a boycott of CBS, or ask for an apology from CBS in every Chinatown or in every Chinese restaurant's window. 3. A law suit is probably what CBS prefers. This is a tough case and there is little chance for us to win. However CBS-IC has to something on it. It is a gesture. 4.Survey--the hottest debate on the net. The purpose of the survey is to use the public to support us. Are you sure we can get the result we hope? I personally do not think it is the right time to conduct a survey of the American public, since Americans may not be interested in this issue for the time being. A survey within CCS and Chinese-Americans is feasible. Some other words: It is not surprising that those famous H(uman rights)-fighters or D-fighters in CCS keep silent, just as the case when "Yin He" incident happened. Because of the unsatisfied public image of IFCSS, it is better for CBS-IC to not go by the name of IFCSS though CBS-IC should unite with as many organizations as possible. CBS-IC should have an image of just protecting the rights and interests of CCS without any political tendency. Actually, it should also be a public image presented for any organization that intends to represent the majority of CCS. Best regards. D. Zhang %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Editor of CBS Incident Committee: Miao Ye % % Sign on/off at listserv@ifcss.org, with mailbody as: % % sub fcbs-l Firstname Lastname, or signoff fcbs-l % % Post at fcbs-l@ifcss.org % % Anonymous ftp at ifcss.org:/ifcss/cbs % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%