Update: Save Julia Child's TV Channel

By JULIETTE ROSSANT MoveOn.org, organizers of the online petition to save funding for PBS—that's Julia Child's TV Channel for us Foodies—has the following to report: Yesterday in front of the Capitol dome, we stacked box upon box of your signatures and comments—more than 60,000 pages—as members of Congress and children's advocates spoke in defense of NPR and PBS. PBS children's characters Clifford the Big Red Dog, Maya and Miguel, Leona the Lion, and lots of kids reminded Congress what's at stake. The event was swarming with press, and the story is getting lots of great news coverage. You've helped to raise the profile of this issue and increase public pressure on Congress. What are they talking about? Oh, not much -- just one million online signatures in one week: "As far as we know, this is the most Americans to ever sign a petition in a single week, and it's one of the larger petitions in recent U.S. history" If you have not yet signed up, click here to sign right now (or click here to read superchefblog's previous article first). If you have signed up, there is something you can do even faster than emailing (and it's never this fast otherwise): Call Congresswoman Eleanor Norton (D-District of Columbia) at (202) 225-8050 and tell whomever answers that you're calling to ask her to restore funding to all public broadcasting, including NPR and PBS. I have done this, and others have, too: no call took more than 30 seconds, from dialing to hanging up. If you're feeling extra responsible, you can take a few seconds more, click here, and just let MoveOn.org know that you called (so they can account for callers). Previous articles: PBS: Save Julia Child's TV Channel! Tell Laura Bush: White House Woman Chef Vote for White House Woman Chef Julia Child Tribute at Los Angeles Times Festival of Books James Beard, Emmys to Honor Julia Child Julia Child Helped Create the "Author Tour" Julia Child Remember'd, by Judith Jones Forthcoming on Julia Child: the Spy, the Student, the Master Suzanne Goin East a la Julia Child Julia Child: The Queen Is Dead Technorati Tags: chefs food restaurants cooking branding PBS NPR Julia Child --> back to superchefblog