[imc-st.louis] Fwd: Help Save St. Louis Activist Hub!

[Ben West]

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From: Adam Shriver <ajshrive at artsci.wustl.edu>
Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Subject: Help Save St. Louis Activist Hub!

Friends and respected associates,

Hopefully everyone receiving this email is familiar with the facebook
group St. Louis Activist Hub, which sends out weekly progressive
activist event listings to over 2000 people in the St. Louis region:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=38547728104&ref=ts

About three weeks ago, facebook disabled my account with no
explanation or warning.  I have read over their Rights and
Responsibilities page, and there is no policy listed that I have
violated.  Facebook has also blocked weekly messages from St. Louis
Activist Hub as well as event invitations from that group.  For a
fully documented and more detailed account, please look at this page:
http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2009/06/facebook-stop-blocking-st-louis.html

Despite my sending several email messages over the past three weeks to
the email address they provided telling them that I think my account
was disabled by mistake, facebook has not replied to any of my emails
or restored my account.  That is why I am appealing to you to help
save the St. Louis Activist Hub.

Please send an email to disabled at facebook.com and info at facebook.com
asking them to do the following:

1.  Restore the account of ajshrive at artsci.wustl.edu *
2.  Stop blocking messages from the St. Louis Activist Hub
3.  Stop blocking event invitations from the St. Louis Activist Hub

* Make sure to include this email address so they know the specific account

It would be helpful (but not required) if you could include any
personal testimony about why you think Activist Hub is useful or how
we helped to promote your event.  Also, it could also be helpful if
you bcc'd the message to ajshrive at artsci.wustl.edu .

Facebook has already shown that it won't respond to one person;
hopefully it will respond to a larger group.  I have really enjoyed
the opportunity to connect activists across St. Louis with this group
and the positive feedback I received, and I would love to have an
opportunity to keep it continuing into the future.

Many thanks,

Adam Shriver



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Ben West
westbywest at gmail.com