dioxin-free tampons/ Playtex campaign

["Brigitte O'Donoghue" <bodo@conncoll.edu>]

	Hi everyone!
	The Playtex campaign is going strong!!  Here's a quick update.  
New people are signing on every few days and there is still plenty of 
time to get involved, so contact me if you are interested.  
	We are boycotting Playtex because their tampons have trace levels 
of dioxin in them and we want them to phase out chlorine by the year 
2000.  All major brand tampons contain dioxin.  We have chosen Playtex 
because they are a smaller company which will be easier to affect than 
the others, and once they switch the others will have to as well to stay 
competitive.  The boycott is also a buycott to pressure local retailers 
to stock their shelves with brands of safer tampons.
	The boycott petition and information about the campaign has gone 
out in various national publications such as SEAC's Threshold, the Free 
The Planet updates, and the Connecticut College alumni magazine.  
Together, these reach over 35,000 people.  Over 20 schools nation-wide 
are involved, as are numerous individuals around the country.  As soon as 
we get a web site set up, the petition will be going out to all women who 
are part of the D.C. feminist fax net. Lastly, we are currently working on 
press releases to women's magazines and a letter to go out to newspaper 
editors, so if you are interested in getting this letter as a sample to 
send to your local papers, e-mail me and I will forward it to you as soon 
as it is ready.
	Please contact me to get a boycott petition and more 
information.  We are looking for people in DE to organize the rally in 
May outside the Playtex headquarters as well.  Contact me to get 
involved in any way.  Thanks a lot!!
		Take care and many thanks to the people around the 
country already involved!!
			Sincerely, 
				Brigitte O'Donoghue
				bodo@conncoll.edu