Date:    1/5/98  2:50 PM
Subject: rule S7-25-97

Chair Levitt,

I understand that the Securities and Exchange Commission 
is considering a rule that would prevent many stockholder
initiatives from being deliberated and voted upon at open
stockholder meetings.  This proposed rule would prevent many
motions and information on issues including fair employment
practices (such as sex and race discrimination and harassment)
from being brought to stockholders' attention.  The rule would 
also prevent questions on gender balancing boards, the use of
child labor, and other ways that employees, investors and 
customers force corporations to clean up their acts when 
they have refused to act on their own.
     
I write to express my opposition to rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule).
     
        Jessea Greenman, voter, taxpayer, and investor 
        jessea@uclink4.berkeley.edu
        586 62nd St.
        Oakland CA 94609-1245