Subject: gag rule
Author: (Yvette C. Rosser)
Date:    1/2/98 4:48 AM
     
     
     
To:
Arthur Levitt, Securities and Exchange Commission, 450 5th 
Street, NW, Washington, DC  20549; Phone: 202 942-0020/ 
Fax 202 942-9654/202-942-9646
     
Greeetings,
     
I am writing this in opposition to rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule)
     
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.  Key among the stockholder 
motions that would be outlawed are those that affect women.  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.
     
This is of interest to me, since I like to use my dollars to speak for me 
politically and I must have the kind of information that the SEC would 
prohibit with this rule.
     
Thanks for considering this message;
     
Yvette C. Rosser
2403 Trafalgar Dr.
Austin, TX  78723-4003
     
(512) 928-9557