Date: 1/5/98 3:12 PM Subject: s7-25-97 Mr Arthur Levitt, Securities and Exchange Commission Dear Mr Levitt, I have just received the following information from the Internet. I hope you will do your best to ensure that rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule) is not implemented because of its numerous negative implications regarding sexual and racial harassment and discrimination and other negative practises. Yours H Brown carin@activist.com carin@gn.apc.org 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. We have to work fast to stop this gag rule; the comment period ends January 2, 1998 (postmark date, we've been told). Express your comments in opposition to rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule) 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; e-mail <>. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr.