Date:    1/5/98  2:00 PM
Subject: s7-25-97
Author:  "Ann Tubbs"<ann_tubbs@ppfa.org> at Internet 
     
To: Arthur Levitt, Securities and Exchange Commission
     
I know anti-government sentiment rules these days.  But many of us - especially 
women, children, minorities, people who are less than rich - NEED the government
to protect us.
     
We need protection from greed, the fatal flaw of capitalism.  
     
Don't let the SEC take away one of the few pitiful tools that is available to 
ordinary people.  Don't let them make it more difficult for stockholder 
initiatives to force deliberation and voting on fair employment practices, child
labor, discrimination and harassment, gender representation on boards....
     
I oppose rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule)