The Green Ribbon Campaign

for Responsibility in Free Speech

As the world's leading Christian publisher, Zondervan Publishing House recognizes that the right to free speech is one of the most important and fundamental rights of liberty. We support the right to free speech in all its forms. We also call for responsibility in exercising this right.

The advent of the Internet has seen a staggering growth in the potential for the freedom of speech and expression to people throughout the world. Sadly, in some quarters, this same freedom is being abused and used irresponsibly as a smoke screen to communicate in a vulgar, profane, violent, and insulting manner.

If you agree that the true right of free speech is accurately carried out when self-restraint is responsibly exercised, please display the Green Ribbon for Responsibility in Free Speech on your Web site.

While the Green Ribbon Campaign wants to thank all those who support this effort, a Green Ribbon icon on a webpage does not indicate agreement with the contents of that page or an endorsement on the part of the Green Ribbon Campaign or Zondervan Publishing House.

• Some Professional and Organization Websites that support the Green Ribbon Campaign
• Some Personal Websites that support the Green Ribbon Campaign
• Quotes to Consider
• Get a Green Ribbon Button
• Go to the Zondervan Publishing House Green Ribbon Campaign Page
• Zondervan Publishing House Press Release on the Green Ribbon Campaign.
• Copy ready Public Service Announcement on the Green Ribbon Campaign.

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution of the United States
• Bill of Rights

• e-mail Congress
• e-mail the U.S. Congressional Internet Caucus
• Law and Order Comes to Cyberspace by Edwin Diamond and Stephen Bates - A discussion of computer networks, rules and regulations from Technology Review at MIT.
• Article Review and Critique of Law and Order Comes To Cyberspace by Dorothea E. McDowell, M.S.,RN.
• What can you do?

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If you agree with this campaign and would like to identify with it, we encourage you to place this Green Ribbon graphic on your home page. Please access the GIF from your browser cache or use these links.

To use this TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND image, use this link -
img src="ribtrans.gif"

To use this image, use this link -
img src="http://www.zondervan.com/images/ribbonme.gif"

To use this image, use this link -
img src ="http://www.zondervan.com/images/ribonly.gif"

To use this image, use this link -
img src="http://www.zondervan.com/images/ribbonsm.gif"

To use this image, use this link -
img src="http://www.zondervan.com/images/ribonlys.gif"

You can also request a gif file to be sent to you as an e-mail attachment by writing to greenribbon@zph.com or if your browser has cache capability, feel free to retrive the icons from your cache.

Once you have secured the Green Ribbon icon, please point it back here by adding this HTML Anchor to your home page, http://www.zondervan.com/green.htm -

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What You Can Do To Tell Others About Responsibility in Free Speech

• Add the Green Ribbon Icon to your Web pages
  
• Display the Green Ribbon Icon on hats, mugs, etc.
  
• Tie a Green Ribbon to a tree in your yard, on a doorknob, etc.
  
• Pin a Green Ribbon to your backpack