What You Can Do
The city is considering comments about the proposed regulations until August 3rd. After that the regulations could pass into law. Here are some steps that you can take now:
1) Click here to email comments to the powers that be.
We’ve set up a sample letter that you can edit, and then just click to send automatically to the head of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting and all the City Council representatives on the committee that oversees that office.
2) Sign our Petition. Tell your friends to do the same.
3) Submit YouTube Video comments and Flickr Photographs relating to this issue. Tag them “PictureNewYork” and “CameraWars”. Send them to jcho@film.nyc.gov and to info@pictureny.org.Photos added to the PictureNY Flickr group will be displayed randomly in the top banner of this website.
4) Add a Picture New York banner to your website.
To place this Picture New York banner on your website, simply add the following html to your web page:
<a href=”http://pictureny.org”><img src=”http://pictureny.org/logos/pny_logo.jpg” width=”125″ height=”75″ border=”1″ alt=”PictureNY.org”></a>
There are more Picture NY banners available too.
5) Send personal comments in the mail or by fax. Personal, individualized comments that come through the U.S. Postal Service or by fax are worth their weight in gold. They’re not so common these days, so they’ll really stand out.
Address your comments to:
Julianne Cho
Associate Commissioner
Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting
1697 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
fax: 212.307.6237
- posted Mon., Jul 23, 2007 at 12:04pm
- filed in Take Action
- [2] Comments
July 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
[…] the Mayor’s Office that the rules will be changed, or public comment extended. So we have to keep up the pressure. We’ve got less than a week. Sign the petition. Write letters to the Mayor’s Office. […]
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:10 am
A protest ought to be organized immediately. Paper will not affect their decisions.
NYTIMES:
“The film office held a public hearing on the proposed rules yesterday, but no one attended. The only written comments the department received were from the civil liberties group, Ms. Cho said.”