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The Center for Media Literacy

The Center for Media Literacy is the leading media literacy teaching resource for pre-kindergarten through college. The center is not just concerned about television but all of it—videos, movies, advertising, billboards, magazines, newspapers and the Internet. Their catalogue offers a collection of carefully-selected resources for teaching, including books, videos, CD-ROMs and curriculum programs.

The Center for Media Literacy believes that we need to be equipping children with the skills to "read," understand and evaluate, for themselves, the powerful images, sounds and messages of the world in which they are growing up.

You can find more about media literacy by contacting: Center for Media Literacy; 4727 Wilshire Blvd., #403 Los Angeles, Calif. 90010 (800) 226-9494 ordering (323) 931-4177; eml@medialit.org, www.medialit.org .

(TV art borrowed from the Center for Media Literacy.)

The Lion & The Lamb Project

The mission of The Lion & Lamb Project is to stop the marketing of violence to children. This is done by helping parents, industry and government officials recognize that violence is not child's play—and by galvanizing concerned adults to take action.

The Lion & Lamb Project works to reduce the marketing of violent toys, games and entertainment to children in two distinct ways. They work with parents and other concerned adults to reduce the demand for violent "entertainment" products, and with industry and government to reduce the supply of such products. The work of The Lion & Lamb Project is based on the belief that attitudes about violence as "entertainment" can be changed over time.

You can join the efforts of The Lion & Lamb Project and by doing so receive a Parent Action Kit and an annual subscription to the Lion & Lamb Links Newsletter. The Newsletter and Web site have information about Violent Toy Trade- Ins, lobbying efforts to stop the marketing of violence to children and much, much more.

Check out the many resources and work of The Lion & Lamb Project at: The Lion & Lamb Project; 4300 Montgomery Ave., Suite 104; Bethesda, Md. 20814; (301) 654-3091 lionlamb@lionlamb.org; www.lionlamb.org.

(Lion and lamb art borrowed from The Lion & Lamb Project.)

—Kaye Edwards