<html>
<body>
<font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3>Hi friends. we wanted to pass along
an email copy of our solicitation letter in the hopes that you may be one
of our friends that receives email news and may not be on our regular
mailing list or may not be familiar with our organizational work. We
would be thrilled to add you to our (snail) mail list and send you a
remittance envelope to make a donation. Just email us your street
address. Otherwise, you can send a donation to the address at the bottom
of this email and we would be very thrilled.<br><br>
<br><br>
November 2005<br><br>
Dear Friends:<br><br>
It is your support
that has built The Freedom Archives and we can’t continue to grow without
you. We need to increase our staffing capacity and our technical
resources as our work becomes more widely known our materials are
in much greater demand and more and more students are requesting
internships and access to this amazing progressive history. <br><br>
Recently, a
Chicago journalist who learned about The Freedom Archives through radio
broadcasts of our programs interviewed us about our work. Patricia, one
of our youth interns, spoke enthusiastically with him about her
experience. “I knew about some of these amazing historical figures before
I came here, <b>but to be able to hear their actual voices like this is
so much more powerful.”<br><br>
</b> In 2005, the
Freedom Archives was proud to release two new documentary projects that
bring voices of resistance to life and inspire thoughts of a more just
world:<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>
*
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3>A full-length CD and
educational book: <b>Robert F. Williams: Self Respect, Self Defense, and
Self Determination</b>, featuring Mabel William’s narrative and
highlighting her and Robert’s Radio Free Dixie broadcasts from Havana.
Williams was one of the most important and controversial leaders of the
Black Liberation movement. Yet his work, words, and profound influence
are absent in most historical accounts. We celebrated the release with
Mabel and John Williams (Robert’s wife and son) at a community event in
Oakland attended by over 500 community members, along with Amiri and
Amina Baraka, the Welfare Poets, and other musicians.<br><br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>
*
</font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3><b>Charisse Shumate:
Fighting For Our Lives</b>, a 37-minute video collaboration with the
California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), commemorating the life
of Charisse Shumate, prisoner-activist, focusing on conditions for women
in California state prisons. The video premiered at CCWP’s 10-year
anniversary, which included Charisse’s family and over 200
community members. It has already aired on Free Speech TV.<br><br>
Your support strengthens our communities and preserves important pieces
of our history, and also brings people together to draw inspiration for
our continued struggle. We deeply appreciate each of you who share our
vision and have contributed in some way to our ongoing survival and
vitality!<br>
<b>
<br>
</b> As we start our sixth year with new
projects, we are counting on your continued support. Last year, we were
able to provide training to 20 youth interns from around the Bay Area,
made possible by the $35,000 we received from individual donors.
This year, your donation will allow us to provide more truly unique
opportunities for young people to learn about the history of their
communities, to use professional-grade technology to tell these often
subjugated stories, and to make sure these productions get out in the
worldto teachers, musicians, artists, and activistswhen messages of
hope and struggle for justice are needed most. <br>
<br>
With your support this year, Patricia will join
seasoned Freedom Archives producers and the <i>Bay Area Robeson
Centennial Committee </i>in releasing a new CD <b>highlighting Paul
Robeson’s spoken words</b>. Your donation will also allow Bay Area poet
Nina Serrano to bring together a crew of the new generation of scholars,
poets and organizers to create a book and CD of <b>radical Latin@ poetry
</b>recorded in the Bay Area in the 1970s. <br>
<br>
We need your continued generosity and commitment
to carry out this crucial work. In order to match last year’s
donations, we need to raise $15,000 by the end of the year. Please
consider donating $100 or more so we can increase the number of interns
we can train, keep our technology up to date, and increase the ways that
people can access this archive.<br>
<br>
Make sure to tell a friend about The Freedom
Archives so that our community of support can grow. Thank you so much for
your contribution in these tough times.<br>
</font> <br>
<img src="cid:6.2.5.6.2.20051117170727.025d7dc8@freedomarchives.org.0" width=228 height=59 alt="[]">
<img src="cid:6.2.5.6.2.20051117170727.025d7dc8@freedomarchives.org.1" width=148 height=59 alt="[]">
<br>
<font face="Palatino Linotype" size=3>Claude
Marks
Sele Nadel-Hayes<br>
<br>
P.S. You may have noticed a change in our letterhead! We are pleased to
announce that after four years of fiscal sponsorship and support from the
Agape Foundation, our own 501(c) (3) designation is pending approval. We
incorporated as an independent project in June and expect our retroactive
determination letters shortly. You may now make checks out to The Freedom
Archives and all of your donation will go directly to our work.<br>
<br><br>
<br>
</font><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
<font size=3 color="#FF0000">The Freedom Archives<br>
522 Valencia Street<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
(415) 863-9977<br>
</font><font size=3>
<a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.freedomarchives.org</a></font></body>
</html>