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<font size=3>For those of you that we know only through our email lists,
we encourage you to support our work. We don't have the large capacity to
fund raise on the web like other sites. Nonetheless, we hope that our
grassroots work is just as informative and valuable to you. You can
contribute by sending us a tax-deductible contribution to the address
below and if you want to receive periodic hard copy mailings from us,
please email us your name and contact information as well. Thanks in
advance!<br><br>
claude marks<br><br>
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November 2006<br>
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Dear Friend:<br>
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Congratulations!<br>
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The Freedom Archives is now entering its seventh year thanks to your
consistent support. We’ve completed our first year as our own 501(c)(3)
and have much to show for our efforts. As we celebrate this first year we
face the challenges of finding new ways to be effective and maintain our
funding base in a repressive era of increasing fiscal conservatism among
foundation funders. <br>
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We are excited about the upcoming year and look forward to expanding the
work of The Freedom Archives and finding more ways to share our resources
and energies. <b>We continue to count on your generosity.<br>
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Thanks to your support: <br>
<ul>
<li>We were able to provide more than 25 youth interns from the San
Francisco Bay Area with radio production, editing, and archiving skills.
These are young people who will make a difference in telling the stories
of struggle, change, and victory.
<li>We have completed the research and production towards the early 2007
release of our audio CD “The Artist Must Choose” which chronicles the
politics and resistance of Paul Robeson in his own spoken words. You will
hear Robeson brilliantly resist the House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC). He speaks of the fight against racism and the role of
artists in struggling for a just and humane world. In “The Artist Must
Choose,” we capture his eloquence and inspiring ideas so that many who
know little about him can learn from his courageous example.
<li>We have just completed a new documentary video called “The Legacy of
Torture.”
<a href="http://www.freedomarchives.org/BPP/torture.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.freedomarchives.org/BPP/torture.html</a> This 20-minute
video exposes the United States government use of torture against former
members of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1973 and connects
them to the history of COINTELPRO and the use of Grand Juries to repress
and censor activists.<i>At a recent standing room only event in Oakland –
“Break the Chains: Black Panther Prisoners and Repression Today” – we
showed a working copy of the video. The event also featured a
community discussion with speakers Kathleen Cleaver, Ashanti Alston, Hank
Jones, and Richard Brown (all former Panthers).</i>
<li>We continue to collaborate with community organizations and
institutions dedicated to change, community building, and activism.
During the last year we worked with Eastside Arts Alliance, Galería de la
Raza, Global Exchange, International Day of Solidarity with Political
Prisoners, the June Jordan School for Equity, Manilatown Heritage
Foundation, National Boricua Human Rights Network, Women of Color
Resource Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Youth
Leadership Institute.
<li>The Freedom Archives contributed to radio programs on KPFA’s Africa
Today, Art Sato’s “In Your Ear,” Hard Knock Radio, and La Raza
Chronicles, including interviews with political prisoners Adolfo Matos
and Carlos Alberto Torres. We contributed to newspaper coverage of the
Black Panther Party grand jury resisters in the San Francisco Bayview and
Faultlines, as well as at
<a href="http://www.fbiwitchhunt.com/" eudora="autourl">
www.fbiwitchhunt.com</a>.
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Most importantly, your support has allowed The Freedom Archives to stay
true to its mission. We have built a national reputation for our work in
restoring and archiving materialsall with your helpand <b>we can do so
much more.</b> <br>
<br>
We need your continued generosity and commitment to carry out this
crucial work. In order to match last year’s donations and strengthen the
youth program, we need to raise $20,000 by the end of the year. Please
consider increasing your donation to $100, $250, or $500 so we can
increase the number of interns we train, keep our technology up to date,
and increase the ways that people can access and use this valuable
always-growing archive. <br>
<br>
Like what you hear? Make sure to tell a friend about The Freedom Archives
so that our community of support can grow. Recycle this letter by passing
it on to a friend with a special invitation to join you in supporting
this work. Thank you!<br>
<br>
¡A Luta Continua!<br>
<br>
Claude
Marks
Sele
Nadel-Hayes
Walter Turner<br>
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<b><i>P.S. For donations of $250 or more, you will be the first to
receive a copy of the new Paul Robeson CD featuring over an hour of
Robeson’s fiery speeches and interviews.</i></b> <br>
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