[Ppnews] Support the Freedom Archives
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Thu Nov 17 20:16:52 EST 2005
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.
November 2005
Dear Friends:
It is your support that has built The
Freedom Archives and we cant 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.
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, but to be
able to hear their actual voices like this is so much more powerful.
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:
* A full-length CD and educational
book: Robert F. Williams: Self Respect, Self
Defense, and Self Determination, featuring Mabel
Williams narrative and highlighting her and
Roberts 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 (Roberts 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.
* Charisse Shumate: Fighting For Our
Lives, 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 CCWPs 10-year anniversary, which
included Charisses family and over 200
community members. It has already aired on Free Speech TV.
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!
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.
With your support this year, Patricia will
join seasoned Freedom Archives producers and the
Bay Area Robeson Centennial Committee in
releasing a new CD highlighting Paul Robesons
spoken words. 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 radical
Latin@ poetry recorded in the Bay Area in the 1970s.
We need your continued generosity and
commitment to carry out this crucial work. In
order to match last years 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.
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.
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Claude Marks Sele Nadel-Hayes
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.
The Freedom Archives
522 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 863-9977
www.freedomarchives.org
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