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Announcement :: Prisons |
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LIBERATION BOOK DRIVE |
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by Sandra Ahten
Email: spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!)
Phone: 217-367-6345 |
08 Mar 2005
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UC Books to Prisoners is holding a Book Drive. We are accepting donations of all your used hardback and paperback books. (No magazines). |
Books that we collect will be sent directly to prisoners in Illinois or will be sold at our fundraising Liberation Book Sale in April. Please make your donation in March.
Books can be dropped off at one of these four locations:
Strawberry Fields, 306 W. Springfield, Urbana
Pages for All Ages, Rte. 45 South, Savoy
WEFT, 218 W. Main, Champaign
Illinois Disciples Foundation, Springfield and Wright, Champaign
For more information or for a pick up of a large donation please contact Sandra Ahten.
Call 217-367-6345 or click the contact button from her website at www.spiritofsandra.com
Please forward this message widely.
WHO WE ARE, WHAT WE DO, AND WHY
We are a side group of the Urbana Champaign Indy Media Center’s Radical Librarians. In an effort to form a network of solidarity and support with the people in the US prison system we open letters from prisoners, pick out a couple of books that best meet their requests and send the books to them with a letter. We do this in part to address the poor selection of books available in many prison libraries, to let prisoners know they not forgotten; to remind us that prisoners are part of our community, to encourage literacy, to share our enthusiasm for books, because it is fun, and to educate ourselves and the public about life in prison.
We are looking for a web designer and librarians / library students in addition to everyday folk who want to be involved. If you would like to participate come to our pack-a-thons at the Illinois Disciples Foundation. We are currently meeting every Saturday at 3pm.
COMMONLY REQUESTED SUBJECTS/ BOOKS
english and spanish dictionaries
GED manuals
Almanacs
Automotive
progressive history (Zinn)
radical political
Math
Chess
Men’s Health
Meditation
Anarchism
drawing
writing
health
queer books
books by people of color
drug and alcohol recovery
law books
legal issues
criminal law
general education
beginning language books (Spanish, etc.)
starting own business
1 book encyclopedias (no sets) |
See also:
http://www.spiritofsandra.com/
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Re: LIBERATION BOOK DRIVE |
by Sandra Ahten
spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
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09 Mar 2005
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I forgot to add that books can also be left for donation at the IMC, 218 W. Main Street. Please put them on the table in the back room.
Thanks,
Sandra |
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Saturday is a big day for UC Books To Prisoners. |
by Sandra Ahten
spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
11 Mar 2005
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Me again
Saturday, March 12, is a big day for UC Books To Prisoners. We are collecting the books from the 250 fliers that the Engineering Honor Students distributed for us. They distributed fliers to each door, asking residents to set books for donation on their porch for us to pick up on this day. They distributed from from Michigan to Florida and Race to Lincoln in Urbana.
We need volunteers to meet at Strawberry Fields in Urbana at 1:45 on Saturday to coordinate pick up of these books.
We need volunteers at IDF at 3pm to unload and sort books.
We need boxes for the books to be sorted into.
Bring a friend!
Sandra |
