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Liberation Book Sale |
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by Meg
Email: blue2 (nospam) net66.com (unverified!)
Phone: 217-367-6345
Address: ucbtp@yahoo.com |
21 Mar 2005
Modified: 06:27:20 AM |
Liberation Book Sale
Saturday, April 9th
9AM – 5PM
University Place Christian Church and Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF)
610 E. Springfield
(on the corner of Springfield and Wright ) |
The Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners Project is pleased to announce its first Liberation Book Sale taking place on Saturday, April 9th from 9AM – 5PM in the parking lot of the University Place Christian Church and Illinois Disciples Foundation (IDF), 610 E. Springfield, on the corner of Springfield and Wright in Champaign.
The sale will take place inside the IDF in case of bad weather.
There are lots of used books for your bucks: Children’s and Adult’s, Fiction and Non Fiction, so join us and help support this grassroots community effort!
All proceeds benefit the Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners Project, an outreach organization for prisoners in Illinois that accepts book request letters from prisoners, finds books that meet their needs, and sends them out with a personalized letter. In conjunction with Spineless Books, we also publish prisoners’ writings.
We do this in part as a creative way to address the poor selection of books available in many prisons, 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 literature, and to educate ourselves and the public about life in prison.
Book donations and monetary contributions are accepted anytime.
Contact: 217-367-6345 or ucbtp (at) yahoo.com for more information or to arrange a pick up for book donations. |
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Re: Liberation Book Sale |
by a non-voter, involuntarily
howlowcanapunkget (at) hotmail.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
27 Mar 2005
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dearest another voter,
while i respect your right to an opinion, i find it very hard to comprehend it. for one, it is naieve to believe that all those currently imprisoned deserve to be there, i for one don't have that much faith in the courts, the police, or the laws themselves in determining if and for how long an individual deserves to be cut off from society. furthermore, rejecting them from your community will hardly make it an easy transition when they are released and you intend to welcome them back. efforts like btp make rehabilitation more fruitful if anything and work to build a community without walls, be they prison walls or not. making it clear to prisoners that there is a supportive community out there can only make things better, while in my opinion shunning them may just polarize them further.
just another opinion. |
