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Announcement :: Prisons |
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Liberation Book Sale this Saturday |
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by Sandra Ahten
Email: spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified!)
Phone: 217-367-6345 |
07 Apr 2005
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The Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners Project is holding its first Liberation Book Sale on Saturday, April 9th from 9AM – 5PM. More than 3000 books are priced to sell. There is a great selection of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books to choose from.
The sale is being held, rain or shine, at the University Place Christian Church and Illinois Disciples Foundation (the IDF) at 610 E. Springfield on the corner of Springfield and Wright in Champaign. |
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The book sale is being held to fund the Urbana-Champaign Books to Prisoners Project. This project is an outreach program for prisoners in Illinois. The organization gets book- request-letters from prisoners, finds books that meet their needs, and ships them to the prisoners. They are selling these more than 3000 donated books to raise money for postage and other expenses.
You can attend the Liberation Book Sale to buy books or to help package books for prisoners. Book donations and monetary contributions are accepted the day of the sale or 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 this Saturday |
by Sandra
spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
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10 Apr 2005
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Post event update: The event was a great success. We raised: awareness about prison conditions; consciousness about the human-ness of prisoners; curiosity about our organization (UC Books to Prisoners / IMC); and more than $1600 dollars.
It was a great COMMUNITY event – consider that all the books were donated for this specific cause from members of the community -- and those who bought the books were educated about the cause.
We had more than 50 people actually volunteering directly with this effort… including 2 months of collecting and sorting books prior to the sale.
Ten cadets from Lincoln’s Challenge Academy (a military school for youth in Rantoul) worked both morning and evening shift to help set up and tear down the sale. We also had help from the Engineering Honor Student Society.
During the sale we had a table set up for people to fulfill prisoner’s book request. The community member would pick a prisoner’s letter; set out to find books that met his request; locate the best books; write a short letter to the prisoner; wrap the books in brown packing paper and prepare for mailing. About 20 packages were wrapped.
If you would like to come to our next packaging party… where we’ll be wrapping more books; send us an email to ucbtp (at) yahoo.com.
Party on!
Sandra |
