Support Freedom Archives

June 2009

Dear Friends,

We hope you find [our resources] valuable. You can show your appreciation for the efforts to bring these... to you by becoming a contributor with either a one time donation or a monthly contributor.

You can make donations through our website by clicking the Click & Pledge icon or using this link:

https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d2/default.aspx?wid=20629

With your support, The Freedom Archives just completed another project with the Museum of the African Diaspora here in San Francisco. We contributed audio recordings of important figures in Black history to Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, a travelling photo exhibit from a Smithsonian Collection. Now guests at the museum, including a number of high school classes, can hear history in the making directly from the voices of Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, and Angela Davis.

Thanks to you, our new film COINTELPRO 101, a documentary that investigates government intervention in disrupting progressive movements in the US, is projected to be completed and ready for screening this summer. It combines new interviews with historical footage and plenty of current relevance.

We’ve been fortunate to bring Leticia Miranda on to our staff this April. She is completing her undergraduate thesis in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz and has already brought terrific energy and new ideas to the Archives. Patricia Hemphill started a new job after nearly four years as an intern and as our Youth Program Director. She remains on the Archives board and will continue to work on projects with us. Please join us in welcoming Leticia and sending good wishes to Patricia in her new endeavors!

Despite the crisis in the larger economy and especially the non-profit world, we are confident that, with your support, we can continue to provide diverse communities access to our growing archives of radical history and culture. The Freedom Archives has never depended on major foundation funds to operate. We have continued to grow thanks to consistent community support from people like you.

The preservation of our progressive history and culture depends on our collective ability to recognize its value and apply its lessons to our own and future generations. You have been essential to the process of repurposing this unique resource and making it available to schools, community youth, performers, historians, and documentary producers. Through our audio and video projects and our website, we work continuously to make more of this social justice history available to people in the Bay Area, the U.S., and around the world.

You are essential to this process. We invite you to become a part of our work by joining our monthly donor program. Especially in these trying financial times, sustainable fundraising is one of our deepest needs and is a way for you to donate in more manageable increments. Your one act of generosity will multiply 12 fold over the course of one year, yet only takes one moment of your time to set up. Monthly giving is a reliable source of income and also makes our budgeting easier.

Again, you can make donations through our website by clicking the Click & Pledge icon or using this link:

https://co.clickandpledge.com/sp/d2/default.aspx?wid=20629

Please consider making automatic-monthly contributions and asking a friend to support our work.

Thank you so much for helping to preserve the past, illuminate the present, and shape the future.

HOLD THE DATE - The Freedom Archives will be celebrating our 10th anniversary on Wednesday, October 7th.



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