[Bookstoprisoners] Books for Prisoners - needs response today

[jamie storm]

It wounds like a great opportunity to me.  I want to help with the caveat 
that I expect to be out of town 1/9-1/16.  Jamie Storm


>From: carol inskeep <carolinskeep at yahoo.com>
>To: bookstoprisoners at lists.chambana.net
>Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Books for Prisoners - needs response today
>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:09:17 -0800 (PST)
>
>I received this in my email this morning, and as you can see they need a 
>reply by noon!  The MLK organizing committee is offerering Books2Prisoners 
>a chance to place donation bins at one of their film showings - they would 
>publicize this as a book drive on their promotional materials.  It looks 
>like a great opportunity to promote Books 2 Prisoners - possibly a good way 
>to get more volunteers, as well as a chance to get some donations.
>
>Though I'm not a regular volunteer, I'm willing to help coordinate this if 
>at least one other person steps forward to partner with me on it 
>(collecting the books, staffing the table, etc.).  The main question for 
>now is :  Do folks want to do this - Is there one other person willing to 
>help?  And if so, do want to specify anything particular on the publicity 
>(ie, particular kinds of books, etc.)?
>
>Alicia P Rodriguez <aprodrig at ad.uiuc.edu> wrote: Subject: Books for 
>Prisoners
>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:07:18 -0600
>From: "Alicia P Rodriguez" <aprodrig at ad.uiuc.edu>
>To: <carolinskeep at yahoo.com>
>
>  Hello Carol,
>
>I don't know if you know me but we've met many times through Zsuzsa and 
>Rick and you saw my family, Don and Jordi, at the Prince Myshkins concert 
>last weekend. I am a member of the Uof I MLK commemoration committee and 
>this coming January 18 we will be showing "After Innocence" (a new film 
>about exonerated prisoners) during the MLK week events (you can get more 
>info at http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/mlk/calendar/calendar.html). Although it 
>has not been confirmed, we are trying to get the film director and one of 
>the men featured in the film to present the film and participate in q&a. 
>Laura Haber mentioned you at a meeting as an organizer of the Books for 
>Prisoner program and we were wondering if the group would want to collect 
>books during the showing. I'm sure that folks from the committee would help 
>out. We'd advertise the book drive on publicity for the film and the entire 
>week of events. We were thinking that big boxes could be placed on sides of 
>the stage at the Virginia
>  Theatre, along the side, where they may more easily be taken out through 
>the side doors after the event.
>
>If you and the group are interested in this, I would appreciate if you 
>could let me know before 12 noon tomorrow, Thursday (12/7/06)....that is 
>the deadline for the graphic artist who is finalizing all of the publicity. 
>If you'd like to talk about this over the phone, I should be in my office 
>by 8:45am tomorrow, or tell me where I can reach you by phone.
>
>Sorry for the short notice, but all of us on the committee are working on 
>many aspects of the MLK week (plus our jobs) and if an idea is made and not 
>carried through, it just doesn't happen! I hope you understand.
>
>peace, Alicia
>
>
>Alicia P. Rodriguez
>Associate Director
>Latina/Latino Studies Program, MC 495
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 510 E. Chalmers Champaign, IL
>61820
>tel: (217)244-9732
>fax: (217)244-4526
>aprodrig at uiuc.edu
>http://www.lls.uiuc.edu    >
>
>
>
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