<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:'times new roman',serif">Dear friends of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center,</span><br>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Happy New Year! </b> </font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">May 2013 be filled with peace and justice.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Please consider offering an end of the year tax deductible <b><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TWX4SX3FC7XTS" target="_blank">gift</a></b> to continue to grow the Urbana IMC as a creative space to develop community expression and empowerment.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">You may <b><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TWX4SX3FC7XTS" target="_blank">donate now</a> </b>via paypal or mail your contribution to: UCIMC 202 S. Broadway Ave #100, Urbana, IL 61801 If you prefer, you may email your pledge and preferred payment plan to <a href="mailto:chyn@ojctech.com" target="_blank">chyn@ojctech.com</a> and we will send you payment envelopes.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Thanks to donors like you, in 2012, <b>we raised the WRFU radio tower</b>. WRFU 104.5 FM can now be heard throughout all of Champaign, Urbana, and Savoy! Your donation will help take advantage of this new community asset to have musicians, youth, activists, and underrepresented voices and perspectives on the air.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>Books to Prisoners</b> has sent 78,794 books for free to 12,452 Illinois inmates and staff two jail lending libraries. Your donation will help support our programs to promote literacy and inclusion amongst the incarcerated.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Urbana IMC is an <b>anchor on UC2B</b>, the public broadband network. Your donation will allow us to greatly expand our programming in 2013 through media training, MakersFaires, and our weekly computer help desk.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">The <b>Public i</b> continues to shine a spotlight on policing and the criminal justice system to increase public accountability of these bodies. We have brought to light police violence against handcuffed youth, the Sheriff's acquisition of a drone, and racial profiling statistics.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">We continue to grow our <b>partnership with Urbana Public Television</b>, who cosponsored the <b>Grassroots Radio Conference</b> last year which brought nearly 200 media and social justice advocates to Urbana. Your donation will help us grow our venue for conferences, workshops, and performances by independent musicians and artists.</font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">A warm thank you to the thousands of donors who have made Urbana IMC possible for the past 12 years. </font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br>
</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Thank you for considering a <b><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TWX4SX3FC7XTS" target="_blank">donation</a></b> as we enter 2013.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Ways to donate:</font></p><p style="margin:0px">
<font face="times new roman, serif">1. <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=TWX4SX3FC7XTS" target="_blank">donate now by credit card</a> </font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">2. mail your contribution to UCIMC 202 S. Broadway Ave #100, Urbana, IL 61801.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">3. email your pledge and preferred payment plan to me at <a href="mailto:chyn@ojctech.com" target="_blank">chyn@ojctech.com</a> and we will send you payment envelopes.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">warmly,</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br>
</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Danielle</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px">
<font face="times new roman, serif">Danielle Chynoweth</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Chair, Fundraising Committee of the Board</font></p><p style="margin:0px">
<font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Photos from 2012:</font></p><p style="margin:0px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Celebrating the WRFU Tower raising.</font></p>
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</font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Teaching new community radio stations how to apply for a license at the Grassroots Radio Conference.</font></p>
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</font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif">Unity March 2012 ended with a gathering at the IMC.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;min-height:14px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60894600@N02/sets/72157631584963897/" target="_blank"><font face="times new roman, serif">See more inspiring photos here.</font></a></p>
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