[Peace-discuss] message to AWARE address

[Jenifer Cartwright]

This would NOT be acceptable to me. Sponsoring or co-sponsoring events (or DN! and other things on UPTV) is one thing, and I'm glad AWARE does this. Ditto fund-reaisers thru auctioning original/local music and art. Producing/selling donated original art post cards at our table is fine, too -- it's not even a cottage industry! It's clearly non-profit, and it's entirely under our control so that it stays that way! But if AWARE agreed to promote this guy's/any guy's book -- regardless of what's betw the covers -- and made $3 for ea copy sold to our contacts, it'd be another thing entirely. We'd be participating in something for profit that we'd have no control over. It'd look like a conflict of interest at best, and self-interest at worst.
   
  JMHO,
  Jenifer   

Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:
  This message was sent to AWARE's email address listed
on the website for contacts. I'm forwarding so folks
can decide what to do with it.

I know next to nothing about it, apart from the fact
that it is a real book, for sale at Amazon.com, and
the author was in fact drafted but decided to become a
draft evader. 

Ricky
--- gpcorcoran at aol.com wrote:

> To: aware at anti-war.net
> Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:22:22 -0400
> From: gpcorcoran at aol.com
> Subject: [Aware] donations
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I am writing to you as the author of a recently
> published novel, The Trip Into Milky Way, based on
> my experiences as a draft evader during the Vietnam
> War, with an offer to share 30% of the royalties
> from the sale of my book with your organization. 
> This offer would be good for a six month period and
> would be renewable. In a nutshell, my offer
> represents a heartfelt desire to support you and
> your antiwar efforts
> 
> 
> 
> Of course you will want to determine if this is the
> right association for you, but if you agree with me
> after a read of the book, that this novel has a
> unique place as a chronicle of one man's personal
> struggle to end war and find peace in the world, my
> proposal would work something like this. Our team
> would provide you with a simple link to post on your
> website, like an image of the book cover, for
> instance, announcing that 30% of all book royalties
> generated through your site will be donated to your
> organization. The link would take the reader to my
> publisher's website and would include a code, so
> that every time someone from your site logged on to
> purchase a book, the sale would be tracked
> digitally. At the end of each quarter, the
> publisher would send me an account ledger of these
> sales, and I would forward to you a copy of that
> ledger, along with the royalties due. Each copy sold
> would generate approximately $3 for your
> organization.
> 
> 
> 
> If this offer interests you, please take a moment to
> visit our website, http://www.tripintomilkyway.com/,
> download the first chapter, read the reviews and
> interviews and let me know what you think. I will
> be delighted to rush off a copy of the novel for
> your review.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary Corcoran
> 
>
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