Envision A New Ann Arbor Order
If you are one of the many folks who sent AGENDA money last month, we would like to extend a giant thank-you for your support. As of press time, AGENDA has received about $2,300 in subscriptions and donations. While it's not the $9,000 we need, it is enough money to keep the presses rolling while we work on ways to raise the rest.
In addition to generous donations and pledges from many individuals (including a cabdriver who has pledged a day's wages to the cause), AGENDA has received a number of pledges from the organized grassroots.
The Latin American Solidarity Committee. (LASC) will be coordinating a fundraising bucket-drive for May 23-24 to benefit AGENDA. The Homeless Action Committee (HAC) is planning a summer Hootenanny and Prism Productions has pledged to help set up a musical event to help AGENDA raise funds - perhaps a day of reggae in West Park.
Crosscurrents, a multi-media performance troupe, the National Lawyers Guild, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and the National Organization for Women are all considering or planning AGENDA fundraisers.
These groups need your help. If you can swing a bucket on May 23 or 24, volunteer for one of the planned fundraisers, or if your organization can sponsor its own AGENDA fundraiser, please call us at 996-8018.
We fear that, because we have received a significant amount of money and pledges to do fundraisers, AGENDA's readership will assume that the crisis is over. (After all, you are reading a May issue - the issue we said might never get printed.) But to say that AGENDA still needs your help is an understatement.
We still need to hear from those of you who read the paper and appreciate its function, yet who, for whatever reason, hesitate to send money to support it. It is not enough just to complain about what a horrible job the commercial press does. Without $6,700 more from the community, AGENDA will have to cease to exist. We need your subscription or donation.
We've heard that some of you are hesitant to send money because the future of the paper seems so uncertain. AGENDA has bucked the system for five long years under difficult circumstances. We have proved our committment. The paper deserves your support.
Perhaps you have felt that $20 or $10 or $5 couldn't make a difference. We want to assure you that it can - in fact AGENDA started in 1986 by accumulating $5 trial subscriptions!
Send $5 this month and we'll send three issues of AGENDA - June, July, and August - to anyone anywhere in the USA. Introduce someone you know, love, or perhaps disagree with often, to the mind-opening viewpoints found in AGENDA. Are you leaving town for the summer? Send $5 and we'll keep you in touch with Ann Arbor with a summer subscriptÃon.
Whether you donate $5, $50, $500, or $5,000, you can be confident that your hard-earned money will be put to good use building a needed community resource. Though the newspaper is in the survival mode at the moment, we hope that someday AGENDA will grow beyond this stage and become a bi-weekly, a weekly - who knows - maybe even a daily. (Consider a New Ann Arbor Order where AGENDA has "mainstream" status and The Ann Arbor News is "alternative"!)
With just five years under our belt, there is still a long way to go. The potential is limited only by the parameters of public interest and support. There's no time like now to show a little of both.
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