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DRCNet
Projects
and
Campaigns
12/4/98
To our readers: We
are back after a much-needed Thanksgiving break, and hope that everyone
had an enjoyable holiday weekend. Here at DRCNet, things are moving
fast and 1999 is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for us as well as
for the movement. As we head into the home stretch of what has been
an exciting 1998, we hope that you will consider supporting DRCNet's work.
(We're facing a cash crunch at the moment!) Why, you may ask, should
you dig deep to send us a check (or even another check), when there are
so many worthy causes and organizations vying for your support? Here
are just a few of the reasons:
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DRCNet's weekly syndicated radio
news show, DRCNN, is already being carried on over a dozen stations, in
at least three countries, after just two months of production, and feedback
from those stations has been excellent. The show costs us around
$200 per week to produce (including staff-time), and we also need to be
able to promote it to stations across the country. A $200 donation
(or eight $25 donations) will pay for one show in its entirety. A
$500 donation will pay for two weeks of promotions and will help us to
get DRCNN on the air on perhaps dozens of new stations who do not yet know
that we exist. (You can hear the show in Real Audio online at http://www.drcnet.org/drcnn/.)
Donations to support DRCNN can be made to the DRCNet Foundation (tax-deductible),
or to the Drug Reform Coordination Network (not tax-deductible, better
for us if it's just as good for you).
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DRCNet's campus project, U-Net,
has launched a nationwide campaign in opposition to language in the 1998
Higher Education Act which delays or denies financial aid to any student
who has been convicted of any drug offense, including possession.
Our resolution calling on the 106th Congress to repeal the provision is
already being presented by students to their student governments on over
50 campuses for their support. There is also media campaign in the
works, which will be launched early in 1999, in support of this effort.
Kris Lotlikar is our point person on this project (in addition to all of
his other responsibilities here), and while he does work cheap, he cannot
work for nothing. Ten $35 donations, or one $325 donation will cover
Kris' pay and the associated expenses for a week. A $1,000 donation
will fund the media campaign. (Check out the U-Net site at http://www.drcnet.org/U-net/.)
Donations to support the Higher Education Act project, and Kris' work as
membership coordinator, must be made to the Drug Reform Coordination Network
(because of its legislative nature), and are not tax-deductible.
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We are developing the stopthedrugwar.org
web site as a gateway to the issue and the movement. Take a look
at the initial portions, online at http://www.stopthedrugwar.org.
When complete, stopthedrugwar.org will provide visitors pointers to news,
educational resources, discussion groups, membership and activist organizations
and other opportunities for involvement in whatever areas of drug policy
interest them the most. Help DRCNet build the movement by supporting
stopthedrugwar.org. Donations to support stopthedrugwar.org can be
made to the DRCNet Foundation (tax-deductible) or the Drug Reform Coordination
Network (not tax-deductible). (We are developing stopthedrugwar.org
in preparation for a massive outreach campaign to build the movement.
The outreach project will be described in another Week Online in the very
near future.)
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DRCNet continues to count on
non-tax deductible donations from our membership for our lobbying efforts.
In the coming year there will be numerous drug war-related bills on the
Hill and in statehouses across the nation. Our subscribers will of
course be alerted to them so that their voices can be heard, both at the
state and the federal level. In the wake of the phenomenally successful
1998 election results, it is more important than ever that lawmakers hear
from their reform-minded constituents when they consider their upcoming
votes on these issues. Most of our grants and major gifts are made
to the DRCNet Foundation, which spend very little of its money on lobbying.
Hence, your non-deductible gifts to the Drug Reform Coordination Network,
large or small, play the most important role in enabling us to issue our
grassroots legislative alerts. Your non-deductible membership dues
of $25, or donations of $50, $100, $250, $500 or $1,000 to the Drug Reform
Coordination Network, represent citizen action directly at work in the
democratic process.
These are just a few
of the things we are working on here at DRCNet. As you can see, your
support is vital to our efforts, and every dollar produces results.
As the year winds down, please consider making a donation, or increasing
your level of support for 1998. If you'd like, please feel free to
specify a particular project or campaign with your check. Donations
not specified for a given program will go toward one of the projects above,
or else toward our general operating budget, as needed. If you'd
like your donation to be tax deductible, please make checks payable to
the DRCNet Foundation. Non-deductible donations should be made out
to the Drug Reform Coordination Network. Thanks!
To donate, please use our
online registration form at https://www.drcnet.org/cgi-shl/drcreg.cgi
(secure, encrypted version for credit card donations) or http://www.drcnet.org/cgi-shl/drcreg.cgi
(unencrypted version, use either version to create a printable form to
mail in with your check or money order), or just mail your donation to:
DRCNet, 2000 P St., NW, Suite 615, Washington, DC 20036. Note that
donations to the DRCNet Foundation should only be made by check, as the
Foundation doesn't yet have a credit card merchant account.
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Issue #69, 12/4/98
DRCNet Projects and Campaigns | Alert: Show of Support Needed for New Jersey Needle Exchange | US Congress Triples Military Aid to Colombia | Report: New York State Now Spending More on Prisons than Higher Education | Drug War Perjury Highlighted In Congressional Impeachment Hearings | Thousands Protest at US Army School of the Americas | Swiss Legalization Referendum Fails, but Provides Hopeful Signs for Future | Coalition Seeking DC Election Results Grows | Editorial: Criminalizing our Children
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