The Up and the Down at MCLI
Dear Friends of MCLI:
These are great days at MCLI — AND we have a funding emergency and need your help now! Rep. Barbara Lee just sent emails to all members of Congress about our "Undoing the Bush-Cheney Legacy" book, and the day BrassCheckTV.com listed it as the top video on its site we sold almost 100 copies!
And we still owe $15,000. AFTER receiving all of the donations listed on page 7, for which we are VERY grateful!We need the same number and amounts of donations every month from now on! We need you to send $10, $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1,000, or whatever you can afford. Please make monthly donations if that is easier than sending one large check now, and mail a check or make a donation on line at www.mcli.org. Also, can you ask a dozen friends to come to a book party for MCLI?
We have been consumed with the 4-Treaties Reporting Project, writing and publishing our new books, going to community meetings on Oscar Grant's case and immigrant rights and nuclear issues, and national conventions and planning CLEs, advising people in need, and.... So we spent too little time on fundraising.
MCLI has a remarkably small budget, considering the amount of work we do and the importance of this work. I contribute all my time. So do our Editor, Representative to the U.N. Committee meetings, our Archivist, and many others.
We have committed ourselves to mending our ways. A consultant is volunteering his time to help us develop a short- and long-term financial plan.
In spite of our funding issues, these are great days at MCLI. The National Lawyers Guild International Committee just enthusiastically welcomed our proposed new Human Rights Training and Reporting Authorization Act. And Bernandine Dohrn recently told me that Chicago-based community organizations might be interested in MCLI's 4-Treaty Reporting Project since the City of Chicago has adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
We have a new project addressing the economic crisis: MCLI's Eco-Econ Projectto provide MCLI's typical critical and creative ideas to work for ecologically sound economic plans and to help people survive this Depression. Here our work is broadened by turning to folks active in the 1930s as well as the 1960s and '70s and '90s and '09. At this ìdire momentî for the U.S., and the world, MCLI's work for peace law and human rights is more critical than ever. The future of MCLI is actually at stake so please make a donation now.
Thank you!
Ann Fagan Ginger
for the MCLI Board