We Won't Budge: Celebrating the Community Struggle for Inclusion & Access December 11, 2009

Fundraiser & Cocktail Party
to Celebrate the Strength and Struggle of Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE)

Honoring
Beverly Corbin, Board Member, FUREE
Jennifer Levy, Executive Director, South Brooklyn Legal Services

and

Commemorating 10 years of Ilana Berger’s Leadership as Executive Director and Welcoming Valery Jean as the New Executive Director

Performances by:
Hasan Salaam, 5th Column Media
Desiree Marshall

Tickets
General Admission $50 - FUREE Members $25

Sponsorship
Sustainers $2,500 - Supporters $1,250
Leaders $500 - Movers $250 - Grassroots $150

To sponsor or purchase tickets visit: www.furee.org/event
or make checks payable to FUREE, 81 Willoughy Street, #701, Brooklyn, NY 11201

For more information, call (718) 852-2960 x. 301 or x. 308

Host Commitee:

Kazembe Balagun (Brecht Forum)
New York City Council Member Charles Barron
Robert & Patricia Berger
Ricky Blum
Caitlyn Brazill
State Assemblyman Karim Camara
Stosh Cotler
Laurie Cumbo (MoCADA)
Numi & Nacinimod Deodee (The House of Nassat)
Eli Dueker
Daniel Goldstein (Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn)
Aaron Goldberg
Ed Goldman (Fort Greene Peace)
John Gordon
Orlando Green (HipHop Sustains)
New York City Council Member Letitia James
Shannah Kurland
Michael Hirschhorn & Jimena Martinez
Carla Jean
Carlo & Marie Lourdes Jean
Brad Lander
Shantrelle P. Lewis (Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute)
Carl Lipscombe
Miles MacAfee (Medgar Evers College Film & Culture Series)
Kekla Magoon, Author, The Rock & The River
Danielle Mahones (Center for Third World Organizing)
Bob Master (Communications Workers of America)
Rusia Mohiuddin
State Senator Velmanette Montgomery
Professor M.W. Payne, (Africana, Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Hunter College)
Max Rameau, Take Back the Land
Lincoln Restler
Rob Robinson, Board Chair, Picture the Homeless
David “Drizz” Rodriguez (Headliners Media)
Hasan Salaam (5th Column Media)
Pamela Shifman
Adrianne Shropshire and Ng’ethe Maina
Spirit Child (Mental Notes/Movement in Motion Artist & Activist Collective)
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1500
Jennifer Flynn Walker & Bela August Walker
Mark Winston Griffith
Quito Ziegler

All proceeds to benefit the activities of FUREE, a 501 (c) 3, Brooklyn-based, multi-racial organization made up of almost exclusively women of color.We are organizing low-income families to build power to change the system so that all people's work is valued and all of us have the right and economic means to decide and live out our own destinies. We use direct action, leadership development, community organizing and political education to win the changes our members seek.

www.furee.org

Official Website: http://www.furee.org/event/