I'm always grateful to hear how our colleagues have chosen to make a difference in this world. Every vote in the US Congress is important! Gail ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Clements <Clements4Congress@gmail.com> Dear friends, In 1978 I was 17 and a freshman at Harvard. At a student meeting I learned that the government in South Africa made black South Africans live in “bantustans” – secluded wastelands – and carry passes to come to the cities and suburbs to work as maids or gardeners. Hundreds of protesters had been shot down in the Sharpeville massacre, Steve Biko had been killed in police custody, and Nelson Mandela was in prison on Robben Island. But the Harvard endowment was growing from profits made in South Africa, benefiting from the racist state. To do what I could I joined our campus’s Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, and helped to organize teach outs and demonstrations calling for divestiture. A great university should not profit from racist oppression. On Mandela’s passing, I want to honor and appreciate his leadership not only in ending apartheid, but in accomplishing the near-impossible, a largely peaceful transition to a democratic, inclusive, multi-racial South Africa. I’m grateful to have made my small contribution. Harvard’s divestiture movement was one of the first in the country, and divestiture is a cause I’m proud to have shared with Congressman Howard Wolpe and two-time 6thDistrict congressional candidate Don Cooney. On Mandela’s passing, let’s remember that racism remains a blight on American society. The preponderance of young black men in America’s prisons represent a failure of our society. In recent years we also see rising inequality, poverty, and hunger throughout our country, while 90% of the gains from America’s economic growth have been going to the top 1%. Can you help me to carry the struggle for social justice to Congress? December 31st, the next Federal Election Commission campaign finance filing deadline, is crucial. The following deadline is the end of March, and by then the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and most of the national organizations will have chosen the races they will support in 2014. To gain the national support my campaign needs in order to win, my fourth quarter finance report needs to show grassroots support continuing to build; I need to raise another $30,000 by the end of the year. Can you contribute $10, $50, $100 or $500? Please give whatever you can at: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/clements2win<http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UDLpC3olJXC4yrvlLrY0tRLxH4Cf9vHXDnO6vP7PGO0%2boBiZsCXLW0VZjWHXaO0RVmSvbVCqiuIVi3kubZtgJXNkBni9JbHmFQy9qk6pt%2fUzVQ5cz8YqtKx1JZdEPsE76eoQHW1tITHN0HJy3ZAPPtB> Thank you! Paul Clements Campaign contributions can also be made at ClementsforCongress.com<http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKcY%2foDxUNym4%2fTB2L2iKA2FTF3TcbTlMs1If2XgcMwAtUZyoKpq15GFBSVzavMf7X%2bMGBQMSB8o%2bs2LqtxoVWMZi7nrS5ZnkTA%3d%3d>or mailed to "Committee to Elect Paul Clements" 2517 Broadway Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008. Paid for by Committee to Elect Paul Clements Clements for Congress 2517 Broadway Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49008 [image: Forward this message to a friend]<http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UDLpC3olJXC457kkjv9LkTjvDXRuLbXMKT3SLPHL8f66seeqvDN0HKv0yZtvicTJBHji0Rx3fpXm%2fh2PIGbpA56ZmM8ZFXvbp1NGeD8qcDsppJfQufYNAiOba500dSyYHf1Fx1bUY4wXBvvQQD45dIHJKtE8iSbWz9ck6HWURy7%2faP6saCEkHG2IbtOhB0DYcdDrno7CAP1w3zPGQxwldQtgBy2YoRTzKrYCda4zBjV5G8EOdM9TGziwM7e3I8G2YI%3d> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, click here<http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKYRb7nJwUTqAdkVV5jnwolBsNyHdRvID%2bwEHO5DKXM8qtfmlTP%2bK12uT6yYEujE922TsZUPKXz7U2uOjF617vWBMLYdr41mtVe9KqHtoB3UQ2YnoGbgNv1kpDRIF5nc3ntnu78O8U8GWKv%2fq7HKB5Dgu6%2b9humCLbj5Gl8gQKLDdRxOYBVIvWuMVdH9MT2658lUOoTogekwvXAkWRMieccU%3d> Powered by NGP VAN, Inc.<http://images.myngp.com/LinkTracker.aspx?crypt=IVi0ax2%2b6UBSinc%2fCPYaKdzn%2fWO5xRpchVp1UnzNaiORWmr61TBkeaIfAzLOvrkaByduMxxNP8%2bN5hvGCzzk96LeoHxoDsM3YpTbFVg9tpY%3d> -- *Gail West, ICA* *3F, No. 12, Lane 5, Tien Mou W RdTaipei, Taiwan 111Ph) 8862) 2871-3150* email) icataiw@gmail.com Skype) gwestica www.icatw.com