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My name is Joe Jurczyk from grassroots.org. We offer free web hosting, web design and legal consulting to other nonprofit organizations. Our blog focuses on online technology tools and resources for nonprofits.

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We need you to contact PBS to ask them to show "Small Fortunes" on October 27, 2005.

I am on the board of a non-profit organization called Unitus and Unitus helped produce a documentary, called "Small Fortunes" about Microcredit. PBS has agreed to show this beautiful and powerful film about this effective poverty-fighting tool on October 27, 2005 at 10:00pm EST.

However, local PBS stations have the choice to show it or not.

We need help to have as many people as possible contact their local PBS station and ask them to include this show in their programming. It is important to do this now, because programming schedules are getting set between now and the end of August for most stations.

Could you help us by contacting your local PBS station today to tell them about your interest in microfinance and ask them to broadcast Small Fortunes on October 27. Positive and personalized emails and phone calls are most effective; mass produced mailings are not.

To locate the PBS station in your area, please visit:

www.pbs.org/stationfinder

Microcredit is where small loans, usually between $50 and $200, are given to the very poor in the developing world. The poor use these loans to start a very small business that allows them to earn more money than they could through day-labor. The borrowers pay this money back and then qualify to receive a bigger loan. What is amazing is that over 95% of the poor pay these loans back. Then that money is available to loan out again to more borrowers.

To read more about microcredit, you can read my personal blog at:

http://unitus-microcredit.blogspot.com/

A Direct Social Justice Action in response to a school district's GROSS gang violence toleration within a Little Rock, Arkansas USA Middle School. They have been caught "red-handed", covering up crime within the school. They are currently illegally resisting a grievance hearing that will ultimately uncover their felonious malfeaseance of discipline report suppression and victim tampering among MANY other violations that are all documented in print AND audio.It is my personal attempt at being individually fair, persistent, precedent setting but effective. Any help, linking, emails to myself, the district in inquiry of moral support against violence, especially among our offspring or mass reproductions of my informative articles would be of GREAT assistance to my maternal unilateral action. Many of the documents can be used as basic templates on how to deal with similar issues of violence within our schools. All articles come with a "Copyleft Unconditional" license. If you look up the term on wikipedia, you will see that this means that you can basically do what you wish with them IN GOOD CONSCIOUS. My site is quite new but recieves a large number of hits already. I am more than willing to add links for like minds, just email me.Thanks,Stacey Goodwin End School Violence NOW...before it's too late <div align="center"><div align="center">http://thewarningsigns.blogspot.com