Ferguson Interview Project
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Hello,
It is almost the Ferguson Interview Project's second birthday, and I was thinking about all of the wonderful people who helped make this book, this project a reality. In honor of this book's second birthday and in return for the generosity you all have shown me and this project, I want to provide you all with the opportunity to download this ebook for free. Please use this link: http://bit.ly/FergusonInterviewProjectEbook
Because of your generosity, this book is available to be read on your computer, smartphone, Kindle, or tablet. Feel free to share this opportunity to get the ebook for free within your networks and with your friends. It is my pleasure to share this work with you all. Here is the link again: http://bit.ly/FergusonInterviewProjectEbook
There is not a day that I don't think about Michael Brown, Jr., St. Louis, and the countless other men and women who have been killed at the hands of law enforcement professionals. I hope this book changes the conversation around criminal justice reform, racism, and policing methods. I believe that the people this book and their stories have the ability to help to create that change and enrich those dialogues and policy changes that must occur for justice to prevail.
It has been an honor for me to work on this project.
Thank you for helping me do this work,
Ama
http://bit.ly/FergusonInterviewProjectEbook
What a year it has been, and the work for the Ferguson Interview Project is still happening.
Currently, I am raising additional funding to support the promoting and marketing for this important book, but I need your help. Can you chip in $300, $150, or $50 today?
I have been scrappy and resourceful, but I need more funding to make sure this book gets the promoting that this book and these interviewees deserve.
The Ferguson Interview Project is timely, and the prospectives presented will hopefully lead to more generative conversations on criminal justice reform in the future.
I want to be able to continue doing this important work, but I won't be able to do that without your support. Please, if you can, chip in $500, $50, or $5 today. Every little bit makes a difference.
Check out this CalArts blog about the book:
http://blog.calarts.edu/2016/06/08/ama-birchs-ferguson-interview-project-examines-law-enforcement-in-ferguson-mo/
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Hello,
The transcription for the Ferguson Interview Project is complete, and we are getting pretty close to completion and publishing in late July.
I am in the process of completing the final edits and finalizing the layout for the book. Which I will need $2000 to finish.
I am hiring a company of help me in the laying out of this book, and I need a little help from you to finish the project, and their fee will guarantee that the book is widely available and has the professional quality that I want for this project.
Can you contribute $10 or more to help me get this book done and available to the public in July 2015?
Your contribution will help me finish editing, layout, design of the cover, and to attend the Netroots Nation conference in July where I will definitely talk to as many people as possible about the Ferguson Interview Project and what I have learned from the experience. I have received a scholarship to attend the event, but I could use a little more help covering my travel costs, transportation needs, and food while in Phoenix. I will be attending the conference and spending the first couple of weeks of July working on finalizing the book while writing the foreword. I will also be updating the blog daily during this period to gain more traction for the book as we move towards its release date.
When I began this project in May, I had no idea what an amazing experience it would be. Right now, I am so close to completion and I could really use the help to take the project to the end.
Can you contribute $10 or more today?
I really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Ama
P.S. Check out this blog to learn more about the Ferguson Interview Project----------------> BLOG
P.P.S. $10 goes a long way, please contribute today.
____________________________________________________________
Hello,
The Ferguson Interview Project has been going well, and I am thrilled to have been in St. Louis, Missouri and able to work on this important issue with this community. It has been illuminating and exciting. Furthermore, I have been surprised with the amount of support I have received on the project, and I am eager to take the work that I am doing here and getting it out to the greater public for consumption as quickly as possible.
Now that I am on the ground and the interviews have commenced. I have decided that in addition to writing an essay at the end of this two-week period, I will be transcribing these interviews and publishing them as a book. Can you give $25, $15, or $5 so that I can transcribe this interviews to prepare them to be published ? Transcription can be a tedious process, and being able to hire a company to do this will speed up the process of getting these interviews into your hands as soon as possible.
Right now, I need to raise $2000 to pay for the transcription and editing process. The companies that offer this service charge by the minute, and I am estimating that I will have twenty interviews that are roughly thirty minutes each, and the estimated costs are based on a rate of $3 a minute. Your support is invaluable to this project, and because of you, I have gotten this far. Can you help me reach the goal of $5000 to finish conducting these interviews here in St. Louis and prepare these interviews to be published?
Yesterday, I was taking a driving tour with a community leader in Ferguson who allowed me to interview her. The Ferguson, Missouri that we see often in the media is not the Ferguson that I have seen over the past 4 days. I want to share these interviews with you in a timely fashion so that we can learn from these people and their experience as we work to rebuild and address issues of economic development, systematic racism, and unlawful police violence.
So far, my big take way has been: Ferguson is not a bad place, but something awful happen there. In these interviews there lies many clues, please help me share these interviews with you. Can you contribute today?
You can read the original campaign description below.
Thanks,
Ama
P.S. I started a blog. Please follow along here-- Ferguson Interview Project Blog.
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Friend,
I have been offered the opportunity to go to St. Louis, Missouri for two weeks later on this month from May 18th to June 1st to conduct interviews with elected officials and civic leaders about their experience following the death of Michael Brown, the ensuing protests and subsequent riots that sparked the creation of #BlackLivesMatter and a moment of internet advocacy and activism that had not been seen before in the Digital Age. The essay that I will write after conducting these interviews will examine this moment in civil rights history with the narratives of those people who were living in St. Louis at the time and experiencing these events as they happened.
In order to conduct these interviews and take this opportunity, I need your help. Can you give $25, $15, or $5 so that I can pay for airplane tickets to and from St. Louis, rent a car, and cover basic living expenses while I am working on this project? Since my housing is being provided, this is an excellent opportunity for me to help document this important moment in the United States of America's history and how police brutality went from being a black and brown inner-city issue to being an American moment of realization that transcended race, class, sexual orientation and gender.
When I think about the history of Jim Crow in the United States and the reoccurring unlawful killing of African-American men, I am struck with the fact that not enough progress has been made on this issue since the end of the Restoration Period following the Civil War. James Balwin in "Evidence of Things Not Seen" writes, "Others may see American progress in economic, racial and social affairs--I do not." In my opinion, progress in relationship to police brutality would be the ceasing of law enforcement's unlawful killing of black men. I would argue, that when #BlackLivesMatter was created and the protests and die-ins occurred this was an incremental step in the direction of progress on this issue and the result was a change in public consciences and in an understanding of law enforcement's disproportionate targetting of African-American men and its ensuing effect on black and brown communities in particular, and all American communities ultimately. That is why I want to take this opportunity to have these conversations in Ferguson, Missouri to help document this story and analyze this turning point in the dialogue on race in the United States and its relationship to social media and digital organizing. Can you help me raise $1,500 to fund me conducting these interviews and writing about this important moment in American history?
Right now, many eyes in the United States of America and in the world are looking at the events as they develop in the City of Baltimore with regard to the death of Freddie Gray. There is also a growing conversation about the purpose and accessibility of cities for all people. The conversation around #BlackLivesMatter is continuing to pick up momentum in the media, and an understanding that all lives matter in the United States is growing as more and more people fight for civil rights equality for all Americans. Can you help me write more about this important topic and social issue with a gift to help me cover the cost of my transportation to and from St. Louis, Missouri, a rental car, and basic living expenses today?
My estimated budget is:
$600- two-week rental of a car plus insurance
$200- gasoline and tolls
$400- transportation to and from St. Louis including taxi
$151.50- living expenses and incidentals
$75- GoFundMe
$73.50- WePay
Thanks for chipping in,
Ama
P.S. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support!
It is almost the Ferguson Interview Project's second birthday, and I was thinking about all of the wonderful people who helped make this book, this project a reality. In honor of this book's second birthday and in return for the generosity you all have shown me and this project, I want to provide you all with the opportunity to download this ebook for free. Please use this link: http://bit.ly/FergusonInterviewProjectEbook
Because of your generosity, this book is available to be read on your computer, smartphone, Kindle, or tablet. Feel free to share this opportunity to get the ebook for free within your networks and with your friends. It is my pleasure to share this work with you all. Here is the link again: http://bit.ly/FergusonInterviewProjectEbook
There is not a day that I don't think about Michael Brown, Jr., St. Louis, and the countless other men and women who have been killed at the hands of law enforcement professionals. I hope this book changes the conversation around criminal justice reform, racism, and policing methods. I believe that the people this book and their stories have the ability to help to create that change and enrich those dialogues and policy changes that must occur for justice to prevail.
It has been an honor for me to work on this project.
Thank you for helping me do this work,
Ama
http://bit.ly/FergusonInterviewProjectEbook
What a year it has been, and the work for the Ferguson Interview Project is still happening.
Currently, I am raising additional funding to support the promoting and marketing for this important book, but I need your help. Can you chip in $300, $150, or $50 today?
I have been scrappy and resourceful, but I need more funding to make sure this book gets the promoting that this book and these interviewees deserve.
The Ferguson Interview Project is timely, and the prospectives presented will hopefully lead to more generative conversations on criminal justice reform in the future.
I want to be able to continue doing this important work, but I won't be able to do that without your support. Please, if you can, chip in $500, $50, or $5 today. Every little bit makes a difference.
Check out this CalArts blog about the book:
http://blog.calarts.edu/2016/06/08/ama-birchs-ferguson-interview-project-examines-law-enforcement-in-ferguson-mo/
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Hello,
The transcription for the Ferguson Interview Project is complete, and we are getting pretty close to completion and publishing in late July.
I am in the process of completing the final edits and finalizing the layout for the book. Which I will need $2000 to finish.
I am hiring a company of help me in the laying out of this book, and I need a little help from you to finish the project, and their fee will guarantee that the book is widely available and has the professional quality that I want for this project.
Can you contribute $10 or more to help me get this book done and available to the public in July 2015?
Your contribution will help me finish editing, layout, design of the cover, and to attend the Netroots Nation conference in July where I will definitely talk to as many people as possible about the Ferguson Interview Project and what I have learned from the experience. I have received a scholarship to attend the event, but I could use a little more help covering my travel costs, transportation needs, and food while in Phoenix. I will be attending the conference and spending the first couple of weeks of July working on finalizing the book while writing the foreword. I will also be updating the blog daily during this period to gain more traction for the book as we move towards its release date.
When I began this project in May, I had no idea what an amazing experience it would be. Right now, I am so close to completion and I could really use the help to take the project to the end.
Can you contribute $10 or more today?
I really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Ama
P.S. Check out this blog to learn more about the Ferguson Interview Project----------------> BLOG
P.P.S. $10 goes a long way, please contribute today.
____________________________________________________________
Hello,
The Ferguson Interview Project has been going well, and I am thrilled to have been in St. Louis, Missouri and able to work on this important issue with this community. It has been illuminating and exciting. Furthermore, I have been surprised with the amount of support I have received on the project, and I am eager to take the work that I am doing here and getting it out to the greater public for consumption as quickly as possible.
Now that I am on the ground and the interviews have commenced. I have decided that in addition to writing an essay at the end of this two-week period, I will be transcribing these interviews and publishing them as a book. Can you give $25, $15, or $5 so that I can transcribe this interviews to prepare them to be published ? Transcription can be a tedious process, and being able to hire a company to do this will speed up the process of getting these interviews into your hands as soon as possible.
Right now, I need to raise $2000 to pay for the transcription and editing process. The companies that offer this service charge by the minute, and I am estimating that I will have twenty interviews that are roughly thirty minutes each, and the estimated costs are based on a rate of $3 a minute. Your support is invaluable to this project, and because of you, I have gotten this far. Can you help me reach the goal of $5000 to finish conducting these interviews here in St. Louis and prepare these interviews to be published?
Yesterday, I was taking a driving tour with a community leader in Ferguson who allowed me to interview her. The Ferguson, Missouri that we see often in the media is not the Ferguson that I have seen over the past 4 days. I want to share these interviews with you in a timely fashion so that we can learn from these people and their experience as we work to rebuild and address issues of economic development, systematic racism, and unlawful police violence.
So far, my big take way has been: Ferguson is not a bad place, but something awful happen there. In these interviews there lies many clues, please help me share these interviews with you. Can you contribute today?
You can read the original campaign description below.
Thanks,
Ama
P.S. I started a blog. Please follow along here-- Ferguson Interview Project Blog.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Friend,
I have been offered the opportunity to go to St. Louis, Missouri for two weeks later on this month from May 18th to June 1st to conduct interviews with elected officials and civic leaders about their experience following the death of Michael Brown, the ensuing protests and subsequent riots that sparked the creation of #BlackLivesMatter and a moment of internet advocacy and activism that had not been seen before in the Digital Age. The essay that I will write after conducting these interviews will examine this moment in civil rights history with the narratives of those people who were living in St. Louis at the time and experiencing these events as they happened.
In order to conduct these interviews and take this opportunity, I need your help. Can you give $25, $15, or $5 so that I can pay for airplane tickets to and from St. Louis, rent a car, and cover basic living expenses while I am working on this project? Since my housing is being provided, this is an excellent opportunity for me to help document this important moment in the United States of America's history and how police brutality went from being a black and brown inner-city issue to being an American moment of realization that transcended race, class, sexual orientation and gender.
When I think about the history of Jim Crow in the United States and the reoccurring unlawful killing of African-American men, I am struck with the fact that not enough progress has been made on this issue since the end of the Restoration Period following the Civil War. James Balwin in "Evidence of Things Not Seen" writes, "Others may see American progress in economic, racial and social affairs--I do not." In my opinion, progress in relationship to police brutality would be the ceasing of law enforcement's unlawful killing of black men. I would argue, that when #BlackLivesMatter was created and the protests and die-ins occurred this was an incremental step in the direction of progress on this issue and the result was a change in public consciences and in an understanding of law enforcement's disproportionate targetting of African-American men and its ensuing effect on black and brown communities in particular, and all American communities ultimately. That is why I want to take this opportunity to have these conversations in Ferguson, Missouri to help document this story and analyze this turning point in the dialogue on race in the United States and its relationship to social media and digital organizing. Can you help me raise $1,500 to fund me conducting these interviews and writing about this important moment in American history?
Right now, many eyes in the United States of America and in the world are looking at the events as they develop in the City of Baltimore with regard to the death of Freddie Gray. There is also a growing conversation about the purpose and accessibility of cities for all people. The conversation around #BlackLivesMatter is continuing to pick up momentum in the media, and an understanding that all lives matter in the United States is growing as more and more people fight for civil rights equality for all Americans. Can you help me write more about this important topic and social issue with a gift to help me cover the cost of my transportation to and from St. Louis, Missouri, a rental car, and basic living expenses today?
My estimated budget is:
$600- two-week rental of a car plus insurance
$200- gasoline and tolls
$400- transportation to and from St. Louis including taxi
$151.50- living expenses and incidentals
$75- GoFundMe
$73.50- WePay
Thanks for chipping in,
Ama
P.S. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support!
Organizer
Ama Birch
Organizer
New York, NY