Dear SpareRoomers Here is a way of helping make Christmas in detention less miserable:
In the week after Christmas a small group of people will be travelling from Sydney to visit at Baxter and Woomera. They will be taking donated goods and presents with them. Below is a list of items we'd love to get more of to take with us if anyone can help out. Also they are trying to raise money for part of the costs - all of them will be paying for personal costs of transport and accomodation, but need to raise a little bit of money for transporting the goods, trailer hire, boxing up gifts etc. They'd prefer to work for donations by giving talks or things like that but for groups located far from sydney that's not so easy for them. Please contact Kate Gauthier 02 9590 5290 or <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any gifts or funds to donate. Thanks. Gift list below Kate Durham <http://www.SpareRoomsForRefugees.com> www.SpareRoomsForRefugees.com Julian Burnside ----- Julian Burnside QC <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.julianburnside.com> www.julianburnside.com All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. - Martin Luther King, Jr. --------------------------------- Gift wish list If anything is being donated 2nd hand, please make sure it is clean and in good working order. We cannot afford to fix items, or buy missing cables etc. In case any new items need to be exchanged, please tape the receipt to the box, or keep the receipt and write your name and contact details on a piece of paper taped to the box. For every item donated we have to raise funds to transport it. Please help us by donating money towards the transportation costs for your gift. PLAYSTATIONS Sony Playstation2 $400 - would be best if we could get them converted so they can play "Backup" games. Games - can take playstation 1 and 2 TVs to plug playstations into RADIOS 10 band radios to get international stations Sangean 10-band portable Shortwave Receiver Dick Smith Catalogue# D2834 $69.94 Sangean shortwave antenna booster Dick Smith Catalogue# D4400 $26.20 CD & CASSETTE PLAYERS Please note that NO audio equipment can have recording features or it will not be allowed by ACM. If you cannot find a cassette player without recording, we can pay to have the recording feature disabled by Tandy in Port Augusta. Please donate $5-$10 towards this cost. Dick Smith has a sony CD walkman for $99 Dick Smith has a Digitor CD/radio boom box for $89. Cat #A5545 Dick Smith has a TEAC CD/radio boom box for $129. Cat #A1539 Also have Sharp CD/Radio/Cassette players for $100 Cassette walkmans cost about $15 - $40 each. Tandy have pretty much the same products for same price ENGLISH LEARNING TOOLS Books with cassette or CD are the best kind. Dictionaries VIDEOS AND DVDS Any kind of movies, in english and other languages. If you have any old ones lying around, pass them on. Some people have said they like Indian musicals. BOOKS Books for children and adults of varying types. Fiction, non-fiction, educational, picture books etc New and used are fine, but in good condition please. SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscribe someone to a newspaper, or national geographic or gets kids GEO magazine. Contact Kate Gauthier on <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 02 9590 5290 if you would like to buy a subscription. COMPUTERS & COMPUTER ACCCESSORIES Got an old laptop or desktop or printer you don't use anymore? Please make sure it is in working order and has all the cables, mouse, keyboard etc. We cannot afford and don't have time to sort these things out. If it has an internal modem, let us know, as that will have to be disabled. FOOD ITEMS Non-perishable food Dried Fruit or Nut baskets, biscuits. Muesli bars, etc etc Please contact Kate Gauthier on 9590 5290 or <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any donations -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
