{"article":{"id":82675,"heading":"midnight special bookstore","author":"ll","created":"2003-09-13 18:13:42","modified":"2013-11-11 00:26:03","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:26:03","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>September 12, 2003  <br><br> Dear Everyone...  <br><br> Last February, we closed our doors with the promise of a quick reopening. Thanks to you and all our customers, we were debt free and in healthy financial shape.  In the past 7 months, we have been hit with broken promises, a slow lumbering  city bureaucracy and all the usual problems and unforeseen costs associated w\/ building contractors.  <br><br> Financially, the delays have been crippling. When we open (hopefully in mid-October), our debt will be massive.  <br><br> When you signed our e-mail list, it was to be informed of our opening date and other store news; so it is very difficult to now have to ask for money.  <br><br> 5500 of you signed our e-mail list; if each of you gave at least $20.00, we would be half way toward eliminating our debt.. For some of you, $20.00 is not a  <br>  <br> lot of money, but for many of you, it is a great deal...especially in this time of the greatest oxymoron in history: the jobless recovery. Donating money to the  <br>  <br> Midnight Special is also truly a gift, because it is not tax-deductible.  <br><br> We ask you...because we have to.  <br><br> A group of wonderful and generous people have formed a Friends of the Midnight Special Committee to raise funds for the store...if you can offer time and\/or  <br>  <br> services, they could really use your help.  <br><br> To Donate: -- Please use the store&sup1;s secure credit card form at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msbooks.com\/help.html\">http:\/\/www.msbooks.com\/help.html<\/a>  <br><br> -- Or, mail check to Midnight Special Fund, PO Box 7274, Santa Monica, CA 90406  <br><br> To Help: Contact <a href=\"mailto:friends@msbooks.com\">friends@msbooks.com<\/a>  <br><br> For Info: Contact <a href=\"mailto:books@msbooks.com\">books@msbooks.com<\/a>  <br><br> We have been closed too long...we miss the books,the discussions and the debates. We miss being part of the great struggle for peace and TRUE justice. We miss you.  <br><br> See you soon,  <br><br> Margie, Midnight Special Bookstore <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.msbooks.com\/help.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"just got this email -- please forward","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/09\/82675.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}