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Thank you to everyone who entered this year's raffle!
Your raffle contributions go directly to support the campaigns and programs of the War Resisters League in our efforts to end war and eliminate its causes. We try to choose prizes with some special meaning, unique, handcrafted items and/or those from people or companies who are members and friends in the struggle for peace and justice.
We are always eager for new suggestions and offers of prizes for future raffles. Please let us hear from you!!
THE PRIZES... and the winners!!!
1st Prize Catherine Davies
Four Nights on Cape Cod
Take your family and friends to this quiet getaway on Cape Cod, MA. This three-room house, next to a nature preserve and near Hyannis and Woods Hole, includes a wonderful screened-in porch! (Sorry, travel is not included.)
2nd Prize Phyllis Cunningham
Wine Tasting in Riverhead, NY
Enjoy a VIP Wine tasting for six at Martha Clara Vineyards, Riverhead, NY. Cheese, meats, crackers, and chocolate will be served to complement wines and cleanse palate and discounts on wine given during the visit.
3rd Prize Shirley Nash
Pawleys Island Rope Hammock
Have a wonderful night’s sleep or a delightful nap in this cool, comfortable, and sturdy 100% hand-woven cotton hammock. Perfect for indoor or outdoor use.
4th Prize Bob Wilcox
Package from WRI Triennial in India
Three treasures from India: A reproduction of Gandhi’s small hand loom, made at his Sabarmati Ashram; a shirt, made especially for the WRI conference, with the type of fabric that was central in the Indians’ refusal to buy British goods; and scarf made by a women's collective in Gujarat.
5th Prize Penny Allen
Women’s Voices Art Book
Imagining Ourselves: Global Voices from a New Generation of Women, edited by Paula Goldman with a foreword by Isabel Allende. Color photography and paintings, poetry, fiction, songs, and essays by 105 young women from 57 countries, including Rokia Traore, Marisa Monte, Ani Difranco, Zaide Smith, and Queen Rania Al-Abdullah.
6th Prize Bill McCloskey
Bread and Puppet Banner
Resistance of the Heart Against Business as Usual, a 2 1/2 ft x 3 1/2 ft hand-printed woodcut banner from the Vermont-based art and theater group. This lovely fabric flag with a powerful message and floral image can decorate your wall, liven up a vigil, or hang outdoors at festivals and parties.
7th Prize Chris Fite
Goody-Bag #1 by PM Press
Two books: Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, edited by WRL’s Matt Meyer, and From Here To There: The Staughton Lynd Reader, by Staughton Lynd; and a CD featuring Howard Zinn, “War and Civil Disobedience.”
8th Prize Alice Rosenfeld
Goody-Bag #2 by PM Press
A DVD: “Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn”; a book: Damned Fools In Utopia: And Other Writings on Anarchism and War Resistance, by Nicolas Walter; and a CD: “Blackwater: Mercenary Army with Jeremy Scahill.”
9th Prize Donald Gildemeister
Goody-Bag #3 by PM Press
A book: Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World, by Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning; a DVD: “The Rise of Disaster Capitalism with Naomi Klein”; and a CD: “Iraq: The Forever War with Noam Chomsky.”
10th Prize Robert Larsen
West Bank Children Note cards
Keep up on your correspondence with this set of 10 beautiful full-color note cards, each with a different photo of Palestinian children taken by Ellen Davidson. Cards are 4 1/4” x 5 /2” with matching envelopes.
11th Prize Patricia Schulder
Package by Courage to Resist
A wonderful collection of items from a sister organization working to support GI resisters: A DVD, “Deserter,” by Big Noise Films; two books: The War Behind Me-Vietnam Vets Confront the Truth About US War Crimes by Deborah Nelson, and Voices of Conscience, by retired Col. Ann Wright and Susan Dixon; and a “Courage to Resist” cap and T-shirt.
12th Prize Ralph & Doris Copperman
Jazz CD: “Between the Lines”
Longtime WRL member Carol Leven has just released her first CD, featuring a creative mix of standards and originals that breaks down musical boundaries by blending jazz, pop, R&B, and standards for a fresh approach.
13th Prize Rosemary Bolza
War Resisters League Loot
A copy of Not Your Fodder! – the 2011 Peace Calendar; a baseball cap with WRL’s broken rifle logo; and an Alternative Apparel t-shirt with a gorgeous new Cristy Road graphic of a broken rifle and dove – a variation on our signature image
