The Beachhead needs you
Dear friend and
reader,
If you believe that Venice
needs a newspaper that tells the truth about what’s going on in our
beloved town, then we need your support.
The Free Venice Beachhead disappeared back
in the mid-1990s but last June, we gathered together some veterans and some
newcomers and began publishing again. You’re holding in your hands our
eighth monthly edition of the
paper.
The goals and ideals that led to
the founding of the Beachhead in 1968 are still our goals and ideals. We want to
inform and mobilize our community to threats and opportunities. We love both the
idea and the reality of Venice.
The
Free Venice Beachhead is, as always, put together by a volunteer collective (see
page two for our names). However, our printer likes to be paid for its
work.
We have some modest goals.
We’d like to print more pages every month. We’d like to print at
least 10,000 copies. Currently, at 7,000 copies we can’t supply all the
locations that want to carry the Beachhead. With your support, the Beachhead
will be able to print more copies and expand distribution
.
We love our hometown advertisers. But
the Beachhead has never survived solely on advertising. We are primarily a
reader-supported institution. You might say we’re the Venice version of
the Pacifica network and radio station KPFK. As you know, the Beachhead and KPFK
are among the few publications or broadcasters that are not corporately
owned.
That’s where you come in.
We’d like you to become a Beachhead Sustainer. We’ll only bother you
once a year for your hundred bucks. Or if you prefer, send us $50 now, and
we’ll hound you for the remaining $50 in six
months.
Here’s what you’ll
get by becoming a Beachhead Sustainer (in addition to the satisfaction of
helping the Beachhead survive and
grow).
• We’ll list the
names of Sustainers in each and every Beachhead (unless you tell us to withhold
your name).
• If you like, we’ll
mail you a copy of the Beachhead so you can avoid waiting in line to get
one.
• We’ll give you a big
discount on the price of admission at Beachhead
events.
• We’ll give you a free
business-card-size advertisement in the Beachhead once a
year.
• While supplies last, you have
your choice of a classic Randy Brook poster with a bird’s-eye view of the
Boardwalk, or a CD from a recent Beachhead
concert.
Thank you in advance from the
Collective for helping to keep a free press alive and well in
Venice!
Posted: Wed - January 1, 2003 at 08:53 PM