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 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.

Thank you in advance from the Collective for helping to keep a free press alive and well in Venice!

Count me in as a Beachhead Sustainer!

___ Here’s my $100 check. ___ Here’s $50. Bill me again in six months for the other $50. ___ Please mail me the Beachhead every month.

Name: _____________________________________ Phone: __________________________

Address: ___________________________________ City, Zip: _______________________

Email:___________________________________

Clip & mail to: Beachhead, POB 644, Venice CA 90294

Posted: Sat - February 1, 2003 at 08:08 PM          


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