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Screenings! "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters" to Air Around the Country March 29th to April 12th -- Host One in Your Home or Community or School! 3/5/04 Over the past few months, DRCNet readers have ordered roughly 400 copies from us of the Flex Your Rights (FyR) video "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters." From March 29th to April 12th, civil rights enthusiasts around the country will be holding screenings of BUSTED at homes, campuses and theaters around the country. And the DVD copies that some of you have requested will be ready on time for them, with DVD and VHS copies both having great new cover artwork. In order to encourage you to participate in this nationwide set of events, we are now offering copies of BUSTED with donations of $25, down from the previous $35 level. Also, if you simply can't afford even $25, but will definitely be holding a screening, we will send you a copy for a donation of $15. And if you are with an organization, we can arrange for you to be sent additional copies of BUSTED, to be sold on the occasion of your screening and paid for or returned after it. So please visit http://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/ to make the most generous contribution you can and to order your copies of BUSTED today! Your donation will also help DRCNet (and Flex Your Rights) navigate the troubled waters of our nation's struggling economy. Members are more important to organizations like ours than ever before! You can also donate by check or money order, by sending them to: DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036. Visit http://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/ to print out a form to send in with your donation or to give by credit card today. Consider signing up for a monthly donation too! Contributions to the Drug Reform Coordination Network are not tax-deductible. If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation to support our educational work, make your check payable to DRCNet Foundation, same address -- the portion of your donation that you can deduct will be reduced by the retail value of the gifts you request. For further information on BUSTED screenings, please contact FyR executive director (and former DRCNet HEA staff member) Steven Silverman at steve@flexyourrights.org, or visit FyR at http://www.flexyourrights.org online. Lastly, if you never read Phil Smith's review of BUSTED published in Drug War Chronicle after BUSTED first came out, you can check it out at http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/310/bustedreview.shtml online. SOME OF THE ADVANCE PRAISE FOR "BUSTED": "Our precious constitutional rights are worth only the paper they are written on unless we understand and exercise them. BUSTED makes an important contribution toward transforming the Constitution's paper promises into real rights for real people." -- Nadine Strossen, president, American Civil Liberties Union "BUSTED provides effective instruction in how to benefit from basic constitutional rights. It deserves wide distribution." -- Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution fellow; Nobel laureate economist "BUSTED teaches that people have precious inherent rights under our Constitution and should never feel guilty when exercising these rights during police encounters." -- Joseph D. McNamara, former police chief of San Jose, CA "Most nonviolent drug offenders would have avoided my courtroom if they had seen BUSTED." -- Robert W. Sweet, US District Court Judge "As a journalist covering the war on drugs, I've often been surprised at how readily people consent to searches. By clearly explaining and vividly illustrating the dynamics of encounters with the police, BUSTED should help people keep their calm -- and their freedom." -- Jacob Sullum, senior editor, Reason Magazine; author, "Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use" "Chronic disregard for civil rights is tearing apart the fabric of America. Flex Your Rights has hit the nail on the head in this hard hitting instructional video." -- Mike Gray, author, "Drug Crazy"; chairman, Common Sense for Drug Policy "BUSTED is the only video I know of that is providing clear and candid information about how to 'just say no' to intimidating police searches. Parents, teachers, and concerned citizens across the US should use BUSTED to protect young people, who are often targeted by police, from the greatest harm of using marijuana -- arrest." -- Robert Kampia, executive director, Marijuana Policy Project "We should not be put in the position of trying to protect individuals from themselves, because that is when we police start violating people's constitutional rights." -- Jack A. Cole, executive director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "If enough people see BUSTED it will alter the balance of power on America's streets forever." -- Nora Callahan, executive director, November Coalition -- END -- |
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