[BRC-NEWS] Black United Fund Dropped from Fundraising Program Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit The Philadelphia Inquirer May 28, 1999 City drops charity tied to Abu-Jamal The Black United Fund can no longer receive donations through a Phila. employees' fund-raising program. By Monica Yant, Larry Fish, and Craig R. McCoy INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS The African American charity that for eight years has served as a conduit for money flowing to the campaign to free death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal has been dumped from the city employees' annual charitable appeal. The Black United Fund of Pennsylvania Inc., which handled money raised at the recent Millions for Mumia march, has been told by city officials that it can no longer participate in the Combined Campaign, a $1.7 million fund drive involving 14,000 city workers: http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/May/28/front_page/BUF28.htm (c) 1999 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- BRC-NEWS: Black Radical Congress - General News/Alerts/Announcements Subscribe: Email "subscribe brc-news" to ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytrc-06.02.99-02:52:07-2486