Even a dollar would be a great help. Just go to the "Contact Us" page for addresses, etc. We are not yet registered as a nonprofit corporation, but, even when we do become registered, we probably won't be 501(c)3, because we're lobbyists.

 

If you would like to make a donation towards the $35 fee for becoming a registered non-profit, send us a check in any amount made out to the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions.

 

The expense of copying and printing the literature for our literature tables alone is very difficult for us. None of us has much of an income.

 

FFPS was started by a few very poor folks who believe in a few simple, old-fashioned, basic principles, like, justice, grass roots democracy, and telling the truth. 

 

We are disabled and on fixed incomes, single moms, students, low-income workers.

 

So far, all the expenses of FFPS have been donated by us and our families, who, like us, have very little.

 

We actually started FFPS three years ago, in April of 2000. That was our first (and only, so far) year of having our literature table at the Square for the Farmers' Market. We got a very good response at that literature table. Many people were happy to speak with us and sign our petition and mailing list.

 

We had to go on a two-year hiatus when some very influential and hateful people here in Dane County made it their personal business to bring harm to us and those we love. These people brought harm to our family members who were extremely vulnerable. They actually used sections of Chapter 51 against some completely uninvolved family members, in retaliation for our community activism.

 

Not surprisingly, these hateful people were connected with a well-known, powerful organization which promotes the "biomedical" model of mental "illness". This organization receives more than half of its support from manufacturers of neuroleptic drugs.

 

We fully support that organization's right to express its opinion. In fact, we encourage it.

 

But, we have our opinion, as well.

 

And, we're not getting paid to express it.