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UPDATE:
Thank you my kind and justice-loving friends! Together we contributed just over $3,500 for the Campaign for Equal Justice. This substantial sum is going to help scores of low-income families preserve their housing this holiday season, and I can't thank you enough.
It was a fun race this morning--no rain, just a lot of fog, which was kinda cool, running in the clouds. I finished in 1:43:43, which was better than I had hoped. Lucky for me you provided a lot of inspiration along the way--especially as I struggled up that crazy hill in Madison Valley!
Thank you once again for your generosity and all your well-wishes leading up to the race. You are the best.
-Karen
Now I'm going to push on to get to my $5K goal!
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There’s a particularly troubling legal problem vulnerable people in our communities are facing right now. Even in the best of times there is a “Justice Gap” to overcome*, but right now rental foreclosures are soaring in Seattle and throughout the state and our state’s civil legal aid programs are uniquely positioned to help.
You may have read about this shocking problem—tenants dutifully paying their rent only to be evicted when a landlord defaults on a property (check out the link at the bottom of this page to a story from the Seattle P.I.). Because the law overwhelmingly is on the side of landlords, free legal assistance is critical to help preserve housing for low-income people facing homelessness—due to no fault of their own—this holiday season.
The economic crisis we're in spells uncertainty for all of us, but low-income people are being hit hard—now. If you are in the position to be able to contribute this year, please sponsor me by making a tax-deductible donation to the Campaign for Equal Justice, our state’s unified annual giving drive that funds the 30 programs in Washington providing legal aid for those with nowhere else to turn.
Many kinds of urgent legal needs of low-income people are skyrocketing right now at the same time as other funding sources are being dramatically reduced, so charitable donations have never been more important. Thank you for your consideration!
-Karen
If you would prefer to mail a check directly, please make it payable and send to LAW Fund & the Campaign for Equal Justice, 1325 Fourth Ave., Suite 1335, Seattle, WA 98101.
Under the Needle: Law is on the landlord’s side (Nov. 22, 2008)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/388958_needle22.html
*Legal aid is uniquely situated to ease some of the harshest effects of the economic downturn and can mean the difference between shelter and homelessness, food on the table and hunger, economic stability and bankruptcy, productive work and unemployment. To learn more about the Campaign for Equal Justice, watch the client video to the left or check out: www.c4ej.org
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