Free Buffalo/Free Niagara will hold a fundraiser-cocktail party at Shanghai Red's Restaurant on the waterfront downtown on Thursday, August 18th from 6-8pm. It's the old Crawdaddy's at the Marina.

$100 per person; $175 per couple. You may pay at the door or send a check to "Free New York, Inc.", 1535 Hertel Ave., Buffalo, NY, 14216.

Free New York, Inc. is a New York State not-for-profit corporation. Donations may be tax deductible--consult your tax adviser.

This is a critical event for Free Buffalo. AS PROMISED, with the profits from the Taste of Freedom, we were able to incorporate and locate and refurbish a vacant storefront on "happening" Hertel Ave into a functioning office. We used a lot of sweat equity and donated furniture. Paulette Peterson did a brilliant design job.

If this next fundraiser is a success, we will have the funds necessary to operate at least until January, which will allow us to complete our ambitious 2005 agenda.

For the sake of neatness, I'll post that agenda on a different thread.

Let me repeat what I said at the first two meetings of Free Buffalo. Does anything think you can defeat an $18 billion political machine without spending any money?