Hi Demba, Thank you so much for your pledge and gift of $50.00 to the Chief Ebrima Manneh Family Fund via the Ellenecho effort. When received I will acknowledge it here promptly. Yes, regarding shifting focus, our focus has always been on raising funds for the Chief Manneh family. The theme was only to accrue friendly challenge, an enabler, as all donors are aware and we have concluded this part of our gifting effort for this year. Next year when we raise funds for the Chief Manneh Family, it will be on a different theme as the seasons change. Hopefully by then Chief Ebrima Manneh will be freed and the funds raised will be for benign sustenance. When we raise funds for Kanyibaa kanyi's family, the theme will not be associated with Demba's boxing or freedom. We will be working on another theme with the UDP and I encourage you to share your ideas on theme with us when you happen on one. The Vigils for Chief Manneh, kanyibaa Kanyi, the late Koro Ceesay, and the late Deyda Hydara will be organised without extraneous theme. I look forward to your assistance as we develop those Vigils. Thanx again for your enormous generousity and history will record this effort along with the theme this time. When we have Chief Ebrima Manneh here with us, I am confident he will appreciate your sportsmanship and its focus. Haruna. -----Original Message----- From: Demba Baldeh <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, Mar 15, 2010 1:24 pm Subject: Re: Update: Ellenecho Fundraising for the GPU-USA Chief Manneh Family Fund Hi Haruna, FYI, I am sending out my $50 pledge today to the address provided. Please look out for it and let me know once receive. May I also kindly ask that the focus be exclusively shifted to Chief Manneh and other colleagues and any donations be made in their honor instead of freeing Demba. I understand the spirit but the records should reflect the right course so history can correctly be referenced in the future without confusion. Thanks for all your efforts. Demba On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Thank you to Mr. Suntou Touray and Yankuba Darboe for your donations to the Chief Ebrima Manneh Family. I am particularly proud of the two of you because even though you took umbrage at Demba's ill-advised disposition as head of the GPU-USA, you endeavoured to yield his freedom from Ellenecho Bay all in the spirit of attenuating value for our fellow citizen and his family - Chief Ebrima Manneh. It is this spirit of shared sacrifices that will stand us in good stead as we gain our collective freedoms from the madman that is Yahya. I will bear on this spirit once again when we effort to support Kanyibaa Kanyi, Deyda Hydara, and Koro Ceesay and their families shortly. It is not how much we give but what statement we make with what we give. I am proud to be your fellow citizens. We will close fundraising for the Chief Ebrima Manneh family for this year once we receive Hon. Saihou's gift. Thank you all and I look forward to working with you again as we yield another of our quadruplet a good turn. Haruna. Haruna Darbo - $20.00 - Demba Jail - Received Suntou Touray - $20.00 - Demba Free - Received Yero Jallow - $25.00 - Demba Free - Received Haruna Darbo - $25.00 - Demba Jail - Received Chris Sukuna - $25.00 - Demba Free - Pledged Fatou J Manneh (via Yero) - $20.00 - Demba Free - Received Demba Baldeh - $50.00 - undecided - Pledged Yankuba Darboe - $45.00 - Demba Free - Received Hon. Lamin Darbo - $50.00 - Demba Free - Received Haruna Darbo - $20.00 - Demba Jail - Received Hon. Saihou Mballow - $50.00 - Demba Free - Pledged Thank you JDAM for your donation to the family of Chief Ebrima Manneh. You have always accompanied your fellow citizens in yielding relief and consideration for other. You are an inspiration to all of us and all Gambia and our community here at Ellen is the better off for it. When it counts, when the rubber meets the road, you have afforded the requisite lubricant to keep life going. For another day. For another month. For another year. The story goes; Two blind men at either side of the dabanani river effort to cross. One hollered at the other: "how do you get across to the other side"? and the other retorted: "Silly, You ARE on the other side." I am pleased to be on the other side with you JDAM. Thank you. Thank you Yero for your generous donations to the Chief Manneh Family Fund. Your gift to The GOLD FUND has also been received and a new update of that fund will include this your second contribution to that effort. Your spirit is contagious and during these times of financial stringency I am confident your gift has many competing demands. We are humbled that the relief of other occupies a large space in your heart. May DaarManso continue to keep, guide, and bless you and your family. For a net receipt of $30.00 Demba is now free from the custody of Ellenecho bay until new receipts for his re-boxing warrant so. This temporal freedom affords Demba the opportunity to seek counsel to represent him in his trial should he still believe in his innocence. If Demba pleads guilty and waives his rights to trial, then we can proceed to box Suntou for the chagrin he has caused Demba and other fellow citizen. Should we receive another donation for Demba's boxing prior to his plea of guilt, he will be further remanded until such time as net indicates his freedom again. We, at the community of Ellen and Gambiaecho have arraigned and placed our coleague and friend Demba Baldeh in our custody - The Ellenecho Bay. This was as a result of Demba's admission that he can be both biased and neutral at the same time while being an editor of the indomitable Gainako and Secretary General of the GPU-USA. Demba announces this disposition without due regard to the anxieties he caused our other coleague and friend Suntou. After numerous exchanges as to the merit of this disposition, we the Ellen and Echo communities are not able to yield closure on the seminal quandry. Indeed the tonguicoff offered no secours for the rest of us who may be afflicted with the same conflict. Being the good sport that he is, Demba has ascended to his own arraignment here in order that we may yield arithemetic discernment of his value as biased and neutral simultaneously as Secretary General of the GPU-USA. Therefore, $20.00 placed him in confinement not to speak at the Ellen or Echo community until such time as another of our coleagues and friends determines it is valuable to have the simultaneously conflicted Demba released. To secure Demba's continued incarceration or Freedom, que sa soit, you are encouraged to send your donation to: The Global Democracy Project Chief Manneh Family Fund P.O. Box 775 Lithia Springs, GA 30122 Please mark: Demba Jail or Demba Free as you desire. For those of our coleagues who reside outside the US and wish to participate here, please send your gifts in the form of international money orders and or bank check. We encourage you to plead with your friends and family in the US to complete your gifting for you where that is possible. We will share a running tally with the communities from time to time or as appropriate when Demba's release becomes imminent. Until net receipts suggest Demba's release, Demba remains in our custody. All proceeds from this fundraiser will be forwarded to the GPU-USA as Ellen and Echo's contribution to the larger effort in the Chief Manneh Family name. Our coleagues Mr. Baba Galleh Jallow and Mr. Lamin J. Darbo may issue a moratorium at any time during the fundraiser to grant any detainee reprieve. In the event the two gentlemen are deadlocked, our coleague Mr. Yero Jallow will break the deadlock and his determination will be incontestable. For those of our coleagues who wish to bypass this scheme and gift directly to the Chief Manneh Family Fund, we encourage you to send your donations to: The GPU-USA C/O Lamin Jatta 1470 Jesup Avenue Bronx, NY 10452 Please annotate your gifting: GPU-USA Chief Manneh Family Fund Thank you one and all and I encourage you to participate in yielding understanding on the seminal question of whether we can be both biased and neutral at the same time while we head a professional association without undue affect on our fellow citizens. 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