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Dear Free Software Supporter,

As you may already know, every associate member is incredibly valuable
to the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Since most of our funding comes
from individual donations and memberships, associate members aren’t
just a number. Each new membership magnifies our reach and our ability
to effect social change, by demonstrating your commitment to the
crucial cause of software freedom.

Right now, FSF associate members have the opportunity to reap some
fantastic rewards by participating in our [virtual LibrePlanet
membership drive][1]. We still have the raffle prizes generously
donated by [Technoethical, Vikings, JMP.chat, and ThinkPenguin][2] for
this year’s [LibrePlanet conference][3], which we held [entirely
online][4] this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, we’re giving
them away to those who go the extra mile to help us grow by referring
new annual associate members to sign up!

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Associate members receive a range of [benefits][5] for their
contribution, like an FSF email alias, access to the [member
forum][6], 20% discount in the [FSF shop][7], and gratis entrance to
the annual [LibrePlanet][8] conference. In fact, we've been working
hard to add an exciting new member benefit this month as well -- stay
tuned!

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Winning the prizes is easy: just find a friend, acquaintance,
colleague, or family member who uses free software, knows about free
software, or is just worried about how corporate abuses of computer
users by proprietary software [are ramping up right now][9], and tell
them why they need to support the FSF today.

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**In order for you to qualify to win a prize, new members have to sign
up using your referral link. You will find your personal referrer link
on the dashboard after logging in at <[link removed]>.**

To see the prize list, and find out how many referrers you need for
each prize, check out our original announcement of the raffle at
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It shouldn’t be difficult to understand or explain why our work is so
crucial today, and why the fight to free our software deserves
everyone’s support. We hope you’ll agree with John Hamelink, who told
us he became an associate member this month because "We've never
needed the Free Software Foundation more than right now."

Happy and healthy hacking!

Dana Morgenstein
Outreach and Communications Coordinator


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