Fast for Life Records, 1980-1985

Contents List

Container Title
M97-073
Part 1 (M97-073, Audio 1482A): Original Collection, 1980-1984
Physical Description: 5.2 cubic feet (5 record center cartons and 1 card file box) and 6 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note: The collection documents the actions of Fast for Life from Gray's first conception of the idea though successful completion of a forty-day fast (beginning August 6, 1983) by Gray and others, followed by extensive analysis of the outcome. Included is a final report written by Gray and co-faster Dorothy Granada; early organizing files; minutes of meetings; newsletters; a guide to political fasting written by Gray; collected articles about nuclear weapons and war; open letters to world leaders; written and recorded poetry and prayer services; domestic and foreign media files containing articles about the fast and fasters, interviews, and press releases; extensive correspondence with supporters; a file card index documenting support actions around the world; evaluations of the fast and its effectiveness; and tape recorded radio interviews and programs.
Box   1
Folder   1
Series: “Fast for Life: a Report of an Experiment in Non-Violence,” 1984
Scope and Content Note: Final report containing history, evaluations, et cetera.
Series: Organizing Files
Box   1
Folder   2
Initial proposal for Fast (1980), U.N. Fast, Other Early Work
Box   1
Folder   3
Announcement of Fast, 1982 June 19
Box   1
Folder   4
Solange Fernex - World Conference against A & H Bombs, 1982
Box   1
Folder   5
FFL core activists - U.S. West Coast
Box   1
Folder   6
FFL organizers
Box   1
Folder   7
Fasters and applicants
Box   1
Folder   8
Action alerts, 1-5
Box   1
Folder   9
Appeal, 1983
Note: In English and German.
Box   1
Folder   10
Brochures
Note: In English and Spanish.
Budget
Box   1
Folder   11
circa 1983 February-October
Box   1
Folder   12
Financial statements
Box   1
Folder   13
Finances, May assessment, 1983
Box   1
Folder   14
Fundraising letter
Box   1
Folder   15
Receipts
Box   1
Folder   16
Communications between Fast centers
Box   1
Folder   17
Government contacts
Box   1
Folder   18
Letters from Fasters, fundraising letters, et cetera
Box   1
Folder   19-21
Letters from FFL
Box   1
Folder   22-23
Letters to and from FFL
Box   1
Folder   24
“The Date is Set” (Newspaper of FFL)
Box   1
Folder   25
FFL Organizing Committee (FLOC) - minutes and agenda
Box   1
Folder   26
Fasting - spiritual aspects
Box   1
Folder   27
Goals - Jack and Charles drafts
Box   1
Folder   28
Graphics
Box   1
Folder   29
“A Guide to Political Fasting” and “A Guide to Fasting”
Note: With French translation.
Box   1
Folder   30
Health - legal issues
Box   1
Folder   31
Hiroshima names and photographs, 1983 August 6
Box   1
Folder   32
History
Box   1
Folder   33
Literature - file copies
Box   1
Folder   34
Medical essays - nuclear war
Box   2
Folder   1
Nuclear arms and nuclear war
Box   2
Folder   2
Nuclear freeze strategy
Outreach
Box   2
Folder   3
Open letters to Andropov and Reagan
Box   2
Folder   4
Prayer services
Box   2
Folder   5
Stickers, buttons, et cetera
Box   2
Folder   6
Strategy - timeline
Box   2
Folder   7
Support
Box   2
Folder   8
Religious
Box   2
Folder   9
Poetry
Box   2
Folder   10
Political initiatives
Series: Evaluations
Box   2
Folder   11
Documentation - letters, analysis, method
Document evaluation
Box   2
Folder   12
Working papers
Box   2
Folder   13
Core documents
Box   2
Folder   14
Supporting documents
Box   2
Folder   15
TDIS data, letters, et cetera
Evaluations (by number)
Box   2
Folder   16
1-20
Box   2
Folder   17
21-40
Box   2
Folder   18
41-82
Box   2
Folder   19
83-102
Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV) evaluations
Box   2
Folder   20
A-M
Box   2
Folder   21
N-Z
Box   2
Folder   22
Duplicates
Box   2
Folder   23
Received too late for report
Box   2
Folder   24
How Fast changed lives
Box   2
Folder   25
Post analysis
Series: Media Files
Box   2
Folder   26-27
Phone/media log books
Box   2
Folder   28
E.N.D. press conference (Daniel Ellsberg and Solange Fernex), 1983 May 3
Box   2
Folder   29
Press coverage of FFL
Box   2
Folder   30
Media analysis
Box   2
Folder   31
New media since analysis
Box   2
Folder   32
Media - press packet, conference, 1983 July 19
Box   2
Folder   33
Japan FFL - Media Coverage, et cetera
Box   2
Folder   34
Interviews
Box   2
Folder   35
Miscellaneous articles on FFL, fliers, et cetera
Box   2
Folder   36
Releases and fliers produced by FFL
Box   2
Folder   37
Press releases
Box   2
Folder   38
1983 July 19-September 14
Box   2
Folder   39
Miscellaneous
Box   2
Folder   40
General press - pre-Fast
Box   3
Folder   1
Foreign releases, et cetera
Foreign press
Box   3
Folder   2
Pre-Fast
Box   3
Folder   3
1983 August 6-September 2
Box   3
Folder   4
1983 September 2-16
Box   3
Folder   5
Post-Fast
Press
Box   3
Folder   6
Dutch
Box   3
Folder   7
French
Box   3
Folder   8
German
Box   3
Folder   9
Spanish
Box   3
Folder   10
Post-Fast
General press
Box   3
Folder   11
1983 August 6-19
Box   3
Folder   12
1983 August 20-September 2
Box   3
Folder   13
1983 September 3-9
Box   3
Folder   14
1983 September 10-16
Box   3
Folder   15
1983 September 17-1984 January 1
Box   3
Folder   16
Miscellaneous
Religious and movement press
Box   3
Folder   17
Pre-Fast
Box   3
Folder   18
1983 August 6-September 2
Box   3
Folder   19
1983 September 2-16
Box   3
Folder   20
Post-Fast, 1983 September 17-1984
Media reproductions
Box   3
Folder   21
1983 August
Box   3
Folder   22
1983 September
Series: Support Actions and Correspondence
Box   3
Folder   23
Support actions
Box   3
Folder   24
Support - actions and fasts, et cetera
Box   3
Folder   25
To file
Sample letters
Box   3
Folder   26
A-L
Box   3
Folder   27
M-Z
Box   3
Folder   28
Quotes and poems from letters
Correspondence
1982 July-1983 August 5
Box   3
Folder   29-37
A-I
Box   4
Folder   1-15
J-Z
Box   4
Folder   16-39
A-Z, 1983 August 6-September 2
Box   5
Folder   1-24
A-Z, 1983 September 3-16
Box   5
Folder   25-48
A-Z, 1983 September 17-November 30
Box   5
Folder   49
Miscellaneous letters
Box   6
Support actions, including international and domestic
Tape recordings
Audio   1482A/1
Charles Gray - Mountain Radio Journal, 1983 June 14
Audio   1482A/2
Fast for Life, 1983 August
Audio   1482A/3
Michael Dixon's interview, KCBS Radio, 1983 August 16
Audio   1482A/4
Fast for Life - Changes Radio, 1983 August
Audio   1482A/5
Song for the Fasters - Mary Sprunger
Audio   1482A/6
Prayer service - FFL
M2019-015
Part 2 (M2019-015): Additions, 1982-1985
Physical Description: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1982-1985, consisting of local organizing and outreach materials, correspondence, conference and working group materials, financial records, reports, articles, notes, newsletters, coordinators and key contacts, international Fast for Life materials, and poetry.
Box   1
Folder   1
Outreach-speaking engagement, 1983
Box   1
Folder   2
Budget, prices, 1982-1983
Box   1
Folder   3
Local organizing
Box   1
Folder   4
Originals forms
Box   1
Folder   5
Outgoing correspondence, 1984
Box   1
Folder   6
Conference, 1984
Box   1
Folder   7
Working group, 1984
Box   1
Folder   8
Finance, 1984
Box   1
Folder   9
Correspondence, handouts, news releases, 1983-1985
Box   1
Folder   10
Sermon, 1982
Box   1
Folder   11
Coordinator, 1983
Box   1
Folder   12
Reports, articles, notes, 1983-1984
Box   1
Folder   13
Newsletters: News Notes, Fast Actions, 1983-1984
Box   1
Folder   14
Industrial liaison, 1984
Box   1
Folder   15
Program Committee, 1984
Box   1
Folder   16
Structure Points of Unity, 1984
Box   1
Folder   17-21
Current phones and contacts, 1983-1984
Box   1
Folder   22
Correspondence, 1983-1984
Box   2
Folder   1
International coordinator, 1984
Box   2
Folder   2
Correspondence, 1983-1984
Box   2
Folder   3
Key contacts, 1983-1984
Box   2
Folder   4
TDIS coupons returned, 1984
Box   2
Folder   5
Literature layout
Box   2
Folder   6-7
Mailing lists, 1982-1984
Box   2
Folder   8
Media
Box   2
Folder   9
Walk of the people, 1984-1985
Box   2
Folder   10
Peacemakers coalition, 1984
Box   2
Folder   11
International Fast for Life, 1983-1984
Box   2
Folder   12
Poetry, 1984