The Bracelet Program was an initiative of International Possibilities Unlimited; a nonprofit organization incorporated in Ann Arbor, Michigan in January 1985.  The program was run by a small group of students at the University of Michigan.  The purpose of the Bracelet Program was to 1) raise people’s consciousness about the system of apartheid and the continued racial and socio-economic oppression of people in southern Africa, 2) educate the public about the plight of political prisoners, and 3) be a catalyst for people to develop a personal attachment or bond with a particular political prisoner and his/her family. 

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