After no success checking locally -- I wonder: Are they ending up in the dump or are they being salvaged for the copper?
(Zulu women are using the colored telephone wire to make baskets)
You can find these all over the internet, but you'd end up having to pay for them... You are looking for donations of end-of-life cables to make the baskets, I recommend trying some of the electronics recycling organizations that are becoming more and more prevelent. Electronics put tons of bad chemicals in our environment when they are thrown away, so more and more efforts are coming up to find ways to recycle them rather than throw them in a landfill. Look up "End Of Life Electronics" for some of the efforts out there.
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