$50 will pay one writer for one month

$20 will mail out 24 copies of Practical Anarchy

$30 will pay for 500 copies of the Alternative Media Guide

$35 will pay our phone bill for one month

$40 will pay the webmaster's Internet charge for one month

$200 will pay a month's rent for the Infoshop office (estimate)

$2000 will pay the costs to publish one issue of Practical Anarchy magazine

Donations can be mailed to us via the PO Box listed below. Please make your check or money order out to "Alternative Media Project."

AMP - Alternative Media Project
PO Box 3123
Arlington, VA 22203

Other ways to support Infoshop/AMP

Sustainer Program

Dear Infoshop supporter,

Nine years. Nine years of tweaking the nose of authority. Nine years of alternative news. This month, Infoshop.org celebrates its ninth birthday. In January of 1995, this project started small as a collection of web pages called the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop. Now Infoshop.org has become an important and popular resource for activists and people interested in alternatives to the corporate media. Infoshop.org currently averages over 6 million hits per month and had close to one million unique visitors in 2003. Many of you have told us how important Infoshop.org is to your lives. And Infoshop.org has been doing all of this based on an international network of volunteers.

Over the past year, we have been setting up an umbrella nonprofit organization to run Infoshop.org, Practical Anarchy magazine, and several new projects. This nonprofit is called The Alternative Media Project. All of these projects require a huge amount of work-Infoshop News in itself has become a full time job to coordinate, maintain and develop. After much discussion, we have decided to ramp up the Infoshop/AMP project to a new level, which will require more financial resources, but which we think is a good investment that will help nurture activist movements and independent journalism.

We are hoping to raise $50,000 this year to support the Infoshop/AMP project. A large portion of this amount needs to come from our supporters, which is why you are reading this online appeal. If you make a donation of at least $10, you become part of our Sustainer Program.

Where is the money going?

Radical Writers and Artists - This fund is a new AMP project that will pay money to radical writers to do original investigative journalism and op-eds. And we can't forget our friendly radical artists! This fund will help create the next generation of radical political writers.

Infoshop Office and Library - A project as complicated as Infoshop/AMP deserves an office for staff and volunteers. The Infoshop/AMP office will help us maintain and develop Infoshop.org and AMP projects. It will help us answer your questions and allow us to better coordinate Infoshop volunteers. And we hope to make the space available to support community members who are doing grassroots DIY journalism.

Infoshop Staff - We would like to create one full time and one half time staff positions. Running Infoshop.org is a full time job. And coordinating the international network of volunteers is a half time job. Our movement needs to support our more dedicated volunteers.

Breaking Glass Press - We want to see more radical books in infoshops and bookstores. This project will publish new books under the Breaking Glass imprint.

Practical Anarchy Magazine - We would like to publish Practical Anarchy magazine 3 or 4 times this year and bi-monthly starting in 2005. Many of you have told us that you love this magazine, so we've organized a collective to put out a regular magazine. The new Practical Anarchy magazine will average around 40 pages and will look like a magazine that you see on the newstand.

Infoshop.org operations - We need to cover ongoing expenses associated with domain fees, hardware and software, Internet connectivity, and all those odds and ends.

Street Distro Project - Our flyer promoting the alternative press, "What you don't know," has been distributed to thousands of people on subways and sidewalks around Washington, DC, as well as other cities. We plan to expand this successful project with more materials, including more versions for more cities.

We live in times where resources like Infoshop.org are needed now more than ever before. Global capitalism continues to wreck the planet. Racist police departments terrorize our neighborhoods. Poor people still freeze to death each night. The U.S. Empire continues its violence around the world. Infoshop.org doesn't exist just to scare you about these events, we exist to help empower you to take positive action with your friends, family, co-workers, and neighborhoods. Your help at this time can help put Infoshop.org and AMP projects on a solid footing, which will help us to help you in the years to come. Your help will help make us reach more people with radical ideas that can help them improve their lives.

Demand the impossible!

Chuck Munson
Jamie "Bork" Loughner
Eric Laursen

Infoshop/AMP Steering Committee

"Oddly enough, Infoshop, one of the Web's best-organized political sites, is run by anarchists--those madcap guys in black advocating the end of organization. The brainchild of "a bunch of anarchists and anti-authoritarians who wish to remain anonymous," the site is a veritable buffet for would-be rabble-rousers and malcontents. Offering a thorough library of links to news and events of interest to the anarchy community, the site also features such favorites as 'How to Shut Down the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney' and 'Why Not to Vote.' To lighten the mood, there's even an anarchy humor setion, with cartoons and jokes: 'So Sacco and Vanzetti walk into a bar...'"
George magazine, July 2000

"I really, really like Infoshop.org." -- Hartford, Connecticut

"You have the best news wire. I've been visiting it since 1999. Thank you! This is always the resource I give to people who ask for more information about anarchism." -- Victoria, British Columbia

"Thanks for all your hard work. Been very helpful and uplifting for me. hope you know that you are appreciated."

"Our homes are your homes. Come visit us in South Dakota sometime and we'll show you how we party. We don't mean cow-tipping. Keep up the good work."

"Keep up the good work... Infoshop existing helps many in their local organizing, finding out what's going on regionally and nationally, and is a good way to just send someone to the website and have them explore!"

"Just keep it up...this is an invaluable resource."

"This is a good site, and it's a great source of inspiration to me. It taught me about what anarchism is and isn't, and answered most of my questions. If it wasn't for this site, I'm not sure I'd be an anarchist, not yet, at least. Thanks." -- Coventry, UK

"Keep on going....don't disappear...." -- Venice, California

"Infoshop is a tremendous resource. I set it as default at every computer I find available."

"Infoshop is a great resource, a great effort; thanks so much for doing it! I'm amazed at how often it's updated and how much is on it." -- New York City

"I really enjoy your site, thank you for giving me information and permitting me to learn stuff. Even though I am not an anarchist, you are my favorite website. GOOD JOB!" -- Moncton, Canada

"Thanks, mainly for hosting the Anarchist FAQ which led me to being an anarchist." -- Skellefteċ, Sweden

"Keep up the good work...your website is and will be a big help in my learning process. Thanks." -- Montreal

"You all are just beautiful." -- San Francisco

"Infoshop is a great website and it's doing very well. Keep up the good work!" -- Santa Cruz, California

"I really do think the site is supremo and use it a lot when I am researching something and for the summaries of news from around the world, keep it up" -- Sydney, Australia

"You are all a wonderful addition to the community, and I would like to thank you, and let you know how deeply appreciated each of you are." -- St. Louis, Missouri

"I love what you guys are doing, and keep it up, you give me hope and encouragement when everyone else being conformist and capitalist gets to me, but then I think that hey, I'm not alone. Thank you." -- Warsaw, Indiana