Dear Infoshop Surfer,
If you've ever thought about donating to independent media, now's the
time to act.
Our Appeal
Even though Infoshop.org receives over 20,000 visits a day and has
been a major presence in independent media for over 12 years, our fund
drives always have difficulty in fulfilling our meager donation
requests. While other independent media websites with much less traffic
seem to be able to magically arrive at sums in the tens of thousands,
Infoshop.org survives (painfully) with a few thousand every year.
If you like independent media, and if you think that an activist and
anarchist-centered news service is worth having, why not drop us a few
dollars. If even half of our monthly visitors would donate 1 dollar
(forget about appeals like "buy us a beer," we're talking about one
dollar) we would be able to meet and exceed our fundraising expectations.
Money Well Spent
At Infoshop.org, we have no "excess" or "waste"--every dollar and all of
our resources are plowed back into offering you:
Great writers producing original, investigative reporting about things that you (yes, you) are extremely interested in. The quality of the writing and the frequency of original articles would substantially increase with more funds.
A better designed website. Over the past year we have substantially increased the usability of this website, helping you (yes, you) reach the information you want faster.
Lots of other great things (we think they're great, you should too!) like user blogs, a resource library, books such as "The Black Block Papers," and Hurricane Katrina Relief.
Why not do the right thing and contribute to a website both you and we
think is really special?
Your donation will help Infoshop.org and independent media fulfill its
promise of providing us all the news that (for reasons that are more
than obvious) nobody else is publishing.
William Thake
for the Infoshop/AMP collective