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Support Riseup.net! Where the Money Goes

by Birds of a Feather
Have you been meaning to give some mutual aid to Riseup? You can, right now. It's easy and will fill you with a vague satisfied feeling all day long. (We hope!)
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Dear Riseup People:

Hello! Have you been meaning to give some mutual aid to Riseup? You can, right now. It's easy and will fill you with a vague satisfied feeling all day long. (We hope!)

https://riseup.net/en/donate

Since we're asking for money, we wanted to tell you where that money will go.*

Core Riseup Expenses:

* Rack Space: We keep our servers in a locked, monitored, secure, undisclosed, and temperature-regulated area. Are you wondering if we keep them in the bat-cave? Yes we do. $16,600

* Bandwidth and electricity: Is expensive and unavoidable, at least until Tesla's dream of free, wireless electricity comes to pass. $17,400.

* Riseup Stipends: Money for the collective members who do the focused, day in and day out labor that keeps Riseup running. $70,000.

And for those of you who like a little roses with your bread, our Non-Core Expenses:

* Every year when our far-flung collective members come to Seattle, we get together at someone's house, watch cute kids run around, talk about network security, drink beer, and eat oodles of vegan Vietnamese food. $100

Thanks and Love,
The Riseup Birds

*You may notice our core expenses exceed our fundraising goal of $60,000 USD. That's because we get monthly donations all year long, too.
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