Indybay has expenses that amount to several hundred dollars every month for hosting this website. Indybay also has other smaller expenses that relate to outreach and having a mailbox. It's been over a year since Indybay had a fundraising drive and now we need to ask for donations again to cover costs into the foreseeable future. We'll be happy to end this drive as soon as we reach our goal. Please donate now so we can end it soon.

Donation progress toward $5000 since March 1st:

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Indybay.org is maintained by all-volunteer collectives and our costs are miniscule in comparison with the service that the website provides to the Bay Area, Santa Cruz, and Northern California activist communities.

Please DONATE NOW! And consider becoming a Friend of Indybay to help us secure our financing into the future.

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Happy birthday Indybay!
Born on March 23, 2000, Indybay.org has hosted eight years of radical, independent media from the S.F. Bay Area. All posts, photos, videos, and audio hosted in that time are archived here for your continued use. Indybay has also been the home of Santa Cruz Indymedia since January 2006 and currently hosts Bolivia Indymedia, Paraguay Indymedia and is helping out San Diego. [For further info on the early days, see Indymedia and Indybay History]

Indybay Is Grassroots Media at Its Finest
The SF Bay Area and Santa Cruz Independent Media Centers are grassroots organizations truly committed to using media production and distribution as a tool to promote social and economic justice. The IMCs are a cooperative effort of hundreds of independent journalists and media activists. We are neither owned nor funded by big conglomerates or advertisers — that's why we urgently need your support now to sustain our efforts!

Indybay's popularity adds to our bandwidth expenses. Over the last two years, for example, Indybay has consistently served tens of thousands of page views each and every day, sometimes reaching as high as 150,000 page views a day. Site visitors are currently uploading and downloading thousands of gigabytes of news reports, photos, audio, and video every month.

If you are one of the many who find the coverage on Indybay to be a useful part of your socially conscious life, we ask that you make a small donation of just $20-40. Every little bit you can give will help us maintain this website. If you are a heavy user and visit the site daily or even several times a week, please consider a medium-sized donation of $40-60. If you regularly publish to the newswire, especially posting larger media files, you can help us continue to be a great open-publishing resource by making a more sizable donation of your choice right now.

Limited Fundraising Drives
We have not made a major request for donations in over a year but now we must ask again that fans of this site contribute what they can to keep us going. As our expenses are relatively low in comparison with the service that the website provides, we are hoping that we can sustain the website with just one or two fundraising drives per year in order to minimize intrusions into your use of the site. If enough people choose to become "Friends of Indybay" we may not even need to do that many.

This fundraising drive will end the minute we reach our goal. Please DONATE NOW! And consider becoming a Friend of Indybay to help us secure our financing into the future.

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