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To save Indybay, please pay now; nothing is free

by SF Indybay Fan
May 31, 2016 started with around $60 out of $1600 and is now at $443 out of $1600. Considering all the postings, and far more viewers probably reading this website, that is shameful. Less than 12 people contributing $100 each for the remaining $1157 would slightly exceed the goal. 24 people contributing $50 each would do the same. We cannot afford to lose this website. Nothing is free and a $1600 goal can easily be realized.
The calendar alone is worth it. We are also preserving the historical record of workingclass struggles with this website, something that only we can and must do. The wide variety of subject pages, including a page in Spanish, is extraordinary and is a verification of a broad-based community challenging the status quo. If this website is on your list of favorites, as it should be, then you certainly owe it to yourself, as well as the entire community, to contribute whatever you can to this website.

This writer can remember when we had at least 5 daily newspapers in San Francisco and a thriving KPFA, as well as at least 3 weekly radical newspapers before the war against Vietnam, and many monthlies during that genocidal war of anti-communism. With that, and phone trees, we fought and defeated the anti-communist witchhunts, ran the book burners out of California, abolished racial discrimination in housing, promoted integrated schools, built the foundation of the women's liberation and gay liberation movements of today, built a successful movement for women's right to abortion that was finally realized in Roe v Wade in 1973, stopped the construction of a nuclear power plant at Bodega Bay (Sonoma County), defended free speech at UC Berkeley in 1964 and fought for ethnic studies first at San Francisco State University in 1968 with a massive student-labor strike, and then everywhere else, built a strong antiwar movement during the US war against Vietnam that helped defeat the mightiest war machine the world had seen since Nazi Germany on April 30, 1975, promoted healthy lifestyles including opposing the proliferating junk food industry and the profiteering drug rackets, encouraging exercise ranging from Yoga to jogging, and growing your own fruits and vegetables, won Medicare in 1965 which lengthened life expectancy considerably, and won the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. This was all without computers, the Internet and cell phones.

Now, everything is online, so we must be too. It reaches the entire world instantly, but only if we pay for it, and it is quite affordable to everyone. Whatever you can contribute is worth it. Everyone needs Indybay.
by Jonathan Nack
I'd be willing to take the lead in organizing an old school funk dance party to benefit IndyBay.
by Jonathan Nack
People get used to seeing desperate fund appeals. Many times people don't know how critical the situation really is. I saw a great newspaper go down that way - The National Guardian, a radical newsweekly out of New York, that published for over forty years. One week there was the kind no of fund appeal readers had seen a hundred times. The next week the paper was gone forever.

If we are getting to the brink of losing this fabulous resource, you need to send out an unmistakable SOS to give supporters a last chance to save IndyBay.
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