[HacktionLab] [riseup] in it for the long haul [en] [de] [pt] [ca/es] [ru] [fr]

[m3shrom]

You may already have this but I"m forwarding it.
Maybe this is where we'll be as a network in some years if our projects
are successful. I actually donated which I never do, not even for sick
donkeys.

On 21/09/2011 20:59, newsletter at lists.riseup.net wrote:
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> Dear Riseup Users:
> 
> So, what happens if we don't meet our funding goals? What happens if
> Riseup doesn’t get $5,000 a month in recurring donations, or $60,000 for
> the coming year?*
> 
> We're not going to disappear -- at least not right away. We are much too
> scrappy and tenacious for that. However, lots of you may remember a
> couple years back when we stopped accepting new lists for what we hoped
> would only be a couple of months, but that stretched into over a year?
> And in that time we had way more outages and problems with both emails
> and lists? Yeah, so that was a year when we didn't have enough money to
> upgrade our machines or enough labor from collective members to spend
> time on Riseup. We were getting pounded by spam, and putting way too
> much time and effort into failing machines. During that time we lost a
> lot of users: they moved to corporate maintained services like Facebook
> and Gmail. Which means they switched to services that gather information
> and practice surveillance against them.
> 
> We could probably survive another year like that, but two years, or
> three years down the line, there would come a time when it would be
> impossible to keep going. It would be hard on our hearts too, because
> one of the ways we know we're movement relevant is that our users fund
> us.**
> 
> The good news is that lots of you have already donated! We're 30% on our
> way to meeting our goal. Thanks to all of you who have decided to put
> money toward building movement infrastructure and secure communication.
> Thanks to all of you who believe that our social movements should be
> organized and run with technologies made and maintained by activists.***
> 
> Love,
> The Riseup Birds
> 
> * Would it be useful if you want to give us more? Or would rather give
> us a chunk than a recurring amount? Yes, yes, yes to any and all of it.
> 
> ** Give what you can -- https://riseup.net/donate
>