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 120,000 unique visitors a month and has been a major presence in independent media for over 13 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. We've upgraded the forums, created a more consistent design for the site, added more RSS feeds, and added new ways for you to participate. In 2008 we will be adding new services for our users and more computer equipment to make sure that the site experiences less downtime.

Lots of other great things (we think they're great, you should too!) like user blogs, a growing digital library, new digital publications, merchandise, and forthcoming books and magazines.

A better organization, with an office and a motivated staff of volunteers and interns.

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