Join Michael Albert in supporting Z, as we bring 45 years of independent media to the next generation of activists and movements.

Hello,

ZNet needs your support. Will you help spread their work? Will you help donate to expand their efforts?

I no longer make ZDecisions. I no longer do daily ZTasks. I consult. I admire. I am only ZStaff Emeritus. That is a big change for me, but with the new international ZStaff at the helm, my changed status is a very positive experience.

The new ZStaff is incredibly knowledgeable, energetic, committed, congenial, and creative. But can this new international team put your promotional support and financial aid to good use?

Together, the new ZStaff have already reconceived and rebuilt the whole Z system as ZNetwork.org. They have resurrected ZMagazine as a cyber email monthly. They daily maintain, refine, update, solicit, curate, write, and post. Look at ZNetwork.org. Look through the menu system. They did it all as volunteers. That is remarkable. It is admirable. But it is not optimal.

Being political, progressive, radical, even revolutionary, doesn’t change certain basics. The ZStaff has between them eight children. They have elderly parents. They have friends, sometimes in need. Health crises do not avoid revolutionaries and their loved ones. Nor do basic needs. Like you, the ZStaff must feed, share, entertain, and support themselves and others. To do that, they have each had to preserve their incomes from other sources. That takes time.

But the ZTeam doesn’t want to just maintain the new ZNet. They want to enrich, improve, and enlarge it. They want to generate much more original material and they want to pay writers for providing it. They want to give it more of their own time to facilitate multi author article roundtables to explore movement differences and new ideas. To sponsor debates and thorough-going conversations in print, audio, and video. To initiate what they are going to call Zed Talks, a ZNet Video Channel and a Z Podcast. To provide supporters weekly updates, a monthly newsletter, the cyber Z Magazine, and perhaps even daily email commentaries. To establish connections and community, not least by the Discord System they have begun. To aid and be aided by ZFriends. And, while pursuing all this, they not only want to continue to provide information and analysis of on-going events, social situations, and institutions, but also, and especially, they want to solicit and provide vision for a better world and strategy for reaching it.

Even though the ZStaff are incredibly efficient and frugal, to do all the above they will have to free some of their time from other paid pursuits. They will also have to pay new bills. To expand so greatly, they need financial help. So, would you please visit the new Z support system page to aid their efforts. There, you can make a one time donation of any amount, any time you like. Better yet, as it greatly helps both planning and morale, you can become a sustainer by signing up for a periodic donation. You can choose the amount to periodically donate and you can specify it to be monthly, quarterly, or yearly.

Finally, for the whole time I have been a part of Z and before that while at South End Press, I have had to fund raise. It has always been an onerous pursuit. Yet this time, making the appeal for others, is different.

Please visit ZNetwork.org and please support the new ZStaff’s efforts. They won’t curl up and die if you don’t help. But they will do steadily greater things if you do help. So donate not for mere survival, not just to keep the site available. The ZStaff don’t want to just persist. They have already got that in hand. The ZStaff want to grow, diversify, and contribute to a movement of movements that wins steadily escalating gains on the path to a new world. They can only do that if you lend a helping hand.

In Struggle, with hope and Admiration for the New ZNetwork.org, I am Michael Albert, ZStaff person emeritus, and I am happily down on my knees to beseech you to help them help you.