[CIMC-working] some non-capitalist tech coops

[Doug Morris]

Below are three tech coops that offer bandwidth and server space.

There is a big difference between large media capitalist for profit orgs 
and the worst of those like Ford and Soros orgs and small alternative 
projects organized as:
nonprofits
coops
and/or volunteer tech groups

Even if the following or other groups somehow might link in various ways 
(which they don't necessarily do) through donations and work to small scale 
capitalist funding, funds or projects, there is a big difference between 
small coops and nonprofits and predatory and cia alligned grant foundations 
(unless there are covert links between in some ways there, eee gads heaven 
forbid).

These tech coops offer a buffer between the capitalist web and the radical 
coop and gift economy web.  That same type of buffer is needed in 
fundraising:  a collective which gets in funds from wherever, with no 
strings, and disperses on collectively and network discussed/agreed 
priorities. We need a fund raising coop for indymedia to clean up money 
just like tech folks clean up and offer pc tech, anyway, as best on the fly 
as our practice and ideas can do and contexts allow for now.

from: http://www.techcoop.info/cgi-bin/meta.pl?region=North%20America

--- ( linefeed.org ) ---

linefeed.org is an anarchist collective providing web programming, system 
administration and server space support for anarchists, libertarian 
communists, and groups/individuals engaged in class struggle.

--- ( riseup.net ) ---

Riseup.net is a project of the Red Cursor Collective, a volunteer effort of 
activists using technology for radical social change. We provide free 
online services for the social justice, global solidarity, and 
anti-capitalist communities. Riseup.net believes in direct democracy, 
anti-sexism, anti-racism, anti-capitalism, self determination, local 
autonomy, ecology, and cooperative economics.

--- ( Albuquerque Bandwidth Coop ) ---

The Bandwidth Coop is a collectively owned and operated provider of 
internet services. We offer webhosting, email and database services to 
businesses, individuals, and progressive groups. We also provide hosting to 
a number of Independent Media Center groups around the world.

also see:

--- ( Shift-Control Collective ) ---

Based in New York City, the Shift-Control Collective, dedicated to bringing 
technology to progressive and radical activists and to bringing progressive 
and radical activism to techies.