"clean" funds for Indymedia Re: [CIMC-working] some non-capitalist tech coops

[Chris Kaihatsu]

Doug, all,

I like the fundamental concept of this "buffer" idea. Does anyone know of
existing collectives for this that are parallel in function to the tech
collectives that Doug posted about? In other words, how feasible is this,
and what legal implications would we have to anticipate?


Chris





on 12/16/02 1:40 PM, Doug Morris at being@enteract.com wrote:

> 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.