[CIMC-working] RE: "clean" funds for Indymedia

[Elizabeth Fraser]

Elizabeth here.  I hate to chime in on the money thing--because
I haven't followed from the beginning, so I don't know what
ground has already been covered; however, Crossroads (Indy's 
bunk mates over on Diversey) funds many local organizations 
NEIS, Casa Guatemala, Not in Our Name, Couraj, RPCAN...)  

I remember that we didn't meet some requirement they had a 
while back (whether it was 501(c)3 or some other type of 
nonprofit status, I'm not sure... but maybe someone from Crossroads
would be willing to brainstorm with the group on ways to 
make a cooperative funding venture work?

Just a thought. [Now back to my PC, which has decided to get the
hiccoughs the past week...  I've got some elderly bones to tend to 
on the beast. It hasn't been eating right.]  -- eliz

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[mailto:imc-chicago-working-admin@lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of Chris
Kaihatsu
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 7:39 PM
To: imc-chicago-working@lists.indymedia.org
Subject: "clean" funds for Indymedia Re: [CIMC-working]
somenon-capitalist tech coops


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.

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