[Imc-finance] Ford Foundation and confidence-unity issues

[nessie@sfbg.com]

>  However it is still going to be spent in a way that will benefit 
>the whole of the indymedia community: paying  travel expenses for 
>indymedia people to attend regional meetings


How the money will be used is not the issue. How the world will think 
of IMC after we allow our name to be associated with the name Ford, 
is the issue.  If we take money from anything with "Ford" in the 
name, it makes us look like we've sold out to the corporations. If we 
allow ourselves to appear to be hypocrites, nobody will ever believe 
anything else we say ever again. Nobody believes a hypocrite. If we 
look like hypocrites, nobody will believe us. Is the money worth that 
risk?