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ziq wrote

Sounds like a plan. How will we fund it?

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mockingjanthony OP wrote (edited )

crowdfunding, accepting donations at the point of distribution, having a pay-arm of the print shop to fund the movement side(without having the pay services take over), membership dues, fundraising events and/or campaigns, outside enterprises that pay in.

i think organizational membership might be a cool sustainance plan, never atually tried it out, but want to some day. need to find like 3 or 4 other groups, that have funding, and need printing, and form a kind of co-op, where those groups are the members and govern the co-op together for shared printing needs. if they are activist groups this could also open the door for funding a drop in community space, a shared movement newsletter for the local community etc.

in smaller towns and rural areas like here in maine, it might require partnering with less-then-radical groups, like mainstream non profits, community organizations, third parties, liberal activists, etc. but its the most sustainable framework i can think of for getting these essential movement infrastructures back together, even if some day down the line, we need to organize an aggressive takover and kick the liberals and whatnot out of the co-op.

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