Christmas libcom donation appeal

… or maybe we'll just get one of these

A Christmas appeal to our users and readers for donation pledges to help keep libcom.org running and improving!

Hello all,

Last Christmas, we asked for your time. This Christmas, we are asking for your money!

As you will probably be aware, libcom is funded overwhelmingly by donations.

The bulk of our costs are covered by the membership dues of our admins, with regular donations from a couple of lovely site users.

However, as our traffic has continued to increase our hosting costs have done as well, so that our incomings are no longer matching our outgoings and we are currently running a shortfall of around £40 per month. While we have some funds remaining from past fundraisers, these will eventually be exhausted if we don't get new donors.

Also we would like to upgrade our servers to get the site faster, as well as do things like publicity and some print publishing, all of which will cost money.

So if you use libcom, and appreciate the work we do, please visit our donate page here and slip us some cash. Please post below to say how much you are pledging. If you could make a regular donation that would be particularly great, as it would mean we might not have to do future appeals like this! You can do these via PayPal, or e-mail us for standing order details.

If you don't have any spare money, visit our help out page for other ways you can help make the site a better place for our users.

A Merry Christmas and happy New Year all our users (except the Telegraph journalists) from all of us at libcom.org!

Donations so far
Pledged: £166.50 + "a couple of quid" + "a few quid" from revol (pledged on Facebook) + £4 per month
Received: £146.50 + £4 per month
Additional donations received but not mentioned here:
£141.50 (including £50 from one individual - thanks!)
£16 per month (including £10 per month from one generous individual)
£10 per year

Comments

I'll get the ball rolling,

I'll get the ball rolling, I'll give an extra £20

i'll give £10

tenner, done

Sellouts! The wife and I will

Sellouts!

The wife and I will sort out a couple a quid....

Oh yeah, you should include

Oh yeah, you should include the Amazon.com fundraising link in there as well.

crikey steven you ran through

crikey steven you ran through all the cash i gave when you were here?

£20 (but won't have it 'till

£20 (but won't have it 'till monday)

Just did 20 pounds.

Thanks so much for everyone's

Thanks so much for everyone's generosity so far!

*edit- Im a council communist

*edit- Im a council communist now. :lol:

gypsytimetraveller

*edit- Im a council communist now. :lol:

awesome.

Petey, unfortunately I blew your cash in Atlantic City. I promise to be more careful with these donations. I now have a surefire system…

I'll either give £20 or £2 a

I'll either give £20 or £2 a month, but won't be able to do it until tomorrow.
If it wasn't for libcom, I wouldn't be an anarchist :)

Just done £20 via PayPal.

Cheers guys! mons, care to

Cheers guys!

mons, care to share any more information about that? When did you start reading here?

I'm giving 20 now. Steven, I

I'm giving 20 now.

Steven,
I was always dissatisfied and political in some way. Probably started reading it about 2 years ago. My memory's shit and so I have no idea how I found libcom. But I read a few introductory texts, and Brinton's Bolsheviks and Workers' Control, all on here and because of that began to identify with anarchism. So I started going along to a local climate camp group, obviously I became critical of their activisty, stunt-focussed approach, and reading the forums here made those criticisms more clear and confident.
I show articles on it to friends sometimes, and I know a couple read it for the student protests stuff. It's great - an anarchist site that isn't embarrassing to show your friends to!

£2 p/m

Re: The power of libcom As I

Re: The power of libcom

As I was just telling Ed recently, a friend of ours who also been vaguely political (generally lefty opinions, but always identifying as a "moderate") has recently taken an interest in libcom (on his own accord). That, combined, I think, with the student protests, has really sharpened his politics. So yeah, power to the libcom.

I'll give something as soon

I'll give something as soon as I get my paypal payment option verified.

There's £10, aka AUD$1,000.

Just to say thanks again for

Just to say thanks again for everyone who has donated so far for your generosity! We could not keep going without you.

Also just a little bump to remind people who made pledges who may not have sent over the money yet…

£36.50, cause the abolition

£36.50, cause the abolition of wage labour costs just 10p a day...

Quote: £36.50, cause the

£36.50, cause the abolition of wage labour costs just 10p a day...

You know, I really like that. Had libcom been so creative, they might have an extra £26.50 of my money. 8-)

Endlessly useful, donated

Endlessly useful, donated £15....for now.

Many thanks!

Just a bump, as we're not

Just a bump, as we're not doing a proper donation appeal this year, as we did pretty well last year, but if anyone wanted to track costs a few quid or setup a supporter subscription that would be cool!

If you don't have any money, you could donate us some of your time - there is absolutely loads of work that needs doing on libcom, much of it very easy so let us know if you fancy helping out.

Also we never did get that "few quid" from revol…

Steven. wrote: Also we never

Steven.

Also we never did get that "few quid" from revol…

I'd have been disappointed if we did.. ;)

He is such a, as you would

He is such a, as you would say "wasteman"

I donated some books to

I donated some books to appear in the library. Remember that? Steven? ;)

Steven. wrote: He is such a,

Steven.

He is such a, as you would say "wasteman"

I can confirm this week that this is very much still the case..

Chilli Sauce wrote: I donated

Chilli Sauce

I donated some books to appear in the library. Remember that? Steven? ;)

I told you I couldn't scan them unless I could cut them up, which you said I couldn't!

TBH I probably shouldn't have taken them off you, but I guess now I have them I might read them!

ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED

ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED pence coming your way!
FULL CHRISTMAS

donated, because thanks to

donated, because thanks to libcom i am now ANArKY 4 LYF (fuck middle class cunts)

(plus i was talking to a prospective member of my SF local who has only just got interested in anarchism and he'd already heard of libcom)

Harrison wrote: donated,

Harrison

donated, because thanks to libcom i am now ANArKY 4 LYF (fuck middle class cunts)

middle upper ruling class cunts actually.

But it's cool we could help you with that. (I'm not sure you will always be thankful for it though!)

Cheers also choccy - and expropriate some money off revol to give us if you see him.

I can't extort someone whos

I can't extort someone whos just lost their job! :(

I'll shout you a tenner.

I'll shout you a tenner. Merry Christmas Libcom you gimps.

I'll shout you a tenner.

I'll shout you a tenner. Merry Christmas Libcom you gimps.

£20 from flaneur, thanks very

£20 from flaneur, thanks very much!

PS you are a gimp

Steven. wrote: Chilli Sauce

Steven.

Chilli Sauce

I donated some books to appear in the library. Remember that? Steven? ;)

I told you I couldn't scan them unless I could cut them up, which you said I couldn't!

TBH I probably shouldn't have taken them off you, but I guess now I have them I might read them!

Alright then, that's my libcom appeal. Who's willing to make labourious .pdf scans of entire books, page by page, without damaging them so they can go into the library?

chili sauce, is that even possible? I thought to scan books, you either had to cut out the pages or break the binding...

sometimes you can do it if the spine is flexible enough - although the book will still be damaged. Unless you are lucky and there is a big gap in the text in the middle of the two pages.

TBH we are probably better off buying additional copies of those books and destroying them

Arbeiten

cough cough. Let us say, a libcom admin owed you a fiver, could you wipe that off your christmas appeal and give 15 rather rather 20?

yes, unless it is Ed or Jim