We reached our funding goal on Wednesday, September 11th, a full 8 days before the end of the campaign! The response has been amazing, lets keep it up for the final week! To help do that, we've got a stretch goal to offer you, read on...
What are stretch goals?
Stretch goals expand the campaign to help it continue to get traction. The nice thing about a stretch goal is that if we meet this goal, you will get the reward, even if you already donated! But we need to make it to that goal for that to happen.
So... with that in mind, we are excited to announce this crazy stretch goal to continue raising funds for Riseup.net!
Getting funded on the anniversary of the Pinochet coup is a bittersweet victory. So to help offset the bitter, we've teamed up with allies in Chile, who are part of the political photo collective Our War, to be able to offer to everyone who gives $50 or more a choice of one of 20 different 11x14 color matte prints!
But only if we can make the stretch goal of $12,500! So, help us get there!
Note:
If you donate $50 or more, please add your address, if you are comfortable with disclosing it, and we'll contact you about picking the photos. If you already donated $50 or more and havent added your address, please do!
Hey! Just so you know, shipping outside of the US digs really deep into your donation, so if you can add $14 more to cover the shipping, we'd love you all the more.
About Our War
Founded 7 years ago, and rooted in the Chilean student movement, Our War is a political photo collective from Chile, created to show to the universe stories about repression, resistance and struggle.
Thank you for all your support!
Riseup.net has been obsessed with providing secure and surveillance-free services since 1999. It is a nonprofit, volunteer-run email and mailing list provider that needs your help.
Historically, Riseup has provided services to a relatively small amount of environmental, human rights, and social justice activists worldwide, but since this summer's revelations about the NSA's massive spying programs, Riseup has been flooded with a whole new generation of users.
This is excellent! But it's struggling to keep up with the demand. The small group of hackers needs more hands and more hardware. It needs cash to buy new servers and disks, and funding to hire someone to meet the growing demands.
[Riseup just posted a passionate reminder of what it stands for and why we need services we can trust.]
What is Riseup.net?
Riseup.net is a different kind of email provider. It believes: "There is no such thing as free email. Services like gmail, hotmail, and yahoo make their money from surveillance: they build a profile on your behavior and your desires, and then bombard you with advertising specifically targeted to you."
So, instead of mining your data, Riseup provides email service with a unique level of security and privacy. Unlike almost all other email providers, logs and email headers contain no personally identifiable information. Additionally, all mail is stored on encrypted partitions and transmitted over encrypted connections whenever possible.
