Helping Consortiumnews.com

[Kara Andrade]

Date: Tues, Jul 27 2010 5:11 am From: "Consortiumnews.com"

From Robert Parry

Consortiumnews.com is one of the few Internet sites that pays its writers (what we can) for original content -- and unlike some sites that do, we don't have the luxury of relying on one deep-pocket donor.

We normally make these payments from our small general fund that we try to replenish in quarterly fund drives. However, our mid-year fund drive has stalled at less than one-quarter of its modest goal of $40,000.

So, if you can, please help with one of the following five fundraising ideas, so we can raise the $2,500 needed to make small payments this month (not nearly what they deserve) to writers Ray McGovern, Lisa Pease, Dennis Bernstein and others.

First option: You can make a donation, big or small. You can do so either by credit card at the Web site or by check to Consortium for Independent Journalism (CIJ); Suite 102-231; 2200 Wilson Blvd.; Arlington VA 22201. Or you can use PayPal (our account is named after our e-mail address "conso...@aol.com").

(Our parent organization, Consortium for Independent Journalism, is a 501-c-3 non-profit, so your contributions can be tax-deductible.)

Second, if you'd rather spread out your support in smaller amounts, you can sign up for a monthly donation. With contributions of $10 or more a month, you can qualify for war correspondent Don North's new DVD, "Yesterday's Enemies" about the lives of former Salvadoran guerrillas. For details, click here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LWeUfNOxWjWzk0bsi2Qnm0JUGIWZnDta>.

Third, you can take advantage of our deep discount for the three-book set of Robert Parry's Lost History, Secrecy & Privilege, and Neck Deep (co-authored with Sam and Nat Parry). The price for the set is only $29. Our goal is to sell at least 500 more sets to make way for a new book. For details, click here<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MV2VAETGooEMlAsMw%2FVBYUJUGIWZnDta>.

Fourth, you can order an entire box of Neck Deep for use in your own fundraiser. For only $110 (postage included), you can get either a box of 22 hard-cover copies or 28 paperback copies. That's $5 or less per book, so it can be resold for profit or used as a thank-you gift.

What makes Neck Deep especially timely is that it examines how the United States blundered into the Bush-43 presidency, just as the nation appears ready to hand the Congress back to his followers.

To take this option, just make a donation for $110, followed up by an e-mail to conso...@aol.com<mailto:conso...@aol.com> giving your choice (hard-cover or paperback) and your mailing address. Or send a check to The Media Consortium; Suite 102-231; 2200 Wilson Blvd.; Arlington VA 22201. (For non-U.S. orders, add $50 for extra postage.)

Fifth, you can schedule a joint speech<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f1izsB%2B9geYQfFICo%2FombEJUGIWZnDta> by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and journalist Robert Parry. The suggested fees - $2,000 for community groups, $5,000 for colleges and larger non-profits, and $10,000 for those who can afford it - go entirely to keeping Consortiumnews.com alive.

Whether Consortiumnews.com can continue as a voice for reason and reality - at a time that desperately needs both - depends entirely on you.

Thanks so much for your help.

Robert Parry, Editor

Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 as the Internet's first investigative magazine. He saw it as a way to combine modern technology and old-fashioned journalism to counter the increasing triviality of the mainstream U.S. news media.