Life moves pretty fast...
I borrow from Ferris Bueller to ask for your help. Please take 3 minutes to read this full email.
Hey folks, it’s Jordan.
Is 16 cents a day ($5 a month) too much to you to fund the only independent outlet in America consistently providing authentic, honest ON-THE-GROUND reporting on everything from poisoned water to protests against genocide?
I ask because that’s what I need from you to avoid having to, unfortunately, make painful cuts that result in us doing less of this unique on-the-ground reporting. But before I expand on that, Ferris Bueller once infamously said: “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
That’s why I wanted to stop for a second and praise…Jon Farina has covered OVER 50 Ceasefire/student protests in NYC and D.C over the last seven months. Farina has been out there, often streaming live for 3-4 hours straight, in the cold, in the rain, all the way to 2-3 in the morning (while corporate and most independent media outlets are not). Beyond Jon, Status Coup has invested in this coverage. You may be unaware, but it costs us money every time we stream. Beyond paying Jon, we pay for a data plan each month to livestream protests like these using our LiveU (costing us at minimum $500 a month) Well…needless to say, streaming 3-4 hours at a time, sometimes 3-4 times a week, has BLOWN PAST our data plan. For the last two months, we have gotten fat bills of between $600 and $1,000 for going over our data plan (we already pay $500 a month for our data plan and can’t afford to increase our plan). Despite this, I tell Jon to keep going, to keep streaming, because these protests MUST BE SHOWN to as many people around the world as possible.
But with this comes excess costs we simply can’t afford. I am proud to say, we don’t have a major investor or corporate sugar daddies funding us—YOU power us. With that said, costs are piling up. If we don’t add 100 new paid members over the next month, I’m going to have to make painful cuts. So I directly, and sincerely, ask you—is 16 cents a day ($5 a month) too much to ensure we are able to keep providing this unique on-the-ground reporting that NO OTHER OUTLET is doing?
The ball is in your court…
I’ll end with a powerful moment from Jon’s protest coverage last night. During an interview with an anti-zionist Orthodox Jew, the Jewish man crystallized what’s at stakes—not just for Palestinians but for Jews.
"We are facing an ongoing genocide taking place now in Gaza, which is unbelievable, it’s on camera, a genocide on camera and the whole world is silent. And we as Jewish people, due to our religion, it's a Nakba for us too because the zionists are using our religion, our identity, to justify all these crimes for over 76 years.”
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