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Last night, we officially hit our $30,000 end-of-year fundraising goal.

$30,123.76 in just 25 days.

THANK YOU!

An absolutely INCREDIBLE start.

We still have FIVE more days until the end of the month/year...

How much further do you think we could go?!

blacksocialists.us/donate
Yesterday, BSA supporter @hella_swears helped us raise $5,000 in virtually ONE hour through price-matching.

This shows us how much is possible with the support of comrades!

We celebrate hitting our $30,000 end-of-year goal, but KNOW we can go harder!

blacksocialists.us/donate
We ask these folks to help us in getting support that will allow us to not only keep going, but EXPAND in 2019:

• @robdelaney

• @johncusack

• @larrycharlesism

• @jaboukie

• @zackfox

• @BootsRiley

• @tmorello

Certainly these poppin’ Lefties could give us a boost? 🥵
The folks over at @commune_mag (a new Leftist mag) raised $65,828 the other month, despite only having a goal of $20,000 (source: kickstarter.com/projects/commu…). Y’all have no idea how much we’d be able to educate and support more local institution building with something like $66,000!
Now that’s not us saying we expect $36k in donations within the next five days (😏), but it DOES put things in perspective!

We can create infotainment, do merch, and MORE like others, but to do that AND hit on what matters most, we need EXTRA support!

blacksocialists.us/donate
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Our good comrade @profwolff recently explained this concept in the quickest & most straightforward way some of us have ever seen.

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This thread is 100% the 🔥 you’re looking for right now.
Oh, and the way that @uppittynegress is handling those replies? 🔥
Keep that thread on deck, y’all. Keep. That. Thread. On. Deck. 💯
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There has been a lot of self-exploitation going on within BSA, but that is only because this fight feels like life or death to us.

We don’t think it’s necessary for us to be burnt out in order to execute on our goals, but we can’t change this reality without your support.
We know many of you all are already flooded with appeals for support at this time of the year, so we’ll keep it short...

Bernie Sanders (a politician) raised over 228 MILLION dollars for a CAMPAIGN...

Imagine if we put that kind of money into building a new, democratic world...
We have over 40k followers on social media.

Only 700 people have donated in this last month, and yet they’ve helped us raise $30k!

If the (roughly) 39,300 people remaining gave just $5 each, we’d have over $200k to work with.

If they gave Bernie’s $27 average?

Do the math!
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