Welcome to Reason's Annual Pledge Drive Week! Help Us Reach Our Goal of 1,000 New Donors
Yes, it's back: Reason's annual pledge drive week! Starting today and going until a week from now, we'll be asking regular and satisfied readers of this website to help us promote "Free Minds and Free Markets" via our cutting-edge journalism and political commentary.
Now more than ever, Reason's voice is front and center in debates over politics and culture. Nobody else has been more outspoken and principled in our criticism of overreaching government under George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Democrats, Republicans, you name it.
And because we've never sold out to partisan interests or strayed from principles, nobody else is in a better position to keep the heat on newly elected Republicans and zombified Democrats alike. Unlike other media orgs that are devoted to Team Red or Team Blue, we make no apologies and take no prisoners for a consistent and informed libertarian position on every topic under the sun.
As regular readers know, the good work done by Reason.com, Reason.tv, and Reason magazine is underwritten by (tax-deductible!) donations to Reason Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Los Angeles, California.
We rely on people like you to provide the resources so we can produce things like Reason.tv, which started rolling in October 2007.
During our last fiscal year (October 2009-September 2010), we released 339 segments, ranging from the award-winning, hour-long documentary Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey to this 13-second clip of the greatest showdown on the Interwebs:
Fast-breaking footage from DC rallies to restore honor and sanity? Behind the scences footage of the 9/12 Tea Party rallies and the union-backed One Nation Working Together demonstration? Check it out.
It's all due to dedicated fans of Free Minds and Free Markets who help us project a libertarian voice into public debates on everything from the insane drug war to out-of-control government spending to crackdowns on your right to buy a Happy Meal (or more, precisely, restaurants' right to sell what they wish to willing customers - see, we're principled!).
We're hoping to bring in 1,000 donors into the fold this time around.
If you give $100, you get a free subscription to the print mag (you can give it to a friend or an enemy), a signature black Reason t-shirt or one featuring the cover of our 3D November isse, and one of 10 books by Reason authors (orders are limited, so hurry!).
If you give more than that, you get more swag. If you give less, you get a bumper sticker and you get to see your name up on the donor banner at the top of Reason.com. And all donors get our undying gratitude for helping fight the good fight for another year.
Go here for giving levels, swag details, and secure forms.
Thanks for reading!
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Let the trolling begin! And DRINK!
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Those damn cheapskate Koch brothers!
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I'll donate money if someone castrates my spoofer. I need a new pair of earrings.
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EEEEEk!
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My new earrings won't be rectilinear lines,but tiny little ball studs
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(tax-deductible!)
Wingnut welfare!
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Just gave $100 to grow another tentacle of the Kochtopus...
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Why give me money to the pretenders? WE are the real deal.
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LOBSTER GIRL!
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I'll bid 20 quatloos for her!
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DEATH BY SNU SNU!
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I do believe that Lobster Girl might entice me to be more generous than assorted t-shirts.
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I thought we were off the ostentatious LobsterGirl and onto the more subtle allure of PotGirl these days.
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PotGirl looks good. But LobsterGirl will forever have a place in all our hearts and minds.
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PotGirl doesn't have to be so subtle.
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Shit, Bandit beat me to it.
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You and me both.
I'll give if and only if we are promised some sweet, sweet Lobster Girl pix.
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Put me down for 10 trolls.
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I heard that when the bar reaches the torch, they'll have enough money to extend threaded comments rightward as far as the eye can see.
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is Mohammad in drag.
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Can I get a free reason leather jacket?
Are the bumper stickers San-Francisco safe? I have a nice car. -
Excellent idea. No joke. Offer "The Jacket" replicas (in all sizes) for a $500 donation...i would buy one.
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Who would want to donate to an organization whose most successful and influential video is 13 seconds long and involves a prairie dog?
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since hobie is already on the Soros payroll.
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I don't even like that drug pusher George Soros. I'm a Liebermann liberal, not one of those stoner types.
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I like Joe and Hadassah.
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I read it as "1000 Nude Donors" at first,and based on having read some of your comments didn't know whether to be repulsed or mildly aroused.
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repulsed or mildly aroused
We are libertarians....can't it be both?
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(QD digs in pocket)
OK, I got 21 cents, gum, a condom way past it's "use by" date, lint, a receipt from Subway and, oh, my California "I voted" sticker which, for some reason, burns any surface it's attached to.
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Wait... why can't you just get some of that sweet, sweet stimulus lovin'? Or some of that heady government pump action. What sort of... "favors" is Bernanke asking for these days, anyway?
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What. The. Hell.
What is the friggin lag time on seeing my name on the banner? If my name isn't on the banner, how will everyone know how selflessly generous I am?
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I know, now that your tootin' your horn.
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You guys did good work this year -- increased my donation to $250. ;)