Re: help LBO conquer the world!

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

This probably would be good for Nicholas and/or my dad.  I don't know
about this year, 'tho.

 > From: Doug Henwood <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood>
 > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:10:28 -0500
 >
 > Dear LBO subscriber ?
 > 
 > First, I?d like to thank you for being a subscriber to Left
 > Business Observer. I hope you like what you get, especially now that
 > it?s coming out regularly.
 > 
 > But?you knew there was a ?but,? right? I?d really like to
 > extend LBO?s reach. LBO?s doing well, especially considering
 > what a hostile environment most publications live in these days, but
 > it could be doing a lot better.
 > 
 > LBO has never asked for your support beyond sending out renewal
 > notices. Almost all the newsletter?s income comes from
 > subscriptions. (Sometimes subscribers throw in a few extra bucks at
 > renewal time?we?re always grateful for that.) We?re not a
 > nonprofit and don?t raise money from foundations. I like the
 > freedom that that gives us?we answer to our readers, not program
 > officers (or advertisers).
 > 
 > While LBO pays its bills, there?s not much spare cash beyond
 > that. That means that the staff works for peanuts. And it also means
 > we don?t have the cash to undertake major projects, like revamping
 > our very primitive website or launch a serious promotional effort.
 > 
 > So now, for the first time in LBO?s near-25-year history (we?ll
 > hit the quarter-century mark next September), we?re making a
 > fundraising appeal. There are two ways you can help; please choose at
 > least one (though choosing both would be wonderful).
 > 
 > ? Buy some gift subscriptions. LBO is a perfect last-minute
 > Christmas gift. (If you don?t celebrate Christmas, it?s a
 > perfect nonseasonal gift, too.) If you choose the electronic version,
 > we?ll get the first issue to the recipient no more than 24 hours
 > after we get the order. If you choose the print version, we?ll get
 > the first copy in the mail before it?s 2011.
 > 
 > ? Make a contribution. We?ve set up a donations page that will
 > make it easy for you to send us cash via Paypal in amounts from $25
 > up. Gifts of $1,000 and over come with a lifetime subscription (your
 > life or ours, whichever ends first). No, we don?t like what Paypal
 > did to Julian Assange either, but it?s hard to keep your hands
 > clean in a dirty world. (You don?t need a Paypal account?just a
 > credit card.) We?re sorry that gifts to LBO aren?t
 > tax-deductible.
 > 
 > So please consider helping us out, and a snazzier LBO website and a
 > greater reach for the newsletter in the midst of the worst economic
 > crisis in the last 80 years will be your reward.
 > 
 > You can enter gift subscriptions by visiting
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 > links on that page to our electronic subs agent as well as an order
 > form (if you prefer to do it the old-fashioned way).
 > 
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 > And thanks for reading this far.
 > 
 > Yours truly,
 > 
 > Doug Henwood
 > editor, Left Business Observer
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