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Indymedia isn't a geocities site. Your bake sales are a drop in the bucket to pay for the bandwidth that keeps the main umbrella site running.

Indymedia is a curated site with the socialist agenda of the larger organization it came from. The people who founded it continue to promote ASNWER events, and have consciously decided to continue their relationship with them. It's my understanding they've also recieved fiscal support from them too. These rallies are all expenditures....full time activists are an expenditure... promotion is an expenditure.... press releases are expenditures... staffing and organizing a rally comes with expenditures.... owning a computer, a pda, or a cell phone and whatever other tools being exploited by grass roots activists are ALL expenditures.

Foriegn governments have been involved in the radical movement for years without apology... it's only recently that they've began to obscure this fact. Most of the seed groups that people like Not in Our Name or ANSWER grew out of used to openly admit this. It's not a secret that Lybia sponsored the SDS, The Black Panthers, The Weather Underground, the Nation of Islam, and a slew of other political groups who were all very proud of it.

So a conspiracy might be far fetched, but there is some truth to the claims that foriegn governments are funding dissent. It's not that much different then when we drop leaflets in Afghanistan, or whatever. It's just scary that supposedly politically aware Americans can think they're above this, or think they're so self righteous that they can make a joke out of the possibility that they're pawns.