An Appeal From Athena Kerry—I'm Working Hard Behind The Scenes(We All Are)—But I Need Your Help

Update: There Are Now Six Ways To Contribute—Including VDARE.com Tank Tops And Coffee Mugs!

[Update! Joe Guzzardi, pictured below, also in cowboy hat, is another behind the scenes worker for VDARE.com. As well as his regular column, he reads and answers all the Letters To The Editor. He's leaving Lodi and heading east but will continue working hard for VDARE.com. He's one of the people we need money to pay, so give generously!]

So, I realize that we have been asking (pleading?) for your contributions to not only help VDare.com continue to run—but also to improve it. We’ve pointed out our single overworked and underpublished editor, our need for a redesign, our need to pay our writers, and our need to prepare for the next big moment—that time when the general public again realizes and remembers that we are in the midst of an immigration crisis.

I figure it’s time that we point out a couple of ways that you can contribute to VDare.com and receive something tangible in return.

First, there is our store. You will find everything from the tank top modeled in the picture above to mugs, mouse pads and more. Okay, so we don’t have hundreds of items yet—but designing items for you to enjoy is one more task that is on our ever growing list (and if you happen to have any great designs you’d like to see incorporated into our store—send them over to office@vdare.com).

Another way to contribute would be to make sure you are always going to Amazon through one of our VDare.com links. It costs you nothing extra, and VDare.com gets a percentage of what you spend. Don’t be fooled into thinking that Amazon is only useful if you will be purchasing books—you can buy anything from dog food to socks. (I still love the fact that you can have your pup's kibble delivered to your house on time every month and contribute to VDare.com at the same time!)

And finally, as you already know, with a donation of $100.00 you can receive a copy of this years’ Social Contract. However, what you don’t know (until now), we also have a limited number of our first ever anthology ‘The Unity Review’, printed in 2004 which we will send along with both this and last years’ copies of The Social Contract for a tax deductible donation of $500.00.

So, you now know of *6 * different ways to donate.

1. Make a onetime tax-deductible donation through Paypal
    
2. Set up a monthly tax-deductible donation through Paypal
    
3. Mail a tax-deductible donation by Check
    
4. Fax in your tax-deductible Credit Card Donation
    
5. Purchase an item from VDARE.com’s store
    
6. Purchase an item from Amazon by going in through a VDare.com Link

[Tonight! Sailer on Political Correctness And The Mortgage Meltdown, plus Today's Letter, and more blogging]

By Athena Kerry

My role since I started here at VDARE.COM has changed considerably.

When I first met Peter Brimelow a few years ago, he talked me into writing about some of my experiences at my Catholic university. A couple of those articles are now appearing in the just-published special VDARE.COM anthology issue of The Social Contract Magazine. (Scroll to bottom for special offer!)

Now most of my work on VDARE.COM is behind the scenes. On the one hand, this means I don’t have the strange joy of seeing my name in pixels on the front page. I don’t have the gratifying or infuriating email responses flooding my inbox. In fact, I’ve been forced to see VDARE.COM in a whole new light.

VDARE.COM is not just an automated machine regurgitating AP wire copy. Every single night we put up material that is not being published anywhere else, physical or virtual.

We have gathered a collective of diverse (in this case, a good thing) experts and commentators joined in a common cause: spreading the truth about the immigration calamity in the U.S.

The effort involved in keeping VDARE.COM up and running is staggering.  The VDARE.COM staff works all hours of the day and night. Peter himself starts first thing in the morning and rarely if ever gets off of his computer before midnight.

(I know, because it greatly displeases his young wife with whom I am very close! I can see her fundraising appeal now: "Send Money, Save Marriage: Peter's Preoccupation Precipitates Parting" or "Brimelow Bride Be-Lonelied").

James Fulford works equally demanding hours. And our webmaster is always up late.

At the same time—and while you may have heard it a thousand times from Peter Brimelow and others, it doesn’t make it any less true—writing for VDARE.COM is not just an effort, it is a risk.

And we wouldn’t take this risk without the confidence that our (and your!) bravery will succeed.

From my back-stage position I will tell you that VDARE.COM is experiencing some serious growing pains.

On the one hand we have the customary staples: the nightly full article and the ever-active blog. We continue to expose the bad guys and laud the good ones.

On the other hand, there is a list of things as long as my hair—and that’s pretty long!—that VDARE.COM desperately needs to tackle.

Here are the top three, and these are things we absolutely must address, and soon: