<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-the-press-buy-the-tribune-company">http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/free-the-press-buy-the-tribune-company</a><div><br></div><div>Dear 99%er,</div><div><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers are reportedly vying right now to own the Tribune Company, which publishes the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and many, many other media outlets.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">So we launched an experiment to see if people would be willing to crowdsource a people's peaceful takeover instead of a hostile corporate takeover, using the platform Indiegogo.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">A few days later? <b>We just broke $116,000 in donations to buy the Tribune Company out from Rupert Murdoch and the Koch Brothers - we'd say this experiment is turning out pretty great.</b> (And we still have a month left!)</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FFld1TR0bpJuAWAxNlRN%2BZVQXpN4nf%2B7"><b>Check out our Indiegogo campaign today and please support us if you haven't already - all donations are refunded if we don't reach $660 Million in 26 days, so you're pretty safe to dream big:</b></a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CfoeP0QeiqWKJp1YcBNRu1TfIh7BJfEr"><b>http://bit.ly/buythetribune</b></a></p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Thank you for all you do to make this movement real.</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">Sincerely,</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">John Sellers, The Other 98%</p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; ">P.S. We <i>just</i> had a brand-new piece on our Free The Press campaign posted on AlterNet: <b><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=szpaVWvv8nuN6QRFAclWGZVQXpN4nf%2B7">Check it out!</a></b></p><div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></body></html>