Hi John

I’m Sarah, the Executive Director at Fight for the Future. You don’t hear from me a ton, and when you do it’s usually about one of our campaigns.

But I’m also responsible for making sure we have the resources to run our crucial campaigns to defend online free speech, stop the EARN IT Act, hold Amazon accountable, fight surveillance, and protect our digital rights.

And we just closed the books on the quarter. The short story is we’re behind.

This isn’t totally surprising. A lot of attention is (rightfully) being paid to the election right now.

But as supporters like you are all too aware: no matter who wins next month, the battle will continue. And no matter who wins, we’ll face some serious threats to our digital rights.

Let me be clear. Fight for the Future is not in danger of shutting down. We intentionally keep our team small and nimble, and our overhead low, so we can be scrappy when we need to be.

But if we don’t meet our fundraising goals we’re going to have to scale back our work, and this is the absolute worst time to do that. We’re in the middle of a multi-pronged fight to defend Section 230 and fight Internet censorship. We’re entrenched in local fights across the country to ban facial recognition. We’re providing a critical perspective on efforts to address misinformation on social media platforms (one that doesn’t include censoring content!). And we’re working to disassemble Amazon’s surveillance empire.

All of these campaigns are focused on defending your basic rights. But we can’t do all this work without resources to cover our campaigners' salaries, our web hosting and development expenses, costs of making videos and other social media content, paying for tools that connect tens of thousands of phone calls to Congress, and lots more.

We know that so many people are unable to donate right now because they are facing their own financial struggles as a result of COVID-19. If that’s you, we understand.

But if you are in a secure position, whether you can give a couple bucks or a couple thousand, please do. You will make a huge difference right now.

Together,

Sarah at Fight for the Future

P.S. Here’s a direct link to donate to help us make up our fundraising shortfall: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

 

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