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Washington School Documentary |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
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The following is from John Gless the frontman for the Washington School group:
The petition drive obviously generated a wave of media coverage and one-on-one community visibility that we have ridden a long way. Unfortunately, it hasn't yet lead to any real breakthroughs. So as this continues to slog along, we need to continue building community support even while the project work is under the public's radar.
This is what the Kloberdanz/Smoke video project is all about - (see their initial installment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOI3pySNC6o) community outreach that generates community support. I checked www.crowdfunder.com today and it shows us averaging $100 per day with 23 days left to fund the video project. Not bad for CrowdFunder, but also not enough to get this video off the ground. In case you don't know how CrowdFunder works, if an item doesn't reach its target amount ($5,000 in this case) then none ($0) of the money that's pledged is actually conveyed from donors to recipients - it's a non-transaction. So unless the average approaches $200 per day the rest of the way, there won't be any money to help produce this video, and that would be a shame.
Our video will document the rather disgraceful and ingenuous politics behind the closure decision and the struggle to keep the site from being unnecessarily defaced. The great thing about that is the coverage of the struggle from here on out will be done in real time, not as something strictly from people's memories.
This could be documentary filmmaking with both immediacy and purpose, and it can get done with very little money and very high quality due the skills of the producers and the ideas and energy from all of you. I'm sure we'd love to get it done for zero money, as that's basically been the WSNA way up until now; but we can't get by forever just on freebies. So please contribute by visiting CrowdFunder to make a pledge, and ask your friends who aren't on this list to do the same. Isn't it worth a few bucks to have a direct impact on something that touches so many people and so many public policies?
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