IN THE BEST AMERICAN TRADITION: YOUR GLOBAL GAZETTE

 

 

Open Up a World of Perceptions:

Donate to Watching America.com

 

Dear WatchingAmerica.com Readers,

 

The people of WatchingAmerica.com know they are making history. But it isn't only making history that matters. What really matters is that this is history-making in the public interest. We do this by bringing you news and opinion about the United States from the non-U.S. sources most Americans have never been able to read before.

 

WatchingAmerica.com was launched in January 2005, and since that time, we have translated thousands of articles from the most renowned newspapers in their countries of origin.

 

With our team of talented translators, from Washington to Cairo, from Paris to Singapore, and by bringing to bear the best language technology now available, we have begun the process of opening up all of the world's print media to American and English-speaking readers.

 

But despite the attention and accolades that our work has garnered, we have yet to reach enough people and build the amount of online traffic necessary to survive on that alone. Rising above the media din is quite a challenge - especially considering the amount we have had available for advertising ($0).

 

Help us provide a place where Americans and the people of the rest of the world can conduct a little unmediated conversation. Become part of WatchingAmerica.com by helping us fund it. We calculate that just $30,000 will fund another year of our work, providing global perceptions of the United States.

 

For the next few weeks, we'll be holding our first fundraising drive, leading up to the WatchingAmerica.com Tower of Babel Party at The Tank - in Manhattan on October 6 (see DETAILS below). The first 200 people who donate $30 or more, or make a recurring donation of $5 a month or more will receive an e-ticket for the Manhattan event. But whether or not you are able to join us at the October bash, please give this paradigm-shift in media a chance to survive.

 

We have gotten to this point under our own steam to create this new channel of information for the American people and the English-speaking world. Now this historic vision of breaking down the language barrier is in your hands.

 

Help maintain Watching America as a unique and independent source. Our work arises from a passionate belief in the need for greater mutual understanding among the peoples of the world and for unvarnished global perceptions of the United States - a vision that we know you share.

 

Robin Koerner,

WatchingAmerica.com

 

DETAILS: WatchingAmerica.com

Tower of Babel Party: This time,

we're going to build it to last …

DATE: Saturday night, October 6, 2007

PLACE: The Tank :

ADDRESS: 279 Church Street

between Franklin and White.

To get to The Tank by subway take the:

 

A, C, E, J, M, Z, N, Q,

R, W, Z, or 6 to Canal

Street 1 to Franklin Street

 

From 9.30pm until the wee hours on Sunday.
Food, music and fun are on us. (Drinks are not!)

 

(A voluntary donation to our project of $30 - $10 for students - would be gratefully received in support of an extraordinary vision)

 

Please RSVP by Sept 20th to

robink@watchingamerica.com