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This tragic news will have everyone crying like a Kennedy at closing time:
Green Left Weekly is facing a serious financial crisis. Last year we finished with a $35,000 deficit and so far this year are almost $65,000 down — that’s a combined shortfall of $100,000! We have borrowed to keep going, but if this trend continues we can’t go on. It’s as simple as that.
Here’s to simplicity. “The last two years have been hard for the progressive movements,” continues Green Left Weekly’s Peter ”Lance” Boyle. “The retreat of the huge global anti-war movement after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the re-election of PM John Howard’s Coalition government have left their mark.” Boyle then pleads for cash. No money for retreaters!
(Via Tim Train, now posting from sunny Melbourne)
Organic cookies. And dope grown in compost.
Posted by Gary from Jersey on 2005 07 20 at 01:41 PM • permalink
What, Dave? You’ve never been to a yard sale that had nothing but junk the owners couldn’t bring themselves to toss? Sounds like the Greens to me!
It’s either that, or they start up a bordello. OTOH……if most of their members are ancient hippies, never mind!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 20 at 02:15 PM • permalink
I think, historically, “grue’’ in philosophy has been used to mean “green before 2000, and blue afterwards,’’ the idea being that all the evidence that something is green (when it was used, before 2000) is also evidence that that something is blue. This was used to fluster students.
But now we can distinguish them. The greens turn out to be grue.
I checked out their web site: the omnipresent picture of Che Guevara (green-hued, of course), various lefty links (caution: something called the Third Annual Australia in Solidarity with Latin America conference is coming up in October), and . . .pretty much nothing else. Conspicuous by their absence were those entities known as “advertisers”. What, no capitalists willing to sell rope to these commies (or donate rope, in this case, since they’re so broke)? I enjoyed the reference in the appeal to “left regroupment”, which I take to mean the misguided sons and daughters of (most likely) the idle rich, gathered at poolside to discuss the travails of the proletariat, and complain about mom and dad’s insistence that they get real jobs. The Flat Earth Society is less absurd and irrelevant than these bozos.
I’m sure the state will bail them out!
Why should a magazine as important as Green Left have to worry about things such as having a market for what they produce?
You nasty lot wishing deferred success on them!
well I can see drastic action is called for.
First – cutbacks – typesetting and printing to be outsourced – ancillary staff such as Doctrine Adherence Supervisors have to go.
Next – remaining staff to be placed on AWAs. Higher bonuses for more effective performance. We have to push our presence in the market.
Next – Strategic alliances. – Having our own distribution network is a sub-optimal paradigm. We should be teaming up with distributors like the Larouchie’s Epoch Times, Falun Gong and the Big Issue. Yes I know those scabs are giveaways while we sell ours but hey guys, the revolution’s over.
Next – Advertising – no more turning away Starbucks, Gunns and Benson and Hedges – if they have the money, we have the space.
Finally – Donations to the Greens have to be stopped. Donations now only to be to parties who’ll do something for us – if you know what I mean.
And if this fails – I’ve heard Murdoch is in the market for another newspaper.
Yet another Commie organisation collapses before the march of Capitalism.
mmmmm Capitalism…
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2005 07 20 at 06:03 PM • permalink
Where is George Soros when you need him?
*The victory dance of the large white man…Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 20 at 07:22 PM • permalink
Francis H—not sure the world is ready for a hirsute,granola-eating Page Six Girl. Those Saddam pictures were bad enough.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 20 at 08:34 PM • permalink
If property is theft, and profit is the decaying paradigm of capitalist oppression, why are they bothered about such arcane concepts as profit and/or loss? The collapse of the military-industrial complex is imminent- so what if they get evicted from their office and have to survive on the meagre pittance unwillingly doled out by the state (like that would be a change anyway); when the workers, enraged by their increased earnings from ditching unions and signing VWAs, rise up and smash the neo-con parasites and install a state based on equity, justice and diversity, the editorial staff of GLW will be first in line for a ZIL and a concrete apartment overlooking the new
Kremlinpeople’s assembly.The Wankers United, Will Never Be Defeated!
The Wankers United, Will Never Be Defeated!
Well, how I’ve always said it is: “The Workers United, Will Never Be Elected!”. Goes down a treat at protests.
I can only hope the publishers’ personal fortunes are sunk into this fiasco of a ferrago, and not my bank’s, or worse still, my taxes.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2005 07 20 at 09:53 PM • permalink
Continue borrowing. Every wane must have its wax, lefties.
As usual, I would make some witty reference to P.G. Wodehouse, but I can’t remember the name of Aunt Agatha’s ladies’ journal that was continually in the red…
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 07 20 at 10:01 PM • permalink
But I thought they were supposed to be a nonprofit…?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 20 at 10:23 PM • permalink
The Wankers United, Will Never Be Defeated!
“The people, united, will never be ignited!”
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2005 07 20 at 10:37 PM • permalink
The could always put the hard word on one of their very own in-house heroes,the comfortably wealthy Sylvia Hale.100 large should only be petty cash to the former Trot,No Aircraft Noise Party Councillor and now Green Party MLC in the NSW Parliament.Sylvia has done very under the Capitalist jackboot as a quick look at her disclosures in the Parliamentary Pecuniary Interests Register will reveal.
- Here’s an idea.
Why don’t they have a local Live 8 style concert on the Sydney Town Hall steps where stoned buskers and bongo drum players from around the nation can come play to their captive audience. The ABC and SBS could telivise it applying pressure and pleading with the lending institution to forgive the $100K debt. Then we could have the concert again in another 12 months time for the very same cause and things could continue exactly as they have been in perpetuity.
Problem solved!Posted by Hank Reardon on 2005 07 21 at 12:05 AM • permalink
“The Wankers United, Will Never Be Defeated!”
Habib, that was just great. Absolutely perfect.
Who the hell is stupid enough to be loaning these idiots money? It would serve them right if the loams were totally unsecured.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 07 21 at 12:38 AM • permalink
If the progressive movements had, well, made any actual progress, do you think they’d be getting more donations?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 07 21 at 12:41 AM • permalink
Hmmmm. If I were an idle-rich squillionaire, Teresa Heinz-Kerry style, I’d probably bail them out to the tune of 100Gs. On one condition – Tim Blair gets a weekly column!
Posted by WhiteyRighty on 2005 07 21 at 05:13 AM • permalink
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Maybe they should have a yard sale?