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QuakerQuaker readers: the annual hosting bill for QuakerQuaker.org is due Tuesday. Friday was payday but doing the math it all has to go into that pesky mortgage along. You all know I spend way too much time scanning blogs, corresponding with Friends and building the community. So please help out with the server bill. $100 donation will keep the site up for another year. If I get more I'll be able to launch the next version in the next month or so. So please help keep the lights on and Donate Now!

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Thanks y'all, Martin

Received an email from my web host this weekend: apparently they've been trying to get payment from a less-than-full credit card these last few months and just realized that their charges weren't going through. Yikes. In the past I've used my Paypal donations credit card to pay the bill on the account that covers QuakerQuaker, QuakerRanter, etc., but when donations dried up this summer, I switched to my personal day-to-day card which fluctuates depending on the status of our kitchen cupboards (currently out of yogurt, low on crackers, milk might be gone).

The bill's up to $135.90 and the next month should be due soon. Do Friends want to chip in and help spot some of this? If I get enough I'll switch the bill back to the donations account altogether.

PS: for those following links, I've been ranting up a bit about money issues, Friends, and the state of our beat neighbors here in the U.S. of A. over in the comments at Classy Jeanne and Agitator Dave's recent posts (might be awaiting confirmation). Apologies to both for my long-windedness, there's obviously some intriguing issues sorting themselves together in my head and heart these days.

Everyone can now add posts to the QuakerQuaker category listings. Simply bookmark the post in Del.icio.us, list the QQ categories and it will be added to the page.

For example, say you've seen just the coolest post on Convergent Friends. Go to the Convergent Friends page to find the right "tag"--in this case "quaker.convergent". Bookmark the post you like, write a title and description and list "quaker.convergent" as its tag. An hour or so later the post will show up on the Convergent Friends page. How cool is that? Here are instruction on how to use Del.icio.us and title pages.

I hate saying this but cashflow is short until payday and the monthly $50 bill is due for the Quaker Ranter sites (which include Nonviolence.org and QuakerQuaker.org) and my Paypal account is totally depleted. If everyone could consider a donation, that would be quite helpful. Thanks!

The Nonviolence.org bank account is once more depleted. Please consider donating $20 or more to cover us for the next month's web rent. The Nonviolence.org project will be celebrating its ten-year anniversary this fall. A whole decade of keeping it all patched together month-to month, that's something! The more you give the more I'll be able to focus on the work. Thanks everyone! In peace, Martin Kelley

There's $7 in the Nonviolence.org Palpal account, not even enough to cover the current monthly charge to the web host. The world's top-ranked Nonviolence website with over 5000 visitors a day is about to wink out of existence because of lack of funds. Maybe that's appropriate. Lots of people talk about peace but the near-complete failure in fundraising for this project points to a reality that we don't really care enough to give serious support for these sorts of projects. My posts have been dropping off lately simply because I have to work my paying job to make ends meet (even so they barely meet but that's a different story).

If you think it's worth supporting major publications for peace, you can make a donation here. Twelve dollars will keep it going another month. Even better, U.S. citizens can look at their recent income tax charges, half of which went to support military spending. Why don't you give ten percent of that half to Nonviolence.org and other worthy peace projects?

Hi all: I don't want the imminent changes to be a surprise. There will be a lot happening in the next six months and it's almost certain the "Quaker Ranter" will suffer. I try not to get too personal on this site but money is crazy tight and much of this work will probably be coming to an end soon.