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@aburka@hachyderm.io @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com I did something similar when ProPublica’s union stood up their strike fund GoFundMe. I also sent an email to the membership team at the company and asked they share with executive leadership saying: 1. I absolutely stood with the workers in their efforts as a long time reader. 2. Listed several of the specific demands the union effort wanted in a contract that were important to me as a reader with trust in ProPublica’s reporting. 3. I was suspending my monthly donation to ProPublica and sending that money instead to the strike fund. 4. Agreed to double my monthly donation to ProPublica if they agreed to a contract with the union. By no means do I think I individually had a material sway, but it felt like a reasonable approach and made clear my position and how valuable ($$$) it was to me so that executives focused on numbers could understand. And of course, I did renew and increase my donation last week when they announced a contract outline.