Last Updated on August 3, 2018
If you are one of the three dozen people who chipped in during our recent fundraiser, we want to thank you. With your help, we were able to raise a total of $1806.00, giving us just enough money to secure Intercontinental Cry into the late summer months.
We may not have reached our goal of $2400, nevertheless, this was our most successful fundraiser yet–and we are very grateful for that. Unlike most major online news publishers, we don’t have any financial backers to help us in a crunch. We don’t get grants or foundation funding. We have only you, our beloved readers, to keep us going.
A donation isn’t just a free wad of cash to us. It’s an honor and it’s a sincere request for us to continue what we are doing. We intend to do just that.
As a side note, we also know that there were several other important fundraisers running concurrently with our own. These included the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance campaign, the Unist’ot’en Camp, the Ainu Maori Exchange, and the fundraiser for the film, Fractured Land. These are all worthwhile projects that deserved every bit of support they received–and we are thrilled they were able to reach their goals. It’s tough raising money for efforts that challenge governments and corporations.
Nia:wen (Thank You),
John Ahni Schertow
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
That is exactly why IC Magazine exists..
For more than 20 years, IC has reported on Indigenous struggles worldwide — consistently, independently, and without compromise.
We don’t follow news cycles; we trace patterns. We don’t sensationalize; we provide context.
And when the world looks away, we stay focused.
But this work is increasingly difficult to sustain.
We refuse to lock our reporting behind a paywall. We don’t sell access through subscriptions.
And we don’t answer to advertisers. IC Magazine survives solely because readers like you choose to
support independent Indigenous journalism.
Please donate today if you can. Every contribution helps us to continue this crucial work.
Thank you,
John Ahni Schertow
Founder and Editor in Chief
