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Welcome to the team! You'll get access to exclusive updates about our progress, and you can continue to support us by spreading the word.

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A spot on the guest list at our Winter Gumbo + Apple Cider Martini Party (details to be announced). Making a Kickstarter pledge at this level or above will automatically put you on our list. And if you’d like to support Newsmotion but can’t attend the event, please consider buying a ticket to sponsor a starving artist or journalist who would not otherwise be able to join us.

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A copy of the special, limited edition of the New York Times, produced by the Yes Men and hundreds of other independent writers, artists, and activists.

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Limited collector’s edition of the Occupied Wall Street Journal (Issue #4), a Poster Art Folio produced in collaboration with Occuprint, a collective curated by Molly Fair, Jesse Goldstein, Josh MacPhee and John Boy. (International backers, please add $10 for shipping costs.)

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A signed copy of signer-songwriter Will Dailey's latest album, "Will Dailey & The Rivals" - plus a preview of the rotoscope film-in-progress starring Will, Julian Rubinstein, Alan Chin, Alia Malek and Milton Allimadi.

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Earlier this year, Newsmotion adviser Todd Gitlin visited Belgrade and met with Srdja Popovic, a leader of the Otpor movement that helped to overthrow Slobodan Milosevic. You’ll get special access to their extended conversation about social change and non-violent resistance, produced by Newsmotion.org and photographer Matt Lutton.

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A limited edition copy of "Recipes for an Encounter," signed by co-editor Marisa Jahn. The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed...

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A signed copy of 'Byproduct,' a limited edition book edited by Newsmotion creative director Marisa Jahn investigating artists embedded in science, industry, and electoral politics featuring artists and thinkers such as Claire Bishop, The Yes Men, Billy Kluver / Experiments in Art & Technology (E.A.T.), Artists Placement Group (APG), Joseph del Pesco, and more.

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"Wild and Neglected Like Me"–limited edition 13.5"x11" screenprints by Just Seeds artists Molly Fair and Jesse Goldstein whose work was inspired by John Clare (1793-1864), whose poetry lamented the criminal destruction of the commons by those who sought to “improve” the land by turning it into profit-maximizing farms. (International backers, please add $10 for shipping costs.)

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"Help Me Help You Help Me Love You" - Limited edition 5" x 7" screenprints by Jesse Goldstein

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A signed copy of Julian Rubinstein's 'Ballad of the Whiskey Robber,' about the Hungarian bank robber and folk hero Atilla Ambrus, along with the limited edition audio cabaret production of the book, starring Eric Bogosian, Jonathan Ames, Gary Shteyngart and others.

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A limited edition signed copy of “Nonviolent Resistance–50 Crucial Points” inscribed by co-author Srdja Popovic, a founder of Serbian nonviolent resistance group Otpor, and one of Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. (International backers, please add $10 for shipping costs.)

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A signed first edition copy of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book 'And Their Children After Them' by Newsmotion adviser Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael Williamson.

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Signed books by award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Heather Rogers: “Green Gone Wrong,” about green capitalism and what’s happening in the name of today’s environmentalism, and “Gone Tomorrow,” which traces the connection between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our disposable lifestyle. (International backers, please add $10 for shipping costs.)

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Signed DVD of Laura Poitras's Academy Award nominated documentary, "My Country, My Country," an intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation, and a broader story about U.S. foreign policy. Plus, an original ballot from the historic 2005 elections chronicled in the film. (International backers, please add $10 for shipping costs.)

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We're taking your calls! It's your chance to get a professional consultation about your project, debate the future of the media, or just shoot the breeze with a member of the Newsmotion team.

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Explore a biodiverse and delicious future with a pair of tickets to a workshop and dinner at Natalie Jeremijenko's Cross Species (xSpecies) Adventure Club. (In NYC or Boston)

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A 13"x18" limited edition print by award-winning photographer Misha Friedman from his series "Donbass Romanticism" on life within the industrial complex in Eastern Ukraine. (International backers, please add $25 for shipping costs.)

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“Superfund 365: Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA”– a 11”x14” C-print from Brooke Singer's award-winning photo and online data visualization project, Superfund365, that highlighted a different toxic contamination site in the US every day for one year.

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"Haiti, Saut-d'Eau Festival"– a 13”x19” ink jet print on 325 gsm Hahnemuhle archival paper by photographer Jake Price (image coming soon).

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A collectible 5" rapid prototype, the only one of its kind, of the Yes Men's SurvivaBall suit. Made from the model used in the Yes Men movie, and currently in the Yes Men's personal collection.

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A signed and numbered special edition print on 11x14 archival fiber based paper from Newsmotion photo editor Alan Chin. The photographs were taken above the Gulf Of Mexico, June 2010, on board BP-contracted helicopter overflying the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico. (International backers, please add $25 for shipping costs.)

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A customized, four-hour multimedia training led by experienced instructors from PPH and Newsmotion.

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Your choice of a limited edition, signed print by photographer Jason Goodman. Choose any print, including the one featured at left, of actor James Franco from the pages of Vanity Fair. Visit http://www.photosjg.com/ to see more. (International backers, please add $25 for shipping costs.)

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Limited edition, original archival print from 'One Trees,' the eco-art project by Natalie Jeremijenko. (International backers, please add $25 for shipping costs.)

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You're either a corporation or an individual with a love for storytelling and a desire for a tax deduction. So long as your cause or company isn't offensive or inappropriate, we'll give you a full sponsor treatment, including major sponsor credit and signage at our next big event, a speaking slot during the event, social media thanks and introductions, and sponsor presence on feature content.

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“Ai God Catching Ghost”– a 36”x46” print on premium archival photo paper, edition 2/5 of the paper edition, of Ai Wei Wei, by Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung from his series on Internet censorship in China, “The Travelogue of Dr. Brain Damages.” (International backers, please add $30 for shipping costs.)

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