We've launched an exciting new project of our own! Introducing the Kickstarter app for iPhone!

Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on December 3, 2011.

WOW we did it!!! $4000 in less than 24 hrs. Now what?

Update #4 · Dec 1, 2011 · comment

WOW!!!  You got us there!  In LESS THAN 1 DAY we raised more than $4000 to push us past our goal of $10,000.   In short, you rock!  We're so grateful for such an amazing community. 

The $10,000 ensures that we can cover the costs of the move, the build-out, and core space-related expenses for a year.  But why stop there?  Anything we raise above that amount will go directly to new projects.


We have a new goal: we're aiming to raise another $5,000 to cover upcoming projects related to Occupy Wall Street.  And we have 2 days left to do it!
 

Occupy Wall Street has captured the public imagination like nothing
 in recent memory. This is the opportunity we have been waiting for: a 
chance to transform the existing social political landscape and build a mass
 movement for economic justice.
  For years Not An Alternative has collaborated with activists, artists, and community groups to produce aesthetics that function tactically and symbolically, and actions that serve to frame a message in a compelling and visual way.

We've got some mischief up our sleeves: interventions on privately owned public spaces, projects relating to eviction defense and home re-occupations, collaborations with community groups like Picture The Homeless, Organizing for Occupation, and Take Back the Land and with artists and designers like John Hawke, DSGN AGNC, The Yes Lab, and others, and national level coordination and interventions with other #occupy cities.

We're setting out sights higher: an additional $5000 will allow us to implement some of the creative activist projects we've been incubating, to leverage this historic moment and help build a mass movement. 

While $5000 won't get us all the way, it will allow us to roll out some of the ideas we've been cooking up immediately, and take this work to the next level.  Can you help make it happen?  Some ideas:

1. Post the kickstarter video on Facebook and Twitter: http://kickstarter.com/projects/naa/nospace

2. Write your friends and/or appropriate lists with a plug to support this work.

3. Click "manage your pledge" to raise your donation level and get a cool prize.

Thanks again for all your support, we are so grateful!

xo

Not An Alternative

 

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Funding period
Oct 18, 2011 - Dec 3, 2011 (46 days)

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  • Pledge $1 or more

    59 backers

    Become an No-Space Partner. Spread the word about our Kickstarter campaign on Facebook, Twitter or email. You'll receive credit on our website: your name and a link. You'll also get exclusive updates before anyone else: top secret projects and upcoming interventions (shhh, we've got a few up our sleeves right now).

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $25 or more

    50 backers Limited (50 of 100 left)

    Credit and a link on our website, plus a limited edition copy of the fake NY Times or fake NY Post papers that Not An Alternative worked on in collaboration with The Yes Men, artist Steve Lambert, and many others.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $40 or more

    8 backers

    Credit and a link on our site, a fake newspaper, plus free coworking for a day! Spend the day at No-Space. Work all day, get mad stuff done, feel good about it, and join us for a beer after.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $50 or more

    24 backers Limited (2 of 26 left)

    Credit and a link on our site, a fake newspaper, plus a book from one of our collaborators and No-Space presenters: Astra Taylor, Heather Rogers, Jodi Dean, or Stephen Duncombe. Books include Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy; Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Trash; Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers; Blog Theory; Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies; and Zizek’s Politics.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $50 or more

    18 backers

    Credit and a link on our site, a fake newspaper, and your choice of a limited edition silk-screened t-shirt designed by Not An Alternative. Pick your poison, t-shirt design photos to your left.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $75 or more

    2 backers

    All the above plus we make you lunch at the coworking space and Angela will rub your shoulders. (Choice of book or t-shirt).

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $100 or more

    8 backers Limited (92 of 100 left)

    Credit and a link on the site, a fake newspaper, a t-shirt, and a limited edition print of one of the below (images to the left): * Not An Alternative's facades series, part of a multi-media installation shown at Eyebeam and the NY Art Book Fair. * Limited edition photograph prints of Dream poster, produced for show at the Tate in London. * Prints of NAA Product Series, a sculptural installation produced for video series.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $150 or more

    4 backers Limited (6 of 10 left)

    Credit and a link on the site, and free coworking for a month. Monthly coworking valued at $175, it's a bargain! Don't live in NY, or feel like coworking? Why not buy it for someone else, either someone you have in mind, or make it a general gift and we'll donate the coworking spot to someone.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $150 or more

    4 backers

    Credit and a link on our site, and free booking of the space for screening or event. Need a place to do your thing? A one-woman show? A rough cut screening of your film? A board meeting? A day-long workshop? Here ya go.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $250 or more

    3 backers

    Credit and a link on our site, and free coworking for a month AND free booking of the space for an event.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $500 or more

    2 backers All gone!

    Credit and a link on our site, a fake newspaper, and one of the below services from Not An Alternative collaborators: * A 1 hr photo shoot with Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Aris Economopoulos. * A 2-hr social media and online organizing/publicity consulting session with Beka Economopoulos, Senior Strategist at Fission Strategy, and Advisory Board member at New Organizing Institute.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011
  • Pledge $1,000 or more

    3 backers

    Whatever you want from the above, plus we’ll invite you to dinner where we’ll all get tipsy and plot and scheme the revolution. Want to talk about the #occupy movement? Great! We've been very involved and have lots of thoughts. Interested in the intersection of art, activism and theory? We are too! Join Not An Alternative and collaborators for a nice night making sense of the world together.

    Estimated delivery: Dec 2011