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Hello there for those that don't know me. My name is Sonia Poulton.
I'm a journalist and broadcaster and for those who do known me, hello there as well.
About six or seven weeks ago when I publicly walked out of an internet, TV
and radio station
over the issue of lack of transparency of public funds,
I vowed to people who were asking me what was my next move, that I would be setting up an online
presence.
Well to this end that's what I've been attempting to do. For the last few weeks
I've been working with a number of volunteers
on trying to create a new media
online presence. Unfortunately, the problem with volunteers and this absolutely
NO disrespect to volunteers, as volunteers can only do
what they can do, when they can do it. I believe that we are at a stage in this
world frankly,
where we do need that alternative media presence, that gathers together lots of
different alternative medias into the same place and that's what I've been
attempting to do.
But the truth is I am now going to have to do what everybody's been telling me to do
from the get-go and which I have steadfastly
refused to do and that is put out a public appeal. We need funding.
It really is as simple as that, unfortunately, 'cos that's the type of world we're in.
We need funding in order to be able to get somebody to design and create
that online presence. We need funding to be able to pay for people
GLOBALLY to report back to us about what
is happening around our world. We need to be able to
fund people for cameras, for streaming, for all manner of things.
Now me personally I think all this is achievable without a huge
vast amount of money, so I'm really asking you to donate whatever you can
humanly. Don't overstretch yourself, I don't want you to do that; but we do need to
be able to create an alternative
and people do need to be able to be paid. One of the things that
frustrates me actually in the alternative media is a lot of people
expect to get free content
for nothing! I suppose that's why it's called free content.
Well that's not possible. There are some wonderful people out there
in the alternative media; camera men and women,
writers, bloggers; all manner of
people doing fantastic work for nothing and they can't do it.
They really can't. I talk to these people and I want to be able to bring people, gather
people together. All the people that you have heard of,
that you have seen me interview, and bring them together into one place where they
can actually report back. But they need to be funded to do that. That's
anti-child abuse campaigners, that's austerity campaigners, disability
and sickness campaigners, vaccination campaigners, geo-engineering campaigners.
All manner of people and experts. Child
experts, all manner of people who can tell us about the most incredible things, but they do
need funding.
And I believe they need funding and I myself need funding
because I am a single parent with one income coming in to our household
from my freelance work, and it doesn't stretch to setting up
a new online presence to gather together all these people. So we need your help.
Erm, attached to this video will be a Paypal link,
which links directly to my Paypal account. I ask you for anything at all
that you can contribute. There will be a monthly
accounting of what's coming in and what's going out! It's as simple as that; it will be
transparent.
People inbox me, email me, tweet me and say 'Sonia,
have you got anything that I can donate to?' Well yes, I have now.
I've told you previously 'No, I haven't' and I'm not sure if I'll be prepared to do that but I've
realized that there's really no alternative. That's what needs to take
place.
So, erm, rather than you ask me, you know, 'What can I do to practically help?' Well this
is what you can do to practically help.
We need funding to create that alternative media, that I can see
being achievable. But we need that most basic of things,
and that is money. So, throwing it out to you really and that is, if you want this to happen
then please help us. Take care. Thank you.