Jun 30, 2019Lost and foundOn June 23rd 2019, Firefund.net suddenly lost all connection to the database in charge of handling donations on the campaign sites. Our volunteers have since been working day and night on getting the site up and running as normal. Unfortunately, this was no easy task. What happened? We first had…Crowdfunding2 min readCrowdfunding2 min read
Jan 16, 2018Why we SwarmWe believe that we need to organize solidarity through direct action, to support the movements who have the ability to create real change. We built firefund.net as a tool to use for progressive movements, and all variations of groups, networks, tactics, who wants to organize across borders. We use the…Swarm1 min readSwarm1 min read
Dec 5, 2017SWARM 2.0 — We want to recruit you!In 2016 FIREFUND launched firefund.net as a tool to carry out bad-ass solidarity without national boarders. The tech is in place, an awesome group of activists is in place. But we want more: Becoming a platform for organized solidarity requires a hivemind-like community. …Crowdfunding2 min readCrowdfunding2 min read
Dec 14, 2016We want to recruit you!2016 was the year we launched FIREFUND. We have reached a point where we have the technology and infrastructure to carry out bad-ass international solidarity. The tech is in place. But we want to be more than a website. Becoming a platform for organized solidarity requires a hivemind-like community. An…Crowdfunding3 min readCrowdfunding3 min read
Dec 6, 2016Political crowdfunding done right. 5 reasons for the succes of #bringshadihomeCrowdfunding is not magic! It takes hard work! On November 15th, the #brigshadihome campaign on firefund.net succeeded with the result of 127% funded of the original goal of € 4.500. This has been the first succesful campaign on FIREFUND! We are all very excited about it, and hope it won’t…Crowdfunding3 min readCrowdfunding3 min read
Sep 29, 2016The Rent Strike FIREFUND is cancelledHere is the official UCL, Cut The Rent statement on why they chose to stop their crowdfunding campaign on FIREFUND 14 days before the end-date: If there is a motive, a spirit, that unites all organisers in the world it is possibly, in the words of Saul Alinsky, the longing…Crowdfunding3 min readCrowdfunding3 min read
Sep 19, 2016New progressive crowdfunding platform is here and is already funding civil disobedienceThis is our original press release. Free to further distribute to any kind of media outlet who wish to publish, edit-and-publish or simply use as source for quotations. All readers are encouraged to distribute this further either directly or via. …Crowdfunding3 min readCrowdfunding3 min read
Sep 21, 2015How we plan to create political crowdfunding for revolutionaries.Well, this is not so much of a plan, really. It’s more an argument for selecting us and not the other ones. Biased much? Yup. We launched a beta-version with the raw sketch and idea of www.firefund.net. We did this, because of two reasons: The kurdish community in Kobanê needed…Crowdfunding3 min readCrowdfunding3 min read
