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<div><strong>** Note - this GoFundMe has been running since 2018 - the funds we've raised have gone toward reporting trips, equipment, and other costs of Status Coup. As with any small indie startup, it's constantly shocking what it really takes to run a business and make a difference. We need to raise more funds ***NOW*** (we're being really open with you) as our funds are dismal this month, and we're missing the mark in this period of change and growth.</strong>
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<div><strong>Straight up:</strong> Doing real, raw, on-the-ground, and aggressive journalism isn’t cheap! This is one of the reasons corporate media rarely does it (second only to the fact that exposing oligarchy would also expose their multi-billion dollar corporate conglomerate parents companies!). 
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<div>Unfortunately, we don’t see real journalism on-the-ground much these days. In the 24/7 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt26I5I31rNvq2Wk5dM5EH2wCMAyPXCjL" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Trump-corporate media-industrial-complex</a> we’ve been living in for three years, the systemic corruption, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt26I5I31rNvX9lglHepydxvMJHdjrwI6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">environmental genocide</a>, Gilded Age oligarchy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt26I5I31rNsWD8sRCf8-5aQGE71miPkZ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">erasing the middle class</a> , economic and social oppression of minorities, crisis-level gun violence, and gentrification run amok have all-but been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt26I5I31rNuquW12P7BaboBpfSDLeWkT" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">covered UP by the media</a> rather than exposed and spotlighted.
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<div>If you followed independent journalist Jordan Chariton’s reporting over the years—before the cameras came to Standing Rock and long after <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt26I5I31rNstdrCV_M3OOtyK8V4X8kQh" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">they’ve left in Flint</a> —you know where his journalistic and moral compass guides him.
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<div>That compass has led him to co-found a real, authentic independent news and reporting network—<a href="https://youtu.be/gkOwblseY0U" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Status Coup</a>  —which along with an eventual team of journalists, photojournalists, and other team members, aims to diminish the corporate media echo chamber and <a href="https://youtu.be/gkOwblseY0U" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">give the microphone back to the people</a>  by exposing the true victims of the United Corporations of America…the people.
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<div><strong>MEET THE TEAM</strong>
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<div>Our wish-list to cover is large, and we will adjust as news develops (we often get our stories from the audience living in communities being affected) we believe isn’t getting enough attention:
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<div>                                                   ▩ <strong>Amazon’s Assault on Workers Nationwide▩ </strong>
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<div>Bayou Bridge Pipeline (across Louisiana, crossing 700 bodies of water), Enbridge Line 3 Expansion (from the Bakken formation of North Dakota through the headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Minnesota, to Wisconsin); Mountain Valley Pipeline (underneath some of the steepest slopes in America through the Appalachian Trail of West Virginia and Virginia); Keystone XL (tar sands of  Alberta, Canada through Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska)
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<div>We will return to Standing Rock, North Dakota to spotlight the Tribe’s continued battle against environmental genocide, poverty, and big oil intimidation
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<div>We've uncovered that the state of Michigan was FLUSHING the water before taking lead tests, leading to inaccurate lead samples and the FALSE declaration that the water is safe. Watch our documentary on this story (made possible by you!) via our website.
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