How will we use the money?
Why are we asking for US$100,000?
Ok, it is a lot of money and it sounds out of this world,
But I will explain you what are we using it for.
Dignified salaries
We want to employ Cubans, in Cuba
with dignified salaries
and this is for us an important point because the Institute
wants to talk about economic inequality and economic injustices that exist in the country
and to do it not only with words but with institutional behavior and working principles.
Working groups and production for actions
We want to bring people from all over the world
to meet with Cubans to have a conversation
and to imagine together effective ways to change reality.
And we want to produce with equipment,
with personnel,
actions in which each of you is being heard.
Office
We are going to have a very small, minimal office, outside of Cuba
because, as you know, we need to be able to make all the arrangements
without the Cuban government reading all the emails
and knowing who we are planning to invite in order to try to stop the even before it even happens.
Sustainability
We do not want to do a project that is of one occasion,
only one action, only one month,
we want to do a sustainable project, that is long lasting
because civic literacy can only be done as a sustainable endeavor
and in order for your ideas to become civic actions we have to be all together for a long time.
Thanks for watching the first Vlog of the Institute of Artivism Hannah Arendt (INSTAR).
We do not have a lot of time so
go to the kickstarter webpage and search
and please make a donation
and then tell all your friends,
so they remember we are citizens;
and that together we can make your ideas into civic actions.
VERY special thanks to ALL THE FOUNDERS OF INSTAR
