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Hi all,

I'd like to note a few (read 100) things in hopes of hitting our goal of 100 new paid subscribers (we're 10 away):

1. We write about working-class life and culture from the left.
2. We pay our contributors — whether that's our writers, illustrators, photographers, etc.
3. All our editors are volunteer.
4. Our day jobs include teacher, waitress, cashier, instrument repair technician...the list goes on.
5. We recommend you watch Reds (duh).
6. Something's Gotta Give — the bourgeois Reds — is good, too.
7. We give the tenant movement its proper due.
8. Same goes for the local labor movement.
9. We kicked off the convo about tech billboards and what they say about tech capital.
10. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 9 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
11. The San Francisco Chronicle just profiled us, along with our comrades at the Oakland Review of Books.
12. You ever get the breakfast burrito at Kelly's Deli? It's good.
13. We know and love the taco truck outside of Hotsy Totsy.
14. Monterey Market has better produce. Shh....
15. We cover tech from the belly of the beast.
16. Come to Current to understand the tech right.
17. We've hosted 17 free, public events this year.
18. That's one plus a month since we've launched.
19. We've put on four socials, three parties, three writing workshops, two film screenings, two tech talks, a World Cup viewing party, a coffee-and-crossword hang, and a Valentine's Day photoshoot.
20. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 8 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
21. We cover culture from the bottom up.
22. Our film coverage is cultural and political.
23. You can meet the locals.
24. That's our recurring series about the Bay's native plants and animals.
25. We're a project coming out of East Bay DSA.
26. East Bay DSA gave us our initial start-up funds.
27. We joke that they are our VC.
28. Now we're funded by readers like you.
29. You know what's coming.
30. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 7 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
31. You can never go wrong with the scallion bun at Good Mong Kok Bakery.
32. Always eat at Pakwan before or after going to The Roxie.
33. We also recommend Independent People.
34. We know the true superficiality of Waymo's “autonomous” claims.
35. We <3 Sound Ward — our music column about the Bay.
36. Keep honking!! I'm remote control driving a Waymo off of the Bay Bridge.
37. That's our viral bumper sticker.
38. If you become a paid subscriber, you know what?
39. You get one.
40. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 6 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
41. Our politics coverage looks at the ways everyday, working-class people build power.
42. Whether that's the tenant movement or organizing around Flock.
43. Mayor Lurie hasn't brought San Francisco back.
44. But he has successfully sold the narrative that SF is back...
45. ...seemingly through his lackluster use of Instagram.
46. Why?
47. So that finance capital will keep pouring into the tech sector.
48. So that the NY cultural elite will do reputation laundering for tech capital.
49. Okay, we've arrived again.
50. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 5 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
51. Yay!
52. We're half way through.
53. Is the bit going old?
54. It's funny.
55. Is it funny?
56. I have to say I hate shtick.
57. We have a newsletter called Current Events.
58. Every Tuesday, we provide our event picks of the week.
59. You can update your subscription to receive the Current Events newsletter.
60. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 4 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
61. On your birthday, you can get into Archimedes Banya for free.
62. Through most Bay Area public libraries, you can get in free to lots of cultural institutions, including SFMOMA, using Discover & Go.
63. We have a shirt with Calvin on it.
64. He's pissing on capitalism.
65. It's divisive.
66. Some people like it, some people don't.
67. If you become a subscriber at the Hyphy level, we send you a shirt.
68. What's it about the dirtbag left?
69. Belong to the present moment.
70. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 3 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
71. We got posters.
72. The posters say the following:
73. All our homies hate the tech elite.
74. U.S. out of the Bay.
75. The working class deserves everything — the bosses nothing.
76. The only AI we like is acid ingestion.
77. Bay Area Current loves you.
78. We give them out for free at our events.
79. Sometimes slogans work.
80. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 2 more subscribers to go to reach our goal of 100.
81. Sometimes repetition works.
82. Sometimes repetition works.
83. We are inspired by the following publications:
84. The Village Voice
85. The Daily Worker
86. Hell Gate
87. Gawker
88. The New York Post
89. The New York Post for their tone — not their politics.
90. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we will have 1 more subscriber to go to reach our goal of 100.
91. I hope I did the math right.
92. This subscriber drive will allow us to increase our pay to contributors.
93. It'll allow us to keep on having free public events.
94. Help us build a working-class institution.
95. The right has used media to win people over. It's time the left does the same.
96. Everyone forgets San Jose is the 13th largest city in U.S.
97. Is it good to have bravado?
98. This list is in celebration of hopefully reaching 100 new paid subscribers for our first ever drive.
99. Remember Bay Area Current <3 you.
100. Click on this link to become a paid subscriber and we won't need any more paid subscribers to reach our goal.