Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative is a group of citizen journalists who began covering the Wisconsin Uprising in February, 2011. We came from different walks of life, different professional backgrounds and different parts of the state to document the dismantling of democratic process and tradition taking place in our state under the rightwing onslaught of the Scott Walker regime.
WCMC members question Capitol Police Chief Tubbs and Department of Administration Deputy Chris Schoenherr about new rules restricting freedom of assembly and freedom of expression in the Capitol.
During the course of 2011, we discovered that our individual photographs, videos, and blogs were becoming trusted sources of information for events taking place in and around the Capitol. In the fall of 2011, we began meeting informally to discuss collaborating on stories. Walker’s Department of Administration’s new rules restricting freedom of expression and freedom of assembly in the Capitol were unveiled in December 2011 and formed the stimulus we needed to launch a formal media organization.
In January 2012 we incorporated as a non-profit worker cooperative in the state of Wisconsin. Currently, we are all unpaid volunteers engaged in this work out of our fierce determination to inform the public about the dismantling of the decades-long tradition of open government and participatory democratic structures in Wisconsin.
We hope to build the coop into a radically democratic media organization that reflects the needs of our community for information and that can serve as a model of grassroots news gathering for people in other parts of the country. In order to do this sustainably for the long-term, we need material, moral and community support.
Here are some suggestions for how you can help:
1) 
Donate money through our PayPal account
2) Bookmark and share our website
3) Utilize social media like Twitter, Reddit and Facebook to share our stories
4) Donate audio, video and computer equipment
It is not easy to send you money. What happened to the DONATE link? The only reason I was able to donate is because I had done so before and still had the information in my Paypal account. Please make the DONATE link more prominent or at least easier to find.
Thank you for your comment, Samantha… and for your continued financial support! We now have the ‘DONATE’ button up and running! Sorry for the delay.
Donate button reinstalled today!
Who took down the story for September 14? You? Repub hackers? I wanted to forward it, but it’s not on the website
yeah. repub hackers.
It would help if you had a mailing address to send a check.
How can one become a member of/participant in the coop?