It’s that Time Again – the OB Rag Annual Fund Raising Campaign – Help Us ‘Keep It Goin!’

The OB Rag holds one fundraiser every year and it’s that time again. It’s the second week of August and here we go!!

Please help us reach our goal of $3,500 over the next two weeks. We do have bills — just our annual server bill alone is $900, plus hopefully you’ve noticed, but we have added new writers. And miracle upon miracle, we do pay them a small amount, usually $50 an article, plus we have subscription bills and utilities to pay. It costs us more than $3,500 to run the Rag for a year, but that’s what we’re asking.

Over these last three years, the Rag has become the online platform for whole groups of dissatisfied residents besides Ocean Beach and Point Loma – fellow citizens who are upset with the leadership of the city, the mayor’s Bonus ADU program, the so-called Complete Communities plan  – not to mention the Midway Rising and NAVWAR massive redevelopment projects.

Residents across the city are having trouble gaining traction about their travails from the mainstream or other online media and press. So, increasingly, they look to the Rag for support.

As the Rag is a platform of and for citizen journalists, we are often there for them.

So, help us keep it going.

How to Support Us

Send us a one-time donation via our PayPal button on the homepage; or

Become a regular monthly contributor; via PayPal on the homepage; or

Send us a check made out to “OB Rag” to:

OB Rag
PO Box 7012
Ocean Beach, CA 92167

Here are more reasons to contribute to the OB Rag:

• We report the news from a progressive perspective, and we own that proudly. We don’t pretend to be neutral. We value honesty over virtue.
• We work to uphold civil liberties, the rule of law, and our precious but faltering democracy.
• We are the only local media outlet that provides a vigorous exchange of ideas in its comments section.
• Our readers are pissed off at City Hall. So are we, so we don’t care who we piss off. We don’t want to be friends with elected officials or powerbrokers. We don’t need access to them to report on what they’re doing and saying.
• We have a finely calibrated bullshit meter. We take special pleasure in calling out hype, spin, and weasel language.
• We make efforts to provide a bastion against trumpism, and its local expression.
• We only solicit donations once a year — unlike some online publications, we don’t hit you up over and over.
• Our content is free for and accessible to everyone. No subscription fees. No paid memberships. No firewalls.
• We give you news uncluttered by embedded and pop-up ads. (No cookies.)