SolidarityMail - New Webmail Service for Unionists, Progressives, and Radicals

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SolidarityMail, on the web at www.solidaritymail.com, is a free new web-mail service for unionists, progressives, and radicals. It is a fully functional email system, with an initial 50 megabytes of storage. Creating an email account is quick and easy, and takes effect immediately. Users can then access their email accounts from any computer connected to the internet, via the login on the main page of the site.

In addition to all the typical features of email, users also have the ability to contact other local, like-minded users about unions, economic justice, the environment, and electoral politics, amongst many other issues – the main reason for its creation. This is done through a simple mechanism which allows you to compose an email, select the issue its about, choose a distance of other SolidarityMail users from yourself to send it to, and then send it. Users can choose to receive emails about any of the issues in their preferences page, as well as the distance to receive them from other users (from 5 to 150 miles).

Users also have access to site-wide forums, a calendar of events which they themselves can submit in order to inform others about, and categorized links. The creators hope that SolidarityMail will increase the amount of grassroots communication and organizing amongst the labor, progressive, and radical community.

Consistent with its progressive agenda, SolidarityMail will only accept advertisements from worker cooperatives, unionized companies, employee-owned companies, and progressive organizations, thus acting as a resource for responsible consumption and progressive causes. See http://www.solidaritymail.com/advertise.php for additional details.

The site is operated by a worker cooperative, a form of for-profit business which is democratically owned and controlled by its worker-owners. See http://www.solidaritymail.com/about.php for additional information.