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Grassroots people depending on other grassroots people; this is the ideal situation.   Sometimes the costs are less, sometimes free, sometimes more.
But,  again,  a circle of caring is in itself a life-giving and sustaining force.


Not that there are not good for-profit alternatives.  In this capitalist economy, those who are able to put rice on the table by doing what they enjoy are very lucky, and so  we are not going to be dogmatic by saying there is something wrong with paying for good work, even if it is to a non-activivist company.  But we hope you will give these people a chance, since community is something central to what TokyoProgressive is about.


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TokyoProgressive offers free web hosting to individuals and groups (preferably in Asia) who share our ideals. We have limited space and time, so ideally this would be for people who have low income but who are willing to do the web design themselves (there are many simple tools on the web).  We can, of course, provide you with simple design services for free. But content loading and uploading should ideally be done by you. Generally a free website will be hosted at our tokyoprogressive.org.uk domain, rather than our tokyoprogressive.org domain.  Of course, if you purchase a domain, you can have that poiint to your site.

An example of a free hosted site:  http://gale-sig.org  which is also reachable as  http://www.tokyoprogressive.org.uk/gale/

We also provide free hosting in the form of a paid subscription that we donate using our own host for tokyoprogressive.org, Electric Embers.  The difference is a technical one.  Our host for tokyoprogressive.org.uk (acornhost) does not mind our issuing subdomains. Hence the two addresses for the above example.  Meanwhile, Electric Embers prefers to have a direct relationship with each user, so we cannot simply piggyback your site on ours.  But in both cases we pay and you get a website space for you to add your content.

As noted, this service is limited by budget constraints and by the requirement that we feel your aims are compatible with our own (no bomb-making sites, no racists, something to do with social change, preferably more radical than gradual-reform.  We also do not take kindly to "democracy advocates" who condemn, jsutifiably, the human rights record of Myanmar, for example, but who look the other way  and pretend not to notice the support the Dalai Lama gets from the CIA.

If interested in applying, contact paul@tokyoprogressive.org for details.  Include a description of your aims and what you hope for in the way of a website.

For those with a minimum budget, we recommend our own hosts:

	Emma of Oregon runs this. her normal prices are quite cheap.  Her non-profit prices are even cheaper! And she also does reliable web design TokyoProgressive.org.uk and its subdomains are hsoted here. If you get FREE hosting from us, it will be here. you will deal directly with us.
	Electric Embers is a workers collective, with outstanding service. if you get a FREE paid subscription from us, it will be hosted here and you will deal directly with them after we set it up for you. But if you pay yourself, these people cannot be beat.
It is run by Brian Dominick and friends.  (see the Syracuse collective on the other page). Brian helped to develop the ZNet website.   You can get reasoable hosting coupleed with numerous activist tools. And if you need some serious web design, this is a good place to try. Yes, they offer activist discounts. Like us, they tend to be picky, but if you think your situation deserves consideration, please ask them	WebRoo
These two related collectives have been helping us redesign the TokyoProgressive news system and design. Many media groups use their services, including some of the IMCs.