[Dixielandjazz] Brad Terry's Kickstarter project

[Tony Davis]

I was all set to support this project; selected an amount and logged in 
to Kickstarter - then I found that I had to checkout using Amazon. 
Although I have an Amazon account, I don't use it - haven't used it for 
about 18 months now, and won't use it until they a) start paying an 
amount of UK tax in due proportion to their profits and b) improve their 
treatment of employees.

I don't expect people in the US to get worked up about avoidance of tax 
in the UK, but with regard to the second point the International Trade 
Union Confederation last week said that Amazon’s business model “is 
unsustainable and is based on treating its workforce - permanent, 
part-time and temporary - as inhuman robots".

I do hope that Brad gets the funding he needs, but I shan't be 
contributing to it unless he can provide another method of payment. I'm 
really sorry.

Tony Davis

On 29/05/14 01:45, Norman Vickers wrote:
> To: DJML and Musicians & Jazzfans list
>
> From:  Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola
>
> Brad Terry is listmate on M&JF list.  I've crossed paths with him in 80s and
> 90s when we were active with American Federation of Jazz Societies and have
> been e-mail correspondents since.
>
> He has a brief clip attached and explains his kickstarter campaign.  Only
> one month to go on this fund-raising project.
>
> Pledges are solicited, and as it explains, are not due unless and until the
> entire amount has been pledged.
> ...