The kind of young, hip automobile owners the ExxonMobil corporation is maybe trying to buy off A little while back, we held a storytelling night to help out the folks at Mellow Pages, Brooklyn’s only user-sourced library. Despite throwing our immense influence behind the fundraiser, Mellow Pages fell short of their goal of covering one year of rent and other expenses. Still, they didn’t close, and while they’ve been looking for new solutions, one controversial benefactor has stepped forward: none other than gigantic oil company ExxonMobil. The question facing Mellow Pages now is, do they take the money. The founders of the library, Jacob Perkins and Matt Nelson, took to FanZine to explain their dilemma. Some time after the IndieGoGo effort had ended, they say they got an email from ExxonMobil offering them ten times what they had raised in their fundraising efforts. According to an email they sent their members, it… Read More
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