The Expo Foundation launches an international site for fundraising
The Expo Foundation is launching a new, international fundraising site for intensified efforts against organized intolerance. We want to involve people who appreciate what we are doing and who want us to do more. On exposupporter.se you can create your own supporters' group and invite friends, colleagues and others to participate.
Expo Supporter is a new way to support the Expo Foundation. We have created the site because we want our supporters to feel included in our organisation, and that the serious content of our work does not exclude a creative and positive context. We hope that this is a way to reach out to more people who are willing to take a stand against racism and xenophobia.
- We launch this site because we know that are many people out there that feels frustrated and provoked by the growth of the Sweden democrats and other intolerant groups. Expo supporter is one way channel these reactions. As a supporter of Expo you are given the possibility to make a stand and to be a part Expo´s work against racism and xenophobia, says Daniel Poohl, CEO.
The well-known designer Efva Attling has created a special Expo Supporters' Heart which supporting businesses and individuals may use to show that they are part of the Expo's work.
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The webagency SomeGuys has created Expo Supporter. They are behind the development of the design and actual solution where you can start groups of supporters and show your support for Expo. More information about SomeGuys found on www.someguys.se
Expo's Background
In 1995, the white-power music scene was at its peak and Sweden was the world's largest producer of hate propaganda. The same year, several people were murdered in Sweden in Nazi-related violence.
The Expo Foundation was established in order to counteract the growth of the extreme right and the white power-culture. One of the driving forces behind Expo was the journalist and athour Stieg Larsson
The initiative was taken by teachers, journalists and youths. Expo adopted a platform which was to be free from any links to specific parties or political groups, with the following purpose: to safeguard democracy and freedom of speech against racist, anti-Semitic and totalitarian tendencies throughout society.
Contact:
Kristina Folgert - Marketing Manager
Mobile: +46 (0)72- 043 07 71
Email: kristina.folgert@expo.se
The Expo Foundation is a non-profit, private, religiously and politically unbiased foundation, started in 1995 at the initiative of, among others, journalist and author Stieg Larsson, who was also Editor in chief of Expo magazine and president of the Foundation until his death 2004. The foundation is run on a non-profit basis. The Expo platform safeguards democracy and freedom of speech against racist, right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic and totalitarian tendencies throughout society. Expo is not connected to any specific parties or political groups, but cooperates with all individuals and groups who share the foundation's platform. The Expo Foundation carries out editorial and opinion-forming work and is run by the editorial staff, consisting mostly of volunteering journalists. The foundation is the publisher of Expo magazine. Editor-in-chief is Daniel Poohl. Reports daily news on expo.se. Maintains the Expo archive, the largest source of information on the extreme right and anti-democratic phenomena in all of Scandinavia. Lectures and informs on the Swedish and European extreme right for, amongst others, teachers, politicians and journalists. Carries out continuous research on the extreme right.
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