MEMBERSHIP LEVELS

1) Community Member:

$5/month or a $50+ one-time donation
⋆｡°✩ Choose one:
Warehouse Poster, or Buddy Tumbler, or Choice of T-shirt (Chicago Handshake, Mojado Power, or Mutual Aid)

2) Collaborator:

$10/month or a $100+ one-time donation
⋆｡°✩ Receive: Warehouse Poster, and Buddy Tumbler
⋆｡°✩ Pick One T-Shirt: Chicago Handshake, Mojado Power, or Mutual Aid

3) Co-Conspirator:

$20/month or a $200+ one-time donation
⋆｡°✩ Receive: Warehouse Poster, Buddy Tumbler, and Lumpen Radio Hoodie
⋆｡°✩ Pick Two T-Shirts: Chicago Handshake, Mojado Power, or Mutual Aid

4) Co-Host:

$50+/month or a $500+ one-time donation
⋆｡°✩ Receive: Warehouse Poster, Buddy Tumbler, and Lumpen Radio Hoodie
⋆｡°✩ Receive ALL THREE T-Shirts: Chicago Handshake, Mojado Power, and Mutual Aid
⋆｡°✩ AND: One month of Lumpen Radio underwriting for your business or project on WLPN-LP Chicago, 105.5FM

It’s that time of year again! Please help Public Media Institute remain a home base for people who make and love independent culture in Chicago: Lumpen Radio and Lumpen TV, Co-Prosperity, Buddy, the MdW Coalition, and mutual aid projects like the Chicago Mutual Aid Guide. We’re entering our 35th year because people like you decide it matters enough to care. By becoming a member now, you help us hold this whole unruly long haul experiment together and push it further. Members will this year get some rad swag, and will also take part in a 2026 vote about how PMI should move forward as the world burns. Help us build the community of the future if the future is the apocalypse. 

Buddy Tumbler: 

Take a piece of the Buddy store with you everywhere! This 16oz/437 mL sandstone white tumbler with the iconic red Buddy's B is perfect taking your beverages out in style.

Available at any donation level

The Warehouse Poster: 

The Warehouse is where the home is. Designed and written by Rachel Ko, this poster highlights the legacy of the iconic Chicago nightclub, the Warehouse, with a visual index that traces its origins to the birth of House music.

Available at any donation level

Mojado Power T-Shirt: 

This limited-run shirt was hand-printed by our PMI team and features the logo from a film shown at this year’s “SubVersion Summer Camp!” The story follows an undocumented worker who, after a series of adventures, devises a plan to unite undocumented persons and Chicanos under the slogan “Mojado Power.”

Available at any donation level

Chicago Handshake T-Shirt: 

Welcome to Chicago! This T-Shirt conveys what we think of ICE coming to terrorize our neighborhoods with a playful nod to our favorite Chicago poison, Malört. Governor Pritzker got one already!?

Available at any donation level

Mutual Aid T-Shirt:

Designed by our buddy, the legendary CHema Skandal! This shirt lets people care about your neighbors, and that you know that the ideals of anarchism live on our streets every day we organize to take care of one another. Check out PMI’s Mutual Aid Guide publication and Mutual Aid Report radio show for ways to get help and to get involved.

Available at any donation level

Lumpen Radio Hoodie: 

Rep your favorite neighborhood radio station with this hoodie! Launched in 2016, Lumpen Radio is fueled by our small staff and a dedicated community of volunteers, including DJs, curators, producers, writers, and organizers, all committed to connecting you with the ideas and music we think you will love.

Yours for donations of $20/mo or $200+