Lots of great news from your favorite program, Sastra Dana!!!
Our publication, 16 Rounds to Samadhi newspaper, has been growing. We now print 30,000 copies per issue. That is 10,000 copies more than what we used to print. We are now making significant presence in the streets and shopping malls of San Diego and Los Angeles. Our newspaper racks can be found at almost every health food store in San Diego and numerous other places.
Our goal is to print 100,000 copies per issue. It costs $2,300 to print 30,000 copies. So far the printing costs have been covered by the donations of our readers. Thank you.
To further increase the growth of this operation we will need more funding. The plan is to sell ad space in the newspaper. To sell ads, we need to be visually present in public. That involves having hundreds of our newspaper racks all over the city.
Racks are of two kinds: wire and metal or plastic outdoor racks. Wire racks cost $25 a piece. Plastic outdoor racks cost $80 a piece. Metal outdoor racks cost $250 a piece. At the time we are barely covering the paper’s printing cost. We absolutely have no funds for purchasing racks. Any donations you make towards the purchase of racks will greatly help.
To cope with this problem we’ve been searching out abandoned racks, restoring them, painting our logo on them, and putting them back in the streets, now loaded with our publication. In this way we are hopping to make the needed visual presence in order to provoke interest of business to advertise in our publication.
We are also going to incur about $1,000 in legal fees to obtain all the needed permits for placing our racks in public.
Krishna consciousness is meant to change and uplift the world. We have lots to offer to the world and particularly to the fellow American. The content of our newspaper is precious, invaluable, and urgently needed by the people. We wish to make at least as much presence in public, if not more, than the City Beat and San Diego Reader for example.
We hope you are sharing the same vision and want to join the spiritual revolution.
- Plastic outdoor racks cost $80 a piece.
- Wire racks cost $25 a piece.
- To print 30,000 copies of our newspaper costs $2,300.
- Make a DONATION
Our newspaper rack at Lucky D's hostel in downtown San Diego.
This is what the racks look like when we get them.
And this is what they look like when we fix them.
Some of our racks. They are waiting to be distributed in public places.
Sastra Dana's newspaper at Von's gas station in Pacific Beach, San Diego.
Sastra Dana's newspaper at Von's gas station in Pacific Beach, San Diego.
Sastra Dana's newspaper on Garnet Ave. in Pacific Beach, San Diego.
This rack is located in Ocean Beach, San Diego, by the People's store.
This rack is located in Ocean Beach, San Diego, on Newport ave.
Newport Ave in Ocean Beach, San Diego.
plastic & wire racks
- Plastic outdoor racks cost $80 a piece.
- Wire racks cost $25 a piece.
- To print 30,000 copies of our newspaper costs $2,300.
- Make a DONATION
