A food pantry here in the Arkanshire needs help. The pantry suffered collateral damage from a fire in a neighboring building, and health regulations required the staffers to throw out much of the food.
A word from Mr. Kem: I can eat anything but Magnozite, but Terrans aren't so lucky. Any help you can send your fellow Terrans would be cool.
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I have looked through about the first 25 pages or so of The Anywhere Machine, and found no thread on which to post charities. I did, however, find this one. I decided to convert it to a thread on which we could post our choices of charities to help out, as we are able and feel moved to do so.--KC
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Posted by Kid Charlemagne on :
The Christian Appalachian Project works to help some of the least fortunate people in the USA.
Free Rice lets you donate rice--paid for by site sponsors--and expand your knowledge of a choice of subjects. (English vocabulary is simply the default choice.)
Now I'd like to provide a word from a distinguished statesman--but I couldn't find one, so I settled for Tenzil:
"Remember, I can eat rocks. You Terrans can't. Since the LSH doesn't exist in your universe, YOU have to be the heroes." Posted by Kid Charlemagne on :
The Red Cross is seeking donations to help the victims of the recent storms in the Midwest and South.
About ten years ago it was determined that a lot of the area's homeless and poverty stricken didn't have access to food banks or soup kitchens due to geography. The solution: Bring the Soup Kitchen to them. Mobile One keeps buses on the road with a stocked kitchen that makes regular stops around the city. As you can imagine, bus maintenance and fuel are an ever escalating cost.
Christian Solidarity Worldwide advocates for religious freedom for all faiths, and calls attention to the plight of people persecuted for their beliefs under various kinds of authoritarian regimes.
Tomorrow is the New York City AIDS walk... I'll be walking for the 9th year in a row... it's something I look forward to every year... hard to describe the experience... emotions run very high... it sometimes feels like a giant party in the streets of Manhattan with a very important underlying cause... so many people walking in memory of a loved one... I'm fortunate to not have lost someone close, but I know too many people affected by AIDS in one way or another... "Fill the streets!"
Posted by Kid Charlemagne on :
The Red Cross is looking for donations to help the victims of Hurricane Isaac.
We don't have a Legion in the real world, so we have to be the heroes, or at least subsidize them.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
]url=http://avaaz.org/en/]Avaaz[/url] is a global organization where members can start petitions on various issues. Avaaz aims to bring important issues to the attention of the people in power, who have the power to make decisions that affect us all.
Posted by Kid Charlemagne on :
I mentioned Christian Solidarity Worldwide in a previous post. Here's their current featured case:
The currently featured CSW case concerns a pastor in Iran. He has been jailed on trumped-up charges. His health is failing, and he is not receiving proper medical treatment.
E-mailing is easier than it has been. CSW now provides a form letter to which you can add your own comments.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Got this from Avaaz.org:
I dunno if you guys ever plan to go to Uganda, but...
Dear friends,
The Ugandan Parliament is set to pass a brutal law that could carry the death penalty for homosexuality. If they do, thousands of Ugandans could face execution -- just for being gay. ... We've helped stop this bill before, and we can do it again. After a massive global outcry last year, Ugandan President Museveni blocked the bill's progress. But political unrest is mounting in Uganda, and religious extremists in Parliament are hoping confusion and violence in the streets will distract the international community from a second push to pass this hate-filled law. We can show them that the world is still watching.
We have no time to lose. Let’s get one million voices against Uganda's gay death penalty in the next 24 hours -- we'll deliver it to Uganda's leaders and key countries. Click here to take action, then forward this email to everyone:
President Museveni backed away from this bill before, after international pressure threatened Uganda's support. Let's build a million strong petition to stop the gay death penalty bill again, and save lives. We only have hours -- sign below, then tell friends and family:
Last time, our international petition condemning the gay death penalty law was delivered to Parliament – spurring a global news story and enough pressure to block the bill for months. When a tabloid newspaper published 100 names, pictures and addresses, of suspected gays and those identified were threatened, Avaaz supported a legal case against the paper and we won! Together we have stood up, time and time again, for Uganda’s gay community -- now they need us more than ever.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
For what it's worth, they've apparently dropped the death penalty part of the bill, but it's still pretty nasty.
Thanks for bringing attention to this, because I don't think it's received anywhere near the attention that it deserves, at least in the American media.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Avaaz.org regularly sends updates on similar matters, such as the Pakistani girl who was going to be tried for allegedly burning a Koran. I've probably signed more than a dozen petitions since I've subscribed.
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