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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Spirit of America
This triumphant donation button takes you to the Fighting Fusileers' corner of the Heroes of the Blogosphere Challenge. Three groups of bloggers have banded together to raise money for Spirit of America, a charity providing dental kits, frisbees, soccer jerseys and music for the people of Iraq. Also, a television station.
News broadcasts in Iraq can be biased, inaccurate and incomplete - to put it mildly. Your contribution will create a television alternative owned and operated by Iraqis. This will provide better information, counter efforts to provoke and help reduce tensions.
$1,950 purchases a PC for editing video and programming
$538 buys a digital video camcorder
$109 provides a multi-region DVD player
We have raised over five thousand dollars on the first day and I would love to see that grow by the end of the challenge, April 29. Canadian Shotgun-readers wishing to lend a hand to the First Marine Expeditionary Force and U.S. Army in Iraq through Spirit of America should probably not assume the donation is tax-deductible... I think of this as a small way for Canadians to stand shoulder to shoulder with our friends and neighbours when our profoundly unrepresentative government chose not to.
(reposted from the Flea)
Posted by Ghost of a flea on April 21, 2004 | Permalink
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Thanks, Nicholas - and the rest of you, too!
Posted by: John of Argghhh! | 22-Apr-04 2:03:21 AM
And that's more than 11 thousand dollars now...
Posted by: Flea | 22-Apr-04 7:32:12 AM
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