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An organization that fantastic reporter and person Reed Lindsay helped start:
http://www.hrfhaiti.org/
UPDATE: Donate page up: http://www.hrfhaiti.org/donate.html

http://www.pih.org/home.html

http://quixote.org/haiti

http://www.haitiaction.net/About/HERF/HERF.html

MORE: http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1824/1/

(Stay away from the wasteful American Red Cross.)

"Race 2 the Bottom" by Keith Knight
http://www.buzzle.com/showImage.asp?image=51656

Content has a life cycle of it’s own and the value of content is pretty much built up by it’s freshness (how breaking is the content), how unique is it, and how emotional the content is. Breaking news content will always be in high demand. The life time and stickiness of the content improves with supporting relevant material such as context, facts and opinions, together with providing the audience with the capability of interacting with the content with ratings, comments and topical forums.

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Got some mail from Lambda Legal which put me on their begging list somehow. Their only tagline on the envelope is "making the case for equality" but somehow I knew it was an LGBT rights organization.

Which... is a little problematic.

The unfair legal treatment of homosexual couples and even more so society-wide discrimination against queer people generally is shocking at this stage in history, a shame, and a whole network of injustice that requires redress.

(First line in Wikipedia about the area my brothers live. I think it's great. It just exists, and the federal government comes along and says we have to classify you as something... unincorporated census-designated place.

S. went to a university reunion dressed as Becky Sharp, (anti?) heroine of William Makepeace Thackery's Vanity Fair.

"in victorian lit they were really suppressed
so i wanted a sassy one"

* Notes and thoughts on the non-profit behind the essay competition The Morality of Profit, http://www.sevenfund.org/morality-of-profit/index.php

Regis Dale and Reverend Peter Gori are on the Form 990 (tax return that 501c3 and other nonprofits have to file) and not on the site that I noticed but the people on the site (Widmer, Brennan, and Fairbanks are on the board in the filing also) are probably who has an active hand in selecting (the selectors) anyway. Widmer and Fairbank's essays are cited as examples; i would believe them when they say they like their own work!

Marking the Christian dating ads on Facebook as offensive.

Vanilla brown sugar is too good-sounding a flavor to waste on hand soap!

A radical friend has recently been "won to supporting Israel" (as if there were some sort of binary choice). A major factor is the treatment of women in societies around Israel being worse than in the state of Israel itself-- well, let's say the 1967 boundaries since the charge of human rights violations against women in particular is implicitly making Palestinians worthy of occupation. Honor killings in particular were mentioned, and I needed

the Cap & Trade distraction to solving climate change
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA6FSy6EKrM

Having once again exhausted all attempts at organizational systems, i'm just going to post the latest to-do list on my web site...

* Fund for Authentic Journalism credit card?
* Clear out any of my stuff from my YouTube account to give it to the Fund for Authentic Journalism
* Letter to publisher- running out of chances to recruit, promote, write book!
* Let people know I'm headed to Syracuse, Rochester, Chicago... and let the people I'm staying with no exact itinerary
* Pictures to do ultimate Drupal image gallery with Fox
* Push Alambre Trio Live and tell Grandpa and Aga

Introduction by Suren Moodliar:

Ashraf Cassiem's Saturday evening presentation at e5 concerning the Anti Eviction Campaign that he coordinates in South Africa's Western Cape. Several people have written back trying to locate (or asking me to situate)
the Campaign within the traditions of South Africa's national liberation struggle and/or the global justice movement.

My friend Mary, sitting in front of her computer looking for a job, wrote me via instant message:

"i want to automatically find a job, one that leaves me the weekends or enough time to LIVE and do the work I love."

http://www.barnraiser.org

We are a network of people that have come together to give you the tools you need to share knowledge and advance open digital society.

PWGD/VisionsUnite collaborator?

Not two weeks back from traveling Europe with two small bags – people were amazed I traveled with so little – and never feeling a lack, and immediately i've been carrying much more around with me-- at Grandpa's house now with a half-dozen books, sleeping bag, food... as well as the original two bags.

Must ruthlessly weed out the unneeded...

By Monday morning:
- Jonas last hurrah - webform downloads, etc.
- Book proposal
- CBS status update

Also needs working on today:
- Drupal core RDF
- Genarts
- Email responses to SCF people

People with a (relatively) intelligent opposition to equality, and how (not?) to respond.

There is a problem-- I do identify emotionally with the left, even if my very simple economic theory is the most minor logical extension of normal and basically right-wing classical and even neoclassical economics.

If I'm to talk persuasively to all those who place themselves as libertarian and conservative, I need to get out of that headspace a little. It really has nothing to do with the actual economic facts or even much with the moral standpoint.

Cooked a late breakfast for Shreya and our hosts, Ben and Chris.

3-4 medium-sized onions (net; had to cut out some bad parts), short slices
3 cloves garlic, small slices
2 small, 1 medium, and 2 large potatoes, sliced in thirds for boiling and then roughly sliced for frying
olive pomice oil, extra virgin olive oil, sunflower oil
turmeric, generous
table salt, very generous
a few chili pepper flakes
a few drops Tabasco sauce
covering of fresh ground pepper

Simon & Garfunkle, Homeward Bound
Kingston Trio, Green Green
Roger Miller, Home where the whippoorwills call
Dirty Water, The Standells
In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home
Don't it Make You Want to Go Home, Harry Belafonte

(For Mixes Across America Facebook group started by a friend of Manda's.)