Billions of dollars in damage. Millions homeless. Scores dead. As information continues to pour out of areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, it is clear that many, many people have a long road ahead of them as they try to rebuild their lives. Blogcritics has established a fund to collect donations for the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund. Please join us in making a tax-deductible contribution via Paypal by clicking on the button below. All money, every last penny, will go directly to the American Red Cross 2005 Hurricane Relief Fund.
With over one thousand site contributors and hundreds of thousands of readers, collectively we can make a difference.
Add a link to this Relief Donation Post to your own blog! Cut and paste the following code in a prominent place:
<a href="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/08/31/133020.php/">Donate to Hurricane Katrina relief at Blogcritics.org</a>
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— go to most recent comments1 - Phillip Winn
A Paypal error? Argh!
2 - alethinos59
great idea... I'm already sending money to the Red Cross - but you're to be applauded for your quick thinking here!
3 - Eric Olsen
fixed the code - it works now
4 - Eric Olsen
thanks Lisa!
5 - Silas Kain
Lisa, this is a GREAT idea! Now, I'm going to go a step further and ask that anyone who visits blogs does two things:
1) Become part of a Blogger challenge to send donations to the Red Cross or any other charity designated to do work in the Katrina ravaged region. Let's get bloggers around teh world to jump on board and place a note on their respective blogs.
2) Email the Political Action Committee or politcian of your choice and ask them to donate to the relief effort on behalf of a political candidiate rather than donate money directly to their campaign. I challenege every Congressperson and Senator along with their respective campaign organizations to issue releases asking their political action committee supporters to do so.
So following is a form letter I've come up with. I challenege you, your friends and the blogs you visit to copy this letter and send it to those who represent you in Washington:
6 - Dawn Olsen
As promised, I just paypaled a donation to the fund, I sure hope the writers on this site can do find it in their hearts to do the same. My suggestion is that we send the money collected to the Red Cross.
Please give what you can, because every bit will be needed to help these unfortunate souls rebuild their lives.
Thanks Lisa for putting this together!
7 - Eric Olsen
and thanks to Dawn for the idea in the first place!
8 - LegendaryMonkey
God, I hate paypal. I haven't been able to update my account since we moved recently. I'll see if I can't fix it so I can donate a little something, and I'll link this on my blog.
9 - RJ
Linked to www.gwbush.blogspot.com
10 - DrPat
Linked to Paper Frigate.
11 - Natalie Davis
Thank you so much for doing this!
Ping apparently wouldn't work; linked to < All Facts and Opinions.
12 - Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck
I just posted this on my NEWS AND EVENTS page, hope it helps those in need!
13 - Natalie Davis
Great idea, Mr. Kain! I just sent off letters to my congresscritters. Just for the record, Georgia, Kentucky, and Florida saw damage as well -- not as much, but still.
14 - Robert
If paypal is taking a fee for these transactions you are much better donating directly to the American Red Cross here:
http://www.redcross.org/
15 - rik
i just donated $60 via the paypal link. how long are you collecting before forwarding it on to the red cross? thanks for doing this, too!
16 - Lisa
We will continue to collect contributions for at least the next several days though an exact cut off date is under discussion at the moment.
On behalf of Blogcritics, I would like to offer sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed here and elsewhere in this huge time of need. I'll chance speaking for many of us when I say such generosity is truly touching to see.
17 - puca
quote "It is time for the world to pull together to help the victims of Katrina"
fuck, if the US launch 10 missiles less they'd have enough money to help.
If the US would send 1% of its troops of iraq/afghanistan, there would be raining helping hands.
Just to say, I do not think the world is eager to help the US..
18 - RJ
"Just to say, I do not think the world is eager to help the US"
Well, then, you're wrong:
LINK
19 - DrPat
This post has been cited on Blogcritics in my Weekly BlogScan (this week titled "Katrina and the Mother of all Spin") -- in fact, I gave your post the last word.
I hope it will inspire one or two spin doctors to make a donation in place of contributing to the hot air in and about the Gulf...
20 - David
How do i know this money is going to the Hurricane Katrina relief ? .. when i try and send it via paypal.. it looks as though im sending the cash straight to some random dudes account ?
Sorry there is no officiality about this at all.
I can't trust it, i really want to send money via paypal.. but anyone can set up that