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If you can read ILx, you can do this. I know it's corny, and the ILx unemployment rate seems to be about 65%, but I think it's more than appropriate.

Bushadmin and USmil are leaving the humanitarian crisis to charities and NGOs, already stretched from 9/11 and Afghanistan. They are not sanguine about the coming situation in Iraq. They need money BEFORE the refugees start to show up on CNN.

Here are some links to the webgive pages of the various branches:

US: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

UK: http://www.redcross.org.uk/CampaignSection.asp?id=3431

Ca: https://secure.csfm.com/redcross/

Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp

Elsewhere (if you have Euros or Swiss Francs [Don Johnson and Momus]): http://www.ifrc.org/HELPNOW/donate/donate_iraq.asp

Post your donation to guilt the rest of us!!

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

(ok two didn't work, mods help me out here, delete as nec thx)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 20 March 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

this is a great idea, I am going to do this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

How about Doctors Without Borders?

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's their link: Doctas sans Bordahs.

― hstencil, Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:23 (twenty-three years ago)

note to Americans: there is no direct checkoff for the Iraq fund. The "iraq response" seems to be for AFES, the Armed Forces Emergency Services ie what the Red Cross does for the US Military. (I'm not denigrating that work in the slightest but it may not be what you're looking for)

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

US$50, you bastards!! And I'm poor!!

― g.cannon (gcannon), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I have given money to OXFAM.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I'm gonna donate $50 to doctors without borders... seems like a logical response to feeling helpless at the moment.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 20 March 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah DWB is a completely ace charity & a beautiful example what good people can do when they put their minds to it

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 20 March 2003 18:28 (twenty-three years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes

― j., Thursday, 4 June 2015 16:25 (eleven years ago)

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