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| Antiwar protestors organize relief for refugees |
| 2003-04-12 |
| Paul McCartney, Avril Lavigne, David Bowie, Moby, and others have all contributed tracks to a benefit album that will be released on April 18. Next month in Italy, Bono and Luciano Pavarotti will be performing at a benefit concert for Iraqi refugees. All seven of them will be really pleased! Over 8400 Internet users, encouraged by liberal activism site Moveon.org have contributed $641,000 to Oxfam America's humanitarian relief fund. I don't see anything on Moveon.orgs website! Amazing how this org does so MUCH with so LITTLE effort....and so FAST! If Moveon.org is promoting OXFAM, then we have to wonder if OXFAM is just another money laundering gig or if they actually contribute a buck or two to the hungry. |
| Posted by:becky |
| #6 Seen a report(years ago)that said 60%of UNICEF's donations go to administrative cost.The CEO of UNCIEF at the time was earning something on the order of $180,000(remember this was years ago so adjust for inflation and cost of living).When questioned on this his response was"If I was in the private sector I would be making twice as much."Evereyone should bare this in mind when donating to large,beurocratic charities. My Aunt donated Tens of thousands of dollars to her church.She was on her death bed,her son ask the Pastor to go to the Hospital to give her comfort.His response"I can't,I have to get the church ready for my son's wedding"he said this standing next to his new Cadillac. Then this slimeball had the unmittagated gall to lay claim to my Aunt's home,saying it was what she would have wanted. (These ""are not exact quotes,ben to many years) |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-04-13 07:16:16 |
| #5 Anonymous, right-o! Only I suspect that if we looked closely enough, we'd find that these groups just move money around from foundation to foundation, each skimming off 25-50%, and that the majority of the money never makes beyond a donation line on a tax return to yet another foundation who also claimes to help homeless, starving, burned, children from war torn countries, with cleft lips and ricketts. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-04-12 18:27:11 |
| #4 I meant that the seven refugees would be pleased. It would have been a joke, if it had been funny. :-) |
| Posted by: becky 2003-04-12 18:13:09 |
| #3 Cheaper to cut a track than pony up cash. See Bozo and the 25 wells. And doesn't the head of Oxfam make 7 figures? and what's Oxfam's cut, 25% like the UN oil-for-food program? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-04-12 16:24:17 |
| #2 It's a lot more productive than tromping through the streets with signs and breaking windows, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-04-12 13:19:20 |
| #1 Ah, don't be too hard. Assisting the people of Iraq would be a good first step to returning to sanity for a lot of the real out-there antiwar types, and for the others a demonstration that their opposition wasn't completely blind. |
| Posted by: John Thacker 2003-04-12 13:09:46 |