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FUNDRAISING Alert: Help Send Ariana Reines on a UN Mission to Haiti
So listen to this. Ariana Reines–poet, playwright, translator, publisher and frequent target of this blog’s affection–has been invited to join a UN Mission to Haiti which leaves on Thursday. She will spend March 12-19 traveling with a group of trauma clinicians, serving as the team’s only French-English interpreter. Ariana writes,
the group will be working primarily with traumatized doctors, nurses, and other medical workers, as well as children, orphans in particular. I know you have plenty of places to put your $: into the mouths of your children for example. i must raise $2500 in order to cover airfare, travel insurance, immunizations, malaria medication, mosquito netting, art supplies (for the children we will work with), and feminine hygeine + contraceptive items (for the grown people)
$2500 is an imminently crowd-sourceable figure, and with such a firm sense of this mission’s purpose and time-table, the impact of your giving can hardly risk being lost in the general abstraction of “charity.” So what do you say, team? I say let’s send Ariana Reines to Haiti. (UPDATE: NOW WITH LINK THAT ACTUALLY WORKS.) Whatever you can give will help. I’m going to go kick down twenty bucks as soon as I finish writing this post.
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Link didn’t work. I’m in for $20, and I’ll drop another $20 if you fix the link.
Link didn’t work. I’m in for $20, and I’ll drop another $20 if you fix the link.
totally now thinking of kathy acker’s sublime kathy goes to haiti (which i know you intended in the title).
totally now thinking of kathy acker’s sublime kathy goes to haiti (which i know you intended in the title).
You’re right on the intentional reference, but it’s A’s own, not mine.
You’re right on the intentional reference, but it’s A’s own, not mine.
link appears fixed now JW
link appears fixed now JW
Have you tried any of the fundraising ideas on http://www.fundraisingideas.org/? They have some pretty good ones you might find useful (like the flamingo fundraiser!)
Have you tried any of the fundraising ideas on http://www.fundraisingideas.org/? They have some pretty good ones you might find useful (like the flamingo fundraiser!)
DEAR EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS READERS OF HTML GIANT
i will write you singly, but meanwhile thank you all for giving, and thank you if you cannot give or loathe to do so too.
yours
ariana
ps. i don’t think this item is up there, but:
i am thanking donors of $50 and over with a signed copy of the limited-edition book SAVE THE WORLD, a poem of 80 pages, out this summer. SAVE THE WORLD is the first of the five books of which MERCURY, (FENCE:2011) is composed. by special agreement with FENCE, i will release the five books in the fat FENCE one in limited-editions, seasonally, until MERCURY arrives. so a number of you are getting a present you didn’t know you would get. hooray.
XXXXX
ARIANA
DEAR EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS READERS OF HTML GIANT
i will write you singly, but meanwhile thank you all for giving, and thank you if you cannot give or loathe to do so too.
yours
ariana
ps. i don’t think this item is up there, but:
i am thanking donors of $50 and over with a signed copy of the limited-edition book SAVE THE WORLD, a poem of 80 pages, out this summer. SAVE THE WORLD is the first of the five books of which MERCURY, (FENCE:2011) is composed. by special agreement with FENCE, i will release the five books in the fat FENCE one in limited-editions, seasonally, until MERCURY arrives. so a number of you are getting a present you didn’t know you would get. hooray.
XXXXX
ARIANA
hey
this is awesome. really really awesome. but when’s the final date for donations? i’m broke and i don’t get paid until the 12th, grrr.
hey
this is awesome. really really awesome. but when’s the final date for donations? i’m broke and i don’t get paid until the 12th, grrr.
ariana, antie, my sister, wait a fucking minute, surely sending a human earthquake to devastated haiti is Very Bad Taste?
XW.
ariana, antie, my sister, wait a fucking minute, surely sending a human earthquake to devastated haiti is Very Bad Taste?
XW.
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