easy text donation to Haiti, per the State Department -- cross posted from GD

[MrsBrady]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7454090

[KamaAina]

1. Wyclef Jean has one, too

for those of us humanitarians who aren't quite sure about the Red Cross.

http://www.yele.org

text YELE to 501501 to donate $5

[applegrove]

2. What is wrong with the Red Cross?

[KamaAina]

3. My friend from New Orleans told me a story

about them selling bread after Hurricane Betsy in '65.

[applegrove]

4. Surely that was an isolated incident. I worried that you had been influenced

by right wing nuts in the W. Bush administration who tried to poo poo the Red Cross because they obviously had problems with them in the middle east insisting on seeing prisoners and the like. When Katrina happened the right wing was on the boards trying to run the red cross reputation into the mud.

[helderheid]

5. I set this up too:

http://www.mercycorps.org/fundraising/helderheid