[imc-wmass-announce] Seeking sponsors for hurricane relief work

[Tribal Scribal]

Greetings friends,

I've been scouring the web for emergency repair crews i might hook-up with 
down in the Gulf region this past week, but have yet to confirm anything. 
When the flooding began I signed-on with the Hampshire Red Cross, but their 
local "trainings" haven't even begun and the growing displeasure with their 
operation down south (though not as bad as FEMA) is compelling me to seek 
out my own support mechanism. And, support mechanism is just why i'm writing 
this to you now.

As most of you may know, we live pretty much hand-to-mouth here at our 
place, so any volunteer work i happen to take part in comes, how shall we 
say? at a price? Not only do we have to scrape up the cash to pay for 
transportation, food & housing for such trips, but we have to make-up for 
the loss in income while i'm engaged elsewhere. So, i have to turn to my 
friends, neighbors and relatives for support as i did when i went with the 
Western Mass Building Brigades to Nicaragua back in the '80s. And, that's 
exactly what this message is about.

I'm hoping you folks will help sponsor my volunteer work; that i may, in a 
sense, represent YOU down in the flood and hurricane ravaged region of the 
South. In exchange i will also post reports back to you via email and web 
posts at Western Mass Indymedia. As of this writing i'm not sure whether 
i'll hook-up with groups like the Commonground Collective in the 9th Ward of 
New Orleans, Peoples Hurricane Relief Fund & Reconstruction, Camp Casey at 
Covington, create my own emergency repair team, or hook-up with the 
Leverett-Kinder Sister Town project (or maybe some combination of each). 
Whatever the case, i'll need your support to do it.

If this sounds like something you wish to support, please drop a big fat 
check from a local Valley bank made out to "Don Ogden" and send it to:

d.o.
350 N. Leverett Road
Leverett, MA 01054

If you're not from the Valley or if you want to run it through some 
non-profit for a tax break, please give me a call and we'll figure out some 
other way to work it out. Thanks to everyone in advance.

This is a critical time in our nation. The federal government has not only 
been infiltrated by the enemies of the planet and the poor, but it also has 
failed in its constitutional mission. Grassroots efforts, 
neighbor-to-neighbor exchanges and solidarity activity will not only fill 
the yawning material gap left by the neo-cons and their vile fellow 
travelers, but will demonstrate to the public that the present occupants of 
the White House and the Capitol must be sent packing; that the people, the 
vast majority of the nation, deserve a government that will "promote the 
general welfare to ourselves and our posterity".

in solidarity,

d.o.





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