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Nov. 21st, 2011 08:25 amGood morning everyone, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!
A bit of happy news before we start -- I had been intending to reblog a notice of a missing man in Iowa, Eric Bark, but I did some double-checking and in the time between bookmarking the link and prepping RFM, he's been found.
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onebrightroad posted that the Transgender Equal Rights Bill in Massachusetts has passed both the House and Senate, and the governor has said he intends to sign it into law. Congratulations, Massachusetts!
Always nice to start the week with happiness :)
Ways To Give:
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dytabytes's classmates at UDM Dental are growing out their 'staches for Movember! UDM SOD Class of 2014 is on the official Movember site and the direct link to donate is here. Support dentists who want to fight prostate cancer! (They gotcha coming and going.)
tygrestick wants to remind everyone about Open Books, a Chicago literary organisation that sells books to support childhood literacy. They have a shop in Chicago but also sell through Amazon, and you can find them on twitter at @openbooks.
melayneseahawk's Etsy Bakery has been mentioned here before, but I wanted to remind everyone that it's still there and still full of delicious goods. She's had a bit of hard luck lately, with illness forcing her to withdraw from school, and she needs resources to support her until her new job starts. Purchases in her Melayne Bakes Etsy Store go towards helping her out, and as a thank you she's set up a coupon for Cafe Customers: enter code 'SamsCafe' when you're checking out for a 15% discount! If you're not sure what to buy, she assures me that the Hearthstone Cinnamon cookies are out of this world.
restapler let me know about tattooedlady, who has had an amazing amount of trouble between immigration issues and job pains, and needs to raise $1700 to keep her storage units safe (one which contains baby pictures and other precious belongings). She's only $600 away from the goal. You can read her story and find out how to help here; she's not asking for donations but rather loans she can pay back come the end of January.
Occupy Wall Street lost its entire 5000+ volume library when the police evicted the occupiers and threw personal belongings and the library into dumpsters, but they're back! They're always looking for volunteers if you're in the area, but if you have books to donate, you can also mail them to the library -- they take any book of any kind. You can find volunteering and donation information here.
flamingsword also has a great post about how to help Occupy without Occupying. She's interested in getting the word out but also welcomes concrit and commentary.
Help For Free:
angylinni is a web design student whose final assignment was to make and submit a video for this year's Doritos Superbowl competition. She's asking folks to go, watch, and vote for her (in my opinion, extremely clever) vid. Let's help a Cafe member win!
An awesome offer fromgrey_bard for New Yorkers: her friend is in beauty school and needs people to demonstrate her skills on for her grade. She's offering free facials, manicures, haircuts, and colour touchups. She's studying at the Empire Beauty School in Astoria, Queens, conveniently located next to the R subway line, half an hour from midtown Manhattan. If you're interested, you can PM grey_bard or email her at fitzrose at email.msn.com.
jonaht brought the IP Act to my attention: "The PROTECT IP Act would allow copyright owners simply to accuse a website of infringement, which could lead to that site being shut down by court order and entire links to the site being wiped clean from the Internet." I am going to admit I'm not thoroughly educated on this act but it sounds like sloppy, paranoid lawmaking, and there's a petition here to stop it.
Rosemary alerted me to a pair of bills coming up for vote in the House of Representatives next week, concerning post office legislation. There's more info here, but essentially the National Association of Letter Carriers is asking people to tell their representatives to vote no on HR2309, which would elminate Saturday delivery (as well as 200,000 jobs and some post offices) and vote yes on HR1351, which would adjust the allocation to employee retirement funds. Again, this is not something with which I am 100% familiar, but I'm confident that if the NALC wants people to vote AGAINST continued retirement support, it must be a serious issue.
Meridian alerted me to Ruaridh, a missing dog in Scotland who ran off (scared of the Guy Fawkes fireworks) and whose owners are still searching for him.
Just For Fun:
etharei linked me ages ago to Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir and I wanted to share it with everyone.
leonie_alastair linked me to an awesome little video about Ponzi schemes at the New York Times. They also wanted to point out the new Poetry Foundation building in Chicago -- where I will be attending a reading or two next month, in fact.
An interesting and slightly irreverent post at Chicago Magazine's website has data on the places you're most likely to be killed in Chicago. Apparently taverns have gotten safer!
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help. Remember, non-embedded links are love.
A bit of happy news before we start -- I had been intending to reblog a notice of a missing man in Iowa, Eric Bark, but I did some double-checking and in the time between bookmarking the link and prepping RFM, he's been found.
Also,
onebrightroad posted that the Transgender Equal Rights Bill in Massachusetts has passed both the House and Senate, and the governor has said he intends to sign it into law. Congratulations, Massachusetts! Always nice to start the week with happiness :)
Ways To Give:
dytabytes's classmates at UDM Dental are growing out their 'staches for Movember! UDM SOD Class of 2014 is on the official Movember site and the direct link to donate is here. Support dentists who want to fight prostate cancer! (They gotcha coming and going.)tygrestick wants to remind everyone about Open Books, a Chicago literary organisation that sells books to support childhood literacy. They have a shop in Chicago but also sell through Amazon, and you can find them on twitter at @openbooks.melayneseahawk's Etsy Bakery has been mentioned here before, but I wanted to remind everyone that it's still there and still full of delicious goods. She's had a bit of hard luck lately, with illness forcing her to withdraw from school, and she needs resources to support her until her new job starts. Purchases in her Melayne Bakes Etsy Store go towards helping her out, and as a thank you she's set up a coupon for Cafe Customers: enter code 'SamsCafe' when you're checking out for a 15% discount! If you're not sure what to buy, she assures me that the Hearthstone Cinnamon cookies are out of this world.restapler let me know about tattooedlady, who has had an amazing amount of trouble between immigration issues and job pains, and needs to raise $1700 to keep her storage units safe (one which contains baby pictures and other precious belongings). She's only $600 away from the goal. You can read her story and find out how to help here; she's not asking for donations but rather loans she can pay back come the end of January. Occupy Wall Street lost its entire 5000+ volume library when the police evicted the occupiers and threw personal belongings and the library into dumpsters, but they're back! They're always looking for volunteers if you're in the area, but if you have books to donate, you can also mail them to the library -- they take any book of any kind. You can find volunteering and donation information here.
flamingsword also has a great post about how to help Occupy without Occupying. She's interested in getting the word out but also welcomes concrit and commentary. Help For Free:
angylinni is a web design student whose final assignment was to make and submit a video for this year's Doritos Superbowl competition. She's asking folks to go, watch, and vote for her (in my opinion, extremely clever) vid. Let's help a Cafe member win! An awesome offer from
grey_bard for New Yorkers: her friend is in beauty school and needs people to demonstrate her skills on for her grade. She's offering free facials, manicures, haircuts, and colour touchups. She's studying at the Empire Beauty School in Astoria, Queens, conveniently located next to the R subway line, half an hour from midtown Manhattan. If you're interested, you can PM grey_bard or email her at fitzrose at email.msn.com. jonaht brought the IP Act to my attention: "The PROTECT IP Act would allow copyright owners simply to accuse a website of infringement, which could lead to that site being shut down by court order and entire links to the site being wiped clean from the Internet." I am going to admit I'm not thoroughly educated on this act but it sounds like sloppy, paranoid lawmaking, and there's a petition here to stop it. Rosemary alerted me to a pair of bills coming up for vote in the House of Representatives next week, concerning post office legislation. There's more info here, but essentially the National Association of Letter Carriers is asking people to tell their representatives to vote no on HR2309, which would elminate Saturday delivery (as well as 200,000 jobs and some post offices) and vote yes on HR1351, which would adjust the allocation to employee retirement funds. Again, this is not something with which I am 100% familiar, but I'm confident that if the NALC wants people to vote AGAINST continued retirement support, it must be a serious issue.
Meridian alerted me to Ruaridh, a missing dog in Scotland who ran off (scared of the Guy Fawkes fireworks) and whose owners are still searching for him.
Just For Fun:
etharei linked me ages ago to Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir and I wanted to share it with everyone. leonie_alastair linked me to an awesome little video about Ponzi schemes at the New York Times. They also wanted to point out the new Poetry Foundation building in Chicago -- where I will be attending a reading or two next month, in fact. An interesting and slightly irreverent post at Chicago Magazine's website has data on the places you're most likely to be killed in Chicago. Apparently taverns have gotten safer!
And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help. Remember, non-embedded links are love.
