Omg you guys, best thing ever.

If you buy a "hand-crafted beverage" from Starbucks on World AIDS Day (12/1) they will give a whole 5 cents to the Global Fund for AIDS relief (in Africa ( Read more... )

So, I guess I'll make the post, since I'm the responsible one (HA! says the girl who should be asleep).

Dine Out For Life is tomorrow night! What this means to YOU is that if you live in the Phoenix area and want to remain our friend, you WILL be joining us for dinner tomorrow night to support the fight against HIV/AIDS.

You don't want to have ( Read more... )

If you can stomach this article (and if you have time, of course), I suggest reading it.

Gay Teens, the Boy Scouts, and A.M.A. Policy: Why AMA Policy is Not in the Best Interest of Children or FamiliesSo you won't be enraged/shocked, however, I also suggest taking a look at the top of the page to see where the article was posted before reading it ( Read more... )

Anyone on Facebook? Excellent.

Join this group - yeah, this one.I'm usually quite against groups like "I Hate So and So" or "Facebookers Against Some Random Cause" but this just makes me sick to my stomach. Wrong on about 1,000 different levels ( Read more... )

Remember I made a post awhile back about my New Year's Resolution plans? Here they are!

( Please check it out, even if you have no intention of making resolutions this year )

So, I've been wanting to write about this for a long while, and now I'm finally doing it ( Read more... )

Banned Books Week is here AGAIN!

Banned Books Week is here everyone! For those of you who read my posts last year, you know what I'm talking about, but if you have no idea go here and here and here"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only ( Read more... )

Today's entry: What Invisible Children (the organization) is doing about the problem facing the children of Northern Uganda.

Once again, if you haven't read the previous two Cause of the Week posts, you will more than likely be confused, so I suggest you go and do that.

INVISIBLE CHILDRENIn 2003, three college students from California made a ( Read more... )

Tonight's entry: Night Commuters - What they are and why we should care
I know it's a little long, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take the time to read it.

INVISIBLE CHILDREN

If you haven't already, read my post from last night or you will be thoroughly lost. (Yes, that was a joke from me to myself, don't worry about it ( Read more... )

Okay everyone, it's time for another "Cause of the Week"! If anyone actually pays attention to my journal, you'll know that I did this during fall last year for Banned Books Week, and, straight from Megan-the-Activist, I have a new cause for you all. This means I do a post everyday on it, so that maybe you'll get so annoyed you'll actually take the ( Read more... )