Subject: Camels, Toilets and Other Funusual Gifts from Oxfam!

FUNUSUAL?

I immediately hear Tom Jones singing "It's not funusual to be starving in a waaaar..."

Oxfam has a report from the poor and isolated St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes in southern Louisiana ( Read more... )

My own favorite charity, Oxfam, has a Katrina relief fund. They're good at disaster relief but also good at long-term structural help with the economic and social problems that persist years after a catastrophe. If progressive politics give you the willies, you probably will prefer the Red Cross. If band-aid solutions and a refusal to address ( Read more... )

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