Reposting and boosting from gehayi 's post. 

The American Red Cross is taking donations. You can even specify where you want the donation to go.

The British Red Cross has a disaster fund, if not a special fund for the earthquake victims.

The Salvation Army is accepting monetary donations.

Convoy of Hope is already helping the earthquake and tsunami victims ( Read more... )

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Originally posted by closetospring at SIGNAL BOOSTING EVERYWHERE
so, the new york times covered a story in which an 11-year-old girl was gang raped (POSSIBLE TRIGGER WARNING for the link). an awful story, made even more awful by the fact that they repeated claims that she brought it on herself by the way she was dressed. repeated them. as fact. no critical ( Read more... )

Reposting this here, and not under a cut, because it is a signal boost and the purpose would be defeated otherwise. No matter what people think of Manning and what he did, this is huge and should be all over the place.  Let's not forget that Manning is now on the way to being judged by the institution whose war crimes he uncovered. Let's not forget ( Read more... )

Originally posted by neo_prodigy at Spirit Day



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Warning, this is extremely squicky and trigerry.

There's a thread over at ontd_feminism  which fruhlings  and ascenseur  have signal-boosted on their journals.

( click at your own risk, this is angry-making material )

Copy-Pasted from matrixrefugee :

Pass this along!!!

16 Year Old Paige Marie Brewer Missing With Jonathon Sharkey (aka "The Impaler" -- delusional vampire wannabe who ran for governor of MN) . They may be headed for NJ. Report them if you see them. There are multiple images of Sharkey on the web for easy identification of this thorn in the side of the vampire ( Read more... )

Hi! Since comments are screened over there, I figured I'd put up something here for you. I have several questions ( Read more... )