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NEPAL NEEDS OUR HELP NOW!
Hello fellow members of the Pearl Jam family,
The people of Nepal are in immediate and desperate need of our assistance in response to the devastating earthquake and aftershocks they have recently experienced. As of this writing - Monday April 27, 2015, 08:30 PST - an estimated 3,800 Nepalese people have been killed and countless others are in immediate need of our help.
Eddie, Mike and Pearl Jam have supported and performed at past Tibetan Freedom Concerts (Tibet is Nepal's neighbor) and I would believe that the band would be very proud and supportive of any and all assistance our community can offer Nepal right now.
I think the most convenient and effective way to help immediately is to donate money to the Red Cross, which I myself have just done.
You can easily access the Red Cross online at redcross.org and direct your donation to the Nepal earthquake relief.
Please, let's do this right now! Thank you.
And can we please keep this post bumped to the top of the list? I can't imagine anything else here is of more importance right now.
The people of Nepal are in immediate and desperate need of our assistance in response to the devastating earthquake and aftershocks they have recently experienced. As of this writing - Monday April 27, 2015, 08:30 PST - an estimated 3,800 Nepalese people have been killed and countless others are in immediate need of our help.
Eddie, Mike and Pearl Jam have supported and performed at past Tibetan Freedom Concerts (Tibet is Nepal's neighbor) and I would believe that the band would be very proud and supportive of any and all assistance our community can offer Nepal right now.
I think the most convenient and effective way to help immediately is to donate money to the Red Cross, which I myself have just done.
You can easily access the Red Cross online at redcross.org and direct your donation to the Nepal earthquake relief.
Please, let's do this right now! Thank you.
And can we please keep this post bumped to the top of the list? I can't imagine anything else here is of more importance right now.
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"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
Very appreciative of your positive response to the urgent emergency in Nepal.
Here is a very recent excerpt from an NBC news story on the Nepal earthquake:
"Rescuers were still digging bodies out of the rubble in the capital Kathmandu, where centuries-old buildings were flattened by Saturday's quake and many people were sleeping outside for fear of further aftershocks.
Nepal's National Emergency Operation Center said the death toll had reached 5,057 and that nearly 11,000 people were injured in the quake. Officials have said it was impossible to tell how many bodies remained buried — meaning the death toll could continue to rise.
Ross Prince, a 62-year-old Canadian tourist, was at the scene digging with his hands. Prince was on vacation when the quake struck — but said his focus immediately shifted to helping out with relief efforts.
"All you can do is…turn around and help the others," he told NBC News. "It's awful. We have to do something...It just tears you apart."
I know that none of us enjoy reading about these tragedies - it's a real drag.
But when natural disasters interject themselves in our otherwise happy-go-lucky lives we really need to wake up and spring into action.
There will be plenty of time for Eddie concerts and Pearl Jam records and raffles for more Pearl Jam records - after we help deal with Nepal's current, urgent and dire need.
I apologize if I come off as preachy - that is definitely not my intent.
Please just consider this post a friendly nudge.
Thanks again.
I wouldn't begin to know how to put that together.
And in the interim, if people who want to help can simply go to redcross.org and donate whatever amount of money they can squeeze it would be wonderful.
And you will get something very valuable in return - good karma.
Maybe even "Instant Karma!" (John Lennon)
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
EV
Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
You do work very fast which is exactly what's required in this emergency.
Thank you sir!
Thanks for the kind words though and bringing this to our attention
Thanks!!!
If one goes to the Paypal website, there is a blue "donate now" button which allows you to choose from four different charities that will each forward 100% of your donation to the Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund.
Thank you very much for asking!
People still desperately need our help in Nepal.
Thank you!
You can go to paypal.com, click on the blue "Donate Now" button and you'll have four choices of charities to donate to.
Any amount you can spare is helpful and desperately needed now.
Thank you very, very much.
I presume your students are around 14 years old? That's a great age to learn that there are sometimes more important things in life than one's own wants and desires.
Please relay to your students that the Pearl Jam family is very grateful and proud of them!
And keep us updated on their efforts, would you please?