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Service; A Good Way to Improve the
World: Drug Policy Reform
Easily donating to help
decriminalize entheogens
>>We
can moan and cringe, complain and opt out of the struggle; or we can face the
challenge and using all the powers and potentials invested in humanity. We have
to make that choice - assuming that one can even see it as a choice. But the
alternative to not going for it and grabbing hold of it all in both hope and
optimism is a choice which is no choice. I have not seen it written that this
world of humanity has to succeed. Neither have I seen it written that it cannot
succeed. Why miss out on a possible success by doing nothing other than
moaning, complaining and weeping into ones beer? If you want a decent world
then go make it. Nothing is stopping you, and the equipment for the job is
already there within you.
>>...Every
human being alive on earth today can each help just a little in making this
world a little better for tomorrow. Ask yourself. is the world a little better
place to be because you existed in it and did your bit? That is the one and
only judgement which stands head and shoulders above all the others which you
have to make on a daily basis. If you do not help to make a better world then
why should the others? But you can try, even if they don't eh. And you will
sleep well, live well, and die well.
>>And
how could man die better,
than
facing fearful odds,
for the
future of his children,
and all
the other sods?
The
construct "for the children" is too often misused to support evil,
racist, self-serving prohibition-for-profit.
The children can all jump off a cliff -- *people* is what matters,
regardless of age. Down with "the
children", or "for the children" -- an artificial weapon of
abuse -- and up with people instead; with humanity. If you *actually* care about children, or people, stop the phony
drug war scam. Complete
decriminalization of psychoactives will reveal much of the really big picture.
Helping
improve the world isn't difficult. You
can simply donate money to great causes, including spiritual causes such as
drug policy reform:
Rapid-navigation
portal for drug policy reform sites -- http://www.reformnav.org
If you
want to help decriminalize entheogens to make them available for philosophical
research, it is easy to help by funding drug policy reform groups.
http://www.reformnav.org
-- rapid-navigation portal for drug policy reform sites. Includes information about easy online
payment systems for donations
http://drcnet.org/wol/
I proved
again the utility of the reformnav portal site. At the DRCnet site, I was unable to find the recent solicitation
from DRCnet and the latest newsletter.
It turns out it is a hidden link on the home page: the graphic "THE
WEEK ONLINE, without a border, that looks like decorative text and certainly
does not look like a clickable "button" area. The similar "WHAT'S HOT" graphic
on the right is *not* a hyperlinked hotspot.
This demonstrates why there is a need to tell the organizations how to
use the Internet more effectively, including more effective Web site
design. It's not clear, but the links
along the left side of the home page open the latest newsletter.
I was able
to instantly, brainlessly get to the newsletter through the standardized
columns at reformnav.org. I haven't
promoted or refined it, but I consider reformnav.org an essential site, the
most powerful URL for easily evaluating reform organizations and donating
flexibly to them.
I posted
the fundraising solicitation from http://drcnet.org/wol/#wolfundraising
below. I encourage you to consider
donating to DRCnet or similar organizations if you want to support drug policy
reform. Reformnav.org is designed to
explain more options, such as how to more anonymously donate at any time,
without having to sign your name in blood and be associated with the "drug
promotion group" as a "member" -- the latter fear may be the #1
mistake the reform organizations make that prevents people from giving them
money; I suspect that lots of people would be eager to make spur-of-the-moment,
fairly anonymous donations, but run away fast when told that they have to
become a "member".
There are
more ways to contribute, including standardized and automated ways; see
reformnav.org. For entheogen
researchers, the most important charity is drug policy reform organizations. If you are deciding what kind of charity to
support, I recommend supporting drug policy reform organizations.
-----Original
Message-----
From:
Chris Evans
Sent:
Wednesday, April 09, 2003 7:16 AM
Subject:
Your DRCNet support
Thank you
for discussing support of DRCNet at this crucial time. We are going to be busy this year building
upon the success of the international legalization conference series, and
trying to repeal Higher Education Act drug provision, all the while continuing
to publish the world's most widely read drug policy newsletter, so please,
please follow the link: www.drcnet.org/donate, [ http://drcnet.org ] to help us
out at such an important time.
Our
organization seems to have finally achieved a criticial mass: we're holding a
HEA press conference here in D.C. later this week, and legalization press
conference with Canadian senators and members of Congress later this
month! Unfortunately all of this is
endangered, if only for a few months, so your support really couldn't come at a
better time.
It was
very nice speaking with you last tonight, and thanks for taking the time to
spread the word about our organization among your philosophy group. We appreciate it!
If you
have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact me at either (786)
417-8217 or cevans~at~drcnet.org.
Chris
Evans
DRCNet
cevans at
drcnet org
(786)
417-8217
(202)
293-8340 (Nat'l office)
_______________________________
http://drcnet.org/wol/#wolfundraising
1. Week
Online Fundraising Update
Thanks to
the generous contributions of more 70 DRCNet members, the Week Online has at
least four more weeks of life -- nearly $7,000 raised in eight short days!
Please
help us complete the Week Online's budget through the middle of the year, when
additional grant funding for it may arrive. The Week Online currently costs
$1,400 per week, going up soon to $1,600 when we launch our Spanish and
Portuguese translations as part of our post-Mérida Latin American outreach
campaign. Your donations, large or small, will help us raise the $11-14,000
needed to achieve this goal.
So please
visit http://www.drcnet.org/donate/wol.html and make a donation to support the
Week Online -- or send your check or money order to DRCNet, P.O. Box 18402,
Washington, DC 20036 -- or visit http://www.drcnet.org/donate/monthly.html to
sign up for a monthly credit card donation.
$1,400,
tax-deductible, will fully fund one issue of The Week Online and all associated
costs -- Phil Smith's salary, 20 percent of David Borden's, plus rent, Internet
distribution and other overhead -- and a little extra to print it out and mail
it to prisoners who've requested it.
$34,000,
together with other funds received or likely, will complete The Week Online's
budget for all of 2003. $38,000 will let us translate it into Spanish too, or
$40,000 will get us Spanish and Portuguese, to reach into all of Latin America,
including Brazil.
$100, $50,
$25, even $10, if that is what you can afford, times 1,000 contributors -- only
one out of every 25 people on this e-mail list -- will add up to make a huge difference.
$30 or more entitles you to a choice of free DRCNet gifts!
The Week
Online is used by too many drug reform supporters, to empower their own work,
to be allowed to go under. Nothing could boost the spirits of our
prohibitionist opponents more than seeing the world's leading and most
widely-reaching drug reform newsletter cease to publish. But that's what's
going to happen without your help. So make a donation to make sure this doesn't
happen -- visit http://www.drcnet.org/donate/wol.html to donate today! You can
also make a non-deductible donation to support our lobbying work -- visit
http://www.drcnet.org/donate/ to make a contribution of either kind.
Donations
to the DRCNet Foundation are tax-deductible under section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code. Donations to the Drug Reform Coordination Network would
support our lobbying work and are not deductible. We can also accept donations
of stock: Our broker is Ameritrade, phone: (800) 669-3900, account number:
772973012, DTC number: 0188. Or send your check or money order to: DRCNet, P.O.
Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036.
Thank you
in advance for your support.
-- Drug
Reform Coordination Network
>I'd
like to know from Bob Wallace, RU Sirius, Earth, Fire, Sasha, and John Parry
Barlow, which charities to support.
You can do
a lot of investigation efficiently at my site:
http://www.reformnav.org
-- rapid-navigation portal for drug policy reform sites
I use
Web-based banking to have controllable monthly auto-mailing of checks to
various groups. Some organizations
redistribute donations to other organizations.
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