We march today — in body or spirit — for Science. We will spend next week doing any and every single thing we can think of to support use of Science-based data in all our governmental and non-governmental actions, decisions, and regulations. Especially in those actions, decisions, and regulations pertaining to Climate Change/Global Warming. This is sharing. Everybody taking and doing their small piece of a universal project.
Our biggest goal really is supporting, in some cases reinstating, science as the basis for all of our decisions, actions, regulations, and laws. Science is the method by which we discover how things work and the body of knowledge derived from that method of discovery. That work is also sharing. Everybody taking and doing their small piece of the universal project.
The goal of stopping and then reversing Global Warming is vast — but how to do it rests on science. Science in fact is the warehouse of tools needed to address it. So sharing in protecting the tools, sharing in using the tools. Everybody taking and doing their small piece of the universal project.
There is basically nothing in the world and definitely not in society that doesn’t require sharing. All working together on anything is sharing — and is community. Because that’s what community is — people working together on, sharing the load of, that common goal, that universal project — to survive and thrive together in our communities large (the whole Earth) to small (our Kossack communities here on Daily Kos).
We are community — the family, tribe, company, village, culture, and ultimately the state that survives beyond the life of any single member and supports (and strengthens) the life of each individual member by helping each other, by sharing. We survive, thrive only in and as community.
So we persist in helping our community members in need of funding:
The folks needing help are in alphabetical order. Names link to their profile pages.
Aji profile page — building to replace the home repossessed after the 2008 crash rests on three posts: sales of Wings’ NDN Silverwork + Lowes gift cards for materials + fundraising. More of the 1st two = less of the 3rd. Purchasing Lowes gift cards (plumbing, flooring, appliances...) www.amazon.com… and sharing wingssilverwork.com everywhere/often will greatly reduce fundraiser needs. Ono’s diary — Help a House and Hearts have Wings — Avilyn’s diary — Community Fundraisers - Focus on Wings' Silverwork & Photography — No widget, use PayPal to donate for labor/local materials expenses ($22,500 to go): wingsoftaos@newmex.com
arabian profile page — catch up from months of unemployment. PayPal: arabean at att dot net
BFSkinner profile page — encouragement & medical/dental bills (immediate target for dental bills — $2,200 to go). Multiple/worsening health and dental issues and Depression. Find a recent diary & give some moral support. Gofundme: www.gofundme.com… PayPal: houstonbfskinner at netscape dot net.
Dem profile page — Depression and PTSD. Underemployed. Needs financial help (food, Rx), social services in San Antonio, TX area and moral support. PayPal robertallenproctor4 at gmail dot com.
jtg profile page — (car priority) — Some safety things (airbag sensor and defroster fan) probably about $1,200. Still needs help paying out the transmission replacement (garage is letting him do monthly payments — $2,280 to go. Widget www.gofundme.com/… • PayPal
jtg — (home) cancer survivor, late father’s caregiver (15 years). Substitute teacher since mid-Oct. No school so no subbing Spring Break week. April pay gap help. www.gofundme.com/… • PAYPAL Kos Katalogue vendor (links below) augmenting substitute teaching with graphic art sales.
MaureenMower widow, unemployed, needs help with living expenses and car (for a job in her area) — $2,725 to go — need help for pets, car, housing — PayPal: MOELOE1126 at AOL dot COM
Murfster35 profile page — health issues, lack of balance, stamina, and muscle strength — can’t file for SSDI without a Dx, but no Dx without tests. Goal of $4,000 — $3,175 to go. widget I need to know what's wrong
slksfca profile page — Vet bills — $750 to go. PayPal: slksfca at gmail dot com & Dixie's medical expenses
snoopydawg profile page — 5-year denied-claim work injury, belated surgery failed: permanent damage, can’t work, chronic and acute pain. SSDI (augmented with photo sales — see Kos Katalogue link below), needs to refinance mortgage so help to catch up. [Companion dogs needed help. Of course she asked for them first.] Widget Charlie & Abby's vet bills (and the mortgage) Vet bills met, $760 left on mortgage refinance.
AndyT profile page friend Jill — DK makes disabled woman cry - with joy — lives in an RV in a trailer park with her son and dogs. The RV was shot up as “collateral damage” in a gang fight and needs to be repaired or replaced — goal total $7,500 — $5,642 to go. widget — RV repair or replace
michelewin profile page friend Kay — 70s, widow, homeless living in a truck with her cats, stuff in storage. phone (w/permission) 916.559.0908 2/24/17 Update: per michelewin: Kay wants to move from Sacramento to CO where her son lives. Estimate $7K for truck, gas etc., and storage fees — gofundme Kay Allen move to CO ($6,800 to go)
scamperdo doesn’t need money but needs a new place to live by end of May
desperately need a new place to live — in the Waltham, MA area. Any Kossacks who might know of an efficiency or room to rent, please kosmail scamperdo. Thanks, bf
Then see if meeting our needs and wishes can do double duty in bringing revenue to the small businesses of our Kossack community — or share out the artisan/vendor site links to folks you know who are interested in that type of work (and help get/keep the artisans and vendors off the fundraiser list):
Physical expressions of love can lift the spirit — especially from folks you know like our Kossack artisans and vendors. Our dollar vote is heard even when our ballot vote isn’t so double-duty cast that dollar vote for Kossacks and other small business communities and lift spirits, too.
From Pootie Pads to wearable and frameable designs to jewelry to web design to decluttering services — gifts from the heart are easy to find in the Kos Katalogue.
KOSSACK ARTISANS/VENDORS — JUST SAY YES to KOS BUSINESSES
asterkitty — to assist with moving costs, special painting sale is here. Big discounts: alexalev.com…
edrie — jewelry — Edrie's Shop
elenacarlena —original cartoons to hang, wear, or drink from — www.zazzle.com… www.teepublic.com… or kosmail to commission a cartoon.
Sara R & Winglion — Pootie (cat) & Woozle (dog) snuggle/sleeping/play Pads —
pootiepad.com…
Wings — NDN Silver wingssilverwork.com , Aji’s & Wings’ basic income. Hover on Galleries, then on Silverwork or Photography or Other Artists for click-links to see breathtaking work. Use Contact for email to commission or purchase. (Donations to help build house, see above.)
Full Kos Katalogue. 2016 Kos Katalogue is OPEN FOR YEAR-ROUND BIZNESS.
Departments of the 2016-17 Kos Katalog — by mettle fatigue
- Arts & Craftwork
- Books, Cookbooks, Magazines, Bookshops & Publishing
- Childrens', Craft Supplies, & Yarn: Knit, Crochet, Weaving
- Clothing & Jewelry
- Painting, Drawing, Digital Art, Photography, Sculpture
- Food-Drink-Garden & House-Home & Pet
- Service & Stationary Depts w/ Nasty Woman Merchandise Poll
- Software, Web Design, Music (CDs, DVDs) and Misc. Depts
Then pass The Fundraiser Word to the wider world to bring more help than we alone can give:
And give other kinds of caring support to our community as the needs arise
Community Quilt for The Marti, MarTigre, Princess Marti who accepted the PWB Peeps torch when Tricia Wise, the Pootie Queen held it out — The Marti's Quilt - 2nd diary
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Community Transcripts Project (CTP) 2thanks admin (link to profile page); transcripts are critical for those who can’t listen to speeches (time, internet access, physical ability) and vital for everyone in understanding/responding to speeches as they give the ability to check sections against each other, other speeches, declarations, laws, or even the constitution itself; transcripts are time-consuming and thus costly; community fundraising allows CTP to do them and make them available at little or no further charge. PayPal address: communitytranscriptsproject.dk@gmail.com (current goal $500)
Helping. That’s what community does. E pluribus unum — one out of many. WE, the people.
Only strong together.