Your Donations Are Off to Madison
Early this afternoon we turned off the link to make donations to protestors in Madison, Wisconsin, because, yikes, there is only so much food and whatnots we can deliver! We were kind of expecting a few hundred dollars? Well…
Total donations, after fees taken: $2,272.46. This means pre-fee donations were around $2,340, so I donated $68.17 myself to eradicate them, so none of your kindly-given money is getting skimmed by Paypal. (Fun facts: smallest donation: $1.50; largest: $100. Average was probably around $12.)
Abe Sauer will report back from his (multiple and ongoing) shopping trips and deliveries to people demonstrating in Madison. He's being joined by his brother and a few others that have emailed to help, and he'll be sleeping in the Capitol tonight—and will keep making as many trips as it takes to deal with donations. It was suggested by some that we obtain 1400-pound blocks of cheese but uh… no. Gross. Things people have requested are: triangle bandages/cravats, yogurt, water dispensers, blankets, mats, pillows, coffee cups (but not Dixie brand), spreads/veggie dip, soft drinks, gluten-free stuff, hand sanitizer, cheese and cold cuts, fresh fruit and veggies, a spool or two of butcher paper, boxes of big magnum markers, sheets and a pre-paid smartphone for one of the organizers. So! Wow, and thanks, you awesome people!
OH MY GOD PLEEEEAAAASE PUT MY TEN DOLLARS TOWARDS CRAVATS FOR THE CROWDS OH PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
Proving once again that The Awl kicks a lot of ass.
PLEASE PUT MINE TOWARD THE BOXES OF BIG MAGNU–Oh.
Please use some of mine for booze, The Revolution Fuel(tm).
Seriously, this is awesome. I'm very proud to have been able to participate in this, even in such a small way.
Agree, and agree. What's better than a nip in your coffee/tea/hot chocoloate on a cold day? I would have just spent my donation on booze anyway, so I hope someone else gets warmed up a little tonight!
Thanks again, to Abe, the Awl, etc.
Stupid not having access to a computer all day. :( sorry, fail for me.
I failed, too….but I was stymied by technology. I couldn't set up my PayPal account and tried 50 different ways.
(I did send pizza yesterday, so I feel I was there in spirit…just a day early.)
Sorry, I'm such a techno fail.
of all the awesome things to support and the awl chooses buying some scotch tape for teachers and college students? sigh…
"buying some scotch, tape"
Oh shut up.
I wish they'd whip up some commemorative china, like the Brits do. I'd go for a set:
http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/view.asp?id=6c5099ff-4fb5-102c-bb9c-ce9ca152b7a0
The ONE day The Awl has a Group Activity, I miss it? Are you shitting me? RATS. (Yes, I can — did — send stuff to protesters myself. But it's less fun.)
We should have Group Activity more often. OMG. Awl Camp. Camp Awl. ALKSFHLSKHLFKSHSLKH
Can we do this again tomorrow?
Yes, please!
The one day I actually work instead of obsessively refreshing the page, and they do this. Dammit!
This is amazing. I started reading Gawker when I was an undergrad at NYU, and I've been reading The Awl since it started, and that supply list is the same one I've been looking at on the office wall for the past week. I'm a TA and union member at UW-Milwaukee, and I've been in Madison working with my union & my sister union at UW-Madison as much as possible since all of this started. To come home from a long day at the Capitol and see this post, to know that list probably came from either the info table on the rotunda or our office, I can't even believe it. The amount of support that we've gotten, our unions and every public union and everyone that's been out in Madison since last week, is completely unreal and makes everything that we're doing possible. This started out as this local thing, and to see how much support we've gotten and how much it's grown every day, I can't even believe it. I'm sorry, I'm not usually this sincere (I'm a little drunk on all this solidarity and also wine & Jim Beam), but damn. Thank you. Thank you so, so much. This is just so so so awesome and makes me love The Awl more than I already did.