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Hello Friends! Help! 7 April 2013
Stranded!
Ten activists from Toronto and Hamilton, including my colleague
and fellow @occupybaystreettweeter @nursegirlt, have been stranded
in a snowstorm on the way back from Operation Thunderbird(#OpTB or
#OpThunderbird on twitter) rallies in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The
roads became impassable
20 minutes outside Wawa, ON (about two hours Northwest of Sault
Ste Marie, ON), and the groupturned back and found a hotel for the
night in Wawa. The additional costs associated with this
strandingfor the trip run as follows:
$375 Saturday Night in hotel (3 rooms @ $115 each plus taxes)$65
Additional Night for rental cars
$100 Food at $10/da per activists (food for previous days was
covered by activists themselves)$540 TOTAL
Other Leftover Trip Costs
Also, Operation Thunderbird Organizers have provided us w/ a
preliminary look at their final costs forhelping nearly two dozen
activists get to Thunder Bay to speak out about Missing, Murdered,
andSexually Assaulted Indigenous Women in Canada. Organizers had
difficulty raising funds online asthey have attempted to remain
anonymous (for reasons including that the previous campaign of
thissort in Thunder Bay saw the organizer's house ransacked by
Thunder Bay Police). IndieGoGo alsofroze and shut down an attempt
to raise funds at their site. Organizers were loathe to continue
whenthey realized that IndieGoGo's terms of service explicitly
state that they share information with lawenforcement in North
America, even without a warrant. This is appalling, particularly
sinceOpThunderbird is functioning to criticize Thunder Bay Police's
mistreatment of Indigenous Women.
Organizers for OpThunderbird were able to raise about $2000
through generous friends, family, andcolleagues, but the trip costs
(before the snow storm stranding) are reasonably estimated to be
justunder $4000.00 (estimation is necessary because, e.g., the last
1000 kms of gas cannot yet be tallied).
$500 Trip Organizers from Winnipeg (estimated)$110 Trip
Organizers from Kenora (estimated)$400 General trip organizer #1
(US based, exact cost, hotel payments + $85 general funding)$645
OBS organizers (cost of masks plus transportation costs to and from
Thunder Bay)$1755
How You Can Donate
My Paypal account (recently reactivated to contribute to funds
to report on ethnic cleansing of theRohingya people taking place in
Burma) can accept funds. Email for PayPal payments is djjohnsoyahoo
dot com. BitCoin: we are attempting to use BitCoin for the first
time!
1D9jruipDdDpVsTbi1cKAfpY8b6TCncHJq is the address for
OpThunderbird's emergency fundraiser.
Thanks for considering helping out! Funds will first go 1st to
cover the storm stranding.
Doug Johnson Hatlemfor @OccupyBayStreet
P.S. I myself was on the trip and at the rallies in Thunder Bay,
but had to fly back early to meet a workengagement.
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