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Radiohead Raises $572,000 for Haiti with Oxfam America at the Henry Fonda Music Box

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 24 January 2010
Late Thursday Radiohead announced that it would perform a charity show benefiting the survivors of the devastating January 12th earthquake in Haiti. The tickets were made available via a Ticketmaster auction which ended with a final minimum bid of $475 (meaning many secured their tickets for $450). Some went above and beyond as the proceeds [...]
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Twestival: Around the World in a Day for charity: water

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 12 February 2009
Twestival is on — it’s an event taking place in 200 cities worldwide to raise money for charity: water. If the goal of $1 million dollars is reached — as many as 200 communities, or 80,000 people will get access to clean drinking water. One in six people in the world do not have access [...]
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Veterans Day: Show Veterans and Active Soldiers Your Support

By Andy Sternberg | Published: 11 November 2008
It’s the 8th Veterans Day since 9/11 and while hundreds of thousands of troops remain deployed in unstable areas of Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, what’s truly discomforting is the number of Veterans of the wars of this decade who are unable to return to normal citizen lives. At least 4,780 U.S. servicemen and women are listed [...]
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