I realize that doing stuff is for squares, but from time to time I ask you anyway—and since the site doesn't have a tip jar I basically consider this the subscription price. Now, if you continue reading my stuff without taking these small actions your eyes probably won't explode in your head, but you may feel like a rotten mooching heel. And no one wants that!
So without further ado, here's what I'd like you to spend a few clicks caring about:
The Museum of Children’s Art in Oakland (MOCHA) has decided to cancel an exhibit of art by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), which was partnering with MOCHA to present the exhibit, was informed of the decision by the Museum’s board president on Thursday, September 8, 2011. For several months, MECA and the museum had been working together on the exhibit, which is titled “A Child’s View From Gaza.”
MECA has learned that there was a concerted effort by pro-Israel organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to pressure the museum to reverse its decision to display Palestinian children’s art.
This is one of those cases where a few friendly appeals might actually make a difference, so please do send email to MOCHA asking them to reverse this decision (and yes, it's fine if you're out of state; you might visit some day, right?). You can take a look at some of the art for yourself here.
If you'd like to see some of the Gaza TERROR CHILDREN whose nefarious drawings so threaten the continued existence of Israel, here you go:
Menacing, aren't they? That's Nour on the left and little Muhammed (who loved head-butting balls thrown at his head) on the right. It's been nine years since I took this picture so they're 12 and 11 now (and have a little sister, according to their dad Khalil). Have they produced art that's in MECA's possession at this very moment, waiting to poison the minds of unsuspecting Americans and turn them against the Jewish state? I don't know, but I'd like to have an opportunity to find out. So send that email right away!
The Distant Ocean 
Just after I read this, Amy Goodman began reading a short story about the same case. That must be a sign, possibly fromn Eyjafjallajokull. I’ll send e-mail to the Museum.
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Done. Thanks for the suggestion.
Btw, does anyone know of an alternative to SFGate? I find myself going back there all the time and I just hate it. The Bay Area is in desperate need for a truly independent news source.
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Sent
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Fercrissake! I don’t come on this site to be asked to be “doing stuff.” Crikey!
Done. What amazing power is held by Zionists, whether Jewish or Christian. Truly frightening and also pathological.
Truly perceptive artwork by these lovely kids.
Thank you John. And thank you MECA!
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I’m going to do this, sending my own email. Don’t know how this is working for others but it seems impossible to add or change anything in the form letter via my browser. I usually like to personalize these messages so that people get the idea that some effort went into it and it’s just not a bang-bang hit the return button campaign.
Darn it John, are you trying to make us USEFUL?!
While on the subject of useful I hope everyone is contacting their congressthieves to try and save the post office. That’s the country we live in, saving the darn POST OFFICE is a struggle!
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Yeah, the form letter is clearly supposed to be editable, but I too was getting a bug preventing that.
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dittoing chris and cloud
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And another ditto. You can contact them using one of the E-mail addresses here. That’s what I did. Thanks, John. I can continue to read you without feeling like a rotten, mooching heel.
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Oh, and, by the way, I just want to thank you for not using Captcha, which has become completely impossible to deal with, and for using the quite civilised pseudo-Captcha mechanism you’re using, which does the job without being stunningly stupid.
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I sent Mocha an email (to registrar@mocha.org which I hope is correct). They will probably eventually reverse their decision but have a team of Israeli hasbara experts to explain to everyone what they are seeing.
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God do I love brown babies. I WANT A WHOLE HEARD OF MY OWN!
Is it too late to send? I have been swamped in schoolwork and workwork the past few weeks and just saw this.
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I am a typo machine.
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They’ve already made (or maintained) their decision (IDIOTS!), but it’s never too late to carp–so carp away.
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😦
Will do.
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