Park 51 needs help

[hatman]

I've been thinking about giving Dreamwidth another go. There are good people on my reading list, and the contact would be good for me. I might have to drop some people off my list (not thinking of anyone specifically), but maybe I could add some more, too, if I knew where to look.

Well, that can wait. I'm going to be away on the annual family vacation soon, so I don't think I'll be reopening lines until I get back.

What can't wait is Park 51. AKA the "Ground Zero" "Mosque." As you may recall, I visited it last year. I haven't managed to get back since, but I've been following them on Twitter. They've now opened up donations on their main site.

But they've got something else they're trying to put together. They want to open their doors with an art exhibition with pictures of children from every country around the world. They set up a Kickstarter page for it. But it's not looking good. There are only 10 days left, and they're well short of their goal. The way Kickstarter works, if they don't meet their goal, all funding is canceled.

I'd like to see them succeed. Especially because of all the trumped-up politicized bigoted controversy they've faced. So please, boost the signal. And if you can, chip in.

Comments

[chipb0i]

I don't remember exactly, but I think the community three weeks for dreamwidth (not the exact name, but I'm at work right now so can't look) was doing friending posts, where people wrote about themselves and then would add people from there. Might be a good place to start.

[hatman]

Yeah, I know the comm. I'm a member. It's an idea to consider.

The problem with friending posts is that you have to make a case for why people should add you. I'm not in a good mental place to be doing that.

I think I'm going to have to look around for interesting comms and then see if I can "meet" people in the comments sections and such.

Thanks, though.