Showing posts with label GoFundMe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GoFundMe. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

GoFundMe denies donations to Canadian protesters, who then turn to GiveSendGo for millions - The Washington Post

After being denied several million dollars raised on GoFundMe, organizers of a trucker-led protest disrupting life in Canada's capital have found a new platform: a Christian crowdfunding site where they raised more than $3.5 million in two days to demonstrate against the country's vaccine mandate...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/07/canada-protesters-fundraising-platform/


Sunday, February 6, 2022

U.S. Republicans vow to probe GoFundMe decision halting Canada trucker donations | Reuters

…Protesters have shut down downtown Ottawa, the Canadian capital, for eight days now, with some participants waving Confederate or Nazi flags and some saying they wanted to dissolve Canada's government. To the increasing fury of residents, Ottawa police have largely stood by and watched as some protesters smashed windows, threatened reporters and health-care workers, and abused racial minorities...


Thursday, July 8, 2021

Why is a 108-year-old resorting to GoFundMe to pay for home care?

…The working class is largely excluded from Medicaid, unless a person happens to live in a state that expanded coverage under Obamacare. Though rightwing Republicans have argued, against all available evidence, that such a system incentivizes work – the poor get less, so they must struggle to get more – it's this approach to healthcare that actually encourages deep poverty as the only route to sustainable healthcare…


Monday, May 20, 2019

Kenny Burrell’s journey from jazz legend to GoFundMe appeal - The Washington Post

The first question was why Kenny Burrell, the guitar master who recorded with John Coltrane and Aretha Franklin and released many of his own albums during Blue Note’s golden age, found himself in such a crisis that his wife had to start a GoFundMe campaign. “It saddens and embarrasses me to desperately need and request help, but it is necessary at this point,” Katherine Burrell wrote in launching the crowdfunding effort last week.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/to-think-it-has-come-to-this-kenny-burrells-journey-from-jazz-legend-to-gofundme-appeal/2019/05/15/c57fb07e-7701-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html










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