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Ben Marble
By Jackson Thoreau
11 September, 2005
Opednews.com
OpEd
News.com broke the story of Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician
who plays in alternative rock bands and does art on the side and told
off Dick Cheney before the media on Sept. 8, being detained and hand-cuffed
by Cheneys goons in front of his destroyed home after the media
cameras left.
Our story has helped
the eBay auction of Marbles video of his Cheney confrontation
climb above $1,900, as of early Sept. 10. But wed like to do more
to help Marble, who lost his Gulfport, Miss., home and most of his possessions
in Hurricane Katrina.
So were raising
funds at OpEd News to go towards helping replace some of the items he
lost.
Those who want to
donate through paypal to Marble can do so at https://www.paypal.com/.
If you dont have a paypal account, you can sign up for a free
account there and then hit the send money button. Fill out
the form with Marbles email address - [email protected]
and the amount you want to donate, and send it on.
Then let us know
how much you donated by emailing OpEd News Publisher Rob Kall at [email protected]
so we can keep a tally. If you dont want to open a paypal account,
email Rob, and we can make arrangements to have you mail a check that
we will forward to Marble.
Marble also has
an Internet site with photographs of some damage in his town at http://www.hurricanekatrinasucked.com.
His bands can be checked out at
http://www.myspace.com/yoon
and
http://www.myspace.com/odro.
In an email to me,
Marble said he appreciated all the emails and donations he has received
so far. He is also considering auctioning off some of his paintings.
In his time of great
need, after what Marble did to echo Cheneys go
fuck yourself words back to him and raise awareness about the
harmful policies and slow response of the Bush administration towards
Katrina, we need to do all we can to help people like Marble.
Jackson Thoreau
is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. The latest book to which
he contributed, Big Bush Lies, was published by RiverWood Books of Ashland,
Ore. He is working on another book called "Thou Shalt Not Cheat:
How Bush and Rove Broke the Rules, From the Sandlot to the White House."
He can be contacted at [email protected].