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Donate To Help 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 Cheney’s goons in front of his destroyed home after the media cameras left.

Our story has helped the eBay auction of Marble’s video of his Cheney confrontation climb above $1,900, as of early Sept. 10. But we’d like to do more to help Marble, who lost his Gulfport, Miss., home and most of his possessions in Hurricane Katrina.

So we’re 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 don’t 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 Marble’s 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 don’t 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” Cheney’s “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].



 

 

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