It's a Great idea and for a few bucks you can Help many, giving to them a wonderful gift and for you the satisfaction you are helping those who have served for you even if only in a small way, at a time of year for family and friends.
If you live near a VA Facility you can join in in personally delivering the Cards and spending some Quality time with Veterans confined to the Hospital.
Dear Friends,
Later this month, thousands upon thousands of our nation’s veterans will be spending the holidays away from their families while recuperating in Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals. Drastically under-funded VA budgets mean that long-distance calls for the patients aren’t covered – and on a veteran’s pension, phone charges can really mount up.
So while others talk the talk about supporting the troops, we’re going to walk the walk – and support our veterans by giving them phone cards so they can call their loved ones over the holidays.
There are two ways you can help get phone cards to veterans this holiday season:
1) Donate to Help Buy the Cards. $5, $10 or $20 will make a big difference; a $20 contribution will mean that six veterans each get two hours of long-distance calls to their families. Click here for more information and to contribute: Phone Cards For Veterans
2) Help Us Deliver the Cards In Person. We’re setting up visits to VA Hospitals all over the country on December 18th to deliver the donated phone cards in person. Click here to find the VA facility nearest you and sign up to help with delivery: Phone Card Delivery
This is a joint project of Working Assets, CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, Gold Star Families for Peace, and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
We hope you can participate; just click on one of the links above!
Thanks!
- Veterans For Peace
David Cline, VFP Board of Directors President
Michael T. McPhearson, Executive Director
Below you will find the Correction to a Diary I posted a few days ago.
Now this coming Sunday, 12-10-06, one of ePluribus Media's Very Own will be on for an hour radio show.
Now the person I will refer to Will Not Be On live this coming Sunday, 12-10-06.
The Phoenix AZ Chapter of Veterans For Peace have an hour Radio show called 'About Face' on their local 'Air America - 1480kphx' affiliate.
This comes on at 11am PT on Sunday Morning, I stream it at around 1pm ET, something about Phoenix not being on daylight savings time.
The above is right and would have been the program that was to air.
Ilona Meagher will have the Whole Show, this Sunday, with Guests she's invited to participate that are in her Upcoming Book, Moving A Nation To Care Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and America's Returning Troops
Now they will also be taping the show, and maybe more, as the Chapter Members, who put it on, have also started airing the 'About Face' on The Progressive Radio Network a new online streaming Radio Network.
That's where the correction needs to be made. Ilona won't be live this Sunday but will be taping a show for 'About Face' on The Progressive Radio Network, more about that show below.
They will be having a live Remote show at one of the local Phoenix Pubs for a 'Toys For Tots' collection for area kids. If receiving their 'Air America' broadcast listen in, or some may want to stream this show as well while you're online this Sunday.
From what I understand Ilona will be on Live on Sunday the 17th for a half hour of that show, talking to the hosts and taking calls, on the 'About Face' oRadio Show 'Air America - 1480kphx' affiliate.
Through E's with one of the hosts there was abit of miscommunications and understanding, by me.
They tape a few shows ahead for The Progressive Radio Network so it could be hard to pin down when the show with Ilona will air, But in talking with one of the hosts, Dennis Stout, he told me he's going to try and get a hold of the producers and see if they will air this show Next Saturday.
Whenever it airs, and they have yet to start placing titles on the shows at The Progressive Network, it should be within the next couple of weeks,you can Download and listen at your leasure. You can visit the site and you will see a Weekly Schedule of the programs they are now airing. If you look under Saturday you will find the 'About Face' program, you can click on that and visit their page, where you will find links to past programs to listen to or download.
According to Dennis they are looking to find a regular slot to air their show Live at The Progressive Radio Network. Apparently it's a Very Popular show, getting some 500,00 listeners streaming it, around the World, as well as some radio stations, in other Countries, airing it over their Networks.
This is the rest of the posting from the other day with abit more information:
This show, at The Progressive Radio Network, airs on Saturdays at 3pm PT, this isn't coming out of the Phoenix area so the time zones work, I get it at 6pm ET. These shows are taped, and they have a couple already in the can at the Network so it might be hard to pin down when the show with Ilona might air, it could be that following Saturday or the next.
The Network has a player right on the site, so when you get to the Home Page, or any of the show pages, you get the radio show that's airing.
The Sunday show, coming out of Phoenix, gives you a couple of player choices to listen in live.
For those who read the previous post, and might have been planning on tuning in to listen to Ilona, and her guests, this Sunday, sorry about the mixup. But you might want to stream the show anyway. Even though this is a first Remote for them they do put on a really interesting show and on regular Sunday Broadcasts they cover a wide veriaty of topics with some great information and connections.As they also do on the Saturday show as well.
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