Mar. 11th, 2011

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* The Red Cross has set up a donation page specifically for Japan. USians can text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10. Canadians can do the same by texting REDCROSS to 30333. It can take a while for texted donations to process, though, so donate directly through the website if you can.

* CNET has a long list of online resources for finding people and tracking the tsunami.

* Al Jazeera continues to rock the good reporting. They're also covering events live and live blogging here.

* Great Tohoku Earthquake - Info, news and live updates, mostly for English speakers inside Japan.

* George Takei is doing a lot of tweeting about the earthquake - I'm getting most of my disaster relief info from him.

* The NHK and Japan Times Online both have ongoing coverage.

* All Things Nuclear has an analysis of the Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima.

eta: plus a couple of links from around DW:

* [personal profile] glass_icarus has a link roundup.

* [personal profile] kerri has a post about ways to donate.

* [community profile] help_japan / [livejournal.com profile] help_japan

eta 2:

* There're rumbling's going around about the Red Cross's treatment of queer folk, which I'm taking with a grain of salt (no references, googling doesn't turn up much, the Red Cross/Red Crescent societies are individual by country, etc). If you're looking for a RC alternative, though, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins sans Frontieres is an excellent organization.

eta 3:

* Gizmodo (I know, but it's a guest blogger) reminds us that Japan hasn't actually asked for outside help yet (aside from some search and rescue teams, I think) and they money we're donating now isn't actually going to Japan. Except for Doctors Without Borders. Maybe.

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