Contribute to hurricane Katrina relief via the iTunes Music Store

This post is just a quick break from our usual Apple-centric coverage. The catastrophe in America's Gulf Coast is really all I can think about lately. The video I see on the news every night is almost surreal in its unimaginable horror. I don't even pretend to be able to understand what those people are being forced to endure. I think about my own kids and I just can't imagine it.

A donation link that will send funds directly to the Red Cross has been added to the iTunes Music Store. I've read that monetary donations are more effective that sending "things" just now, like clothing, etc, as they only clog up the already congested distribution of goods. If you can, consider making a donation.

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This post is just a quick break from our usual Apple-centric coverage. The catastrophe in America's Gulf Coast is really all I can think...

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Andrew J Garcia

JAG - It is a shame we don't have an Apple store in Louisiana isn't it? The closest one I've found is in in Dallas, TX... about 3.5 hours from me. :(

September 02 2005 at 10:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JAG

i don't want to be the grudge here but I sent an email to Apple yesterday morning as I was mad because 24 hours after the Tsunami they had the home page dedicated to the donations. Which by the way I donated, but this time after 3 days nothing and later just a small icon, c'mon the mighty mouse is important but here are people in distress, maybe they are not Apple customers or they haven't open a store there yet but it is here in the U.S!!!

September 01 2005 at 10:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mike

microsoft playing catchup with relief efforts.. oh jeez.. check the ms page again.. it's very subtle.. you'll see it

September 01 2005 at 7:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

janeiro

the apple.com link seems to not like firefox (at least for windows)

September 01 2005 at 7:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas

Excellent idea.

September 01 2005 at 6:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PaulPecco

seems you need to go via the US itunes store to be able to make a donation. But I'm not from the US