A twist on the old saying indeed.  But if EVER there was a time to act globally, it is now.  Take a moment and a few dollars to demonstrate your solidarity and empathy with earthquake survivors. Take your wallet out of your pocket and click on the Donate button. 

Progressives maintain that we are brother and sister to everyone else in the world.  Especially now, when the impact of corporate-mobilized globalization affects every single human being on the planet via culture, employment and environment, we are linked in myriad and unfathomable ways.

So why it is that no one seems motivated to assist those in dire need from a disaster not of their own making?  Not one red cent has been donated at www.humanwelfarecenter.org, a site dedicated to channeling the resources of the wealthiest nation in history to the survivors of the October 8 earthquake that devastated South Asia.  Your donation goes directly to local organizations in Pakistan.  Only the minimal costs of transfer of funds, about 1 1/2 percent, is lost.  The website and space are donated.

Most survivors lost all of their belongings.  They face the onset of a Himalayan winter without shelter.  Those in narrow mountain valleys have had little or no relief.  The death toll alone is well over 100,000 and climbing. 

Now you may think, why is this my problem?  Simply because you are human.  You may be a survivor of a catastrophe tomorrow.  The governments of the richest nations have been deadly slow in acting.  This is a human tragedy of incomprehensible proportions and an even larger disgrace than what happened in the American South when those populations were neglected after Katrina.

A friend in Pakistan and I developed this site in order to get aid directly to earthquake survivors.  We have been sending it out all over the net for nearly two weeks, and asked that it be forwarded widely.  Personally, I have sent the site to about 4,000 individuals during this time.  Progressives, conservatives, liberals, libertarians, anarchists, communists, republicans, democrats, fascists.

Not ONE person has made a contribution.  You read this correctly.  Not one person has made a contribution.  A million people in South Asia are facing a Himalayan winter without shelter.  Basic community support that you take for granted evaporated for those people on October 8.  Like a roof, running water, a hospital nearby, food to cook, a store, a school.  They may have no family to rely upon, because they all may be dead. 

Take a moment to put yourself in that position.  Consider what you would do.  Wouldn't you hope that the world community would rush to aid you in trying to recover from one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history? 

I know that you can't go to Pakistan or Kashmir and fly a helicopter into villages cut off from the rest of the world for nearly three weeks now.  But you can click on the Donate Link, pull out your credit or debit card, and send $10.