Hope for Haiti Relief Telethon & Concert with major celebrity endorsement

HOPE FOR HAITI

So there is a lot of anticipation surrounding the telethon airing tonight in an effort to raise awareness and allow for donations to flow to support Haiti relief for victims of the recent earthquakes. It's been almost 2 weeks since the devastating 7.0 massive earthquake and relating aftershocks occurred, and tonight in a live broadcast, industry insiders and celebrities are donating time and money to help the people of the region. As of this second, it was just reported that a 22-year-old man was pulled from earthquake debris in Port-au-Prince during a second rescue on 10th day after earthquake. Wow! 

Along with the recent attention to Haiti, I just hope that we all realize that there's been an unusual amount of natural disasters including earthquakes and volcano eruptions taking place since the beginning of the year. One only needs to take a look at some of the past USGS reports to see firsthand that more places are suffering from islands off the coast of Australia and Japan to places in Alaska; the entire "ring of fire" is 
strangely active. I will leave any "conspiracy theories" regarding these sudden occurances for other websites such as GLP, but let's try our best to remember the lives lost and support the relief efforts globally.

As for the telethon, the A-Listers are coming out in droves for the “Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief”.  It is to be a 2-hour telethon international star studded event organized by George Clooney and will actually take place simultaneously in 3 major cities while airing on 17 networks including MTV, VH1, CMT, BET, PBS, CNN, Bravo at 8 p.m. EST. In addition, the telethon will be streamed live on Web sites including YouTube, MySpace and AOL. Alicia Keys, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge and Rihanna will all do a special joint performance. In New York, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Taylor Swift, Christina Aguilera and Beyonce Knowles has just been added to the Haiti Relief Telethon performance line up as well. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will report from Haiti. To find out more about the event click here: Haiti Telethon Twitter has also joined in supporting the effort, click here.

(Oh yeah, Kanye West was officially banned from being present at this event.....oy vey)

If you want to donate you can do it from your cell phone as well:
American Red Cross
Dial 90999 and text HAITI ($10.00 donation)

Yele (Wyclef's Haiti Organization)
Dial 501501 and text YELE ($5.00 donation)
 
Here is George Clooney speaking about him organizing the event: