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Support the Canceled ROM AIDS Benefit Online
Through all the nonsense surrounding the fake ROM bomb threat that went down a couple weeks ago, and local artist ass-hat Thorarinn Ingi Jonsson getting way more fame than he ever deserved, somewhere along the way many lost sight of the fact of how much this act of stupidity really cost.
You'll recall that not only did the city and all of its taxpayers get totally screwed in having to divert costly resources to respond to this situation, but also an AIDS charity benefit running at the ROM that night was canceled as well. Now, it seems that there's a silver lining to all this.
CANFAR, the national charitable foundation who setup the event, have now moved the charity online to make up for the lost donations. That means that until tomorrow (December 12) at 8pm, you can support the cause by bidding on a wide variety of items valued over $130,000 with all proceeds going to AIDS and HIV research. They're also accepting general tributes/donations even after the auction closes, so that should give OCAD more than enough time to save a bit of face and do the right thing.
Photo by blogTO Flickr pooler, Henry Roxas
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Maybe OCAD should donate a crap load of money to the charity, sort of as a way of saying, "We're sorry for not doing our job as educators."
how about we put universities like this under the scope where they have been producing trash annualy.
Just do a search on this university, and see how many "art" students have popped up in the news.
I don't know what is more depressing, the fact twits like Jonsson are able to attend Universities, or we have even bigger twits encouraging them in the universities.
Oh, and a person message for Jonsson there. If you only get a minor sentence, as a citizen in Canada, I intend to excersise my right to appeal any decision made against you.
Why? Well lets just say, if Ontario court systems wanted to make an example out of me for touching a finger without consent, destroy years of my life inbeween because of a record, you'd better believe I expect more of the same example making in the Ontario court systems.
Comparing my sitiation to yours, sure like apples and oranges, however, in both cases, both are apparently frowned upon in todays society.
Yeah? So far his charges tell me he's getting off pretty freaking easy.
Right...
University Student, in to film, obviously has money.
Without dragging this post into a mud slinging against the guy again, I think the other thing to consider is what would have happened if this incident went down in the US. The guy would probably be in Guantanamo Bay by now.