Please check out this article by Janis Ian. The Recording Industry has been propagandizing for too long and it's the artists who suffer. Call/write your elected representatives and say that you're fed up with them kowtowing to big lobbyists. (Pure and simple-these Recording Organizations have done NOTHING for me and my career, nor for others even more established than myself!)
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The Illinois Chapter of the Lupus Foundation
Helping
the children of the worst nuclear accident in human history
Other Chernobyl related links:
An extensive list of Chernobyl related charity organizations
This
organization is dedicated to helping children in Ukrainian orphanages