is any reliable group collecting money for the Egyptian protesters?

like the unions use to do for striking families?

And the last fucking thing these people want is American charity.

is engaging in financial warfare against the protesters. I'd tend to think you'd be supporting a cause rather than offering charity-- especially since our government spend/spent billions supporting the Mubarak regime. People have to eat and have to feed their children and work opportunities appear to be kind of limited in Egypt right now.

Any operation using American funds will be so welcome.

Lotta orgs collected cash for the struggling Iranians in #iranelection. Fraudulent, pretty much every one of 'em.

At least, that was the warning on #Jan25 from @OxfordGirl.

And, while I will continue to be concerned for the Egyptians fighting for the right to choose their own leadership, I am very well aware that no one advocating for America or peace with Israel is going to win an honest election in that country. So let them find their feet without us. THEY WOULD PREFER IT.

China has been busy in Egypt for a while, IIRC, and aid from them won't have the stench of ours. It will be gov't aid rather than individual donations since #Egypt is blacked out in China, but it will still help and still, in Egyptian eyes, be cleaner money than ours.

Aquart is correct. Not everything is a charity or a PR opportunity.

He has ample financial resources to drag this out and prolong the suffering of the protesters. (See the Saudi King's statement of support.)

and a propaganda campaign that hurts them across the globe. To that end and after hearing that Faux News had John Bolton on and Beck and others suggesting this to be a communist or jihadist plot, pressing to bolster Mubarak and suggesting we should support Israel in bombing Iran now, perhaps you could donate to a group that counters outlets like Faux news--perhaps MediaMatters.

But I agree with the other posters. Our support should be from afar...

interfering by donating money to Mubarak on our behalf.

to use that as an excuse not to help those trying to take back their government from the guy that we funded.

this isn't a disaster drive.

Unions have always understood the importance of finding ways to provide for the families of striking workers. It's easy to dismiss practical needs when your belly is full.