Apple has created a section on their iTunes Music Store on behalf of the American Red Cross where people can donate $5-$200.
Apple has also sent out an email to iTunes Music Store newsletter subscribers:
Our hearts go out to all the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is heartbreaking, and our thoughts are with those struggling in the aftermath of this disaster. As victims of this natural disaster are attempting to recover, American Red Cross volunteers have been deployed to the hardest hit areas of Katrina’s destruction, supplying hundreds of thousands of victims left homeless with critical necessities. By making a financial gift to Hurricane 2005 Relief, the Red Cross can provide shelter, food, counseling and other assistance to those in need. We urge you to contribute to this worthy cause.
Click here to launch iTunes and donate
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Apple Computer reaches out to Indian Ocean Tsunami victims – December 29, 2004
Thank you, Apple.
Anyone know if the Red Cross makes donation web badges available? I wanted to add a link to their site on my company’s site.
I’ve never felt so lucky to live in the desert.
Red Cross banners are available here:
http://www.redcross.org/psa/bannerorder/index_GenDS.html
Excellent, thanks a lot!
Just like when they put up this same thing for tsunami relief. Good on Apple, (yahoo, MSN ,etc. will probably follow suit again.
INVADE NEW ORLEANS!!! THE MAYOR HAS WMD’S!!!
Seriously though, the behavior of some of those people still there…
1: Not evacuating when ordered.
2: Shooting and looting (especially unneeded items and graves)
3: Raping and robbing.
4: Shooting at relief helicopters and police.
5: Price gouging by gas companies
This behavior is entirely inexcusable.
Goes to show under crises, some people just don’t care about their fellow man, it’s all what they want or how they can take advantage of the situation. They lack the brains to realize that by using their heads and working together, everyone can come out ahead.
I sincerely hope those people will stand before a judgement when they die and get their just rewards for their actions.
“1: Not evacuating when ordered.”
they were ordered my the mayor(who has no power to do so).. and people were trying but couldnt get out… remember the pics of the freeways?
“Goes to show under crises, some people just don’t care about their fellow man, it’s all what they want or how they can take advantage of the situation.”
There comes a time to treat animals like animals. When law enforcement returns, may the scum answer fully for their actions.
Our prayers and donations to the good souls caught in this hell. Help IS on its way.
Actually Yahoo, Amazon and many others had their link up a full day before Apple did…
Before some of you are so quick to condemn the actions of people you know nothing about you should remember that this tragedy and everything that goes with it are man-made problems. You might also note that a country that loves violence and is so gun happy, should not be surprised when people are violent and use guns.
Look at our culture! We glamorize gansters. What more do you need to know.
That is the poorest region of America. Those people have been pissed off all their lives.
>Seriously though, the behavior of some of those people still there…
“Those people?”
>1: Not evacuating when ordered.
>
>2: Shooting and looting (especially unneeded items and graves)
Oh, you mean the cops.
>Goes to show under crises, some people just don’t care about their
>fellow man, it’s all what they want or how they can take advantage of
>the situation. They lack the brains to realize that by using their heads
>and working together, everyone can come out ahead.
Yeah, like by coming up with an evacuation plan for property owners, and abandoning everyone else to the fates. Small wonder they’re angry and armed.
>I sincerely hope those people will stand before a judgement when
>they die and get their just rewards for their actions.
Oh you can be sure of that. We all will. Just look to the beam in your own eye before you fret about the mote in your neighbor’s or you might find that a lack of charity and humility has condemned you to an eternity of torment.
Doesn’t anyone else think that the Hurricane had anything to do with the pulling the 30 trial of the mac mini. You know, so that the people down south have a chance to be in this too, not just everyone else that has a house for it to go in. And who knows, Apple might just donate some equipment or money, so they can’t bare the expense of doing this 30 trial thing at the moment.
america is being entertained by the suffering of the hurricane victims.
we can afford 1+ billion per week in iraq; 5+ billion & 1+ billion per year in foreign aid to israel & egypt, but we need “donations” to help american citizens.
what a great country
Way to go Apple, appreciate it.
I’m glad that Apple now has a link on their page for Hurricane Katrina relief, but why just the small “button” graphic? I mean, come on – they devoted their entire front page for a few days when the tsunami hit.
It would be nice to see them give a bit more space…
A passing friend – your judgement is the most appalling of them all! Yes, the relief effort has been slow, but does that give the people the right to steal whatever they want, murder people, and rape people? I guess I can understand people stealing food and medical supplies, but the fact is that people are stealing much more than that. And from what I’ve seen they have made it very difficult for people to be rescued at all. Don’t they realize that if they cooperated a little more they would be rescued faster?
Joell, you know I was thinking the same thing, isn’t it funny? when a white house official was asked the same question he replied by stating “there is a time for politics, we want to save lives now” I wonder isn’t just 1 billion out of the almost 7 billion spent weekly in Iraq, would that not save lives?
MW:surface. As in on the surface everything looks but its even worse than we think it is.
Apple is “cool like that”.
Way to go. I wish more companies were as caring.
And only a liberal idiot can use a tragedy where hundreds if not thousands have died as an excuse to bash Bush. There are far more serious things going on than your silly political agendas. You people are absolutely pathetic.
Reality Check.
To get an idea of what the American Christian right was thinking, I visited Godhatesfags.com, which gleefully tells everyone to thank God for the hurricane, as New Orleans was nothing more than Sodom and Gomorrah. To quote:-
“Pray for more dead bodies floating on the fag-semen-rancid waters of New Orleans.”
Nice isn’t it. And you say the Liberals have an agenda?
dave h –
thaks for that link. how much more idiotic can people be?!?! as we saw based on the views on this thread, there is ALWAYS an agenda, but your link shows a very very sad side of conservative ‘compassion.’
vincas
Sadly true. At times like this, people really should be putting aside any differences. The worst thing is, although that website is basically just a platform for hate, there will be people right across the world thinking the same.
BTW, for anyone outside of the USA thinking that America is rich enough to deal with this, remember that Louisiana and Mississippi are amongst the poorest states in the Union. The people that live there are likely to return to their homes some weeks from now to find everything that wasn’t washed away looted, a lot of them will not have insurance, and the main household breadwinner may not be coming back at all. If you donated to Mozambique or for the Tsunami Relief, don’t hold back now.
And before anyone starts accusing me of forgetting the tragedy in Iraq, I haven”t. Death on a grand scale is never easy to put aside.
yes…. sad that it isin’t just about money either. sad that our national guard troops are far, far away. governor blanco requested 40,000 national guard troops. i wonder how many they’ll be able to round up. what a terrible mess…. 🙁
“300 arkansas national guardsmen arrived ‘fresh back from iraq’ ” thursday night.
No link as yet on the UK site; can someone give Apple a nudge for us?
> Not evacuating when ordered
How stupid can a single brain be???
Di you think they would have stayed there if they had had the possibility to leave New Orleans? Not everybody is a fat rich white man with a SUV as you will be one day when you have stopped being a stupid fat white teenager!!!!
I remember the smugness of certain americans when the looting started in Bagdad (after the US started their invasion without a plan how life could go on in a city of 5 Million inhabitants):
“This could never happen in the US”
“It shows how much Saddams regime has destroyed all civilized behaviour”
Well, under what regime has civilized behaviour in the US been damaged?
It’s surely not an America under the reign of a poor black man…