Published

8/17/09
  • “The Garbage Girl” Mixer on Saturday, August 22 in San Fran

    garbage_girlA toxic garbage soup over twice the size of Texas sits in the Pacific Ocean, and you can help to fund a reporter, “the garbage girl” to write about it! Support Spot.Us, a nonprofit pioneering community funded reporting, to publish an investigative story for the New York Times. Come to our fundraiser and mix it up!

    When: Saturday, August 22, 10 PM  to 2 AM
    Where: New Delhi Restaurant, 160 Ellis Street, SF 94102

    $15 advance tickets by donating on this page or $20 at the door! Enjoy complimentary hors d’oeuvres and cash bar!

    With BradElectro spinning house, funk and space disco.

    Funding for this story will help to show how plastic is not only affecting marine life—that animals are strangled by soda rings and that fish and birds die with bellies full of indigestible plastic trash—but also how this trash is affecting us. Can’t make it to the party? Donate to the story here.

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    Posted by Spot. Us on 08/17/09
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    100% funded
    • 8 months overdue
    • 6,000.00 credits raised

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    • 6,000.00 credits donated to the story
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    • Brian Beverly
    • Robert Graham

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    • 45.00 credits donated to the story
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    • New York Times
    • Bay Nature Institute

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