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TODAY 2nd May 2025: BANDCAMP FRIDAY DOUBLE FUNDRAISER! >4K$ collected already 🙏🙏🙏
SPECIAL VERSIONS – LIVE AT ACCA, BRIGHTON, FUNDRAISER #3 FOR ORAM @oramrefugee , LGBTIQ refugee NGO operating in Kenya, Mexico and Europe.
+ FOR ANIMAL SHELTERS RECORDINGS, FUNDRAISER #14 FOR LUCHANDO PPP, helping Perros Potencialmente Peligrosos (“potentially dangerous dogs”) in Spain.

Dear everyone, I am back with a double fundraiser for this BANDCAMP FRIDAY – a reminder that this lasts 24 hours today from 9am Central European Time/ midnight Pacific Time and is the ideal day to fundraise, as the platform does not take its 15% commission.
I discovered American non-profit ORAM, the Organization for Refugee, Asylum and Migration, through film-maker Shaun Kadlec @shaunkadlec , who used my music back in 2015 for a harrowing documentary on the situation of the gay and lesbian communities in Cameroon. ORAM helps LGBTIQ refugees and asylum seekers in all the steps of their journey to a safer place, providing shelter and emergency response, in a global political climate which obviously has become so much more hostile towards immigrants over the past couple of years, with resettlement to the US frozen at this moment.
As for Spanish non-profit Luchando PPP @luchando_ppp, I discovered them, as many other animal shelters, through the incredible photography work of @andreslopezphoto. The Spanish law on “potentially dangerous dogs” is recognized by canine experts as scientifically unsound and highly discriminatory, condemning dogs pertaining to these races to lifetimes in shelters, given that the administrative requirements and daily obligations linked to their possession makes their adoption even more difficult than for so-called regular dogs,  in a Spanish context which is already totally saturated with dogs in adoption at (mostly) private shelters.
I really hope you will consider joining these 2 initiatives todays.

Again massive thanks to @attenboroughctr , @kanearis and anyone who has already contributed.
Gear: @moogsynthesizers Grandmother, MF-104M Delay, @squarpinstruments Hapax

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