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Adam

The homepage of strikedebt.org is soliciting general donations, not for specific purposes or projects. Like at rollingjubilee.org, there is no mention of actual, named people who are responsible for auditing these donations or deciding how to spend them. If you choose to donate to organizations who choose not to list real people who are legally responsible for the money you send them, that is your decision. A lot of money donated by well-meaning folks for supposedly ‘good’ causes goes missing/is stolen — fraudsters know that these types of causes can be very profitable.

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Adam

Thanks for the comment. Could they be new cadets using older uniforms no longer issued to active-duty military?

Adam

Thanks for your mail. You’re correct in that, if you click on the facebook pictures, they do expand to full size. However, most people will not see them this way and the version posted to Ow.ly and linked to via Strike Debt’s tweets is cropped.

Strike Debt has posted the image once again, after I alerted them to the fact that it is my image that I did not authorize them to use it in this, or any other, way. They clearly don’t care, and will act as unethically as they like in order to gain a little attention for their cause.

What interests me is the Strike Debt is actively soliciting cash from the public via their website — without saying who they are and without clearly showing any kind of transparency or auditing. If they’ll behave unethically with respect to my photo, who knows what they’ll do with people’s donations.

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Adam

If you then right click from the wall image and hit “save image as”, you end up with the cropped version. That is apparently what got uploaded to ow.ly.

Your cropping accusation is unfounded.

The lack of attribution is accurate, however you must admit that this happens all the time — once a pic is tweeted from a phone most would consider that to be in the public domain (retweeting, facebooking, tumblring, etc.). Not making excuses, just calling it like it is. (My family is made up of professional photographers, so I understand that this is a trigger.)

All that said, your elaborate whodunnit crime scene blog post and demands for an apology are a bit much.

It should be clear that the men in the photo were not ‘taking orders’; they were participating in the same orientation that all other Occupy Sandy volunteers were asked to participate in.

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Adam