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Dear Sprint PCS, Chester from Linkin Park, Sheryl Crow and Kanye “Bubba Gump” West,

I don’t want your fucking red phone. I don’t believe I should have to buy a phone to want to do good in the world. Additionally, I am disgusted by your attempts to guilt the American public into thinking that selling cell phones is the way to go about eradicating AIDS in Africa. I think it makes about as much sense as me setting up a lemonade stand to pay for my college loans.

Ridiculous.

I don’t believe you need to get something to want to give something. I don’t believe that Christmas should be the one time of the year that we pretend to care about what else is going on in the world.

Sincerely, Justin

I am donating to the following charities:

Gawad Kalinga, a non-profit and non-political organization that educates and shelters the poorest of the poor in the Philippines. With the flurries of natural disasters that have hit the southern Philippines, they hardly have enough money to go around. Imagine the New Orleans disaster times 1000 because these people never had the technology to alert, protect, or fortify themselves and the government is twice as corrupt (and without the looting because everyone around them is just as poor as they are). I am giving to Gawad Kalinga through an American organization called the Philippine American Foundation which also raises money for other Filipino-American related causes.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is a nonprofit donor-supported organization, is to assure the development of the means to cure and control cystic fibrosis (CF) and to improve the quality of life for those with the disease. My friend Joe Sleeper could tell you more about CF than I ever could, but I know that he has been told time and time again that he would not live beyond a certain age, that he has already buried his little sister who had the same disease, that he will never have children and that there is no cure. In 1959, the life expectancy of children with CF was about 6 months. Because of work done by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, children born with CF can hope to make it to their 40s.

There are million great causes in the world. We can prove our intelligence and our humanity by choosing to ignore the brand-whore celebrities who try coerce us into consumer-driven charity.