If you live in or near Charlottesville, come to the Haiti Earthquake Relief concert event this Saturday!

Love 4 Haiti
Saturday January 23, 2010
5pm – midnight
Random Row Books (click for map)
315 W. Main St (Main St and McIntire Rd)
 Admission $5

Performers include Taiwanese surf rock band “Dzian!” and a host of others. For more details, see the official press release, or see the facebook event page.

And, if you have doubts about whether this will really make a difference, consider that even critics of long-term foreign aid such as Dr. William Easterly and Dambisa Moyo are advocating for immediate relief (according to the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof). Furthermore, cash makes a bigger impact than donations of physical goods or volunteering in a crisis of this kind.