{"id":212843,"date":"2010-01-22T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/haiti_benefit_concert_live_on_the_internet.php"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:34:00","slug":"haiti-benefit-concert-live-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212843","title":{"rendered":"Haiti Benefit Concert Live on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"haiti_flag_logo.png\"As news of more aftershocks<\/a> hitting the already devastated Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince keep coming in, YouTube and a laundry list of other web sites have announced that tonight’s “Hope for Haiti Now”<\/a> benefit concert will be broadcast live on the Internet. <\/p>\n

According to an AFP report<\/a>, the Google-owned company will be joined by Hulu, MySpace, Fancast, AOL, MSN, Yahoo!, Bing.com, BET.com, MTV.com, CNN.com, VH1.com and Rhapsody.<\/p>\n

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Tonight’s benefit concert will help raise money for a number of organizations, including Oxfam America, the Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food Program, Partners in Health, the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, and Yele Haiti, a charity foundation set up by the Haitian-born hip-hop star Wyclef Jean. Last week, we outlined<\/a> a number of other legitimate avenues for helping with the situation in Haiti. <\/p>\n

YouTube offered this video on its blog, previewing the benefit:<\/p>\n

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