So, today, walking around idly, I ran across a street activist soliciting donations for Equality California, an anti-Prop 8 group. Of course, my natural instinct is always to brusquely avoid or ignore any and all street activists, but some voice in my head went “Well, you do want to see Prop 8 overturned, don’t you? And yet you just sit around hoping that others will actively provide the support you are too lazy or cheap to bother with. Non, it cannot work this way! Remember the words of Gandhiji: you must become the change you wish to see in the world. How can you expect that anyone else will give while all-the-while presenting the very evidence that those like you will not?”. An oddly culturally dislocated but nevertheless smooth-talking voice, my inner monologue. So I signed up to give some monthly donation, with reassurances that I could always easily stop it later. But then, once I got home, it occurred to me that this was probably pretty stupid; I mean, who’s to say they were actually working for EQCA? Am I that dumb to just give my credit card info and so on out to anyone with access to a clipboard and a printer? I should’ve just taken note, gone home, and done it all through their website.
So now, although I doubt there’s actually any reason to be worried, I’m curious if there’s any way to check up on this beyond just sitting around and waiting for the charges to come in. I hunted around the EQCA site for a bit but couldn’t find anything. Does anyone here know if there’s some easy way to check up on, modify, etc., the status of any donation registration with them? I imagine perhaps some people on this board actually work for them (they are a legitimate organization, right?), and might know where to go to do so.
(Mods, if this belongs in a forum other than GQ, please move it)