The actual figure features “photo realistic detailing”, and was designed exclusively by Ben Drury, of MoWax toys. This series 2 doll “features the ever popular right handed microphone and hand carried portable speaker box.

However, in order to meet the rigid sartorial criteria demanded by the role of “international traveller” these features have been radically refurbished”
Additional enhanced features include:
*gold rimmed shades
*hand-painted plaid travel slacks
*box fresh flying pumps
limited edition of 1, 000.

Each of the ten dolls that have been donated will be individually customized by artists, or designers and proceeds from the sale of each figure benefit George Tabb www. myspace. com/helpgeorgetabb.

Names of artists/designers coming soon – please check back!!

Many, many thanks to Money Mark!!!
Aloha,
NatureGirl Groves and Co.

Thursday, March 13 –

Doors open at 6:00 pm

Show starts at 7:30

$15 pre-sale -& $20 at door

ALL PROCEEDS are being donated to George Tabb

SAFARI SAM’S

5214 W. Sunset Blvd

Hollywood, CA 90027

BOX OFFICE –

(323) 666-7267

MANY, MANY THANKS TO ALL OF THE BANDS,

ARTISTS AND DJ’S WHO ARE DONATING

www.myspace.com/helpgeorgetabb

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www.myspace.com/natgrlgroandco

Many thanks to the confirmed contributing bands playing at the George Tabb Benefit!

MIKE WATT & THE MISSINGMEN

www.myspace.com/missingmen
www.hootpage.com

ARC WELDERS
www.myspace.com/arcwelders

THE D*MAGG’S
www.myspace.com/thedmaggs

OO SOUL
www.myspace.com/oosoul
www.oosoul.com

WOOLLY BANDITS
www.myspace.com/woollybandits

MIKE KENEALLY
www.keneally.com
www.myspace.com/mikekeneally

And, many thanks! to the confirmed artists donating work to the George Tabb Benefit

Norton Wisdom www.nowisdom.com

Michael Cano www.myspace.com/paintingsbycano

Scott Aicher www.myspace.com/scottaicher

Kitty Brown www.kittybrownart.com

Enrique Chiu www.myspace.com/enriquechiu

   Glenn Brooks www.crustybluewagon.com

Nick Wildermuth www.myspace.com/nickwildermuth

Bruce New www.brucenew.com

Bob Scott www.myspace.com/bobscottartwork

Mark Mothersbaugh www.mutatovisual.com

KRK Ryden www.krkland.com

Mickey ME Edtinger www.myspace.com/ComandanteYeyo

Scott Ferry www.scottferry.com

Lillian Lassen www.myspace.com/lillianlassen

Tim Bramlette www.timbramlette.com

LA Artist Collective www.myspace.com/laartistcollective

Dawn Laureen www.dawnlaureen.com

Steven Shea www.sheaphoto.com

Monet Clark www.myspace.com/miraclespage

ALSO FEATURING WORK FROM

• Beth Ferrara • Kelly Thompson • John Hicks • Monet Clark •

and many more…

Mike Watt & the MissingMen, Arc Welders,The D-Maggs, 00 Soul, Wooly Bandits, Mike Keneally

George Tabb (www.myspace.com/helpgeorgetabb) is an activist, punk musician, and well known author. He is also severely ill due to World Trade Center Syndrome (WTCS), and PKD polycystic kidney disease, due to WTCS. He is one of an estimated 70,000 people who are sick as a result of breathing the poisonous air created by the fall of the Twin Towers, after 9/11. The aftermath has been recorded as one of the most toxic debris masses in the history of the world. On Thursday, March 13, Safari Sam’s in Hollywood, CA will serve as the place to support George. All funds raised will help him pay for his medical expenses and much needed treatments. Sam Lanni has generously donated his venue, Safari Sam’s, and all production costs for the evening. When organizer, Shawni D asked Sam about his generosity and willingness to host the night, he replied “I want to bring together artists and the people in need and connect all of us to make a better future and hopefully a healthy future. What has befallen George is a catastrophe and even worse there are tens of thousands of people with the same problems.” Safari Sam’s is known as one of the best original live music venues in Southern California, and is a monthly host of benefit fund raisers.

After reading about what he and thousands of others have gone through and continue to go through to this day since 9/11, Shawni was saddened and surprised by the lack of care he was not receiving. She first learned about George on the Go-Go Guitars page located on the popular social networking website, MySpace.com She then promised her friend Paul Ulino, friend of George, and co-owner of the NYC based and now located in Long Beach guitar shop, that she would help George in some way, some day. That day has arrived.

The confirmed line-up for the evening includes: punk icon Mike Watt + the Missingmen joined by performance painter – Norton Wisdom, Arc Welders, OO Soul, the D*Magg’s, Woolly Bandits, former Frank Zappa guitarist, Mike Keneally and friends. Also featured will be dj’s, spoken word artists and a few other surprises. An extensive art and memorabilia auction will also be held the night of “In support of George and all sick or injured WTC response victims, Safari Sam’s will be co-curating an art exhibition featuring many artists influenced by punk rock. The works will be for sale the night of the show and for the following month.” states, Amber W., Sam’s curator. Works by Norton Wisdom, Mark Mothersbaugh, LA Artist Collective, Scott Aicher (who created the flier), and many more will be featured. George describes his current condition via e-mail to Shawni: “I have been in and out of the hospital a lot lately. I’m suffering from rampant fevers, random bouts of blindness, very high blood pressure, crazy pain, and of course, PTSD.”

He has been told he shouldn’t even think about traveling until he can walk more than a block without keeling over in pain. Shawni goes on to say, “The money we raise will help him get tests and treatments he desperately needs which are not covered by insurance and that he cannot afford. I am very grateful to Sam, Mike Watt, Monica Nelson of Whirlwind Coalition, Paul, and all contributing people, artists and musicians helping to put this together, for George. We hope to raise a lot of money as well as awareness of these people who have somehow been forgotten. Tickets can be purchased by going to www.safari-sams.com and are $15 pre-sale and $20 at the door.

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For more information please e-mail: Shawni.D@gmail.com

George Tabb (www.myspace.com/helpgeorgetabb) George is an activist, punk musician, and well known author. He is also severely ill due to World Trade Center Syndrome, and has developed PKD Polycystic Kidney Disease as a result of the toxins he was exposed to. He is one of 69,000 people who are sick. This night is to help him pay for his medical expenses and much needed treatments. Sam Lanni has generously donated his venue and all production costs for the evening, and 100% of the proceeds raised the night of will be given to George. The confirmed line-up to-date for March 13, includes: punk icon Mike Watt + the Missingmen, Arc Welders, OO Soul, the D*Magg’s, Woolly Bandits, and former Frank Zappa guitarist, Mike Keneally. For the list of artists who are contributing works to this benefit, for sponsorship and more information, please visit: www.myspace.com/natgrlgroandco or e-mail: helping.gt@gmail.com

ALL ITEMS DONATED WILL DIRECTLY BENEFIT GEORGE TABB

ALL FUNDS DONATED WILL BE GIVEN TO GEORGE TABB.

SPONSOR LEVELS

$10,000 – Co-Title Sponsor – (this amount will pay for 6 months of one anti-biotic that George takes) Your name/logo will be prominently featured throughout Safari Sam’s, all benefit materials, verbal recognition during the benefit, website presence, inclusion in all press releases, 12 tickets to benefit w/ special seating.

$5,000 – Stage Sponsor – (this amount will pay for 3 months of antibiotics that George takes)”Stage sponsored by (your name/logo here)” mention in press releases, verbal recognition during the benefit, 6 tickets to benefit

$2,000 – Table sponsor – (this amount will pay for one month of George’s antibiotics) Name/logo on all table/bar signage, mention in press releases – 4 tickets to benefit.

$100 – name or logo added to printed materials, one ticket to the benefit

$25 pre-sale ticket x _______ all tickets are to be purchased through the Safari Sam’s box office – www.safari-sams.com

If you would like to become a sponsor, please send an e-mail to: helping.gt@gmail.com OR shawni.d@gmail.com

We could use your support, and another way of supporting is by sending this link to your friends and family.

Much aloha,

NatureGirl Groves & Company

http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=6529

George Tabb is being murdered. The central, most maddening and often funniest character in his memoir Surfing Armageddon and Playing Right Field, his brutally abusive and demented father, didn’t do him in. In fact, young George was well-adjusted enough to achieve his dream of actually becoming a member of the Ramones (if briefly). And none of the Greenwich Gestapo—who all but gassed him for growing up Jewish in the wrong place—tracked him down at a Furious George, Iron Prostate or Roach Motel show. No. After all he’s been through, George Tabb is being murdered by greed.

On September 18, 2001, Tabb and about 70,000 others were told it was safe to return to their apartments in lower Manhattan. It wasn’t safe, and Tabb suspected as much. Perhaps you saw him shortly after the attack in People or on television saying there would be a cancer cluster in New York? At the time, the media had nothing to lose putting Tabb on the air. “I was an oddball, a kook, a freak, a conspiracy theorist,” he writes from his apartment on a rare day when he’s well enough to email.

George Tabb suffers from polycystic kidney disease, which causes his kidneys to resemble moldy grapefruits and feel like a pair of appendixes that are about to burst. It’s incurable, though treatment can prolong life, and the only way to get it other than inheritance—and there is no trace of PKD in Tabb’s family—is from extreme exposure to harsh chemicals. He also, in his video blog, lists blown-out sinuses, severe asthma and other pulmonary and gastro-esophageal problems. If it seems like the EPA’s claim that it was safe for lower Manhattan residents to return home was bogus, it’s because according to one of the agency’s own scientists, it is. Senior EPA chemist Cate Jenkins, in an email to Senator Hillary Clinton, stated that the EPA flat-out committed “scientific fraud.”

The number of deaths from 9/11-associated illnesses is placed between 130 and 200. Tabb is one of an undocumented number of residents who are severely ill. He experiences periodic blindness and deafness, extreme pain aggravated by motion, and dangerously high blood pressure. Unless he wants to risk death, he’s been advised to do nothing but watch TV.

Though there’s no other explanation for it, Tabb’s illness is not formally recognized by New York’s two federally funded clinics as something that could result from exposure to the fallout dust in Manhattan. But those clinics’ primary function has been merely to diagnose, not treat. When Tabb visited the program at Bellevue Hospital, it took several minutes to find anyone who had even heard of the program they were supposed to be administering.

Out of a $1 billion insurance fund set aside by the government to cover injuries from 9/11, the only person to receive a dime is a man who fell off a ladder doing cleanup. Meanwhile, $47 million has been spent to fight claims like Tabb’s. In the meantime, Tabb’s insurance benefits have been exhausted, leaving him to pay for operations and medications out of pocket and with donated funds.

So why has no mainstream news outlet picked up on Tabb’s plight as of late?

“No one wants to tell the truth about the poisons downtown,” he says. “They all own real estate down there and are afraid to lose money.” This, while ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman, whose handling of 9/11 is still under investigation, invokes meaningless jingoistic clichés to justify her own personal “mission accomplished” embarrassment. She told Congress in 2004, “We weren’t going to let the terrorists win.”

The government appears acutely aware that the costs to treat the 70,000 people who are potentially sick would be astronomical, especially since some doctors estimate that 70% of them will be come ill in the next 20 years. Add interest in the form of political embarrassment and it’s only going to get worse—it’s a harsh reality for everyone, especially George Tabb and his fellow victims.

Tabb’s friend and primary advocate, Obituaries vocalist Monica Nelson, who gives speeches on Tabb’s behalf and helps raise funds (MySpace.com/helpgeorgetabb, MySpace.com/whirlwindcoalition), notes the contrast between the patriotic party line on 9/11 and the passive murder of the tragedy’s newest victims: “The people exposed to that toxicity had no choice in it. Nobody deserved that. It’s un-American to ignore that.”

She believes we ought to turn to Tabb’s memoirs—which, despite his own struggle, show him championing underdogs from a mentally handicapped kid to a wimpy wrestler—for inspiration. “His writings have never been about feel-sorry-for-me kind of stuff. It’s surviving and helping somebody who’s worse off than you, picking somebody up.”

First printed in Jan/Feb 2008

Sam Lanni, the “Sam” of Safari Sam’s – full quote attached

BENEFIT FOR GEORGE TABB – THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008

SAFARI SAM’S

5214 W. Sunset Blvd

Hollywood, CA 90027

Doors at 6:00 – First band at 7:30
$25 pre-sale or $30 at door
To purchase tickets, please go to the box office, or:

www.safari-sams.com

For media or sponsorship information, please e-mail: helping.gt@gmail.com

100% OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO GEORGE TABB

George Tabb (www.myspace.com/georgetabb) is an activist, punk musician, and well known author. He is also severely ill due to World Trade Center Syndrome, and PKD Polycystic Kidney Disease. He is one of 69,000 people who are sick. This night is to help him pay for his medical expenses and much needed treatments. Sam Lanni has generously donated his venue and all production costs for the evening.100% of the proceeds raised the night of will be given to George. The confirmed line-up for the evening includes: punk icon Mike Watt + the Missingmen, Arc Welders, OO Soul, the D*Magg’s, Woolly Bandits, former Frank Zappa guitarist, Mike Keneally and will also feature dj’s, spoken word artists and a few other surprises. In addition to the incredible line-up of musicians who are donating their sets, there is an art and memorabilia auction being held, featuring several artists, photographers and graphic designers influenced by punk rock and the music scene in general.

ALL proceeds from the sale of these donated works are going directly to George Tabb to help him pay for much needed tests and treatments. To donate, or for more information, please send an e-mail to:helping.gt@gmail.com

CONFIRMED CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

•Norton Wisdom www.nowisdom.com • Michael Cano www.myspace.com/paintingsbycano •Scott Aicher www.myspace.com/scottaicher • Kitty Brown www.kittybrownart.com •Enrique Chiu www.myspace.com/enriquechiu •Glenn Brooks www.crustybluewagon.com
•Nick Wildermuth www.myspace.com/nickwildermuth •Bruce New www.brucenew.com • Bob Scott www.myspace.com/bobscottartwork • Mark Mothersbaugh www.mutatovisual.com• KRK Ryden www.krkland.com • Mickey ME Edtinger – www.myspace.com/ComandanteYeyo • Scott Ferry www.scottferry.com • Lillian Lassen – www.myspace.com/lillianlassen • Tim Bramlette www.timbramlette.com • LA Artist Collective www.myspace.com/laartistcollective • Dawn Laureen –www.dawnlaureen.com • Steven Shea www.sheaphoto.com • Beth Ferrara • Kelly Thompson • John Hicks • Monet Clark • and many more…

“In support of George and all sick or injured WTC response victims, Safari Sam’s will be co-curating an art exhibition featuring many artists influenced by punk rock. The works will be for sale the night of the show and for the following month. All proceeds will be donated directly to George and his cause.” Amber Willow – Curator at Safari Sam’s

With grateful aloha,
Shawni D
NatureGirl Groves & Company | www.naturegirlgroves.com

A bit of a change to the line-up of the George Tabb benefit, being held on March 13, 2008 at Safari Sam’s, in Hollywood. “Money” Mark Nishita fully regrets not being able to be there the night of, because he will be performing at SXSW! I am SO EXCITED and happy for him. I can only imagine how much work and dedication went into this score! We will send you good energy that night too! He fully regrets not being able to be there the night of and is in complete support of the George Tabb Benefit. He will be donating four Money Mark dolls to be auctioned off the night of, which I know will help to raise a lot of money for George! CONGRATS to him!! Here is the link to Beautiful Losers:
http://2008.sxsw.com/film/screenings/film/F11038.html

In addition to all of the art that is being donated for the auction, and memorabilia, my friend Steve Cross (Elder D.) has an on-line merch and music shop called www.Headchange.com, he is going to donate product and set up a table and all sales that night go to George. Here is a link to his website. Thanks Headchange!

With grateful aloha,

Shawni D

www.naturegirlgroves.com

www.myspace.com/natgrlgroandco