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Monday, December 22 2008 @ 12:21 AM CST
Contributed by: Anonymous
As many of you may have already heard, a friend and comrade passed away this weekend. Many of you know Andrea, formerly of Muncie ARA. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning in her apartment in Chile, the day before she was scheduled tor return to the United States.
The US Embassy has told Andrea’s family that it will cost $4000 to bring her home to Indiana. Andrea’s family family does not have the money to do that, let alone the money for a proper funeral. They are struggling to raise the necessary money to bring Andrea home and give her the funeral that she deserves.
We want to help Andrea’s family raise the money they need. Her friends in Muncie have helped Andrea’s mother setup a Paypal account to accept donations towards these very necessary expenses.
If anyone can contribute – in any amount – we will all be extremely grateful.
To send money, simply go to http://www.paypal. com and click on the “Send Money” tab and make a donation to debbeehaskell@ hotmail.com.
We are still in shock about all of this – we couldn’t possibly overstate how much she meant to everyone who knew her. In the activist circles we had both been involved in, she was a bit of a living legend, as she started doing anti-racist grassroots organizing in rural Indiana at a time when most people considered it to be an extremely dangerous place to stand up to white supremacist movements. She not only endured, but lead and was part of dozens of successful campaigns over the years. She had moved to Santiago about a year and a half or so ago and considered it her adopted home.
Here’s something something a mutual friend wrote earlier today – it expresses a lot of how we all felt about Andrea too:
“Andrea was one of the very best amongst us. We should all hope to be so brave and so dedicated and so full of life and so positive … She was an amazing amazing woman. The whole idea of loosing somebody so awesome, so powerful to such a stupid household accident has me beside myself.”
An event to help raise money has been set up here:
