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Indiana Anti-Racist activist Andrea Scamihorn dies in Chile

another midwestern radical passes
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As many of you may have already heard, a friend and comrade passed away this weekend. Many of you know Andrea Scamihorn, 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 after a two year stay in that country.

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 www.paypal.com and click on the "Send Money" tab and make a donation to debbeehaskell (at) hotmail.com.

If anyone has any questions, please just message me.

I am still in shock about all of this - I wish I could say more right now. I'm going to post something a mutual friend wrote earlier today - it expresses a lot of how I 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. "
 
 

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