In June, we raised some money for MsSpentyouth -- but did not quite finish reaching the goal. We need to do that now. Our friend is quite ill and needs some help from her friends.
MsSpentyouth is one of the most active political activists I've ever had the privilege to meet. She phone banks, she is very active in the Moral Monday events in her State of North Carolina, she is very well known in the State House there (because she haunts it, haunts it, hoping to inspire some conscience!). Heck, she has even been arrested with Rev. Barber during the Moral Monday protests -- truly a badge of honor. In addition, every year she works the registration desk at Netroots Nation, where she is very well known. And she does all of this in a state of health that would have anyone else housebound and bedridden, 24/7. MsSpentyouth, due to rather aggressive breast cancer treatment in the late 1980s and early 1990s, has several endocrine tumors and a tumor in her brain. She has a fierce yet humorous spirit that keeps going, in spite of everything.
But this summer has been extremely hard on her. Just before Netroots Nation, MsSpentyouth recieved a series of infusions in her bone marrow to help get her system ready for surgery on one of the tumors. Unfortunately, this treatment necessarily depressed her immune system. And she came home from Detroit very sick with a virus. She is still very ill and has expenses related to her anti-viral treatment and other treatments that she needs some help with (she has the misfortune to be in a Red State). Let us set a goal of $2000 to get her through the next couple of months comfortably.
TO SEND PAYPAL DONATIONS TO MSSPENTYOUTH, go to paypal.com and send funds to kim [DOT] yaman [AT] gmail [DOT] com or message me for an address should you prefer a check.
Think of this as an investment in a wonderful activist. Let's help her do what she does best -- work for common sense and humanity in a State that has been hijacked by monied interests and politicians who show little of either.
Thank you for anything you can do to help.