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Mon Dec 21, 2009 at 20:16:54 PM PST
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This the annual fundraising diary for the Pretty Bird Woman House, a women's shelter on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which the Daily Kos community has supported since 2007, when we came together and not only prevented the shelter from going under, but bought it an entire house. It was an incredible thing to see this community do. This is a good time to remember that, to remind ourselves of what we can accomplish when we unite instead of fight.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the history of our involvement with the shelter, I will direct you to a post that Andy T wrote on the Pretty Bird Woman House blog, which pretty much summed up our efforts then.
the shelter, which includes a general (tax deductible) fund for the shelter, and a separate one for gift cards for the staff (not deductible).
This year, for reasons I will tell you about in the update below, I'm just doing a ChipIn for the staff. General donations (the tax deductible kind) can still be made by check, but not on-line.
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 12:11:25 PM PDT
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Yesterday, Clammyc's diary on the Daily Kos If not for Biden, she (and many other women) may be dead, which is about Biden's authorship of Violence Against Women Act and a wrenching case of domestic violence from the 1970s, gave me an idea.
Since the Violence Against Women Act is what funds women's shelters, among other things, and since Senator Biden just lost his mother-in-law, Bonny Jean Jacobs, why don't we purchase a furnace for the Pretty Bird Woman House shelter in her memory?
Considering that Sarah Palin wants Alaskan women to buy their own rape kits and is against abortion even in case of rape or incest, and John McCain's pathetic record on women's issues buying Pretty Bird Woman House a new furnace also draws a stark contrast between our values, shared by the Obama/Biden ticket, and the McCain/Palin horror show.
So what do you say? Are you in for say $5.
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In honor of my mother, THE FLORA SOMBRERO LIND NAVAJO ENDOWMENT FUND has been set up to accept your donations.
This scholarship endowment has been established at the American Indian College Fund to honor Flora Sombrero Lind, as an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who was born at Inscription House, Arizona of the Many Goats clan circa 1925. This scholarship endowment is funded by Flora's family and friends who want to see Navajo students pursue higher education and carry on their great Navajo heritage.
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