Introducing IAWOCDay Crowd Source Funding Strategies and Applications to communities in need and working to implement fundraising strategies with higher yield potential by using the Internet to: 

• Meet diverse needs of women and girls of color and end our socio-economic marginalization
• Support community: women of all groups, men of color, members of the LGBT community, all people in poverty, disabled individuals, and organizations/businesses working toward equality and justice for all
• Continue promoting Women of Color Day nationally and globally, including the annual Sacramento Community Women of Color Day/Diversity Event which alone has honored more thatn 250 women of color and men/women/organizations and businesses of all groups who support diversity and justice.
• Provide information about IAWCODay activities and opportunity for people of good will across the nation and around the world to support these efforts through donations of every size.
• Provide an opportunity to network and collaborate with other individuals and organizations for mutual and community benefit.

2.  Donations via Chipin.com (on the Women of Color Day site:

    http://www.womenofcolorday.com/ 

    College/University faculty and Human Resources trainers ordering copies for classes

    will receive a complimentary review copy.

    

 

4. HelpVictims of Sexual Harassment & Racism+Sexism by contributing to funds

    via International Association for Women of Color Day on 

     https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/6MK4b  or  http://www.womenofcolorday.com/. Support is needed to obtain a  

     legal review of gathered information and evidence for women who have learned about each other's experiences at

     the same institution. Below is the posted letter which documents some of the need.

    http://ourcommonground-talk.ning.com/profile/SuzanneBrooks
    Gloria Alpini and I are working together, searching for other victims (have  found some) to bring about attention to

     discrimination victims who have experienced  great harm after opposing injustice. Complaints are filed with

     appropriate agencies. Now, $500 is needed to have a lawyer review documents as we work to secure an attorney

     to represent us all. These problems have been ongoing for decades. The costs to us have been devastating

     economically and to our education and careers. Proceeds from The Constructive Extermination of Women of

     Color: Consequences of Perpetual Socio-Economic Marginalization are being used to cover mailings and survival

     needs. Help is needed to take this to the next step. Thank you.  Suzanne

 

   September 6, 2012, Gloria Alpini said:
    Dearest Suzanne, I've never met you but I feel you're more than a sister...Sometimes I hear a call and when that

    happens I drop everything and write... that call came through this great radio-community and Janice's

    outreaching program whose powerful voices did reach me all the way to Italy! Before listening to your interview,

    I was reading and it was as if what I was reading melted with what you said in Our Common Ground interview . .

    I thought it was my duty to add a comment. . . to sign up to be part of a community that apeaks the truth.

    Here's my comment: Yesterday I listened to this . . interview and, this morning, I woke up with such a sense of

    relief and uplifting happiness and it didn't take long to realize that it was your words that made me feel that way.

    . . For me, listening to the program was like going through a process of healing. As a victim of sexual

    harassment, unlawfully dismissed for reporting sexual harassment, I find myself in a 'double' waste land where

    the only thing I can do is to look for water. And Suzanne's spirit is my well of fresh water and your radio program

    is my oasis of truth. I was hurt in the USA and your program restored my image of the USA. You're so right: to

    empower truth we need to say it more than once but, most of all, THANK YOU for listening to the truth. 

    Suzanne's words resonate far to reach out and help me understand my experience of pain and injustice, help me

    think of my constructive extermination (and that of my 12-year-old daughter), that is the awful, programmed

    way they got rid of me, only because my conscience rightly decided to do the right thing. But Suzanne calmly

    and convincingly says how to re-act by doing the only thing I know as an academic: do research. I found out

    there were at least two other women victims before me, and they knew there were other victims! How awful to

    find out that they knew, so, for them, it wasn't a matter of finding the truth about my case but of hiding the

    truth.  But Suzanne reminds us that there's a greater power that human beings have used: the power of

    language to speak to other human beings about things that genuinely matter, that can save us out of any waste

    land. I honor your radio program and Suzanne's book for understanding that we're living a historical situation 

    where truth has emerged out of Penn State. But what has emerged is only the tip of an iceberg...there's still a lot

    more to be done. So I thank you Suzanne, for your powerful, brave words which help me understand that beyond

    the drama of being robbed of my beloved job (teaching children's literature) a year ago, beyond its financially

    tragic consequences, beyond the fact that even my colleagues (top professors of children's literature) turned

    their back on me, beyond that insane, 'triple' waste land, we can be happy again. I'm happy, too I got fired at

    Penn State for doing the right thing. And what a relief to hear Suzanne say: now, that the scandal of evil doing is

    out in the open, History absolves us for not taking part in the destructive perpetration of evil whose

    consequences we cannot even imagine when it's done in education. What can come out of what former FBI

    director, Louis Freeh, calls the "Penn State way" where even war veterans fear to tell the truth?  And for them,

    to get rid of a foreign woman was deadly easy. But they forgot that little David ultimately wins against Goliath. So

    Suzanne is right to remind us that History is on the side of truth. Both her refusal to satisfy unjust demands and

   my resistance to their unjust treatment came at the expense of our jobs. Suzanne's book is a death-changed

   -into-life book which rewrites Swift's Latin epitaph on his tomb: When Fierce Indignation serves human liberty then

   it can also heal the heart while we're still alive. Ciao, Gloria
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