I just received the following email from a friend who is active in the peace movement. Our prayers and good thoughts are with our dear Molly. Oh, how many times she has been the light in the darkness for me these past years!
I have no idea who sent this originally. I am only cutting and pasting to share the information.
Email below the fold...
WILPF International News List
all our love and spirit to molly ivins...
source: risingmoorecarl
I'm sorry the news I bring is so dire, but many are wondering: Molly Ivins is indeed losing her fight with cancer. She's out of the hospital and back at home, on life support with organ failure. She is lucid some of the time, and spending her last hours with close friends and relatives.
She asks that no more flowers or cards be sent as she is overwhelmed, and certainly visitors are a burden at this point (she knows you are with her in spirit). Please send prayers, love, good wishes (I'm attempting to get and
send to her a copy of video of Sat.'s rally where 1500 of us collectively sent it in a giant yell!) and if you want to honor her, instead of gifts, she asks that you give to the ACLU or the Texas Observer/Texas Democracy Foundation in her name. I would imagine a 3rd alternative is giving to a
cancer organization of your choice.
Giving to Observer: https://www.texasobserver.org/...
Giving to ACLU: https://secure.groundspring.org/...
Note: I'm told the Observer received a huge grant recently and with a giant donation from Molly, are getting closer to making the match to it (I believe they have $50,000 to go).
Namaste, Ms. Molly.
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The following is an excerpt from a column by Harvey Wasserman
We love you, Molly
January 29, 2007
Our beloved sister Molly Ivins is fighting for her life against cancer, and all we can do is try to send her even a fraction of the brilliance, joy and love she has given us for so many incomparable years. This genius daughter of Texas turmoil has stood alone for so long as a voice of clarity, wit, common sense and plain-spoken conscience that it’s hard to know even where to start.
Perhaps most important to remember is that she has not been just a writer. From her modest but gracious home in the heart of Austin, she has done anything but sit back and snipe with that unique penetrating wit of hers. She could have done it. She could have just gone to that keyboard every day, blown them all away, and built her national reputation from the sheer genius of an insulated ivory tower.
Please go to the link and read the rest. When I received this email, I had a terrible time with the formatting. Also, the computer was being difficult so editing took forever.
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