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A World Beyond Capitalism Volunteer Team Legacies and Sacrifice: Voices for World Peace from Beyond the Grave
It is easy for conference attendants to say thank you to those who are physically present, yet we want to always take time to remember and give thanks to those AWBC volunteers who are no longer, physically, with us. We would like to take a moment to reflect upon those who have left a legacy of working for world peace as volunteers of the AWBC. "You won't understand where you're going until you know where you've been," - Rosa Parks This Legacy webpage began on October 28th, 2005 and is dedicated to the memories of AWBC Volunteer Nicole M.C. and the memory of Rosa Parks who both passed away on October 24, 2005. "Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way." - Rosa Parks Nicole M.C. We were sadly informed that Nicole M.C. passed away. Her family has informed us that her heart stopped due to unexplainable situations in a Pennsylvania hospital due to complications of Lupus. She passed away on Monday, October 24th at approximately 8:00 am. Nicole was 31 years of age and is survived by a mother, two sisters, and two brothers. Nicole’s Legacy to Creating a Better World of Peace Many of the volunteers of the AWBC remember working with Nicole on the 2005 A World Beyond Capitalism conference. That was the historic, first annual conference. She was the first person from the East Coast to volunteer to help the conference. She was also the first African-American woman to volunteer as part of the AWBC team. Her legacy will be remembered as she contributed to the cause of creating a better world of peace through love for all people and through multiracial-alliances. She was of extremely limited financial means, yet she volunteered to print out AWBC flyers and post them up throughout Pennsylvania and paid for her own round trip transportation to travel a round trip total of over 5,500 miles from Pennsylvania to volunteer as part of the AWBC 2005 in Portland, Oregon. She helped in all stages of the conference including posting flyers throughout Portland, set-up during the conference, staffing tables. She also helped with the never-ending task of organizing AWBC thank you certificates and many other duties which included photocopying, collating by hand, and stapling hundreds and hundreds of conference programs. She was one of the last eight people to leave when she stayed as part of the clean-up crew to help until the entire conference was cleaned up. She was looking forward to volunteering in the AWBC in 2006. She was a hero to her friends and many who knew her, yet she was also the victim of a US educational system which subjects people to never-ending repayment of educational loans and a US health care system which offers the world's highest standard of health care services and specialists only to those comparatively few who can afford the highest hospital fees, which she could not afford at all. She never owned a vehicle, home and constantly struggled to repay growing, interest-bearing post-secondary loans and find funding for her post-secondary education even during her ongoing medical crisis. Unlike many industrialized countries, the USA, despite being one of the richest countries in the world, does not have free medical health care coverage or free college and university education for its residents or even for all of its citizens. She was also the victim of the USA’s never-ending military invasions of other countries around the world. Like many children of US soldiers, her family was repeatedly and abruptly moved around the East Coast and she rarely had the opportunity to get to know friends or become part of a community for very long throughout her entire childhood. She sometimes found her family relocating several times per year. Then her family experienced extreme poverty and was torn apart when her father was stationed overseas during yet another US invasion of an overseas country. During the AWBC 2005 conference, one of the many workshops she attended was 'Free Food for All - Food Should Not Be Sold' taught by Ian, a member of Food not Bombs, an AWBC 2005 and 2006 volunteer, and an activist involved in the punk and Do-It-Yourself scene. When asked what she enjoyed the most about the conference, she happily mentioned that the conference gave her the chance to meet and talk to people who she ordinarily might not ever get a chance to meet. When asked what her greatest joys were, she would say that she experienced her greatest joy in visiting her family and attending church and did both throughout Pennsylvania and during her short stay in Portland, Oregon while visiting for the conference. She had an open heart for the homeless, often gave what little she had to help the homeless and was involved in church activities as a Christian. While in Portland she had the opportunity to visit many of the staff at Sisters of the Road and the Personalist Center. While there, she helped to volunteer for an AWBC preparation project within the Personalist Center. She was incredibly moved by the work of Sisters of the Road in providing food and other resources to people who did not have the funds to always pay for food. For those who didn't have the pleasure of meeting Nicole, her contributions to a better world of peace and her voice will truly carry on, as she is also the first person featured on the AWBC 2005 online audio documentary. You can hear her by clicking on 'Online Documentary of AWBC 2005' found in the left hand column. ”Your smile, cheerful nature, wisdom and selflessness will be missed, Nic.” –D, AWBC 2005 and 2006 Volunteer Hurricane Katrina Relief And Networking Resources found here and multiracial outreach found here. "I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die — the dream of freedom and peace." -Rosa Parks
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
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