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Mutual Aid Needed- 7 Causes That Need Help · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_01: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_02: We are going to get to our mutual aid section where I shout out friends of
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  SPEAKER_02: the network,
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  SPEAKER_02: friends of the channel,
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  SPEAKER_02: friends of the show who are doing good work or who need a little bit of extra help.
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  SPEAKER_02: I want to shout out first our friend Margaret Villa.
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  SPEAKER_02: Margaret has been organizing
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  SPEAKER_02: Session,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: on Saturday mornings,
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  SPEAKER_02: she'll just set up a table in a park with free food for residents to come.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she's got other volunteers that help her.
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  SPEAKER_02: And she had a message to thank some volunteers and that she's going to be doing
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  SPEAKER_02: a food drive in November unexpectedly.
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  SPEAKER_02: And let's hear her talk about why.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let me refresh that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Come on, Margaret.
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  SPEAKER_00: So some of you already.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: So,
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  SPEAKER_00: some of you already knew that I was not going to be doing a mutual aid in November
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  SPEAKER_00: because I was going to be out of the country.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I'm squeaking one in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's because of all of you.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are some donations coming in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, I'll move forward with one the 1st of November for sure at Southgate Park.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it expanded just a little bit because of Hood Santa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I'll be picking up goods there today as well for Sunday's Mutual Aid.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, I have not reached my goal, but you can help me do that by making a donation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would help tremendously.
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  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you all.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks again, people.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you Sunday, November 1st.
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  SPEAKER_02: Margaret is at Food Industrial Complex on Instagram,
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  SPEAKER_02: and she's, I believe, at MVilla52 on Twitter as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you need to get in touch with me,
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  SPEAKER_02: if you want to support and you want to get in touch with her and you don't want
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  SPEAKER_02: to support her,
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  SPEAKER_02: I love her.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to our friend Margaret for doing the work.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, she's out there every week and she's feeding
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  SPEAKER_02: the hungry like our friend Keith McHenry from Food Not Bombs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Keith.
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  SPEAKER_02: Last I heard,
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  SPEAKER_02: this was about a month ago,
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  SPEAKER_02: Food Not Bombs needed a new van, and last I heard, they had not gotten one yet.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Food Not Bombs needs a new van, and this is the Santa Cruz division.
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  SPEAKER_02: Food Not Bombs has divisions all over the country.
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  SPEAKER_02: They are completely decentralized,
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  SPEAKER_02: though Keith does check in on different chapters across the country.
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  SPEAKER_02: If there's not one where you are...
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, you can, uh, start one yourself and reach out to Keith.
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  SPEAKER_02: And again, I'll put you in touch with Keith to help you start one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, it's very funny, Seb, now that you've decided to dox yourself.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Margaret actually did run for state Senate in California in like 2022 or in 2020.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I met her
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  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to Fee and Pasta, my brother Pasta that I talked to this week on the phone.
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  SPEAKER_02: Love him.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yes, Margaret Villa.
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  SPEAKER_02: So right about the same time you guys put in support contributions last summer.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was funny.
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't realize which was which.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you guys basically had the same name.
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  SPEAKER_02: Next, I wanted to talk about the Reverend Joe Blank.
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  SPEAKER_02: Friend of the show, Nafo Troller.
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  SPEAKER_02: He trolls the Nafo trolls.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love him.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's also an incredible sketch artist who does hand-drawn pencil sketches.
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  SPEAKER_02: His most recent one was Dolly Parton.
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  SPEAKER_02: He actually finished the Kurt Cobain one and he sold it to Misty Winston.
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  SPEAKER_02: But...
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  SPEAKER_02: This was his Dolly pencil mark.
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  SPEAKER_02: But he was struggling.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he has a BuyMeACoffee.com slash at TheRevJoeBlank, I believe.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, if you want to get in touch and you want to help, reach out to me.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll help put you in touch with Joe Blank.
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  SPEAKER_02: Love that dude.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do anything I can to help.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's struggling financially and physically.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Next.
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  SPEAKER_02: Words of will.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've been talking about words of will and his wife,
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  SPEAKER_02: Elizabeth, and the struggles that they've been going through.
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  SPEAKER_02: They had all their appliances break on them, but he's been going through cancer treatment.
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  SPEAKER_02: She finished her chemo, I believe, next to surgery, followed by radiation.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's been a long, tough process.
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  SPEAKER_02: She has not, you know, it's been tough on her physically.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know Halloween's coming up.
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  SPEAKER_02: I hope she can go trick-or-treating with the kids.
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  SPEAKER_02: This, again, is a mother of two boys who is going through breast cancer treatment.
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  SPEAKER_02: And, of course,
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  SPEAKER_02: I read a thing recently that within the first 10 years after a mother gives birth,
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  SPEAKER_02: her chances of getting breast cancer increase tremendously.
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  SPEAKER_02: And, sadly, that seems to have been part of what happened here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: And again, we love you, Will and Elizabeth.
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  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, you're not alone.
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  SPEAKER_02: Her birthday was September 10th.
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  SPEAKER_02: She was getting chemo on her birthday.
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  SPEAKER_02: And earlier this month, they got a survival chance rate of 45% over the next five years.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Will and Elizabeth need some help.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that just breaks my heart.
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  SPEAKER_02: It also is inspiring somewhat because,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, they got to put all the positive energy into that 45% chance.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's still a good chance of survival.
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  SPEAKER_02: He still has a good chance.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we can't get negative and be down on that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Positive attitude is so important when it comes to cancer treatments and responding
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  SPEAKER_02: to cancer treatments, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's not all of it, obviously.
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  SPEAKER_02: Look at what happened to our friend Shanda we're going to talk about, but
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  SPEAKER_02: I want to be positive and maintain a positive hope for Will and for her family and
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  SPEAKER_02: for these people, you know, and Halo talking about another treatment possibility.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know what they're looking at there.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just want to offer support and love and tell them that there's a community here that cares.
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  SPEAKER_02: This again is Elizabeth's GoFundMe.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I will drop this in the chats.
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  SPEAKER_02: Those are the boys.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's our buddy Will.
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  SPEAKER_02: $43.50 raise.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're only halfway to their goal of $8,000.
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  SPEAKER_02: So again, if there's anything people can do
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  SPEAKER_02: That's a family that really needs the help.
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  SPEAKER_02: I also wanted to make mention of our brother Anthony Malecki,
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  SPEAKER_02: Cowboy Kitty, who's sitting here in chat right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good to see you, Cowboy.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is his sister-in-law, Natalia.
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  SPEAKER_02: Natalia's been locked up in an ICE detention facility since last summer.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the state, the county in Ohio is profiting from the government paying to house her.
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  SPEAKER_02: She has gotten a deportation order, even though she has asylum.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then a judge ruled that she should be released.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then they were talking about a $5,000 contract.
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  SPEAKER_02: Failed fee or something.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, cowboy, almost 16 months now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where are we at?
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  SPEAKER_02: You know,
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  SPEAKER_02: if you don't mind, oh,
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  SPEAKER_02: here, they're trying to say she's going to run and not release her because of that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, one BS after excuse after another.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where's she going to go?
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, where are you going to go that you can get rid of that arm and that level of scrutiny?
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: What?
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  SPEAKER_02: She certainly,
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm guessing,
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  SPEAKER_02: still needs some financial help,
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  SPEAKER_02: even if it's for her commissary,
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  SPEAKER_02: because we know that they feed awful food there,
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  SPEAKER_02: and she's got a daughter who probably needs some expense money.
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  SPEAKER_02: Stuff still has to be paid for while she's sitting in an ICE detention facility,
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  SPEAKER_02: pending deportation.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just awful.
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  SPEAKER_02: I feel terrible, really.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm so sorry, man.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just, fuck ICE.
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  SPEAKER_02: Fuck this country for doing this to people who weren't bothering anybody.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're living their lives as citizens here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then we get to justice for Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I see Kieran Pine here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Kieran Pine,
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  SPEAKER_02: along with Charlie Mack,
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  SPEAKER_02: organized a wonderful fundraiser last year,
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  SPEAKER_02: about a year ago yesterday,
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  SPEAKER_02: or technically today, for Aspen that we had done on this channel earlier.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where Jessie performed and we did an interview and we showed,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, we had a couple of different interviews.
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  SPEAKER_02: Descent in Bloom came on and we tried to raise some money to pay for her legal fees
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  SPEAKER_02: and experts because just because Aspen was in the wrong vehicle at the wrong time
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  SPEAKER_02: that got pulled over.
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  SPEAKER_02: And unbeknownst to her,
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  SPEAKER_02: the driver was holding mass quantities of drugs,
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  SPEAKER_02: which got them all arrested for trafficking,
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  SPEAKER_02: though she didn't even know that they were there.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I feel awful again.
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  SPEAKER_02: October 29th,
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  SPEAKER_02: one year ago,
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  SPEAKER_02: we held a live stream,
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  SPEAKER_02: a special live stream on this channel, which you can watch here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, at the link tree, linktr.ee slash justice and the number for Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you can get to, you can support her by purchasing some of her artwork.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can read the sense article talking about her two weeks spent
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  SPEAKER_02: in Georgia lockup county lockup, which was a nightmare.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can talk,
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  SPEAKER_02: you can listen to the one-on-one conversation where she lays out in detail for me,
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  SPEAKER_02: what happened and what she's been going through,
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  SPEAKER_02: what she had been going through since.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um,
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, and Aspen's mother,
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  SPEAKER_02: Halo Benson,
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  SPEAKER_02: was a member of Oklahoma for Assange,
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  SPEAKER_02: as was Aspen,
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  SPEAKER_02: organizing rallies and fighting for free speech and a free press,
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  SPEAKER_02: and Halo and I became friendly members.
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  SPEAKER_02: Through that,
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  SPEAKER_02: and again through Misty Winston,
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  SPEAKER_02: and when this happened to Aspen, immediately we wanted to do what we could to help.
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  SPEAKER_02: Still, what's needed is money to be raised for experts.
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  SPEAKER_02: While things are kind of in limbo and pending trial,
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  SPEAKER_02: and she has not been recalled to come back to trial yet.
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  SPEAKER_02: But she's facing decades in prison.
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  SPEAKER_02: Decades, this girl.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's horrifying.
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  SPEAKER_02: For a crime she did not commit.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then finally, get your sunflowers out.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's Shanda time.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I was asked by multiple people to not mention the GoFundMe anymore,
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  SPEAKER_02: but I told them I have not been talking about the GoFundMe,
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  SPEAKER_02: that we are still going to honor our friend Shanda
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  SPEAKER_02: by keeping this t-shirt collection active in the INN shop.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that anyone who wants to purchase Ken and that any profits and proceeds
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  SPEAKER_02: from it would be donated to cancer charities and not necessarily to a GoFundMe or
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  SPEAKER_02: to anything having to do with her family at this point,
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  SPEAKER_02: because we don't know where that's at.
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  SPEAKER_02: But we do want to honor our friend Shanda,
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  SPEAKER_02: who we lost earlier this year to small cell lung cancer,
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  SPEAKER_02: which then spread to other areas of her body.
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  SPEAKER_02: She fought for 18 months until she couldn't fight anymore.
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  SPEAKER_02: April 3rd was the day that they announced that she had died.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we've been talking about her ever since she was first diagnosed on this show.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we're going to keep talking about her.
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  SPEAKER_02: Keep her memory alive.
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  SPEAKER_02: Keep her thoughts alive.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I hope she would have wanted us to do that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we miss her tremendously.
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  SPEAKER_02: And again,
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  SPEAKER_02: a reminder that Shanda,
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  SPEAKER_02: like a lot of the people that we've shown here tonight,
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  SPEAKER_02: their work was an Indie Media Award honoree for excellence in live streaming
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  SPEAKER_02: and podcasting,
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  SPEAKER_02: along with her co-host on Beauty and the Boomer, one of her shows, Oz the Boomer.
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  SPEAKER_02: And hopefully, again, Oz will be back and doing shows soon again if he so chooses to.
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  SPEAKER_02: Again, you can find all of her old accounts, watch old video streams.
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  SPEAKER_02: All of them are still active here at all of the links,
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  SPEAKER_02: which you can get to by going to indiamediaawards.substack.com.
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  SPEAKER_02: Also at our merch shop,
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, there are plenty of other items beyond the Fuck Cancer collection.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, we've got INN t-shirt, $20, $23 in black.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've got a MyDialDoesn'tGoToDelicate and CatsOrDicks.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like I mentioned before,
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  SPEAKER_02: the indie logo,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: the little indie avatar guy with the arms as a t-shirt you can get, $23 in black.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, INN the Ocho or a Boat Smashing Into Other Boats t-shirt.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can get all of those here at the Indie News Shop,
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  SPEAKER_02: which you can get to by going to indienewsnow.com and click on the shop.
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  SPEAKER_02: The last thing I wanted to make mention of really quickly is
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  SPEAKER_02: the interactive calendar that I update on an ongoing basis.
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  SPEAKER_02: Bookmark this one, too,
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  SPEAKER_02: because you can always come back here and go back to previous weeks or see
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  SPEAKER_02: the current week.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the way to do that is to go to this website right here.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then what I do is I'll screen cap the full week once the week is complete.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then I'll include that screenshot with a link to it in the weekly newsletter for INN.
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  SPEAKER_02: Trying to link those all together.
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  SPEAKER_02: But this is,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: I really like this version of the newsletter better of the calendar
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  SPEAKER_02: because it can be updated, added to, and, um, And it includes everybody's stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: So when Reef and Colin did a show last night, you get that there.
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  SPEAKER_02: When Jesse and I did a show Tuesday night, you get there from here as well.
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  SPEAKER_02: When there are podcasts that go out from IndieMediaToday.com in the morning
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  SPEAKER_02: at 8.30 every morning, you can get that here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Everything is located in one easy central place to get to everything.
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  SPEAKER_02: So bookmark this by all means.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love you all.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will see you not next Tuesday, but the Tuesday after.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what she said.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, she didn't say that, but okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we'll see you soon, fam.
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  SPEAKER_02: Be safe and love you all.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thanks again for supporting Independent Media.
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  SPEAKER_01: No!
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  SPEAKER_01: We just fucking lost the stream!
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess this isn't such an awful place Is that what you want me to say?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I still think you're right here awake.
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  SPEAKER_01: The cost of living isn't much to make.
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  SPEAKER_01: safe?
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