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Mutual Aid: Food Not Bombs, Joe Blank, Words of Will, Nataliya Vlchekova, Aspen Martin, Chanda Masta · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: I talked about this last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to mention it one more time again, and I'll keep mentioning it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Food Not Bombs, Santa Cruz.
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  SPEAKER_01: Keith McHenry is one of the best people I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: This guy is an advocate and activist that supports the homeless and feeds
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  SPEAKER_01: the homeless and is a co-founder of this organization,
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  SPEAKER_01: Food Not Bombs, that has thousands of chapters worldwide.
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  SPEAKER_01: He mentioned a couple weeks ago that the Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs van,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is his local chapter,
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  SPEAKER_01: was in the shop being repaired after the radiator cooling system failed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bad timing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Need for food, of course, is increasing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if there's a way to donate,
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  SPEAKER_01: they have a new donation site,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I'm going to drop into the chats right now for anyone who's able to.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're not, I totally understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: I never know who has money.
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  SPEAKER_01: And who doesn't?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's really weird.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you're able to at a means,
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  SPEAKER_01: I really appreciate anything you can do to help any of these causes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I do think that with our platform,
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  SPEAKER_01: we should amplify causes like this for the people who do have the money and want
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  SPEAKER_01: to do some good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Speaking of Keith McHenry, a slight update.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was apparently invited to speak to At his former college at the University of Victoria.
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  SPEAKER_01: At his archives.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he was arrested when he tried to fly, when he flew to Canada.
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  SPEAKER_01: And was deported.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were going to send him to Austin.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he finally convinced him to send him to San Francisco.
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  SPEAKER_01: He now is home and safe and sound.
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  SPEAKER_01: But interesting...
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the letter inviting him to give a talk celebrating the generous donation of
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  SPEAKER_01: the Food Not Bombs collection to Special Collections McPherson Library,
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  SPEAKER_01: University of Victoria.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then here's the notice from Canada.
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  SPEAKER_01: The report is based on the following in that there are reasonable grounds to believe
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  SPEAKER_01: a permanent resident or foreign national who is inadmissible on grounds
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  SPEAKER_01: of serious criminal He's a badass outlaw, is the bottom line.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, this guy's like a grandpa who feeds people.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's a threat?
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they stopped him at the airport and wouldn't let him go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Keith.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our friend Reverend Joe Blank,
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  SPEAKER_01: we also have also called for a mutual aid the other night, and he hates doing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know he does.
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  SPEAKER_01: He messaged me, and he'll sell artwork sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_01: He does incredible pencil drawings.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great artist.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said, I don't like this.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, I'm pretty ashamed to.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been trying to finish up to get some art to market so I can sell something,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it's been rough.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's disabled,
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  SPEAKER_01: no health care,
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  SPEAKER_01: still in process with an attorney for disability right now facing bills and kind
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  SPEAKER_01: of doubts it'll work out in the next 24 hours,
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  SPEAKER_01: even if he gets his young dolly that was a pencil drawing finished.
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  SPEAKER_01: So sure, mutual aid request.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody has any money, but if you do, you can like his art or the stuff he says.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's his cash app,
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  SPEAKER_01: PayPal, or he has a buy me a coffee in his bio at the Rev Joe Blank on Twitter.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'll put a link to this tweet in there so that you can get to that if you wanted
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  SPEAKER_01: to help out our friend Joe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, next we've got Words of Will.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wife is still undergoing chemo treatment.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's been rough on them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, their AC broke.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the car broke down and he couldn't do his door dash.
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  SPEAKER_01: He does have...
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  SPEAKER_01: He just started an apprenticeship.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he's just getting started with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, anything anybody can do.
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  SPEAKER_01: They started a GoFundMe back in May when he reached out to me to ask if I could talk
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  SPEAKER_01: about and share the GoFundMe.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I said, absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'd be happy to because this is what we do with our platforms for
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  SPEAKER_01: the people around us that need the help.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we've also got Aspen and we've talked for too long about Aspen's case
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  SPEAKER_01: and we'll continue to talk about it until it's resolved in some way, shape or form.
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  SPEAKER_01: But.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aspen was in the wrong place the wrong time in an RV.
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  SPEAKER_01: They got pulled over when it was searched by the cops.
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  SPEAKER_01: They found mass quantities of drugs and charged everybody,
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  SPEAKER_01: including Aspen,
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  SPEAKER_01: who was in the vehicle with trafficking,
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  SPEAKER_01: even though she didn't even know that there were any drugs in the vehicle.
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  SPEAKER_01: Beyond weed, according to the conversation that we had had.
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  SPEAKER_01: And...
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  SPEAKER_01: She spent two weeks in county lockup in Georgia back last May.
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  SPEAKER_01: Her mom, Halo Benson, an activist also, they were both fighters to get Julian Assange out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Funny enough, you know, we did the whole Julian Assange segment earlier.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were instrumental in fighting for Oklahoma for Assange.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when she got arrested, Halo contacted me and asked if there was something we can do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And thanks to Descent in Bloom,
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  SPEAKER_01: who wrote an incredible article highlighting just what happened to Aspen,
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  SPEAKER_01: specifically in the Georgia prison.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then I did a one-on-one with Aspen and her mom.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did a live stream fundraiser where Jessie played songs that Aspen wanted to hear
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  SPEAKER_01: and requests.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can also purchase some of her art at artspen.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Artspendstudio.com, A-R-T-S-P-E-N Studio.
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  SPEAKER_01: All these links are available at linktr.ee slash justice and the number four Aspen,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is something that we set up for her to have all these links and learn about
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  SPEAKER_01: the case.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally,
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  SPEAKER_01: of course,
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  SPEAKER_01: there's a GoFundMe for her there too, is the Shandamasta Fuck Cancer Collection.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_01: Put up your sunflowers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ryan did do some rearranging to the Indie News shop.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Shanda Master Collection is still up at the top.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you go to the homepage,
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  SPEAKER_01: now some of the other items have been rearranged,
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  SPEAKER_01: but in honor of our sister Shanda,
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  SPEAKER_01: who it's been more than now two years since she was diagnosed,
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  SPEAKER_01: and now five months since we lost her in early April,
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  SPEAKER_01: we created this t-shirt in order to honor her and to donate any profits
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  SPEAKER_01: from these sales.
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  SPEAKER_01: To cancer research or some kind of cancer foundation.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've only done a few of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've only sold a few of them so far.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got a t-shirt, hoodie, and tank top.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is going to be a sticker at some point along the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know when.
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  SPEAKER_01: But getting back to the homepage.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I look here, it's going to take a second.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Indie News Shop.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you go to the Indie News shop,
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  SPEAKER_01: which you can get to by going to indienewsnow.com,
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  SPEAKER_01: there's the Fuck Cancer Collection.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there you can get t-shirts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or you can get, there's the Cancer Dicks t-shirt, which is one of my favorites.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or, hey, look at that.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's me on a t-shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually have this t-shirt, and I like to wear it occasionally.
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  SPEAKER_01: Boat Smashing in, other boats, another t-shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tank tops.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think I tried to lay out a design for even a cap and a few other new items.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know where those are at in process.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also did change that these are now going to say Angel and Friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the Angel in the Afternoon will be retired and updated for the new stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know when that's all going to be happening.
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  SPEAKER_01: I need to reach out to Ryan and get an update.
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  SPEAKER_01: But you can get a Boat Smashing and Other Boats sticker if you want to get that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they send two to a pack.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can, and they'll send it to you, put it on laptops wherever.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've got an INN 8,
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  SPEAKER_01: the Ocho sticker, and the INN logo, just the black logo with the white border.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can pick up, hey, if you want to get Angel's face on a sticker, you can get that too.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, finally, again, Shanda again was a Indie Media Award honoree.
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  SPEAKER_01: For excellence in broadcasting,
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  SPEAKER_01: live streaming,
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  SPEAKER_01: podcasting, you can go to indiemediaawards.substack.com to find her page.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a link to the shop,
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  SPEAKER_01: to the items right there to pick up a t-shirt or whatever,
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  SPEAKER_01: or you can visit any of her old accounts and look at some of the tweets.
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  SPEAKER_01: I actually had a memory come up.
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  SPEAKER_01: On Facebook where she had said that I could share anything about her story
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  SPEAKER_01: that she had posted publicly because I had asked her.
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  SPEAKER_01: She had posted some kind of an update.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to know, hey, is it okay that I show this on the show?
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  SPEAKER_01: She said, if I put it out there, it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Feel free to share it and show it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We miss you, Shanda.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_01: We love you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck cancer.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then, of course, we've got the INN weekly calendar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Last week we had more than 30 items between podcasts and live streams and clips
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  SPEAKER_01: and articles and I'll be doing the update over the next couple of days
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  SPEAKER_01: for this entire week.
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  SPEAKER_01: So go check this out.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is updated on an ongoing basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then from here,
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  SPEAKER_01: I then grab all this and I put it into the weekly update that I email out
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  SPEAKER_01: to innnewsletter.com with a screen cap of what the week looked like.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I love you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: Here's a link to this live interactive calendar.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can bookmark this.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: You can go back and watch, again, every live stream that we co-stream of AM Wake Up.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: Here was last Wednesday with Tease and Charlie Robinson.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there you can watch it ad-free on our Twitter.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: All of these, again, completely ad-free, completely free to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please share.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: All we want is for people to see it and comment on it and share.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_01: Support independent media because we need it more than ever.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know what to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll see you next Tuesday.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's what she said.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Night, everybody.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: No!
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  SPEAKER_00: We just fucking lost the stream!
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place Is that what you want me to say?
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll prove it's possible to sleep for days And I still think you're right here away.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cost of living isn't much to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God, it's so hard to save.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they told you everything, I said, were you safe?
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  Were you safe?