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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: Now last week I brought something about our friend Keith McHenry over
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  SPEAKER_01: at Food Not Bombs telling everyone that they needed to raise money to repair
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  SPEAKER_01: the van.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, turns out they actually need a new van.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's a phone number here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Please contact us with any leads.
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  SPEAKER_01: I quote tweeted last week's Solidarity post earlier today on Twitter.
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  SPEAKER_01: If anybody is interested or has any way that they can help or lead on a new van, let me know.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will put you in touch with Heath or I can get you the phone number.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they are in need of a new van transporting food to the hungry
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  SPEAKER_01: and whatever else they do with the van, I can only imagine.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they need it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's important.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pretty old and falling apart.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, Andrew Zygman, Smith, how are you, friend?
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  SPEAKER_01: Wait, okay, he said, tell Keith
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  SPEAKER_01: to his up HVAC electrical or plumbing company to hit them up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not a bad idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yep, that's a great idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will definitely do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: They often have extras on their lots that they're willing to sell.
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  SPEAKER_01: Great stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good to see you, bro.
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  SPEAKER_01: Next, I again mentioned this last week, Joe Blank.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joe Blank certainly could use a couple extra bucks to help him get through.
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  SPEAKER_01: Last week,
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  SPEAKER_01: he had put out a call for mutual aid,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I think got him through,
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  SPEAKER_01: but certainly he could use a little bit more, but buy something from him.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this week, he published artwork.
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  SPEAKER_01: He hand drew this with graphite pencil, Dolly Parton.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so for those Dolly fans or if you have a Dolly fan in your life
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  SPEAKER_01: and you're interested in purchasing this,
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  SPEAKER_01: reach out to the Reverend Joe Blank over on Twitter.
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  SPEAKER_01: I can put you in touch.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you want to commission this work, he'll mail it to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is an 8x10 pencil portrait done in 0.3mm nanodiamond graphite on premium cream drawing paper.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, with all the health stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again,
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  SPEAKER_01: a couple of bucks for Joe and you can support his artwork and it would go to
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  SPEAKER_01: a good cause if you like that kind of stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, next, words of Will.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've been talking about Will now since May when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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  SPEAKER_01: We know that earlier, late last month, the AC broke.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's taking apprentice classes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, to be an AC repair person, but his classes weren't enough.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now the washer, dryer, fridge, AC, all break, and the car was broken down too.
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  SPEAKER_01: What a mess.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so they have a GoFundMe set up for his wife, Elizabeth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so if you're able to and a means, that's a good cause to help out a family in need.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their bills,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know,
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  SPEAKER_01: the medical stuff as far as the hospital stuff, I believe is being taken care of.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they still have to live.
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  SPEAKER_01: They still have to pay rent.
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  SPEAKER_01: They still need food.
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  SPEAKER_01: They still need to keep the lights on and the house heated.
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  SPEAKER_01: They live in South Carolina.
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  SPEAKER_01: So winter's coming up.
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  SPEAKER_01: And, you know, kids are back in school now.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Halloween costumes, everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: My God, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That family going through insanely hard times.
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  SPEAKER_01: For sure, Cookies, I feel for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Will has been a supporter of this network since it was created.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were all hanging out in the Twitter chats together five, six years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he's been a fan and a supporter of ours.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we're going to be there for him when times are tough.
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  SPEAKER_01: And...
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  SPEAKER_01: Love you, Will.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: I forgot to do this last week,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I want to apologize to my brother,
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  SPEAKER_01: Cowboy Kitty, Anthony Malecki, his sister-in-law, Natalia.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had hoped that she would be getting out of ICE detention.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was locked up last July or June on a routine traffic stop.
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  SPEAKER_01: They then put her in a detention facility in spite of the fact that she has asylum,
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  SPEAKER_01: but now they apparently want some kind of a bond,
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  SPEAKER_01: a $5,000 bond,
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  SPEAKER_01: or we're trying to get it to be to 10%,
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  SPEAKER_01: trying to find out exactly where we need to be,
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  SPEAKER_01: what we need to raise in order to get her out.
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  SPEAKER_01: We found out back in April that she was the only person that spoke her language in
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  SPEAKER_01: the facility,
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  SPEAKER_01: that they were overcrowded,
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  SPEAKER_01: that everybody there basically spoke English or Spanish,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that they were serving substandard food,
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  SPEAKER_01: which we've known,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that there were things she was not comfortable or afraid to talk about.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because she feared that there would be retaliation.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we need to get her out of there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And sooner rather than later.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, there was a deportation order.
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  SPEAKER_01: And apparently she's now won some kind of an appeal.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they are going to let her out and stay.
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  SPEAKER_01: She has asylum in this country.
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  SPEAKER_01: She did legitimately fear for her life.
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  SPEAKER_01: So again, if you're able to, please contribute to the GoFundMe.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's the link to that over on Substack.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a couple of bucks for after she gets out, she'll need to get herself back on her feet.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, I'm hoping to one day see her in chat.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really appreciate that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we've got Justice for Aspen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, no news is good news.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've heard no news on this front from Halo Benson, Justice Aspen's mom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aspen was in the wrong car,
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  SPEAKER_01: wrong place,
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  SPEAKER_01: wrong time in a car that was pulled over where there were mass quantities of drugs
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  SPEAKER_01: that the driver was hiding.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was unaware and everyone was arrested.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were in county lockup for more than two weeks.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there are she's pending trial facing more than three decades in prison, potentially.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we need to raise money for expert witnesses and lawyers and To make sure
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  SPEAKER_01: that they understand that she, A,
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  SPEAKER_01: was innocent in all of this,
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  SPEAKER_01: including the driver even admitted that,
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  SPEAKER_01: but that she probably would not do very well in a place like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Being vegan and being autistic, it's really just brutal.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Aspen and her mom,
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  SPEAKER_01: Halo, were standouts for justice in action for Assange in the Oklahoma movement.
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  SPEAKER_01: They got a screening of the Ithaca movie organized with their local theater.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can purchase her artwork at artspendstudio.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's the link tree where you can find all the links to an interview between me
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  SPEAKER_01: and Halo and Aspen,
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  SPEAKER_01: the fundraiser stream that we did last October,
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  SPEAKER_01: the article that Dissent in Bloom wrote about Aspen's time in Georgia lock up and
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  SPEAKER_01: about their crazy prison system.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And of course, a link to the GoFundMe if you can.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then finally, also we've got, and that's her GoFundMe in case you get there.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've raised over $12,000, but they're going to need a lot more than that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And finally, we've got our merch collection.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shanda Masta, our sister.
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  SPEAKER_01: We lost our sister Shanda,
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  SPEAKER_01: who more than two years ago was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer,
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  SPEAKER_01: and in April lost that fight.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we continue to fight on for her and in her honor and in her memory.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've created these shirts because she was an Indie Media Award honoree.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, we created a shirt with her likeness on it with the years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Again, I have another shirt in process right now to be added to this collection with
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  SPEAKER_01: an emoji of a sunflower on the front and this on the back instead.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we're going to also add a sticker with a black background.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now you can get t-shirts, tank tops, and hoodies coming up time for winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you do want to honor Shanda for just $27 plus shipping, you can pick up a hoodie.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, at the shop, we've started to rearrange some things.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know that now if you click on the Indie News shop by getting there at Indie Media,
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry,
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  SPEAKER_01: IndieNewsNow.com,
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, right at the top is when people are occupied, resistance is justified.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was wearing one of those t-shirts yesterday, INN.
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  SPEAKER_01: My favorite, Cats or Dicks.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, I wore this shirt last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're going to replace Angel in the Afternoon with Angel and Friends.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's the same logo, the same look and feel.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we got a bunch of t-shirts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, and you can pick up any of those designs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ladies shirts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Alright, again, hoodies.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Beanie Hats in Time for Winter.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got it all there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So definitely check out our merch store.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then again,
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  SPEAKER_01: like I said,
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  SPEAKER_01: she was a Indie Media Award Honoree Excellence in Live Streaming, Podcasting.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can support her work there.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can support...
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  SPEAKER_01: Us and the effort and we will donate any of the profits from that
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  SPEAKER_01: to cancer charities or visit any of her old profiles there.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are going to keep those up in memoriam.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's shout out to our brother Oz.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rumor has it that Oz is working on yet on his next show.
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  SPEAKER_01: So at some point, our friend Oz will be back sooner, hopefully, rather than later.
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  SPEAKER_01: And finally, I did want to mention and I have mentioned it before.
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  SPEAKER_01: The INN Interactive Calendar.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have been linking this at the bottom of the links
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  SPEAKER_01: for each show as well as for
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  SPEAKER_01: the GoFundMe section or the Mutual Aid section.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is updated on an ongoing basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've got about three months worth in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to have to clear out We'll see you next time.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can find that link right here to the YouTube link.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've already included that in today's listings.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you can find that there.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can see a couple things that are going to be coming up scheduled to the network.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's going to be even more than that added over the next couple days.
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  SPEAKER_01: And again, you can get to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll drop the link to that over in the chats so that everyone can bookmark this
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  SPEAKER_01: and come back to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or you can make it part of your homepage or one of your
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  SPEAKER_01: home tabs so
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  SPEAKER_01: that every time you open a browser,
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  SPEAKER_01: it will show you what the current week looks like.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love you all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Support Independent Media.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll see you next Tuesday.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's what she said.
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  SPEAKER_01: Night, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, we just fucking lost the stream.
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that what you want me to say?
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  SPEAKER_00: You prove it's possible to sleep for days.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I still think you're right here awake.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cost of living isn't much to make.
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  SPEAKER_00: But God, it's so hard to say.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when they told you everything I said, were you the same?
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  SPEAKER_00: Will you say?