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GoFundMes Need Help - Words of Will, Nataliya Vlchekova, Aspen Martin, RIP Chanda Masta · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: Who are these people?
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  SPEAKER_01: but i did want to get to the gofundmes where we're going to talk about words of will
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  SPEAKER_01: and their gofundme all right his wife has breast cancer again he's not even doing
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  SPEAKER_01: doordash anymore he's hoping to take a class later on this summer to do
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  SPEAKER_01: an apprenticeship so he can get more steady work and in
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  SPEAKER_01: the meantime they're just doing what they can to get by and they're hoping for
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  SPEAKER_01: the generosity of kindness of strangers and family to get them through
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  SPEAKER_01: and they could really use the help again uh this is words of will has been a friend
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  SPEAKER_01: and supporter supporter of inn since we founded the network back
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  SPEAKER_01: in may he reached out and asked me to share his gofundme
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  SPEAKER_01: because his wife got diagnosed
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  SPEAKER_01: with breast cancer this is their two boys they also have no insurance right now they
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  SPEAKER_01: got dropped because she lost her full-time work had
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  SPEAKER_01: to take part-time hours they've raised over four thousand dollars but their goal is
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  SPEAKER_01: over eight
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  SPEAKER_01: so they still need help getting there and anything that you can do
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  SPEAKER_01: to help I appreciate personally and again here's a link to share
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  SPEAKER_01: if they're you're right OMB I need to do
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  SPEAKER_01: the arms raised thing you're absolutely right um
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  SPEAKER_01: next go find me i wanted to bring up again and cowboy kitty mentioned it
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  SPEAKER_01: on sunday night on boat smashing into other boats that it's now been one year
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  SPEAKER_01: since natalia uh his sister-in-law was taken by ice okay and kept in
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  SPEAKER_01: and is being paid by the federal government every week or every night for that bed
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  SPEAKER_01: to keep her house while she appeals
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  SPEAKER_01: her asylum uh that she had already received but now she's been ordered to be deported
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  SPEAKER_01: though she should not be um she's living in substandard conditions
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  SPEAKER_01: in this prison
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  SPEAKER_01: in Ohio
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  SPEAKER_01: she's
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  SPEAKER_01: the only one that speaks her language there the food sucks the people go in and out
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  SPEAKER_01: the guards suck I mean it's prison so and it's an ICE facility it's
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  SPEAKER_01: a processing facility it's not really a prison so they don't even have all
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  SPEAKER_01: the facilities and all the things that a prison normally does but
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  SPEAKER_01: again this was set up for
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  SPEAKER_01: the legal defense she's been here 9 years legally currently in the process
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  SPEAKER_01: of applying for a green card working and paying taxes as a box truck driver
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  SPEAKER_01: and taking care of her daughter again over $2,200 was raised anything that we can do
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  SPEAKER_01: to help up that and to get them some money to get themselves through again it's been
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  SPEAKER_01: a year a year why
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  SPEAKER_01: for profit that's why because core civic or geo group whichever company owns
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  SPEAKER_01: that private prison facility and the county that's housing her are getting paid out
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  SPEAKER_01: by the federal government to keep her there so it's in everyone's financial interest
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  SPEAKER_01: to keep her locked up sadly all right then we've got aspen
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  SPEAKER_01: and I messaged with Halo this week and I have to catch up with her on
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  SPEAKER_01: the phone I owe her a phone call I love you Halo sorry for not calling you back
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  SPEAKER_01: last october we did a live stream fundraiser talking about justice for aspen
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  SPEAKER_01: in middle of october i interviewed aspen and her mom halo
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  SPEAKER_01: who were julian assange activists for the oklahoma for assange chapter by
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  SPEAKER_01: the way julian assange had
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  SPEAKER_01: a birthday this past week he turned 55 happy birthday julian thank god you're out
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  SPEAKER_01: and and shout out to all the activists that worked to get him out um
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  SPEAKER_01: Aspen a little over a year ago I've told this story too many times already was in
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  SPEAKER_01: the wrong car at the wrong time in the wrong place and got arrested with someone in
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  SPEAKER_01: a vehicle who was arrested with mass quantities of drugs and charged
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  SPEAKER_01: with drug trafficking as was Halo's daughter Aspen
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  SPEAKER_01: husband didn't know
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  SPEAKER_01: the drugs were there she's autistic she's vegetarian she will not do well in
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  SPEAKER_01: a prison like this we need to find a way to get her out of all of this even
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  SPEAKER_01: the person driving the RV admitted he knew nothing about this and wasn't linked
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  SPEAKER_01: to it but they of course don't care about
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  SPEAKER_01: that they don't necessarily believe it we need to get expert witnesses and experts
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  SPEAKER_01: to testify that
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  SPEAKER_01: she had no knowledge and that this prison system could be a death sentence
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  SPEAKER_01: for her again dissent in bloom wrote a great article
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  SPEAKER_01: about her story last year you can read this again
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  SPEAKER_01: at her link tree linktr.ee slash justice and the number 4 aspen so yeah what
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  SPEAKER_01: what a mess please so support Aspen if you can finally again and then Aspen
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  SPEAKER_01: of course has a GoFundMe which I've asked for her for her mom
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  SPEAKER_01: to up it looks like she hasn't upped it yet I think she said she just doesn't want
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  SPEAKER_01: to jinx it
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  SPEAKER_01: that things have just been kind of quiet but I don't think
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  SPEAKER_01: that that's really I don't know I'll talk to her about that but I think that we need
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  SPEAKER_01: to up it so that people know that we still have a goal to get to there and I think
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  SPEAKER_01: that the donations have stopped because it looks like they've hit their goal
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  SPEAKER_01: but they haven't they're going to need a lot more money
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  SPEAKER_01: to fund this defense
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  SPEAKER_01: okay next we're going to talk about Shanda of course
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  SPEAKER_01: our beloved Shanna Masta rest in power
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  SPEAKER_01: we watched and talked about her struggle
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  SPEAKER_01: and her battle through small cell lung cancer and then her subsequent spreading of
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  SPEAKER_01: that cancer throughout and she lost that battle in April it's been more
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  SPEAKER_01: than three months now and we're still kind of
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  SPEAKER_01: trying to figure out trying to deal with all that and
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  SPEAKER_01: I created a merch store or more merch items,
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  SPEAKER_01: a section in our merch store for putting the Shandamasta fuck cancer
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  SPEAKER_01: collection.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the shop.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've actually added that to her indie media awards page,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I updated this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Added a photo of the sweatshirt,
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  SPEAKER_01: the hoodie sweatshift that Oz bought and the t-shirt.
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  SPEAKER_01: And
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  SPEAKER_01: and what a loss still and again hopefully odds is planning on doing
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  SPEAKER_01: a live stream next Saturday night the 11th there's some surprises
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  SPEAKER_01: in store I'm looking forward to seeing that again if you want to go to
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  SPEAKER_01: the indie news shop and order yourself a t-shirt or a hoodie or a tank top place
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  SPEAKER_01: to do that is here you can go to indienewsnow.com
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  SPEAKER_01: and you can click on the merch link and get there or I'll drop a link in all
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  SPEAKER_01: the chats any of the profits will be given to Shanda's family or to
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  SPEAKER_01: a cancer charity one other thing I wanted to note everyone who's known INN
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  SPEAKER_01: and been around INN for a long time knows Yeti Jesus our friend Yeti
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  SPEAKER_01: well yeti i don't know if many of you know was actually the recipient of
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  SPEAKER_01: a heart transplant back in the 90s he was one of the first
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  SPEAKER_01: and it was like all written up in newspapers and stuff back
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  SPEAKER_01: then well he was apparently on the list for years to get a new donor heart
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  SPEAKER_01: and this week they got the call and he had heart replacement surgery so he's got
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  SPEAKER_01: a new ticker now that's our brother yeti
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  SPEAKER_01: so shout out to Yeti for going through literally he's got a new heart
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  SPEAKER_01: in there new ticker new lease on life and we love you man and get well soon
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  SPEAKER_01: and it's pretty wild yeah how about that cookies
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  SPEAKER_01: but he's doing great and I've been staying in touch with his wife Shauna throughout
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  SPEAKER_01: the entire four days she was like a rock and a champ and keeping us all updated
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  SPEAKER_01: and now Yeti's on the mend on his way back so yeah good for Yeti and he's got
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  SPEAKER_01: a new ticker and hopefully he'll be alright for
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  SPEAKER_01: a long time support independent media because we need it more than ever
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  SPEAKER_01: and you know what to do
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place it's not what you want me
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  SPEAKER_00: to say you prove it's possible to sleep for days
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  SPEAKER_00: and I still think you're right here awake 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 were safe were you safe were you safe