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Friends, keep in mind this advice from the Lone Ranger. Champions are made, not born. Get on your way with Wheaties, breakfast of champions! With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful mask rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the Great Horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again! Let's go big fella! Henry Burke, a prosperous looking man of middle age, went to the frontier town of Greenville as the representative of an eastern syndicate. After several weeks of quiet operations, he made the acquaintance of two hard-faced men who were willing to do practically anything for a price. Burke met Matt and Jed in the Greenville Cafe and outlined his desires. And I'm willing to pay each of you $50 for a job that shouldn't take more than one day. What's the job, Mr. Burke? I want you to move the boundary markers on the eastern side of Balanced Rock Mountain. From here that's the far side facing the bad land. Yes. You see that side of the mountain is owned by just two men. The northern part is owned by someone named Gibson. Who owns the southern part? I do. I bought it a few days ago. The dividing line is marked by a row of posts driven into the ground at 50-foot intervals from the top of the mountain to the base. I want those posts moved about 200 feet to the north. And some of Gibson's land will be on your side of the boundary. Gibson might gun anyone who tries to steal his land. No one around here has ever seen Gibson. He inherited the land. I doubt that he's ever looked at it. Why do you want more of that wordless land? That needn't concern you, Jed. We'll start moving the post tomorrow morning and see you the next day to collect. Jed and Matt left Greenville early the following morning and rode to the top of Balanced Rock Mountain, named for a huge boulder that seemed to be precariously balanced on the crest. They grew rain and dismounted beside a white post several feet in height. But don't know it yet, but he's going to pay us a lot more than $50. For what? For keeping our mouths shut. Let me tell you something. Remember the men who were working out at Greenville a couple of weeks ago? Yeah. Those men were surveyors working for the railroad. When I heard that, I did some snooping and learned what Burke is planning. Yeah? You see, the railroad is going to lay tracks across the Badlands. You'll go through a tunnel to Greenville and continue west. A tunnel? Yeah, right through this mountain. Burke represents an eastern syndicate. He's been getting options and all the land the railroad has to buy to build the tunnel. So that's it. The syndicate will buy the land, then sell it to the railroad at a fancy price. That's how I figure it. But Burke said he bought the land next to the Gibson property. He did. The tunnel is to go through Gibson's land. But after the boundary line has moved, it'll appear to be Burke's property. So Burke will sell it to the railroad. He saw the double cross in the syndicate that sent him here. Yeah. He's trying to put over a slick deal for himself. And he'll get away with it, unless we talk. He'll have to pay plenty to keep us quiet. Now let's get to work. Hey, Matt. There's a man at the foot of the mountain. We can't let him see us move in the post. No, we'll chase him away. He's it.   Barnaby Boggs, the man at the foot of the mountain, had been a rainmaker and peddler of worthless medicines until the lone ranger became a friend and influenced him to earn an honest living. He was at present a photographer and he crouched beneath the black hood of a camera set on a tripod. He didn't notice the men who rolled toward him until...  Hey, you. Who are you and what are you doing? Hey, I'm... Oh, Boggs is the name. Barnaby Boggs. My name is Leonard Ornmawagen there. Also my profession. I'm a photographer. Easy. Is that like a surveyor? Not no. I've seen surveyors and they have an outfit set on a tripod like that. Whatever you are, clear out. You're on private property. All right, all right. Needn't hold a gun on me. I'll put this out for the board, you wagon. Careful, you'll break my camera. You're loaded. Yes, yes. Maybe this will spate you. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going. Yes, yes. Fightin' by slaps and gunshots, raced away from the base of the mountain and continued over a small rise into a valley. Boggs hung to the seat of the wagon, knowing that it might overturn at any instant, and it shall seem to add to the panic of the team. And then, Boggs heard a familiar shout. He looked to his left. Great thing. The lone ranger. A masked man on his great horse silver was approaching at an angle. Presently, he raced alongside the horses. Hang on, Boggs. Clutching the reins and the pommel of his saddle in one hand, the lone ranger leaned far to one side and picked up the driving reins of the runaway horses. Then he straightened in the saddle. There, you've got him under control there. Stop him. Pardon me. Are you all right? I was scared half to death, but I'm all right now. Safe to life, you sure came at the right time. This is once more I owe my life to you. I'm glad I saw the runaway. You had better get down from the seat. Looked the wagon over to make sure nothing's broken.  I'll help you. Say, isn't that Tonto right in his way? Yes. Dan Reed is with him. Tonto, Dan Reed. Hi there. Oh, Bobby. How are you doing here? Oh, see the sign on my wagon?  You must be one of the first photographers in this part of the country. Yeah, I reckon so. I read about it in St. East for a camera and equipment. I made some fair to Midland pictures and showed them to Mr. Horace Greeley when he came into my store during his western trip. You've probably heard of Horace Greeley. Yes, of course. He publishes the New York Tribune. Yeah, well, he liked my work. Said he wanted to buy photographs that would show the scenic splendors of the glorious west. Oh. I saw the chance to escape from the humdrum life of a storekeeper. So I sold my store, bought more equipment, and set out to make pictures for Mr. Greeley. Oh. Boggs told of his recent experiences as a photographer, including the incident at the foot of the mountain. Dan Reed, the Lone Ranger's nephew, was particularly interested. You've certainly chosen an interesting business. It sure is, Dan. Wish I had time to tell you more about it, but I've got to get going. Where are you going next, Barnaby? I'm going to make some pictures of Rocky Canyon. I want to get them done in time to send them to Mr. Greeley in the next batch. Rocky Canyon isn't far from here. I tried. We're planning to camp near Greenville for a few days to rest our horses. We may see you again. Good, good. I'll spend one or two days at Rocky Canyon. Then I'll go to Greenville to mail them pictures. I'll wait there until I hear from you. Ho, ho, Mr. Ho boy, ho, steady boy. Two days later, Dan Reed rode into Greenville in the morning to purchase supplies and also to find out if Barnaby Boggs had arrived. When he entered the general store, he found the proprietor who was also postmaster sorting the mail. You expecting mail? No, no, I came to buy some groceries. Ah, well, you in a hurry? Not at all. I'd like to finish sorting the mail. Go right ahead, I'll wait. Morning, Sam. Morning, Mr. Berg. Do you have a mail for me? I don't know yet, Mr. Berg. I'm sorting it out. I'll keep right at it. This young gent said he didn't mind waiting to buy his vitals. Oh, by the way, has a man named Barnaby Boggs been here? Well, I don't regularly see a name. Well, I've heard the name. What does Barnaby Boggs do? He's a photographer. A photographer? Yes, he's a good friend of mine. What does he do with the photographs? Oh, he sends them to Horace Greeley in New York. I think Mr. Greeley plans to publish some of them. Well, Sam, I just remembered an error, and I'll return later for my mail. All right, Mr. Berg. We'll continue our lone ranger adventure in just a moment. Cowboy Tom is a boy of six. He knows all kinds of cowboy tricks. He can rope a steer because he knows. He's got go-power from Cheerios. Yes, he's got go-power. There he goes. Cheerios. Cheerios. You bet. Cheerios. The oat cereal that needs no cooking. Every delicious spoonful of Cheerios and milk is real muscle-building food. Each spoonful contains vitamins, minerals, and proteins your body needs. Yes, the good things in a Cheerios breakfast do good things for your body. Help you have healthy nerves, good red blood, strong bones, and muscles. And besides giving you go-power, Cheerios is downright wonderful tasting. That toasted oat flavor is really something. And when you add milk in your favorite fruit, say some sliced bananas, you're in for a delicious breakfast treat. Get the whole family off to a good start every morning with Cheerios. Then you'll hear people saying... He's feeling his Cheerios. Now to continue. When Burke heard that Barnaby Boggs was a photographer, he hurried to the cafe and approached the table where Matt and Jed were playing cards. Hi, Mr. Burke. Sit down. Yes. Did you decide to pay us a thousand dollars? Or do we tell what we know about your deal? Fool, there may not be a deal. You told me about a man named Boggs and you said he was a surveyor. That's what we thought. He denied it, but he had an outfit on the tripod. That was a camera. He's a photographer. That's the word he used. He took a picture of that mountain and before the posts were moved. What's more, the picture may be printed in Horace Greeley's newspaper. It'll probably be seen by railroad officials who wonder why they bought the land for the tunnel from me. That'll mean an investigation. Maybe nothing can be proved. Well, I can't count on that. We'll have to move the boundary back and call off the deal. Unless you get that picture away from Boggs. Where are we finding him? There's a friend of his in the general store right now. Probably knows where Boggs is working. We'll see what we can do. Wait, one thing more. Getting the photograph of the mountain is not enough. You must also get the negative. The glass plate from which the picture was made. What? Oh, I'll explain what I... Jed and Matt listened attentively and a few minutes later left the cafe. Meanwhile, Dan Reed completed his purchases. Standing beside his horse behind the store, he fastened his heavily loaded saddlebags. It was about to mark when he saw two men approaching. One of them spoke. Hey there. You happen to know a gent named Barnaby Boggs? Yes. Why? Any idea where he's working right now? He planned to make pictures of Rocky Canyon. You might find him there. Did Mr. Burt tell you I knew Barnaby Boggs? Why do you ask that? I just wondered how you knew that Mr. Boggs and I are friends. Mr. Burke and the storekeeper are the only ones in town who know. This young gent is smart. He might talk about Burke and us after things happen to Boggs. You're right. What do you mean? What's going to happen to Barnaby Boggs? Don't move. Knife. It's close against your ribs. You're going with us, but first I'm taking your gun. Not without a fight, man! Dan moved fast in self defense as caught by the lone ranger. He slapped aside the knife as he leaped back and reached for the gun to the father which he carried. I've got it. But before it could draw, he was gripped by Jed in a bear-like hug that held his arms to his sides. Help me! Right! I've got a gun. Now take it easy young fellow. Now clutch on the hip. Stop! You're not going to gain anything by being knocked out. Dan realized the futility of further struggle. Disarmed and with his hands tied, he rolled between Matt and Jed away from town. Get up there! Come on, Victor! After a long wait in the nearby Woodland camp, the lone ranger sent Toto to learn why Dan had been gone so long. When he saw the Indian returning at a speed that indicated trouble, he leaped to his feet. Oh, scum! Easy scum! Easy scum! Toto, where's Dan? Let me talk while you saddle Silver. Here's the saddle blanket. I've got the saddle. What about Dan? When we see tracks of Dan's horse in your hitch rail, boot marks show two men talk to Dan. They're signs of fight. Plenty scuffle marks. While helping the mask man saddle the great horse Silver, Toto told what he had learned by examining the marks on the ground near the hitch rail. He finished by summarizing. You think Dan captured? Put on horse, taken away by two men. All right, we'll follow the trail. Easy scum! Easy scum! Come on! One of the bogged red wagons stood close to the edge of Rocky Canyon and the horses grazed nearby. Boggs was busy with his camera when he heard horses approaching. He saw Dan Reed riding between the two men who had chased him away from Balanced Rock Mountain, but didn't notice that Dan's hands were tied. Oh, no! It's a quits! It's a life, Dan! Are these men your friends? No! A gun! Great day now! What's wrong? This is not Dan and stand next to Boggs. What? Dad, you keep them both covered while I tie Boggs' hands. The hands of Dan and Boggs were tightly bound and Jed stood guard with a drawn gun while Matt climbed into the big red wagon. Dan, what in tarnation does this mean? What's that critter doing in my wagon? He's looking for a picture you made the other day before you were chased away from Balanced Rock Mountain. But why? Do you know? Yes. They were talking about it on the way here. I found the picture, Jed. And it's a good thing we got it. The posts show up mighty clear. What about that glass plate it was made from? I got that too. I'll burn up this picture right now and take the glass plate back to show to Mr. Burke. What about Boggs and Dan? They're gonna have a fatal accident. Huh? See how the ground slopes a bit toward the canyon? Yeah? Yeah. The picture's burned. Go on, you two. Get inside the wagon. Why are you... You're going to murder us. It'll look like an accident, Boggs. It'll appear that you didn't bother to block the wheels because you thought the brake would hold, but the brake slipped. Savvy? Wait, listen now. You know too much. Get aboard. Climb over the seat and go on back. I'll watch him, Jed, while you roll the stones away from the front wheels. Then I'll release the brake and jump. Right. Before Jed could reach the front of the wagon and roll away the rocks that blocked the wheels, a shock rang out. What's that? Boggs, did you hear that? Who managed to come and shoot him? I'm going to... The Lone Ranger had fired the first shot as a warning, but when Jed returned the fire, he aimed a wound. No, I'm hit. My leg. It's the Lone Ranger. We're safe. Don't clear it out. I'll kill him. Scrawled on the ground with a bullet wound in the cap of his leg, Jed fired again. His shots went wild, but the masked man's aim was true. No! A silver bullet brushed Jed's arm, and in the meantime, Matt leaped to the ground. The wagon was between him and the oncoming Lone Ranger and Tonto. They didn't see the outlaw until he reached his horse and rolled away. Yes, yes, yes. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Watch that man on the ground, Tonto. Don't shoot me again. I'm already hit twice. One of the crooks is escaping. There, Dan, on wagon. Dan, you all right? Yes, sir. We're both all right, but our hands are tied. I'll release them. You lose time. The man's escaping. It'll only take a minute to find out. Those crooks were going to kill us. Yes.  Oh, what? The negative of a picture, I mean. It proves that a boundary line was moved into a land swindle. Henry Burke hired the crooks to do it. Sir, Dan, your hands are free. I'll leave the knife. You free Barnaby. Right. I sure hope you get that crook. I'll do my best. Oh, and the glass plate. Easy city, big boy. One, two, three. Matt had a head start, but his horse was no match for the dazzling speed of the great horse, Silver. He turned in the saddle and saw the masked man in pursuit. Get up, get up, Matt. He spurred his horse, but Silver continued to gain. Presently, he drew his gun. Riding at that speed, there was scant hope of a bullet hitting the mark, but Matt fired in desperation. By the time his gun was empty, he could hear the white stallions thundering hoofbeats. Get up, get up, sir. Rain in the low roof. You'll never get me alive. As Silver closed the gap, the Lone Ranger's larry had snaked out. The loop dropped over Matt's shoulders and tightened around his chest. As the masked man reigned in sharply. Hey, hey. Pulled from the saddle, Matt hit the ground hard. The Lone Ranger quickly dismounted and drew a gun. Stay right here on the ground. Are you hurt? I guess not. But you, that masked... Someday you may know what it means. Where's the photographic plate you stole from Boggs? What good is it to you? That glass plate is proof that a boundary line was moved to steel land. Hand it over and don't try to break it. It's here, my pocket. And it's already broken. I fell on it. It's in a million pieces. Here's what's left of your proof, mister. Now what'll you do? I'll tie your hands and you'll see I'll tie your hands and turn you and Jed over to the law. When the Lone Ranger reached the edge of the canyon with his prisoner, he found his friends beside the red wagon with Jed, whose wounds had been dressed by Tonto. Then told what he knew about the attempted land swindle and finished by saying, Now both of the crooks will go to jail and work along with them. We'll turn these men over to the law. It may be hard to prove that the boundary line was moved. I thought the photograph proved that, sir. And Burke must have thought so, too. He sent these men to get it. What photograph? Dan, you said this man burned the picture. Oh, yes, sir. But any number of pictures can be made from the glass. Negative. That's broken, Dan. Shattered. Barnaby Boggs grinned as he looked at the Lone Ranger. He reached into the wagon and brought out a finished photograph. Is this the picture you're talking about? Well, where's who gets it? You saw me take it from my wagon. But I burned you burned one print, but this picture is one of my best. So I printed a lot of extra copies to sell.  Barnaby, may I have that picture? You're welcome to it. I'll take you to the sheriff and explain what was done. You'll want to jail Henry Burke before he comes here with me to take charge of Jed and Matt. He just said a big film. I'll be back. We'll wait right here. Come on, silly. Good thing I made copies of that picture. Hey, Dan? Right. Want for the sheriff? And I'll send a copy to Mr. Greeley and the railroad company and Mr. Gibson, who doggone near lost the chance to sell land to the railroad. I'd like one, too, Mr. Boggs. Yes, sure, E. Dan. I'll give one to you and one to the Lone Ranger. Used by Kendall Campbell Muir, Incorporated. A part of the Lone Ranger is played by Brace Beamer, your announcer, Fred Boy. Listen to the Lone Ranger brought to you by Special Recording Mondays through Fridays at this same time.


Nancy Jeske, campaign coordinator for the United Way of Sheboygan County. New name, new campaign, 2012, here we are. And I have with me three guests. I have our campaign chairs, Adam Peene, Sheboygan County Administrator, Todd Miller, Shank Exac, and Anne Wundergem, project manager with the United Way. That new name has been quite the feature for the beginning of this campaign. And I think it's got us all really in high gear to get this campaign rolling and going. You fellas did such a great job at the kickoff. Adam, what were those three words you told us at that campaign kickoff that just echoed? To every wall. Thank goodness I remember. We are family. Right. We are family. It's a wonderful, wonderful theme and it's really I think what Todd and I have appreciated more than ever by having the honor of co-chairing the campaign this year because there's so many people involved with United Way and it's what makes it so successful. Todd, why do you think we chose that theme? We are family. Not last year, but this year for some reason it really has new meaning. Well, it worked awfully well last year and we certainly expected to work equally as well this year. When I look at the definition of family, I tend to define things in terms of numbers. And the way I look at we are family is we are family consists of 4,600 people volunteering over 170,000 hours last year towards a very successful campaign. There were over 4,000 or I'm sorry 9,000 donors last year that contributed towards the very successful campaign that we expect to repeat this year. And we do expect to repeat it. And with you guys out there leading the charge, I think we have a pretty good shot. But I want to get back to that new name. The other thing that made our family so complete was the fact that Sheboygan Falls United Way has joined us this year. And that gives us a complete east to west county to work with. A wonderful opportunity. They've been cooperative friends for as long as I've been with the United Way. And we've all been around for a long time. So we have new territory. But again, it's like welcoming new members of a family. So that does have new meaning for us this year as well. But do you have more than we are family going for? You've got a campaign cabinet with 45 members. Would you like to tell us a little bit about the structure of that campaign cabinet and how you can depend on it to get you through? We're very fortunate to have a very solid and complete cabinet. As you just stated, we have in addition to myself and my wife Linda and Adam and his wife Chris as campaign chairman. We do have over 40 campaign cabinet volunteers that have committed significant amounts of time towards the successful campaign. And I believe behind them there are literally hundreds of other individuals that help support the campaign cabinet all working together as a family to make this campaign successful. Again, volunteer is the word. They're all busy people. They're all busy people. Everyone on the campaign is a very busy person and as you know we tend to see a lot of the same good people step up year after year and we can't thank them enough but Todd hit it on the head. Our campaign cabinet is strong. They're experienced. We have some new people with fresh ideas but overall between the campaign members, the volunteers, the staff at United Way, U2 included, we have such a strong team in place and it's just a pleasure to be a part of. I mean Todd and I didn't know each other that well at all prior to this opportunity and we've gotten to get to know one another better and obviously the people involved and not only do you know you're helping your community be successful, you're helping people out there with great needs but along the way you meet so many wonderful people and you gain such appreciation for those that are every day committing their lives to helping others be successful or get the helping hand they need to get back on track. So it's just wonderful to be a part of. The one thing that I do know is that two-thirds of your cabinet is returning and many of them have been around on that cabinet for six or seven years so I think they are enjoying what they're doing and obviously the results show and we do have a goal set this year which I know you worked very hard to agree upon and come about. Would you like to discuss that goal? Sure. After much discussion and based on last year's very successful campaign of raising $2.4 million we established this year's campaign goal to be $2.5 million and together we are going to make that happen. That's roughly a two percent increase over the prior campaign but we believe that the spirit and the enthusiasm is out there to make that goal occur. I know that your spirit is in it but you had to have spirit coming in in order to agree to the task of being co-chairs. What finally pushed you over that edge to say yes that you would co-chair the campaign? For me personally it was kind of a gradual decision in that I've had the pleasure of being on the board of directors for United Way now for four years or so and I've been involved with the campaign cabinet I think for seven or eight years. I think Nancy you were the person who recruited me years ago so when I was asked to co-chair this with Todd I was flattered by the request I thought that it was an opportunity to step up and provided additional leadership but more importantly just to continue working with wonderful people we have such a good team in place so for me it was kind of a natural evolution to have this opportunity and then also the more time you spend with United Way you gain a greater appreciation for the needs in this community. I mean there's a lot of good people in this community with good jobs that may not be aware that at Safe Harbor they serve 3922 people last year because of domestic abuse they may not be aware that there's hundreds of runaway teenagers they certainly aren't aware of the needs for mental illness or people in crisis every now and then someone may talk to someone or hear about something in the paper but on I think until you get more involved and meet with the agencies the United Way affiliated agencies or the good work good people again dedicating their lives to helping others you just don't know so it's it's incredible to be part of this organization if people aren't if they haven't gotten involved we certainly encourage them to do so all they have to do is contact one of you at United Way or anyone on the cabinet and they'll get the information they need but if you haven't been part of it before you you again you develop this ongoing understanding of the needs in this community and how we can be part of helping people and making it an even better community.  Well I was equally as flattered to be asked because I know there's many capable candidates out there for this task probably what pushed me over the edge is the fact that myself and my wife Linda are both from Sheboygan County we grew up in this area spent most of our lives here we raised our family here our three children grew up in Sheboygan County Sheboygan County is a great place to live work play and raise a family and the United Way and its agencies really make the county to be a great place the United Way agencies solve problems and address needs that most people in this community really don't even realize exist they do that with love and compassion and without a great deal of gratitude are there with lots of gratitude for those that are receiving the need the services and talking about those services and wonder Jim our project manager has really given us two marvelous projects to be working on and would you like to tell us a little bit about what you have put on the plate for Adam and Todd to feature? Well thank you for talking about the plate one of the projects that I really have the privilege of working on is called the food for tomorrow initiative and I know Adam you're somewhat familiar with it being on the board but a number of years ago there was a belief that Sheboygan County could benefit from a study done on the food system and how it meets the needs of people who might be struggling to meet their food security needs we don't call it hunger anymore we call it food security and part of that was looking at how the pantries meet those needs other feeding programs meet those needs and in the broader context we have a number of businesses in the community that produce food cheese sausage that many times have food that they can donate and how can we improve that donation system and storage system so part of my role at United Way was to really conduct an assessment and looking at the users of the food system as well as people who might donate to that food system including businesses and put together a business plan for United Way and that business plan was put together in 2010 and it really was based on building blocks and many of you remember the pyramid that used to be the food pyramid now you have the food plate so that's when Nancy talked about the plate what was nice about that business plan is you could take one of those blocks and do something with it but you could also form the entire pyramid so we could look at when funding became available mix and match and really do some unique things and the one event I want to mention that I think you're both familiar with was the animal meat sale at the county fair two years ago through an employee at one of our local businesses somebody suggested that maybe people bidding on those animals would like to donate an animal to the food bank and we in our third year now we received just one extra hog the other day so we have five hogs one cow and two lambs that were donated and are being harvested and that meat will then be shared with the the pantries to give to the consumers of their services so just some unique things have come out of that food for tomorrow plan and one of the other neat things that we have uncovered is the need for our food pantries which are constantly empty so that has been an ongoing part of our campaigns the food drives and Anne could you shed a little light on that this year absolutely as part of the campaign and I know when you're out talking to your volunteers and also the businesses that you meet and Nan also goes out to see is we're encouraging those businesses to do food drives as part of their campaign I brought a sheet of paper along and I know that everybody will be able to see it but we offer a resource to our businesses and what we're really focusing on is healthier foods I don't know what you have for breakfast but I know I've been trying to eat healthier and when you think about people going to a pantry and what people typically donate to a pantry it might not always be something that's as healthy so we develop this in terms of protein foods grain foods looking at healthier options and then also when you donate think about a family of four and donate maybe what would be a breakfast for a family of four so it could be oatmeal with evaporated milk some applesauce 100 fruit juice in a plastic container really recommending no glass that type of thing always look at the expiration dates a lot of times things that get donated are beyond their expiration date which makes it very difficult to use this year the Rotary Clubs are coming across with an initiative and I think you're a Rotarian Adam I'm not sure Todd if you are or not but making spirits bright will be a light display show that they're looking at putting on and the entrance fee will be a donation of some canned goods or food products so again there's just a tons of number of ways that people can get involved one of the companies last year did the September apple drive and asked employees to bring in a bag of apples and those went to the pantries again looking at how can we help people that use pantries have options of healthier foods to eat because of the health problems we all face in terms of not only our calorie intake but our food choices and if you've never been to a pantry I invite you to come out with me some time and and see what a tremendous job they do in trying to meet special health needs of the population and our pantry users our children elderly singles and families and it just really supplements them and being able to meet their basic needs for rent utilities and other expenses now I know that the two of you are very aware of the food issues in the community but I know that the two of you also set about going to visit agencies to see firsthand what our agencies are dealing with and what programs are dealing with just so that you both could become more familiar with the true needs in this community would you like to share with us some of those observations that really really got to you sure we spent two and a half days visiting various united way agencies and seeing firsthand how hard they work for the benefit of their agency we came away with a number of adjectives to describe our experience I would call so use some of those adjectives as sobering enlightening interesting eye-opening humbling but one of the adjectives I'd use is proud or pride it's amazing how hard the executive directors of these agencies work for their agencies to make them successful certainly we saw many many interesting things and learned many interesting interesting facts about agencies for example big brothers big sisters has a simple program called the lunch buddies program that allows a person to spend as little as one hour a week with a lunch buddy doing just that having lunch with their with their school age friend talking and spending time with that person and getting to know them and through testing afterwards that agency has learned that 75 percent of those kids experience increased levels of self-confidence I thought that was interesting very good Adam what struck you well again it was such an eye-opening somber experience for both of us and I thought the adjectives that Todd expressed were dead on a couple of them that really come to mind Lutheran social services there we talked about you know again a lot of runaway situations and having two teenage daughters that was touching for me because you just can only imagine how trying that must be on the family and those individuals so so glad that that support group is there we went to the Salvation Army in a beautiful addition there what a what a wonderful contribution by this community again team or collaboration to put that addition on so we went through that beautiful addition together but you walk into that room and see a whole family using one room for a month or more and you quickly understand the difference between wants and needs and thank goodness the Salvation Army is there we went to Bridgeway met with Kristen Blanchard and I was so touched by that visit in particular because she's someone who puts her heart and soul into helping others it's a career choice for her and she talked about you know working with single mothers who are striving to hang on to their children you know just tough times perhaps just got out of a correctional facility have no support group no family no real friends they can rely on that are going to help them fact their friends might help them go the other direction so if you're going to be part of the Bridgeway program you sign an extensive contract with more requirements than any of us would ever want to agree to it's it's very rigid a very thoughtful process to help someone again get back on their feet and she shared experiences from time to time of having to break up a domestic fight between a mother and a daughter and being Kristen being a smaller individual would I couldn't imagine being involved with breaking up a fight and going home with bruises or a bite mark on her and as Todd and I discussed even our worst days never that bad and then finally safe harbor as I mentioned earlier when you learn and hear the statistic of 3922 nights nights and care for people who have suffered because of domestic violence you can't help but be touched by that and thankful for a place like safe harbor so we're so fortunate in this community to have wonderful programs in place association like united way that's helping provide the resources for these affiliate agencies to provide the support and again we are family if we aren't all working together if we aren't all doing what we can providing the resources to help people like Kristen and others provide those much needed services it doesn't get done it just doesn't get done so thankfully as Todd mentioned we're proud to be part of a team that's had a great track record in the past and and we're looking forward to having a real successful campaign this year as well well you are men on a mission and I was with you at salvation armies visit that we made and I remember you asking what was to them the deepest need in this community do you remember what major health strum answered you it's going to be a perfect segue to and wonder Jim health care ah yes yes and and that leads us to another initiative that you were deep into yes on behalf of united way and six years ago united way said we have a need in the community and we want to assess that need and the need was have for health care and based on that assessment uh $20,000 of seed money was given by united way to healthy sheboygan county 2010 and that was part of the sheboygan county health and human services department in terms of community planning it took six years and six years of hard work and planning partnerships I think we talked about teamwork but partnerships is another good example um coming on board with that initiative was over a health care st nicolas hospital most recently prevea the acuity foundation just a number of community partners and organizations that said we need to do something to help people address their unmet health care needs we have um over 18,000 individuals in sheboygan county as of july that are on medical assistance badger care almost 8,000 of those are children they have unmet needs for dental care up until january of this year we did not really have a place for those children to go to seek dental services other than milwaukee or green bay so after six years of planning in june I was really happy to announce on behalf of the lakeshore community health center that they had received a federal grant of $650,000 so when you look at the $20,000 of seed money that united weight provided some additional funding from or a health care st nicolas hospital the acuity foundation tons of volunteer hours as you've talked about with their other organizations I guess we can proudly say on behalf of lakeshore community health center we will have an integrated medical home for families that have unmet health needs the health center I know you both had I believe an opportunity to visit the the physical location will provide primary and preventative health care so immunizations well child visits basic annual physicals that some people have not been able to access the dental care we have been operating since january first and have seen 900 people keeping in mind that january through may was one day a week and it only went to four days a week beginning in june so by the end of july 900 people had their dental care met I have to share one quick story before I let you ask another question Nancy jack waters who is now the executive director of the lakeshore community health center and I were talking the other day and he said you know I can look in the x-ray and I can't tell you what that x-ray is telling me but the dentist was explaining in this x-ray what it meant and said if we don't get this individual to an oral surgeon to have all his teeth extracted he's going to die it's that infected you know when you think about that we need to come up with a little bit of money to help that payment for the oral surgeon but that makes a big difference Kristen who you talked about at sheboydon county interfaith had a mother who had all her teeth extracted she's no longer on high blood pressure medication she has her dentures she's able to work she's got a job so we'll be providing the lakeshore community health center will be providing that primary health care dental care and down the road a little bit mental health services we have a location and I will say it on the air it's 1931 north a street two medical exam rooms six dental operatories and before we leave the program I did write down the phone number so I can share it if people want to call for services but again teamwork partnership working to address the needs identified in the community supported by our other medical providers in the community so just a new tremendous resource that are part of your campaign this year is it safe to conclude that the 900 people that's received dental care the first half the year wouldn't have received that care without that clinic correct that's absolutely correct that's terrific and I would like to point out that this is not a free clinic payment is made on a sliding scale fee and that is taken into consideration as our emergencies so it's patients since 2006 this community through unitedway has been working and collaborating to wait for this great day that we can say here it is and you guys have this to work with and just saying what you know following up on what you said with the sliding scale I was there one morning and a gentleman came in and he had his $5 payment and he was talking to the receptionist and he said my wife needed emergency dental care and I'm making the final payment on our copayment for that service and the receptionist was thanking him he says no you don't understand my children need dental care and I wouldn't feel comfortable asking for them to receive services until I paid my payment so definitely people appreciate what's being provided and are willing to pay what they can based on the resources they have available so how do these programs that Ann has been working on figure into ways that you feel you can make the plea to the community for a successful campaign well the examples you just shared you know when we both walk through that new clinic when you think of your your own family or your personal situation where you have a toothache you can't get to the dentist quick enough because if you're in pain I mean it's difficult to work it's difficult to interact with your family it's difficult to have a nice evening with your spouse I mean life is not good until you do something about that to think that there are people in this community that don't have any other resources or the means to get to get that help and so they're walking around with a toothache that ultimately becomes a full extraction in some cases I mean extreme but in some cases but to imagine people walking around in this community for days weeks months not getting the dental care that they need or getting that painful situation resolved uh Ann and some of the other folks we talked to previously talked about people who have never gone in for a checkup ever ever have gone in to have their dent of their teeth examined and you know can you imagine I mean in our in the average household that just you can't imagine that so this clinic is wonderful and the staff at united way and certainly had a strong leadership role you all did and at our health and human services department but when you hear those stories you again very quickly appreciate how fortunate we are to have people striving to accomplish these types of opportunities that help people in our community we also had a program this summer called the summer lunch program and did our summer on a very successful note and something that we will get back to again next summer but is part of our food for tomorrow initiative so can't help but mention all the volunteers that made that possible and that was a partnership again with the other initiative our volunteer center so you know when you look at the programs you talked about bridgeway working with safe harbor shabuagan county interfaith which works with bridgeway is involved in the summer lunch program it really is a family i sometimes spend more time i think lately with some of my partner agencies such as christin and other people than i do with my spouse just because it i guess it's a passion but it takes on a life of its own right and it's not it we have a conservative community i think that's fair to say where we're a conservative county as a whole but but people have generous hearts and in history is shown folks step up here and help one another and when you hear these types of stories are you aware of these situations frankly it's not difficult for me and i think the people involved with this campaign to ask people to do what they can to help and so we certainly that's that's why we're here today not only to raise awareness about what's in play but also the need for folks who are watching this program and living in this community to please do what you can to help and be part of this family and be part of the successful track record people need you and that is our message and we thank you all for being with us and anyone who wishes to donate to united way give our office a call<PHONE_NUMBER> and help these guys help this community be a better place to live work play and raise a family thank you all for coming


A Vogue Spousal chapter for the 11 o'clock Tiger Financial News Network Market Update. I just finished my Tiger Technicians out. There should be great programming. The rest of the day, you've got Steve Rhodes coming up and recorded at 8 o'clock and replayed. And then you've got, you've got Thinkorswim. You've got Larry Persevento, Dave White, and Tom O'Brien wraps us up. And Tommy O'Brien starts us off at 9 o'clock. So the dial is down 246-337-553. This is why this is kind of important. This is the first time you've had three consecutive down sessions, basically, just candle-wise, since the high that was made. And we haven't done that since the low that was made at 30,143 back in mid-July. So I'm taking this seriously, because it's also an alternative count, which suggests we might be making some kind of a shorter-term top, and that could lead into weakness next week. That's kind of what I'm thinking. SPX right now, the S&P is trading down 51 at 42.32, kind of at the low of the day under the nine-period moving average. There again, this is the third session since the high that was made at 43.25. And now we're down at the 42.32 level, looking at the QQQ. So that's down 1.2 percent. And the S&P, the Qs are down 1.89 percent at 323.07, down 6.19. This is a deeper pullback. On the 14-period moving average, watching this one closely, because the Qs kind of in a way has strengthened the way up. But now we're going to see how does it react on the way down? IWM, the Russell 2000, small caps trading right now at, oh, wrong one, IWM. Let me go check that out sometime. IWM for mother is at 194, down 4, down 2.09, more severe pullback, looking at gold. Gold is down 9 points at 17.62, as the dollar moves higher, the dollar's up 61 ticks at 108.09. Very strong move. I really like the action of the dollar here. Looking at crude oil, crude oil was about unchanged before, now it's up 14 cents. And if you're looking at the TLT, the TLT is just plummeted, meaning yields are going higher. TLT is down 2 at 112.85, not a good sign. If you're looking at yields, because yields are moving higher with the dollar, and that's kind of putting pressure on the market. So with that said, stay tuned, great programming coming up. Have a wonderful weekend. Check out my opening called Daily Newsletter, and thank you for being here, and oh, did I beat the music? I don't usually do that. Beat the music? Yes. No, VIX index. We'll do that as we're going out. VIX index is now up strongly at 21.06. If the VIX index goes over 21.38, the market will go low. Have a wonderful weekend. Have a wonderful day. Thank you. Thank you.


I can go ahead and do that unless you'd like to. Uh, well, I'll, I can start it off. Yeah. Okay, terrific. Okay, um, yeah, you know, I, I, um, this code pinks, uh, there was something that came across my, my vision and, uh, I, and I thought the one thing that grabbed my attention was the thriving thing, because thriving is located right downtown, thriving financial. And, and then to find out that thriving financial is heavily invested in the, and, uh, weapons industry, uh, that I said, well, uh, we have to get involved with it here. And we, and fortunately we have, uh, our veterans for peace group. We also have a woman against military madness that we work very, very closely with. In fact, I'm a member of land and I think Russia might be a member of that's for peace. So we're, we're kind of, we're kind of, uh, there's an ancestral relationship there in a good way. And, um, and so I thought, well, this is something that we, we, we need to get involved with. And then, then I, um, started a communication with you, Nancy. And, uh, so that, that was my link into it. And, and this is something that, um, you know, um, I think I'm, I'm preaching to the choir here, but, uh, uh, we all know that boycott in divest was an important, if not the most important part of bringing down the apartheid in South Africa. And, uh, we've seen with, uh, Black Lives Matter with, uh, uh, increased, uh, put such a scare into corporate America. You saw the, uh, the team, the football team from Washington with their, uh, the team president, uh, uh, Daniel Snyder for years denied. He just denied the fact that, uh, uh, that, that nickname for the team was a racial slur. And he was just, he just ignored people. But you know what, when FedEx and a couple of the corporate people, uh, sponsors decided to pull out because of the name. All of a sudden he was woke and he became an anti-racist. And, and it said, we can't have that name. It's racist. So sometimes, uh, and for corporate America to, uh, to grow unconscious, you have to kind of hit them where it hurts. Nancy, you can take over. Okay. Thank you so much, Dave.  It is the Divest from the War Machine boycott, boycott strategies and tools webinar. So if that's not why you're here, then, uh, maybe you're at the wrong Zoom room, but, uh, we'll teach you how to take action to reduce violent global conflicts and slow the hyper militarization of our world by divesting from the U.S. War Machine. The Divest from the War Machine, uh, webinar. We'll teach individual investors, um, and even yourself, um, how to take action. So maybe what we can do is go around, um, the room and have our featured speakers introduce themselves. And while they are doing that, maybe you all can drop, uh, in the chat, your name and where you are zooming in from and any affiliated organizations. So maybe what I can do is I can just, um, maybe we can start with Lucia. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Lucia Wilkes-Smith, and I am active in Minneapolis in an almost 40-year-old organization named Women Against Military Mandas. And there are men and women who are members, but the leadership is, is made up of women. Thank you. Welcome, everyone. Good evening. Welcome. Um, maybe we can hear from Cody. Sure. Hey, everyone. Good evening. Uh, my name is Cody. Um, I'm an organizer with Code Pink, which is like WAM, a woman-led anti-war, uh, organization. Um, I organize with the Divest from the War Machine campaign. So very happy to join you all tonight. Great. And maybe we could hear from, uh, from Carly. Thanks, Nancy. Hi, everyone. Really great to see you. Uh, my name is Carly Town. I'm also with Code Pink. And I'm very excited to talk to people about the Divest from the War Machine campaign today. Okay. And then we have, uh, one more member of our team. We have Mary Miller, who's actually behind the scenes right now. Um, this webinar, the technical aspects of it couldn't happen without her expertise. So we're lucky to have her, um, as she's, uh, moving you all into different rooms. And Mary, maybe you'd like to introduce yourself. Sure. Hi, everyone. My name is Mary. I've been with Code Pink for about eight months now. I do a few different jobs. I write and I work on social media. And if you tend to our Code Pink Congress events, you might recognize me because I also do a lot of work with them. And that is why I have so much Zoom expertise now. So I'm running your, your tech here. Thank you everyone for coming. Thank you, Mary. Um, so the way the, uh, we're going to format this, uh, tonight is we're going to hear from our panelists, our speakers. And then, um, we will go into, uh, breakout rooms. And the breakout rooms are rooms that you get to choose from, um, that you get to join instead of someone just randomly putting you into a room. We will have, uh, breakout rooms that address boycott, divestment and sanctions. We will have another breakout room, uh, titled, uh, city-based organizing against the war machine. And then we'll, then we'll have a third room, uh, which is called, uh, Defund, uh, the Pentagon. So, um, Dave, is there anything I'm missing? Should we just get, get right into it? Yeah, let's go. Let's do it. Okay, well, I'll allow you to do the introduction. Okay. Well, let's go ahead and I will hand it over to Lucia and, um, who will be presenting, uh, to us. Thank you. Well, thank you so much. Thinking about, uh, divesting from Thrivent Corporation has brought to my mind some tactics and strategies that we have used through Women Against Military Madness, or WAM. And, uh, another, uh, community, uh, that I have been working with, the Minnesota BDS community, a coalition of groups and, uh, individuals. And so I'm going to go through some slides, which I just had up on the screen a moment ago. Uh-huh. Okay. There it is. Good. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Thank you. Now, so here is a little introduction to WAM and our logo. BDS, as you may know, is an international campaign boycott, divest, and sanction that, uh, has to do with, uh, raising awareness about human rights and civil rights that must be granted to, um, Palestinian people. So it's to put pressure on the government of Israel. Among, whoops, one. It's important when we're putting, when we're putting pressure on a corporation or on some kind of, uh, uh, organization or Congress or our legislature to use many approaches. And I'm suggesting that it's always good to have some printed information. Now when we've been working so much during the pandemic without printed information, without leaflets and flyers or even little postcard sized fact sheets that you can hand to people, um, I think that it is always important to have something tangible in print that people can return to after they perhaps have heard your, your oral argument. So I think that when I think about tactics for influencing and bringing social change and social justice, uh, it's important to also create a multiple ways through social media to approach those entities. It's important in influencing corporations to reach out to boards of directors and shareholders of those organizations. So, you know, get on the agenda. You notice that each of these points is an action verb and I am a believer in action and I know that Code Pink is too. So reach out, get on the agenda, make a and then reiterate your points in writing, submit questions in writing. We did this recently with General Mills Corporation, which is based in Minnesota and Minnesota is very proud of being the home of General Mills and but when the shareholders meeting was coming up, uh, which was done virtually, uh, we were able people who we found people who were shareholders in General Mills and they pre presented questions, uh, virtually to the shareholders meeting. It's important too to educate the larger community and we do that with rallies and even little clusters of people holding signs and then it's important to and I have to stress this to connect with the media that is actually seen by those people who make the decisions. So sometimes that is the mainstream media most often. It's always good to make a colorful flyer. Uh, this one we used, the BDS community has used to, uh, to influence legislators as we are working about anti working on repealing anti boycott statutes in Minnesota. But it's always good to have something that's a little bit colorful, literally in color. In Minnesota, the state board of investment has, which is responsible for a huge, uh, pension funds for all state employees, including public school teachers and the decisions are the elected officials of our state. And the BDS community has made statements to this group regarding divestment from a corporation called Elbit Systems based in Haifa Israel. And it's known for field testing as the term that's used on weapons on Palestinian people in Gaza. And it also does surveillance along the US Mexico border. Sometimes it's important just to have a little group of people show up and be seen by the public and by, in this case, women engineers who were going into, um, uh, support system for women engineers, many of whom were working for Lockheed Martin. And so we just notified them that we're present and we're here. In, uh, last September, just before the shareholders annual meeting, uh, we had about 45 or 50 people at a rally, uh, outside of General Mills Corporation. This big sculpture that's read is the big G for General Mills and people driving by saw us. The corporation was aware we were out there because they called the police and we had a chat with the police, but we were visible and clear about what we were doing. Um, sometimes there's an opportunity to be a little playful. So because Pillsbury is now part of General Mills Corporation and Pillsbury has a factory in disputed area, stolen land in East Jerusalem. There's a boycott across the country and throughout the world of Pillsbury baking products. And so here we have our friend Noam in a Pillsbury dough boy costume saying, I made this with no Pillsbury products and showing off his pumpkin pie. And so sometimes in some context, it's possible to use some humor and be a bit playful and that reaches people in a different way. So it's good to make use of Pillsbury, uh, of symbols that the public understands. For example, the Pillsbury dough boy who is wearing a mask in this photo that you can see and he's out on a street corner in St. Paul, Minnesota, to say something's wrong, Pillsbury.  Reach out to mainstream media because those shareholders and those boards of directors are reading and hearing from mainstream media. I don't think Wham has ever been quoted on the in the business section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune before, but we were last September right around the time of the General Mills shareholder's meeting. And it's possible sometimes if you know someone who knows someone to find a reporter who will carry a story forward. And that is my message today is as we approach these corporations and entities to use many different tactics all at the same time and carry on, carry on bravely. Thank you. Thank you so much, Lucia. That was really fantastic. And the the tactics that you all are using at Wham are definitely tactics that we use at Code Pink. And if anyone is interested, Lucia will be holding a breakout group after we listen to the next to our next speakers. But I really am excited that you brought up the point of AGM season. Shareholder season is coming up and it is a great way to insert your message and to apply pressure to to the powers that be. So if everyone, if you have questions, if you can hold on and hold any sort of suggestions or concerns or anything to to the to for the breakout sessions. So let's see, who do we have up next? It looks like up next is I like to invite Carly Town as our next speaker. Thanks so much, Nancy. And thanks so much for that, Lucia. That was brilliant. I love seeing those tactics that you all are using. So I'm also going to go ahead and share my screen so folks can see presentation I have for you today. Again, thanks so much for being here. My name is Carly Town. I'm a co-director of Code Pink and I work most closely on our divest from the War Machine campaign, which works to divest our schools, our cities, our politicians, and other financial institutions from the War Machine. So I'm going to take us through just a general presentation about what our divest from the War Machine campaign is. I'm going to go over a few specific points and then I'm going to hand it over to my colleague Cody to go over a couple of other tactics that we use. So to start, our divest from the War Machine campaign operates under a very simple premise, which is if we're going to end war, we have to stop allowing companies to profit from war. I think everyone here can agree with that. And with that understanding in mind, we talk a little bit about how the War Machine actually operates and what each of these points when we identify the War Machine, how we can actually intervene as a community and take on the War Machine. So you see on the screen, while this is not in total the entire way that the U.S. War Machine operates, it is a good snapshot of the ways that we can intervene. So we talk a lot about how weapons manufacturers produce the arms and technology that make wars possible. And in the process, making a huge profit. Weapons manufacturers use their huge profits to fund the campaigns of politicians, which is something I'm going to be talking to you a little bit more about today. Politicians vote to extend existing wars, engage in new conflicts, and steadily increase the Pentagon budget as a result. And then underlying this entire dynamic is the fact that large financial institutions like banks and asset managers invest heavily in these weapons manufacturers. And you can see it's a very cyclical process. So the Divest from the War Machine campaign identifies these points, as I said, as points for intervention as members of the community who want to end the War Machine. So those different points, like I said earlier, we talk about divesting our city and state from the War Machine, divesting our universities, so our university endowments, working to hold financial institutions that invest in weapons manufacturers accountable. And then finally working to divest our politicians and representatives from the War Machine, which is actually what I'm going to talk a little bit more about today, while Cody will be talking more about city and state campaigns. So let's talk about politicians. How do war profiteers exert so much influence over our politicians? Well, again, a very cyclical process, like I mentioned, right? Weapons manufacturers use their profits to donate to their campaigns. Politicians vote to extend existing wars, engage in new conflicts, increase the Pentagon budget, right? And that's a dynamic that we've all seen play out from our politicians. So let's also kind of take a step back also and understand the scale of the problem and how campaign contributions from weapons companies present such an extreme conflict of interest. In 2021, the Pentagon budget is $740 billion, which means we'll spend over $1 million a minute on the Pentagon, which putting it that way, I think, is really startling for most people. But importantly, half of the Pentagon budget will go directly to private defense contractors, of course, defense and air quotes, including weapons companies like Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Boeing. So this is a huge problem, right? So in addition, I want to mention that we dedicate so much of the Pentagon budget to creating and maintaining weapons that the US military also sends quote unquote, excess military grade weaponry to local police forces through the 1033 program, which you can see here was created in the 1990s during the war on drugs and has since transferred over $7.4 billion in excess property, including weapons to police forces that we know of, right? And this image here is actually a Miami police officer from protests over this summer. So still very much a huge problem. So, you know, giving these really outrageous statistics and the way that we see the war machine operating in our local communities and how our politicians vote to spend more and more money every year, really to line the pockets of private defense contractors and how those same military grade weapons are used against some of the most marginalized in our communities, you know, what can we do about it, right? And that's why we're here today, some resources and tips about how to take on the war machine in our own communities. So I want to start off with a recent study that was done by the Security Policy Reform Institute, which found a direct correlation between contributions from the defense industry and voting to maintain or increase military spending. Again, I think we all know that this is the case, but seeing a study actually point this out is incredibly important. I'll make sure people have access to that as well. So based on that, right, we are calling on everyone to reach out to their congressional representatives to sign the Code Pink pledge to commit to stop taking campaign contributions from weapons companies, right? If these contributions are correlated to them spending, voting to spend more on the Pentagon budget, we need to, we need to stop that contribution process in its tracks. I want to show people a picture of the pledge that we asked people to bring to their politicians. You can see here, it's very simple. We want them to commit to refusing campaign contributions of over $200 from PACS or executives or organizations representing the top five weapons manufacturers that are listed there. And you can see that it's a very simple statement. And it's also a really good tool, right, to ask your politician, your representative to sign this. And if they refuse, it's really great to ask them why, right? Why would you refuse money from companies that make a killing on killing? In particular, I wanted to talk to you all about your congressional representative. So we have congressional representatives who have already signed on, but we need more. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has not yet signed the Code Pink pledge to stop taking campaign contributions from weapons manufacturers. That doesn't mean she hasn't done amazing things in Congress so far. She's actually been on the front line of calling to defund the Pentagon budget, but I think it would also be a really powerful tool to ask her to take a stance publicly against taking these campaign contributions from weapons manufacturers. Another study actually from the Security Policy Reform Institute was done to show that every number of Congress who has signed our pledge, the Code Pink pledge to divest from war, voted unanimously to move funds from the Pentagon to the people. So they voted to defund the Pentagon this past summer. So it's a really important tool that we can use in our communities, and it would be a great way to also open up a conversation with your representative, Ilhan Omar, because we also have, as a tool for people, sorry, we have a Code Pink guide to Pentagon cuts. So when you go and talk to your representative, ask them to take that pledge to stop taking campaign contributions. We can also open the conversation and show them concrete ways that they can reduce the Pentagon budget and invest in our local communities, right? Because politicians will often say, we don't want to cut the Pentagon budget and reduce our security. The great thing is we have a list of Pentagon budget cuts we can make, how much money that will save, and you can show them very clearly that making these cuts won't cause any risk to our security, right? For example, up here, I want to point out, we could eliminate something that is commonly referred to as a slush fund account that would save us $174 billion a year. And you can go through our guide to Pentagon budget cuts. I'm going through them quickly here, but you can see at the bottom of the screen, the URL to see them on our website. I'll also make sure people have that in the chat box. And yeah, so the two things that I talked about today, talking to your representatives, to ask them to stop taking campaign contributions from weapons manufacturers, and also bringing them our guide to defunding the Pentagon, two really important ways to start taking on the war machine in our local communities. And I will stop here so I can have my colleague, Cody, continue the conversation as well. Awesome. Thanks so much, Carly. And thanks to Lucia also, I feel like, definitely would echo what Carly said that a lot of the same tactics that have been part of the BDS movement, the Lucia was explaining, are part and parcel for what we do with the divest from the war machine campaign. Because divestment, and you know, Carly touched on this too, like divestment is just one tool. It's one aspect of general anti-war organizing to end U.S. militarism, which as Dr. Martin Luther King said, even that's still true in our time today, one of the greatest threats to human rights around the world today. And as Lucia mentioned, these tactics that make concrete gains in the anti-war movement, in cutting back on the war machine, are also kind of feed this feedback loop of when you work with other activists to do divestment work, and you make little wins along the way, you've done part of the work to educate people, to actually learn what it means, like what's possible, what's possible when a movement of people gets together to make demands. And then further down the way, you could probably see some of those people who you may have brought in to a campaign for the first time, bringing in other people along the way and teaching them how to go. I'm starting with this because in my work through the divest campaign, the same campaign that Carly was outlining, I work specifically with activists who are working to divest their city or state governments from weapons companies. And so what I've usually seen is that a city or state campaign, usually a city campaign, is a very easy in to folks who maybe have never done any kind of anti-war organizing before. So the context of the municipal organizing is that many state, almost every state government, or city or state government, is invested in different companies in order to raise its assets. This could be, this takes a series of different forms such as retirement plans, any kind of funds that are given in for public education, many different ways that municipal governments invest in companies. And many of them keep public records, but make it so hard to find that it's impossible to know what your city or state is actually invested in. So a good way to build up a movement to really get at ending this practice that the whole federal government takes part in like what Carly was saying is to get people involved in sort of an introductory municipal campaign. So I don't have any slides to kind of go through, but I wanted to give a little bit of a sort of visual introduction of what it looks like to do some initial research into your, into a budding municipal campaign. So the first thing that you'll want to do is to look at what are the different kinds of public funds that your city has. A lot of the times this takes the form of a public retirement fund or some kind of public employee pension fund. And you want to do some research into how the city manages that because many cities just have their own public employees fund. But some, like in the city, I live in Portland, Oregon, the public employees of the city have their retirement fund through the state. So there's an Oregon state public employees retirement system. And so you want to make sure that you know how your city and state function and through their retirement systems. And so let's say that you find that your city has a public employees retirement fund. You can usually find records that the fund keeps. This can usually be on websites where they'll actually even have a list of different reports because any kinds of investments that funds go public funds go in have to have quarterly reports over how the fund is growing for their recipients. I say it's usually there because it's not always. It should always be there. But as we found in some cities, we can search and search and search for the list of investments and it's nowhere to be found. And the city will try to put up a wall as much as they can to not let you know what your funds are invested in. Because many governments know that not only weapons companies, but fossil fuel companies, private prisons have definitely stoked to many mass movements to rise up and demand that they divest for human rights. And so if a city or state website does not have these records on file, like they're legally supposed to, you can always file a Freedom of Information Act or use other methods to try to get the file because again, they are legally required to make this information public. But then once you actually have the information, this is sort of the next line of defense I'll call it for investors is that they'll say, okay, here's the information. Here's what all of our here's all the funds that our investments are going through. That's all you asked for. They won't tell you where the a lot of those funds are invested in. And this is where we have some tools that you can use. And so for the last couple minutes, I wanted to just give a little bit of a demo. So this is an example of a city retirement fund report. And if you scroll through it, you will see the same thing, a lot of numbers, a lot of graphs, a lot of big words that is mostly financial jargon. Again, this is one of the lines of defense. They make it so that it's very hard to actually understand what any of this means. So I want to scroll through this until we get to a page that looks a little like this. Oops, not that. We actually want it to look like this. So a table like this that actually has a line after line of a fund name with various numbers about how the assets were grown. When you have something like this, this is every specific fund or mutual funds that this retirement plan uses to grow its assets. Once you have this, all you need to do is to see what research has already been done with these funds. And so I'm going to take this example right here. This says Melon Large Cap S&P 500. So a lot of numbers and words, basically what it means is that this is one fund by the Melon Company that is on the S&P 500 index. And so I'm going to go to this website that we can share the link to, the Weapons Free Fund that CodePink uses. And I'm going to type in Melon S&P 500. And this says that research has already been done to find out that the fund that any Melon S&P 500 fund, these various ones are invested in weapons. It even gives you a rank. This one gets a D grade because if you look here, it's invested in Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon. So this doesn't win you your campaign, but it gets you the initial research you need to start a municipal campaign and then rally different activists to demand that your city pull its assets from these funds that invest directly in these companies. And so with that, I'm kind of at my time. I would love to talk more in the city-based organizing breakout group, but that's sort of a crash course of how you can start a municipal divest campaign. So I guess I'll pass it back to you, Nancy. Great. Thank you so much, Cody. Thank you, Carly. Thank you, Lucia. This is exactly what we are set up to do here, and that is to talk about strategies and to talk about tools to divest from the war machine. So this is all really, really terrific. Before we move into our breakout groups, I just, Carly brought up asset management firms, and I just want to talk just really briefly about one of the campaigns that I oversee. It's the BlackRock campaign, and I mean, war and conflict threatens life and the planet as we know it, and we all face global emergencies, but the financial industry has the power to lead the change that we need. So BlackRock, for those of you who don't know, is the world's largest biggest asset management firm with more than 8 trillion in assets under management. It's also the world's top investor in nuclear weapons, climate destruction, private prisons, and weapon manufacturers. And for us in the BlackRock network, we believe if BlackRock moves to popular pressure that other asset management firms like Vanguard and State Street would follow suit, and not just them, but maybe even financial firms like Thrive-In, which is based there in Minneapolis. So that's just my little spiel on BlackRock if you're interested in learning more. But just before we go into our breakout groups, Dave, is there anything that you'd like to add? Yeah, by the way, all of our panelists really brought it in and very concise, and just really some real useful information. My God, I'm just blown away by it. Thank you so much for all your hard work and not only that, and presenting it in such a nice, concise way. That's beautiful. But yeah, the only thing I would say is that the toughest part politically about a lot of these municipal funds is that the reasons they'll give you is that, hey, we've got employees that pension funds, and there's a lot of labor cooperation with these funds. So the labor is saying, yeah, I understand that these are not kosher kind of groups, but we want to make sure that our employees get their pension.  And in some ways, it would be really good to have developed a counter argument to that in going forward. So that if they say, well, well, yeah, I agree with you. I feel like, yeah, we don't want to, but this is where the guaranteed money is for our pension fund, and protecting our hardworking people that worked their lives and expected their pension fund. So you can understand that you're coming from their position on that. But I think that the alternative is to try to maybe guide them in the direction of green energy and how green energy is the coming force, they should be investing in green energy. So anyway, that's just what I have to say. Let's get to the breakout rooms. Okay, great. So we'll turn it over to Mary for the breakout rooms. And just to remind everyone, we will have a breakout group with Lucia on BDS and other points that she's raised today. We'll have another breakout group with Cody, city-based organizing against the war machine, and another breakout group with Carly around the defund the Pentagon. So Mary, take it away. Okay, you're going to see at the bottom, let's see, join breakout room. Is there a screen that pops up? I only see two, I don't see anyone in city-based. Do people choose? Okay, great. Someone just joined Cody. Looks like Carly could use some more. Are you all seeing the option to choose your room? Got a couple. Moses says he doesn't have the option to choose a room. I can assign people to rooms if you're having trouble. Yeah, Moses, is there a topic that you're interested in? I'm going to unmute you, Moses. Oh no, I can't do that. I don't have that power. Sorry. Pentagon? Okay, let's move Moses to the Pentagon. And then who else do we have here? We've got... What about you, Ruth? Where would you like to go? I would learn from any one of these because I'm just here to listen. Okay. How about in Lucia's group? Okay, great. BDS. Nancy, can you put Tim Nolan in the Pentagon group? Okay, let's put Tim in the Pentagon group. All right, how about you, Kay? Where would you like to go? Can you hear us? Okay, Tim wanted the Pentagon group, so is he... Oh, looks like he's on his way. I think the code pink for me. Okay, let's put you in the city-based organizing then, Kay. Thank you. Okay, bye-bye. And then, Mally, how about you? Welcome back, everyone. I was muted also. Back in the big group. We probably needed that whole 15 minutes when we didn't get it, but for Giorgio, he got cut off. Well, but you came a little late. Yeah. Introduced himself earlier. And let's see. Here we are. We are back, everyone. Welcome back. Let's see. Is the whole team here? We've got Carly back. We have Cody back. Terrific. So, welcome back, everyone. And I see that our group is a little bit smaller. I just wanted to see if there is someone from each group who would maybe give us a brief report back. Maybe we can hear from someone from Lucia's group. We didn't talk about having anyone volunteer to do a report back. We were so... Paul, or is Virgil here? What did you have, Paul? Absolutely. All right. Yeah, I just... One of the... We've discovered that I guess there's 20 states that made BDS illegal. And the way they did it is by using the word discrimination against Israel. So, and then we heard a story of how someone... I think Lucia went to her congressperson and when she talked about how the United Nations said that Israel was... I can't remember what exact... What criticism it was. It was my state senator. Your state senator. Yes, because the United Nations named General Mills in violation of international law. Right. And that was... And his reply was, well, United Nations is a little anti-Semitic. It was like everyone was like, shocked to hear that. Good sky. So plainly say that. And so, yeah, and then I did a Google search and I found that my state is one of the states that makes BDS illegal. And I live in New York state. Okay, great. Well, thank you so much for reporting back on that. New information to me, that's for sure. How about Carly, would you like to report back? Or is there someone in your group that would like to report back? Yeah, is Elizabeth still here? Would you mind reporting back from our group? Just while we chat a little bit. Sure.  And you used screen sharing and you showed us more about the pledge form and they're 12 signers so far. But then you mentioned like Bernie Sanders and some others that were not on that list. But the focus is now on representatives not on senators, I think you said. Anyway, and you showed us kind of how to do it, which was great. And then you were going to, you were shifting over to Pentagon budget cuts and going to show us the guide to the Pentagon. Is that right? But we didn't quite get there. I don't think, unless I missed something. But I was very informative. Thank you. Thanks, Elizabeth. Great. Thank you so much, Elizabeth. And how about Cody's group? Is there someone that would like to report back? Or if you'd like to report back, Cody?  But I guess one thing I just wanted to share that I was very inspired by, I was chatting with Jim for a bit. And Jim shared that he actually used to be a machinist working on the supply lines for some of the weapons companies. And I think that it rarely goes, it's rarely acknowledged enough how much we need the workers who are often invisible, totally invisible by the war machine, the ones who put their economic livelihood on the line to say, no, I'm not going to do this anymore. How crucial it is to have them not just in our movement, but really leading our movement. So I really want to give Jim another shout out for inspiring me tonight. But yeah, Jim or Kay, any of y'all want to share a bit more about what we talked about? Well, I'm kind of all new to this. It's the first time I've actually interacted with Code Pink, even though I have watched the movement since it's creation. But I'm glad to be here. And at this moment, I just want to learn. So that's about it. That's about all I had to say. Super. Great. Well, what I'm going to do is in the chat, I'm going to pop in a link to a Google form. So the campaigners can follow up with you. So all the campaigns that you heard about tonight are listed on this Google form. So let's see, can you go? There we go. So if you sign up, click on that into your email address and the campaign that you are interested in. And either Carly or Cody or Lucia or even Dave or myself will follow up with you on one of the campaigns. But Dave, do you have anything that you'd like to add? No, I'll tell you what. I've learned a lot. And obviously, we can probably go on for three hours with this group because we have a lot of people that are doing really amazing things on the ground. And oftentimes in activism and the anti-war movement and peace and justice movement, you get a lot of talking and not a lot of action. And this is what I love about this group is that it's the taking the next step and actually having your police system and trying to leverage. And what we all do is try to amplify and leverage, amplify our voices and leverage our networks. And that's something that takes a little doing. You develop relationships during the course of time. But all this stuff is all related. And I know with veterans for peace, I definitely want to do work with Lucia on the local level. I got that from saying, you know what, Lucia and veterans for peace and WAM and somebody from Code Pink and Minnesota, we all went together and talked to our representative, you know, our congressperson or senator, it would have much more impact than if we all each individually do it. So I think working with fellow groups, and that includes wherever you are, if you have Unitarians and Lutherans, there's a lot of progressive Lutherans, especially with Thrivement that would love to, that can really help you get with the pastors to say, if the pastors in the congregation say, well, wait a second, what are you doing with our money? This is not good, you know, and I think that there's all these partnerships and working with people and more voices raises the ship. Great. So I think we will go ahead and leave it there, unless any, if any of our speakers have any final words, we can go ahead and, if not, we can go ahead and wrap up for the evening. Yeah. Okay. Great. So please. Thank you so much, everyone. Thank you. Please fill out that Google form. Thank you, Lucia. Thank you, Cody. Thank you, Carly. Thank you, Mary. Break the bonds. Break the bonds. Lucia, is anybody working on Break the Bonds with me? Yes. Break the bonds. Break the bonds is part of the BDS, Minnesota BDS Coalition. Yes. All right. Well, everyone, have a great evening, and thank you so much for joining us tonight. Great job, Nancy. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. Thank you. Awesome. We're with you. Bye. Bye-bye. Bye, everybody. One love. Okay. Bye-bye, Tim. Bye-bye, Jim. Bye, Ruth.