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letsdothis3 ago

Okay, my head is going to explode with a number of connections. Perhaps someone here can help make sense of this... so, I've just been reading this interview with DeeDee Slewka : http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/onthisisland/quanda.html

Filmmaker Stephanie ["DeeDee"] Slewka discusses the perils and advantages of working in an isolated community, the blind faith of filmmaking and how to bribe island teenagers.

Housing is hard to find on North Haven and there is no hotel or motel. Ask the crew! We stayed in one house in the winter that had no heat upstairs. It was on our first shoot when I was still funding the film myself, so I was too nervous to be cold, but they suffered. I rewarded them with lobster dinners and wine. We rented State Senator Chellie Pingree's house once or twice as she was off at the legislature, and we rented a big summer house another time, so we had a sampling of the island's housing.

DeeDee Slewka is the vice-chair of Common Good City Farm in Washington DC: http://www.thegeorgetowndish.com/thedish/prince-charles-visits-common-good-city-farm-ledroit-park . Prince Charles visited and spoke with a murdered actress/yoga teacher/herbalist Tricia McCauley. I wrote about that here:

The actress murdered in Washington had some connections that may of interest after all. THEARC, and even a Prince makes a brief appearance.

Well since then I've found some actual links to Comet Ping Pong.

As a yoga teacher Tricia worked with Jasmine Chehrazi, founder of Yoga Activist and the Yoga District in DC. Jasmine knew Sasha Lord and performed at Comet Ping Pong with Amanda Kleinman https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2018/04/18/protesting-and-vegan-pizza-yoga-district-founder-jasmine-chehrazis-dream-day/?utm_term=.e5d86402ad93

http://sashalord-presents-blog.tumblr.com/post/75485846883/transmissions

Jasmine is also connected to the Omega Institute https://www.eomega.org/workshops/teachers/jasmine-chehrazi

Within my voat post about Tricia McCauley, I had also posted a link to an instagram of a single ballet shoe outside her home in the year that she died: https://www.instagram.com/p/BDZNCLLoj6i/?taken-by=leafyheadllc

After seeing all her connections to THEARC, I remembered that Septime Webre was also there at the time. This is just speculation of course, but I did find this interesting>>

Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre turned company into a big tent

It was 1999, and Webre had just moved to Adams Morgan from New Jersey to start his new job. Beside him stood Rhonda Buckley, founder of the Sitar Arts Center, which ran after-school programs for underserved children in that damp, windowless room. She was nervously hoping that Webre would consider, at some future date, offering ballet classes for little ones at her center, maybe once she had moved it to a better location.

His answer surprised her.

“He said yes, emphatically and without hesitation,” Buckley recalled recently.

Further, the school that took part in the event that Prince Charles attended has links to a large DC lobbying firm, Mrs Bush even gave a speech there and her daughter Jemma worked there while twin sister has connections to SPiN https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3040080/16816741

If anyone can make some sense of this that would be great !

letsdothis3 ago

https://imgur.com/a/yu8Cs6Q Prince Charles with Pertula George and Tricia McCauley

Pertula George is now AmeriCorps VISTA Program Director. Related voat post:

April 20 + 21: school board members in California and Kentucky arrested on charges related to human trafficking + child pornography

Having served for two years in an unrelated AmeriCorps program myself, it's interesting that you bring that up. It has definitely crossed my mind a time or two that some of these programs--particularly those in mentoring and education literacy--may very well serve a much more sinister purpose. It is especially troubling when you consider the fact that a lot of them (Teach for America, for example) provide support to K-12 schools in economically disadvantaged/low-income areas. In no way is that to say that all who serve in these programs have ill intent, but rather, it gives certain individuals access where they wouldn't have had it otherwise.

 

It's definitely worth looking into, given the history of the program. The idea for a national volunteer network was originally proposed by John F. Kennedy and came to fruition under Lyndon B. Johnson's anti-poverty platform + the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Early programs such as VISTA and the NCCC were ultimately designated under the AmeriCorps umbrella in 1993; a division of the newly-created Corporation for National and Community Service signed into law via the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993. In addition to AmeriCorps VISTA and AmeriCorps NCCC, the act also allowed for the establishment of AmeriCorps State and National programs. As a result, communities of all shapes and sizes, in all 50 states, may utilize stakeholder partnerships to apply for and obtain AmeriCorps funding through the CNCS (and thereby establish local or state level AmeriCorps programs to fit the community's needs).

 

Oh, and did I mention that Bill Clinton signed the National and Community Service Trust Act into law?