‘Woke Media’ Cancels Local Non-profit – and Leaves Hundreds in Community Without Critical Programs, Alleges Unconditional Freedom Spokesperson
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In response to an article about the connection between a non-profit, Unconditional Freedom, that was offering educational and ‘character-building’ services at the Mendocino County jail and a for-profit business that markets sex as spirituality that we posted on October 6, Caryn Roth, Director of Operations at Unconditional Freedom, sent us the following piece stating, “Our programs have been canceled at the Jail and Juvenile Hall thanks to [Sarah Reith’s] salacious reporting, leaving the most vulnerable without access to programming and support.”
We will post Sarah Reith’s rebuttal piece at noon. Below is Ms. Roth’s response to Sarah’s original article:
Over the roughly three years that Unconditional Freedom (UF) has proudly served the community of Ukiah, we have provided thousands of healthy, nutritious meals to the homeless, and worked alongside the staff at the Mendocino County Jail to provide educational enrichment programs for jail residents, staff, and guards. Over that time, we have operated with the highest of ethics and integrity, and formed close, trusted relationships with our partner organizations and the community, who have repeatedly praised UF for the quality and effectiveness of our programs.
That’s why we were devastated to hear Sarah Reith’s KZYX radio segment which aired on the morning of October 5, 2022, (and later posted to the Redheaded Blackbelt blog) repeating false and salacious media allegations against Unconditional Freedom. As a result, UF’s programs in Ukiah, including the programming at Mendocino County Jail and Juvenile Hall, have been canceled, leaving nearly five hundred local people who depend on UF’s services stranded and without these programs. The problem appears to be growing worse – as people and organizations with whom we had developed close and trusted relationships are beginning to dissociate from Unconditional Freedom for fear of reprisal. Just this week, one of our Free Food (formerly called Love to Table) partners declined our offer of fresh, organic meals, which have fed twenty-five people every week.
In short, Reith’s biased and inaccurate reporting against UF compromised stellar work which was making a positive difference in the lives of individuals in the community that we are honored to serve.
Let’s set the record straight. In the report, Reith conflates the work of Unconditional Freedom with that of the organization OneTaste. While Unconditional Freedom and OneTaste share similar philosophical outlooks based on rehumanizing marginalized populations and finding power in areas that society most often casts aside (prisons, homeless, and other marginalized communities), they are separate organizations which serve distinctly different audiences in distinctly different ways. The vast majority of UF’s three hundred volunteers and none of our thousands of program participants across the country have ever heard of OneTaste. This is a testament to UF’s independent mission.
The non-profit that would ultimately become Unconditional Freedom was originally founded in 2002 under the name Fill Up America. In its first nine months of service, Fill Up America distributed over 48 thousand pounds of surplus food and 13 thousand pounds of clothing. Fill Up America operated for over a decade and, in 2013, was selected for the 2013 San Francisco Awards for Community Service & Non-Profit Organizations.
In fact, Fill Up America, which later became Unconditional Freedom, predates OneTaste by more than seven years. OneTaste is a wellness and lifestyle company founded by San Francisco native Nicole Daedone in 2009. Before it closed in 2018, OneTaste provided courses and mindfulness practices, particularly on the philosophy of Orgasmic Meditation, a private coupled meditation practice, which improves wellbeing, focus, emotional intelligence, connection, and fulfillment.
OneTaste closed its operations amidst a controversy stoked by a false, shoddy and inaccurate media reporting about the organization. Since then, the company has labored tirelessly to rebut these false allegations by directly appealing to the standards bodies of news organizations who have mischaracterized the nature of OneTaste’s business activities. There is also significant civil litigation both in the United States and in the UK seeking redress from the harm these false claims have caused. These are ongoing efforts that have not ceased since 2018. And now, KZYX and Sarah Reith are adding to the false narrative.
Although UF Executive Director Marcus Ratnathicam and ten of UF’s staff and volunteers have worked at OneTaste, Unconditional Freedom has nothing to do with the practice of orgasmic meditation and has never promoted it to the populations it serves. In addition, UF has never tried to hide its association with OneTaste from its partners in law enforcement, because of the sensitivities around security and exposure to vulnerable populations. Well before this latest media reporting, UF leadership disclosed both the nature of its relationship with OneTaste, and the potential for media scrutiny of UF due to previous negative reporting on OneTaste. We operate from the highest standards of ethics and prudence, and never wish for our partners to be blindsided or deceived in any way.
In November 2020, Unconditional Freedom launched its Art of Soulmaking course for women in prison at the Central California Women’s Facility. In early 2021, UF began a similar program for both men and women at the Mendocino County Jail. The response to the program has been overwhelmingly positive nationwide, including the roughly 450 program participants locally, jail administration and staff, and the hundreds of volunteer letter writers who serve as pen pals to program participants. Never, while operating in these secure facilities under strict protocols, has there ever been even one instance of reported unethical behavior on the part of UF staff or volunteers.
Quite the contrary, UF has made significant positive contributions to Ukiah and surrounding communities and creating measurable positive effects for the jail population that we serve.
Results reported by prison residents who have completed the Art of Soulmaking program indicate:
✔ Stress decreased by 26 percent
✔ Anger decreased by 20 percent
✔ Optimism increased by 14 percent
✔ Depression decreased by 26 percent
✔ Gratitude increased by 14 percent
In addition, UF has:
– Established the first garden program in 10 years at MCJ for incarcerated women and expanded the garden program for incarcerated men.
-Established the first garden program for the Juvenile Hall detention center residents.
– Saved Mendocino County taxpayers roughly $20,000 dollars in the form of nutritious, organic garden produce yield since 2020.
-Offered twice-weekly classes in meditation and yoga.
-Created a program called Guards to Guardian providing mentorship and support for correctional officers.
-Offered Monthly Free Food meals using organic ingredients professionally prepared for MCJ staff and COs
-Provided a $20,000 chicken coop plus week-long construction project and training for jail residents.
-Constructed beehives to kick-start the apiary training program taught by the Mendocino County sheriff a on weekly basis
There are countless videos and other documentary evidence of the positive and constructive works of UF in the community. In fact, the Mendocino County Jail and Ukiah community has served as the model sought out by other local jails and prisons across the country to start their own Art of Soulmaking programs.
Despite all the positive and constructive contributions UF has made to the community, and the almost universal good will it enjoyed in Ukiah, KZYX radio reporter Sarah Reith decided instead to rehash salacious media allegations. She did this despite having no evidence at all that Unconditional Freedom had committed any wrongdoing.
We wish to reassure the community that we operated only out of a desire to contribute, have never intentionally harmed anyone, and have the best interests of the community at heart. We want to spark a dialogue here about how we can continue to support the Ukiah community and move past this unfortunate incidence of media-fabricated hysteria and division.
Caryn Roth
Director of Operations at Unconditional Freedom
Our response here: One Question for OneTaste: Sarah Reith Responds
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Caryn, I hate to break it to you, Billions of our tax dollars are being sent over seas to assist in a massive money laundering and kick back scheme.
People are struggling with manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis.
We have to recognize that we are being put through struggle session after struggle session, and it is my opinion that the goal is to break the old paradigm so that we will be forced to accept the unfavorable terms of surrender.
All the world’s a stage, and a huge chessboard. To understand what is going on. requires an understanding of criminal behavior, and some historical perspective on tactics that were once used to overthrow democratically elected regimes all over the world.
We’ve Been ConditioNEd To Accept The theatres Of War, across the globe, because “there are many bad people who want to destroy our way of life”.
If you look at the us military industrial complex, as a proxy for regime change in countries that have resources that belong to others that are needed to keep the never ending multi national profit train going.
We are actually complicit, and our taxes are used to wage these unjust wars on people in the name of. ..?
This system has been hijacked and the tactics that generations have used against those evil empires of the past have now been turned on the last great experiment in FREEDOM.
People are being forced to recognize there is a huge target on the majority of people on the planet, and it’s my belief that we are being prepared, conditioned for a mass extinction event, and the corporate media and the academia and many segments of government are participating in the gas lighting, and distractions.
We will be left with no choice to merge our biology with synthetic Machines, just to survive.
It’s not an easy thing to understand unless you have participated in aspects of the military industrial complex and finally figured it out, and got out Alive with some shred of a soul left.
I pray for discernment, and the courage to speak out and help others find their voice as well.
Stay human, stay tuned!
Not a national extinction event….
If we are going extinct it is due to collective BS, sadly likely inherent to our species, and not an effort by any single significant entity. And what you say about our practices as a species is spot on.
“We’ve Been ConditioNEd To Accept The theatres Of War, across the globe, because ‘there are many bad people who want to destroy our way of life’.”
Yes, and I suspect that war has been going on forever…it pisses our species off to be conscious mortals and we have to take it out on someone and also build fantasies about how to live beyond our known lifespan. Also, hormones perhaps; the need to breed gone astray. Once we became more mobile as a species things just became more chaotic but perhaps with the internet and all we are being given one last chance to see the big picture, be humble within it and learn to care for one another and all we depend upon as our top priority. LOL? “You may say I’m a dreamer….” No I am not a hippie, not even religious and some themes just persist pervasively no matter we see them or not.
“I pray for discernment, and the courage to speak out and help others find their voice as well.
Stay human, stay tuned!”
Agreed.
Orgasm cult leader says whaaaaaaa??????
Also, as pointed out earlier this week, only Donald trump and the unabomber need 14 pages to express their position.
Trump is an obese orgasm cult leader, but not where his “wife” Melania is concerned. Trump is a one-pump chump!
It is clear that they do have a relationship to the wanker cult and they are happy to explain what the wanker cult believes in newspeak.
Also, in case this isn’t clear Caryn Roth is a man and he should not be anywhere near a women’s prison.
/eyeroll
Do you think that only women work in women’s prisons?
He is in prison offering them a carrot on one hand and masturbation on the other. I don’t think men should be working in women’s prisons.
It’s a tough job for a man…
I don’t understand. This seems to be the happy-go-lucky crap the left usually rants and raves over so why are locals so down on this seemingly great program?
Because the left knows the majority of Americans are rejecting their Marxist bullshit and are turning on each other with the “blame game.”
They know a red tsunami is coming in the midterms and every day Trump gets more press coverage on mainstream news than the current administration*.
Just another case of the vermin eating each other to try to survive and hold some relevance. Nothing more, nothing less.
You have to be high on crack to believe Democrats are Marxists. Bernie Sanders was never a Democrat. Which is the main reason he couldn’t make it through the primaries, because why would Democrats nominate a non-Democrat as their presidential candidate? Forget that!
Cry me a fucking River these people are a degenerate communist sex cult!
I have friends who were coerced into being involved in it while in jail. I have other friends who work for your company who tried to not get involved with your creepy sexual exploitation. The women I know who were involved in this are either completely brainwashed crazy and sexually degenerate or completely mind broken and silent from this program.
People like this or why America is so degenerate and weak. Peak communist manipulation right here. They even do emotional manipulation throughout this article.
“Crying out in pain as they strike you”
Good riddance!
If they’re communist at least they have one thing going for him.
Translation: I don’t know what a communist is
Ask Donald Trump. Trump is an expert on communists, specifically having sex with them. Not to mention exchanging love letters with Kim Jong-un. Trump love you long time!
I tend to agree with you and if you don’t state what you mean, define it even a little, its lazy to expect others to understand or even hope to.
Have you ever read the Communist Manifesto? Engels clearly explains the difference between socialism and communism in the prologue written in 1888.
Ok well if you have the time and knowledge share a bit here. Not everyone has the time, energy or even motivation to read that stuff and one great thing about the internet is it give us the ability to share information no matter it if it is immediately disagreed upon or not, and do so widely like never before in human history.
Most definitely a truly capitalist cult, they charge up to $ 25,000 for some of their courses
So what? If someone’s dumb enough to pay for it that’s on them
Obama is even sick of this ‘woke’ ‘cancel culture’.
“I do get a sense sometimes now among certain young people, and this is accelerated by social media, there is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people,’” he said, “and that’s enough.”
Stop worrying about what others do and trying to call them out. Sounds like they were doing good, and Sarah just needed a “story”
Sooo, the cult, er I mean program, appeals to you huh?
At least you’re not so woke to ask how much tax money was being spent! Then the socialist Sheriff going all Cancel Culture and canceling an expensive creepy program…sheesh.
Well, the author of this “letter” certainly has made a number of points for those she claims have misunderstood the nature of her business. While claiming they are not the same, she acknowledges they shared personnel and philosophy. And, while saying the reporter conflates the businesses, she herself points out that they had never tried to hide their connection from law enforcement. Frankly the Mendocino law enforcement should have been way more concerned about allowing a program with so many points of connection to another program under investigation by the FBI in the first place.
One bothersome thing is the complete absence of talk about who finances this organization since the non related/related business got their money from the people they “helped” who went into debt to pay for classes. Is the same thing going on with prisoners?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneTaste
Caryn is a man not a woman.
Caryn is NOT a man. I’ve met her. She is a lovely, heart-centered woman who grew up in North Berkeley. All this hate is shameful nonsense. Please stop. The story she tells is true.
Caryn is male. Caryn was born male and will be male into eternity. He’s from Berkeley? So what, lots of loons in Berkeley.
5 years ago another guy who claimed he was female murdered 3 people and it is just coming to trial now. He also doesn’t belong in women’s prisons he belongs in a men’s prison. https://reduxx.info/trans-activist-to-stand-trial-for-the-brutal-murder-of-a-lesbian-couple-and-son/
Also see People Magazine if Kim doesn’t like the link above. https://people.com/crime/former-teacher-murder-trial-family-killed/
Google ambiguous sex at birth.
One in a thousand are borne with a mix of both organs.
It’s up to the doctors to decide which sex to assigned them.
No shit, I googled it.
Expand your mind and you will be a happier person and won’t be so concerned about other people’s personal concerns
No. There is no such thing as a hermaphrodite. Even people who have Disorders of Sexual Development are either male or female. They are not a third sex. Someone who was born with one leg does not prove that humans are uni-pedal.
Just flat-out ignoring science is not a very good way of supporting your arguments.
okay. I’ll play along. Name the third sex. Go on. Name the 3rd one.
Intersex, ya doofus.
That is a disorder not a sex. There are 2 sexes. Also the people who are living with DSD would like it if you stop othering them because they do have a birth sex and don’t like being turned into some sort of political football for transgenderism.
You are the doofus. You think there is 3 sexes.
Test #2
Intersex is the 3rd gender. Or don’t you believe everything Alex Jones says about frogs and environmental toxins anymore, Mr. Info Warrior Weenie? Some fortunate folks have more than just a weenie and can quite literally “for unlawful carnal knowledge” themselves, which makes certain social media apps obsolete. Why pay for a hotel room, etc. when you can take care of yourself just fine?
If your hair isn’t clearly blond or red its called strawberry blond NOT a disorder. Who are you to determine (or, LOL, try to) what is a disorder or not? A full female has a miscarriage and does that mean she is disordered? Where do your demands of simplistic absolutes end? Let us into your home and life so we can judge likewise what about you is disordered or not.
Guest?
Nope.
LOL.
Test #1
Ok now if you don’t look it up you are being purposefully ignorant for some reason.
What are you afraid of? Knowledge?
It will set you free from the little bubble you’ve been hiding in.
You are missing the point because of your transgender obsession. This was a scam enriching weirdos from deep pockets of public money. The sexual orientation of one individual has nothing to do with it. It’s not the pronoun they use that bugs me, it’s the endless list of “programs” with capitalized names!
It bothers me that WOMEN who are FEMALE are being locked IN with rapists WHO ARE MALE when they say the magic words in CALIFORNIA that they FEEL LIKE A WOMAN.
You are just a misogynist who doesn’t care if women are locked inside with males who rape and this guy CARYN who has a sexual motivation and likely is waiting for someone at the prison to MISGENDER HIM so he can SUE.
It bothers me because misogyny bothers me. There is no 3rd sex. People who are born with a disorder of development do not deserve to be a talking point in the battle over gender and silly effs that think there are 3 sexes. DSD people all have a sex; male or female.
This is it. No more.
You like growing the administrative state on the backs of the workingclass.
What will ittake for people to wake up! !!??
Do you like quoting fake news?
“IRS spokesperson Terry Lemons told us in an email, “The social media accounts are untrue.”
“There is no such special exemption,” Lemons said. “All tax filers are treated equally under the tax law.”
“Audits are determined ultimately on what is — or isn’t — included on the tax return,” Lemons said. “The IRS uses a number of processes to determine when to conduct an audit, including matching against third-party information from Forms W-2 and 1099 as well as using data-driven processes to determine possible non-compliance with the tax laws.”
“The IRS has strong safeguards in place to ensure that audits are conducted only based on what is on the tax return – and not other factors,” Lemons said.
We could find no bill exempting Congress members from IRS audits that was proposed or passed, and no exemption for members of Congress in the Inflation Reduction Act. ” https://www.factcheck.org/2022/08/posts-fabricate-claim-that-congress-voted-to-exempt-members-from-irs-audits/
Also see: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/claim-that-congress-members-exempted-themselves-from-irs-audits-started-as-satire/
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-congress-vote-irs-audits-274029719469
“Claims being shared online about U.S. congress voting to exempt itself and its members from upcoming Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits stemmed from a satirical Twitter account.” https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-congress-audits/fact-check-claims-that-congress-voted-to-exempt-itself-from-upcoming-irs-audits-originated-from-satire-account-idUSL1N2ZV0YU
Let me guess , you still believe ivermectin is just a horse dewormer…? You’ve been pushing the vaccine fake news for 2 years.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOUR PARTICIPATION IN IT
To descend into childishness for a moment at the end of a very long hard day where I once again have to deal with your absurd insistence that I not report what the government has to say on a subject you are very much interested in as are many of my readers.
Good, I’m glad you won’t forget that when other sites shut down people who believed very differently than me, I did not.
I’m glad you won’t forget that when the majority of America got vaccines and thought you were an idiot not to, I respected your right not to get one though I disagreed that it was the right thing to do.
I’m glad you won’t forget that when you were an ass to me over and over, I still gave you a spot to spew your poison at me.
But somehow, I don’t know from what wild crazy place in my imagination….I’m guessing that you weren’t going to remember those points…
I loathe this push for vaccines, everything that you do is AWESOME.
JUST LOST MY FOOD FRIEND FROM THE BOOSTER, AFTER BOOSTER AFTER JAB.
because of the non stop narrative that hasn’t done shit but hurt people.
I’m sorry take it out on you, it’s not YOUR FAULT. just a little reminder that we have a huge battle to compete with ignorance and apathy
“We have a huge battle to compete with ignorance”
Oh, the irony.
I understand what you are saying.
I can guarantee that in almost every metric, there’s a huge difference between what you want to believe, and the actual reality.
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m a fool, and a idiot for trusting strangers to see what I’ve seen
OMGodess!!! Thank you Kym. Such hard and vital work you do.
You’re very, very angry about something that just isn’t an issue. Just admit you’re a bigot and move on.
A word from your sponsor……………….
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I guess canceling people isn’t working so well for progressives.
Neither is redefining the entire English language.
Luke Bryan – Buzzkill
(Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw-NDIoCDsA&ab_channel=LukeBryanVEVO
Buzzkill is a hidden-camerareality show which started airing in 1996 on the MTV network. The show derived its name from the slang term buzzkill, meaning a sudden undesired event that causes one’s “high” or “buzz” to become of a lesser experience or depleted.
I guess if you think getting called out for transphobia, racism, or misogyny is a buzzkill, I don’t know what to tell you.
At least 4 or 5 incumbent Republican Senators are going to be cancelled on November 8th giving Democrats a comfortable majority in the U.S. Senate for a change. The GOP had a path to taking the Senate about 6 months ago, before they nominated some of the most laughable idiots in American political history as sure losers like Herschel Whack Job Walker, Dr. Go Back to New Jersey Oz, J.D. Hillbilly Hatemonger Vance, etc.
Ok well i see some desire to be fair in your writing (“People born with….do not deserve…) AND nonetheless it gets warped into the opposite unfortunately. Sexual abuse isn’t a gender issue at all. Women abuse people sexually and so do men and they abuse all sorts of genders…the drive is power and cruelty, period. You’re tired of all the complexity, well join the club and you’re wasting what might be a good mind and heart on blaming gender issues for the power abuse issues.
AND if someone is born with one leg that is how they must live no matter the bi-pedal predominance and punishing them is pointless, cruel and not even good self-interest ultimately. If humans were meant to not live unless they have two legs then all one legged would i suppose die on impact with Earth. Let people be who they are…it is none of your business and had we not made it our public business in the first place then it never would have been except by exhibitionists which come in all shapes, forms etc.
We must start being as citizens all up in governments’ business and stop treating it like a vending machine we toss a few coins in and get what we want or need out of it. We humans (except those working for non-livable wages so many hours a week and raising children that they have no time and even some of them though get caught up in it) need to stop with all the recreation and self adornment and hyper consumerism and start taking better care of business caring for one another and all that our species depends upon or we’re done for. No i am not religious and it is obvious none the less.
Any valid argument one might have for the program really gets washed away when, in the defense of this program, they claim the “woke media” is at fault for the fall out. It’s like the theme line of defense and a red flag they can wave, claiming loudly of their victimization on the right- any criticism, any trouble, any calls for accountability or explanation and then it’s the “woke” people to blame. In addition to “woke,” the other key words that lead to brain malfunction with these types, never failing to illicit fits of rage, there’s “communism” or “socialism” and BAM- the limited thought process completely shuts down. It’s absolutely predictable. Wanna explode the minds of a conservative? Stop them in their tracks? Use the words “woke,” “communism” or “socialism” and it’s OVER for them. Bonus points if you add “illegal immigration.” Make sure you don’t ever ask them to define these kill switch words though. That’s too much. Y’all sound like whiny ass kids with that shit.
Did the press release actually use the term “woke media?” The only place I can see the term is in the headline created by RHBB. The letter refers to “false, shoddy and inaccurate media reporting” which might have triggered this site to use the term in the headline because others have used when complaining about media biases. I could have missed it of course because my concentration wavered every time I tried to read it.
I think the headline unnecessarily biases the letter since the letter itself doesn’t seem to use those exact words.
Using words like “woke” and “cancel culture” immediately red flags an opinion for me and causes me to dismiss anything else that person says.
That aside, the letter itself was simple gaslighting. Who could take an organization providing called ‘Unlimited Freedom’ seriously? And the ‘Art of Soulmaking’? Might as well had a program on crystal healing.
The headline was provided by Ms. Roth.
Mr. Roth. Caryn is actually a man and it is easy to find his picture on google by going to his website.
Caryn’s pronouns are she and her. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carynroth/
Caryn is obviously male and as if it matters at all has not undergone ”transition”. I will not play along to be nice to a man who appears to be a sex pest bothering women locked in prison.
Roger Stone was born a woman. Or he should have been with that Nixon tramp stamp tattoo “he” has on the small of his back to give his daddy Donald something to look at while Trump hits that old ass from behind.
But they are against wokism so . . .
This man will lie about his sex when it is obvious to anyone with eyes. This man will lie about anything.
I’m a car.
And your pronouns are zoom and vroom.
And Crystal Healing is a valid alternative to “Western Medicine”…
If you don’t believe me, i will be happy to sell you some beads that will change your mind!
Crystals will heal you, and “effective masturbation” works too, for a minute…
I’m wondering how one quantitates “reducing stress by 20%”, but many NPO’s, if founded in Delaware, get up to 95% of donated monies, for overhead, travel, meals, clothing and all other expenses, leaving a nickel on the dollar for the purported cause, which IMO, is the real reason that there are so many NPO’s in Northern California and elsewhere…
I still say that efficacious sexual release is a beneficial concept, to a person in prison, and, I think anybody who provides meals, housing and clothing to anybody at all, is doing a good job…
I feel confident that this will turn into another idiot-fest of commenting, so, this is my last word on the subject…
Starting my own NPO, as a life goal…
only right wing nut jobs use the term “woke media”. it stems from ignorance and fear. this rant also reeks of misguided legal threats which seems to go hand in hand.
These right-wing racist hillbilly troglodytes who hide out in numbers in this site’s comments section as a “safe space” is just sad. They’re so delusional.
Trend of the year for the 2022: blaming “woke media” when you get called out for doing fucked up shit.
FAKE NEWS ?
Exactly!
Ignorance and apathy?
^Don’t know, don’t care ^
If there’s even a hint of sex the prudes will rise with their pitchforks and torches and
storm the barricades, ie, this comment section…
Sheesh… It was not only sex, the company “not related” but so connected also was alleged to have efforts money and used threatening techniques to be profitable. But even if it was only sex, having a program involving sex for guards in a prison for women could easily place those women in danger.
That was “extort” money. Not efforts.
I wonder if it started at the juvenile detention center. Possibly a concerned parent
I’m anti PIC, prisoners being kept in lockdown due to covid restrictions.
Lots in the news lately about poor jail conditions
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2022/10/rikers-island-dangerous-conditions-photos-squalid/
Here’s a recent one.
I have no problem if consenting adults want to do group masturbation as a “practice”
But can see how that would be problematic for any charity org that is linked to said group.
The report they was published by RHBB was factual, and investigative
A real news piece.
Sorry for anyone who was relying on UF food/ charity programs.
Hoping some group can fill that need
Can’t you just feed homeless people without doing the sex cult part? That would be great! Oh but how do you get the money to do that? Oh yeah- special soul-making fees for masturbation workshops!! You don’t really have a soul until you have an orgasm, right?
Crack me up!
Lol
All this stuff gets so easily turned around.
“Me Too”, for instance, suddenly didn’t apply when Tara Reid announced her complaint.
When the real problems seem intractable, there’s a tendency to get distracted with nonsense.
Our common language has been bastardized in the service of Wokeness.
The rebuttal to the response will be interesting.
The rebuttal will be a freshly tossed salad of newspeak and gender soul croutons.
https://kymkemp.com/2022/10/16/one-question-for-onetaste-sarah-reith-responds/
I’m sorry Kim. I just think that using female pronouns for men is a mistake because it makes the reporting fuzzy. I realize you have a style guide or something something policy but I do think it makes the complete picture. The idea had me rushing to the search engine to look up a picture of Caryn Roth and sure enough it is a man dressed as a man who is using female pronouns. I think this is noteworthy and the story should have come with a picture of Caryn Roth so everyone can see for themselves.’
I do run to the search engine every time I see a weird report like this or ‘woman rapes child’ or ‘woman attacking the senate with militia Jan 6th’ or ‘woman murders 2 lesbians and their son’. Turns out none of them were women.
That being said I’m glad this guy was exposed and his program/grift was shut down. This a good thing. Thank you.
First, I wouldn’t care if Ms. Roth was born a male. Second, to the best of my knowledge you are incorrect. Third, I think it is troubling that you are repeatedly bringing up something that as far as I can tell you have made up.
PACK OF LIES
Exposed creepy cult upset, boo hoo hoo. There’s quite a few podcasts that have interviewed ex members of the one taste cult, riveting listening.
This is all so trivial and meaningless. But hey – it serves its purpose: to distract people from the fact that our “president” is threatening nuclear war with Russia in order to cover up his criminal acts… and all the gluten-free, non-binary lab rats are in favor of that.
Just another Trump traitor on this site sucking war criminal Vlad’s KGB micropenis. Move to Moscow, comrade!
P.S. – GOP Senators will lose in November, and Miss Lindsey G. will cry!
One taste is like Scientology, you pay a few thousand bucks for the first seminar, then they dangle a carrot to get you to take the next seminar promising to take you to new heights, then they dangle the next carrot telling you if you’re serious you’ll fork out thousands more for the next level seminar, until your willing to pay $25,000 for the grand finale seminar, watching somebody have an hr long orgasm.
It’s too bad we can’t muster a group of people who aren’t the outreach wing of a sex cult/MLM scheme to provide those kinds of programs for the jails. Gardening, bee keeping, raising chickens, yoga, meditation, all sound like great things to include in any incarceration scenario where rehabilitation is actually the goal.
BBC radio 4 has a podcast series called the ” orgasm cult” about one taste, and the podcast Trust Me episode 19 is an interview with an ex follower of one taste
Does anyone care about the inmates and how they feel about this program being cancelled?
Not one iota…
The only “program” that any prisoner, county, state, or otherwise, should be able to participate in is on a chain gang allowing the government agency responsible for them to make some money off their labor to offset the cost of housing their sorry asses, thus lowering taxes incurred all the way around.
Big question is if you’re such a great organization why would you fold your tables at the obsessive whining of a couple of people. Who cares what people think of you just do your job, charity is not meant to get a pat on the back. It’s meant to do good. Charity is not self rewarding even though it may be selfish it’s about giving so get your butts back to work and we appreciate what you do but are you doing it out of appreciation or because it’s the right thing to do in fact if you do quit it makes you look like perhaps you weren’t in it for the right reason
A 20000 dollar chicken coop?;?!??!!!? That like a mansion! I’d like to know the exact specs of said coop !!
I see the removal of a sad fact that both the County an Local organizations did not do the diligence of looking past the shiny offering of UF (Unconditional Freedom) and find out who, what, where, and when they decided to offer such a program. While the current program censure is sure to affect many,the fact that disclosure of there origin or benefactor has now came to light will affect many whom they do serve or have served as reformed inmates may see the education received as fallacy and the homeless may see it as mental ploy to gain supremacy.
I see many people walking away returning to the very thing the sheriff and local organizations sought to close gap and provide meaningful purpose to in a world that often leads a down on their luck person from the food line to time in jail that once meant hands in soil leading to hope at the table the once sat at.
So the question is what role did OT(One Taste) play in UF and do they need to be such a integral partner going forward. Did OT start out as a benefactor or were they the corporate overseer to a Non profit providing behind the scene logistics to the program they felt should not be a part of random volunteer to do. If the structure was infact a way of soliciting membership to volunteers or the people the served than they deserve to feel the repercussions of their decisions and if they only stood infact as a benefactor that provided support than the path forward may need to be restructuring and release of all ties to OT as it’s benefactor.
The cost to people’s lives could be sickening if in fact their was a deviant undertone to their mission. We as Mendocino county residents only need to look to our past to see The People’s Church and it’s Leader Jim Jones who worked in our County Social Services using that and a community program to recruit many to the doom and or dissolution in that fallowed. We will inevitably see law suits wether their are founded or not to the fact someone was led into a organization that some may call a cult and the financial repercussions will follow us into perpetuity and dictate whether we offer programs such as this ever again.
The only path UF has is total disclosure along with OT allowing the same to reassure the public that they infact had no ill intent and that they are willing to seek separation from one another in hopes of a path forward we as a community should have say in whether they see it as divisive or not.
Go Woke…Go Broke…
Where’s the OUTRAGE?
One death, a tragedy
One thousand, one million. ..
Statistics
I don’t care what program, so long as it gets tax dollars and provides vital services and/or has power of basic human needs ( county, city and federal prisons, hospitals, housing, transportation, and ALL “Non”-profits) MUST start having independent review boards for complaints and far more oversight. Also, citizen review boards chosen like jury duty and changed every year with excellent records kept so that lessons can be learned as we go.
Most importantly there are zero safe places for complaints right now for institutions that have great power over basic human rights and also many non-profits run like little benevolent dictatorships ; all away from the public eye except by those who need the services or are trapped in them. Any where tax dollars are used for vital services: foster system, yes Betty Chin and the Mission Shelter and Sempervirons and the city jail etc. etc. etc – the vulnerable are not trusted and not given a place to safely complain in the first place.
Whoops been commenting on what i didn’t see is an old article.