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Title of Grant <br />Request <br />Joe Troop's Musical Plea for Leonard Peltier's Clemency <br />Grant Amount <br />Requested <br />2000 <br />Project Start Date <br />(no earlier than July <br />1, 2022) <br />7.1.2022 <br />Project End Date (no <br />later than June 30, <br />2023) <br />12.31.22 <br />Project/Program <br />Summary <br />Leonard Peltier is a Nativ e American activ ist who's been imprisoned <br />since 1977, serv ing two life sentences for crimes he holds he did not <br />commit. Global leaders like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and the <br />14th Dalai Lama hav e campaigned for Peltier's clemency to no av ail. <br />Joe Troop, bandleader of former GRAMMY-nominated band Che <br />Apalache, has a long record of social activ ism. From working in the <br />Borderlands to penning a song to adv ocate for funding for the USPS <br />(with great, v iral bluegrass success!) to raising awareness of the <br />injustice surrounding Dreama Caldwell's cash bail to currently <br />working with asylum-seeking migrants, Troop has always used his <br />platform for social justice. For reference, his email marketing list is <br />1,400 subscribers. He has nearly 5,000 friends on Facebook and ov er <br />3,000 followers on Instagram. A successful YouTube v ideo reached <br />ov er 22,000 v iews and a successful - and more recent - Instagram <br />v ideo reached ov er 99,000 v iews. He has been cov ered by Rolling <br />Stones, NPRMusic, GemsOnVHS, W estern AF, Country Queer, and <br />The Nation to name a few. <br />He has just written a song about Leonard Peltier and with the support <br />of Mebane-based community organizer Crystal Cav alier, part of the <br />Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation and founder of Missing and <br />Murdered Indigenous W omen Coalition of North Carolina. In <br />conjunction with Efland-based Indigenous-run media company <br />Iximché Media, Troop will record, release, and promote a v ideo of his <br />original song to raise awareness of not only Peltier's situation but <br />also an entire mov ement: “Leonard Peltier’s W alk to Justice," a <br />national march from Minneapolis to W ashington DC by The American <br />Indian Mov ement’s Grand Gov erning Council People. <br />The march takes place September 1st to Nov ember 18th. Troop has <br />already written his song and workshopped it with Cav alier. He will film <br />the music v ideo in early to mid July with Iximché Media to be released <br />in late August at a kick-off community ev ent and rally likely held at <br />Cedar Grov e Community Center (Hillsborough). Final place and time <br />to be determined, though it will certainly be in Orange County as <br />Cav alier is organizing the ev ent and her preferred v enues are there. <br />Crystal Cav alier is an experienced community organizer. She is a <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: 9A6AA2C9-9EAB-49CB-8AF3-C941B61D6A84