Things to be done for ChickenHed, communities of mourners

[deadletter]

I'll try to post with some comprehensibility about what kind of efforts tthere are - there are CRAPLOADS of things being done _besides_ the things I list here, of course.

If you don't' already know how to get support to people who need it, call me at 206-383-7306, and we will get it on. That's pirate mail!




1) There are two different kinds of victims. Let's imagine for a moment that Kyle Huff had murdered every single person at the party. The 'survivors' would be all of the people who _weren't_ there, and our efforst would go towards them/us in our grief. They would be who we point our relief efforts at.

Since he left, thank goodness, many many people alive, then _those_ people become our first tier.



And those very people who _would_ have been able to sink into grief find themselves having to keep it together for our friends who are very traumatized.



For first tier victims, we are starting to build wish-lists, and there IS a paypal account for funeral expenses, victims families, etc:


2112relief@gmail.com



The shopping list for the group of survivors is items such as:

a) FOOD! They are eating it about as fast as we provide it, and we haven't even begun getting stuff to the families of the teenagers. We need lots of food.

- Food you cook has more emotional impact, and then
- giant costco runs are helpful for keeping the big groups of people fed, and then
- A bag of house groceries, easy things to cook. Several of the survivors kitchens were completely eaten throughn in the first day, and now they are staring at the ass end of their own groceries, dazedly trying to figure out what to eat. We would like to make it VERY EASY for them to pick up food.
- food delivered to the people on the corner. The chickenhed kids were very specific about wanting someone to take the kids watching their house food (and green)

b) wine (more for the spirit of drinking to friends, rather than beer for getting drunk)
c) cigarettes - they're using them up pretty fast. A single pack, a carton. American Spirits


d) Mail - if you didn't know anyone specific in the, address it to the murdered that you were closest to, and we will get it to their friends. The personal feel of a physical letter is helpful. We'll throw it in a pirate mail envelope and get it to them.





Now, here's a really awful thing on the wishlist.



The house is still covered in blood. it isn't the police's job to clean. There ARE cleaning services that clean up crime scenes. If someone wants to donate those services, to perhaps start TOMORROW (wed) or Thursday, then they could try to move out ASAP by the first.


Also, looking for a house. They aren't really up to it, and yet they want OUT NOW. So if you know of a place, we're talking 6 people, five bedrooms, I think. I'll check today.



If you don't already know, there's something fun going on with speakers today at noon. I'm happy to tell you, we're keeping it a tiny bit quiet from media. Call me at 206-383-7306





Okay,


2) The second tier victims - There's three main communities of mourners, each with lots of pods that may or may not know each other.

a) ChickenHed - all the people who were friends with Jeremy and Jason tend to overlap, and we are your best point of contact for them if you don't already have one (use your own if you have one! Feed your friends who are closer in!). Ben Grad, Dead Letter B, 206-=383-7306


b) Sushi/Deacon - the mourners for those friends are centered around The Spot, on University Way


c) Melissa/Suzanne - we need good contacts for that group of friends, if you have them.



There's a lot of groups just close enough to know friends affected, who don't realize that they are deserving of support. They think of themselves as 'here to help', and you are probably one. Your needs matter to us. Have the balls to call me up and tell me what your group needs. Do it for the other people in the group who wouldn't be brave enough to ask for anything.


Everybody wants to do stuff for 'other' people. Great. Please help me give people a way to help by letting them give stuff to you, and you stuff to them.




Now, suppose you've put together some care packages. Care Packages for chickenhed (jeremy, jason) can get there through us. Care packages for the mourners who were close to Deacon and Sushi can go to The Spot, on the Ave (I think it is 4209). I'll check in with them today - as will everyone, they think of themselves as 'there to help others', without realizing that they themselves need the support.


I've received some phone calls from people who are friends with Suzanne and Melissa. We do NOT yet have a good pirate mail contact to get stuff over to that communicate, I figure we will today. So if you'd like to direct your love there, start putting it together, and we'll find them later today.



Thanks,



;-b

[Adlib]

Thanks for al the hard work man!

[Godlike]

DL's an easy guy to get a hold of and work with..

make use of it, folks..



DL: stand by for a PM...

[ProblematicBeat]

Will Deadletter be making an Ignite stop tonight?

[little miss mew]

There is a memorial planning meeting for those affected in the rave community that want to get involved. Because this has ALREADY been publicized ( =( ) and we'd like to keep it media-free, please email elise@mewie.com to get details or check in with your friends.

Thanks.

[deadletter]

I drove up on Saturday morning with Ari, to come home, visit friends, ChickenHed... Ari's loves shouting, "Barf Your Dog, Eat Your Cat" on ChickenHed's microphones.


So when I start to see ravers tell each other how they 'should' behave in front of the house - someone thought it was 'childish' to dance around being silly - I thought it was pretty perfect, myself, and I'm 29 now - I shout,


"Barf Your Dog! Eat Your Cat!"



When Ari heard that chickenheds got hurt, he said he had a new one:


"Barf Your Dad! Eat Your Mom!"

[Odizus]

I'd do a costco run, for something over the weekend. Like a giant wake or a mourning gathering of some sort. I work full time on the weekdays and I try to follow all your posts on how I can help, but it's hard with peopel looking over my shoulder. Can someone email me with stuff I can do, I dunno if i trust the online donation stuff, I SMELL A SCAM WAITING TO HAPPEN.

winks286@yahoo.com

please be specific on the content of your e-mail in title, no one has that addy, so I am not too worried. :D

Thanx guys ,

Jen

[maus]

Originally posted by deadletter
Now, here's a really awful thing on the wishlist.



The house is still covered in blood. it isn't the police's job to clean. There ARE cleaning services that clean up crime scenes. If someone wants to donate those services, to perhaps start TOMORROW (wed) or Thursday, then they could try to move out ASAP by the first.



If the landlord or tenants have insurance, they will generally pay for this sort of clean up. If I can get landlord info (I know I saw his name in a paper somewhere but I've read too much in the last few days) I can call and see what he's got, but I can't speak for the people who actually lived there (renters insurance?)

I can't afford to pay for it all myself or I gladly would, but I can help get it started... it's one of the few things I can do while working during the day. :/

-m

[Cethe]

has anyone ever herd of the washington state labor & industries crime victims compensation fund?

i don't have a website off hand, but i doubt it's that hard to find.

application process etc....but good resource for assitance getting the house cleaned up & finding a new place

[deadletter]

Jessica Vidicans of the Chai House is calling to find out what that kind of thing costs. If we find the people, we will try to have them come in and do that really soon. How they get paid, etc, we will then look for the insurance.


If you find the landlord's number, it seems as if he would return your call if you explained that we, supporting them, are trying to organize to get the place cleaned immediately so that they can go back in and get their stuff out without having to look at it, and could we please know the number of the insurance company to find out if they will pay it if we find it?



Here's another thing - last night I asked Jesiah about the party a week ago. Jeremy took 'complete responsibility' for the party, etc, and so when it comes to getting back the cash box and other confiscated things (he was _definitely_ sore about the police taking everything), apparently Jeremy is the only one, in theory, who it could be released to.


So what we need is some pressure. First, one person to make a few calls and find out who is responsible, without talking to them very much - when we find out exactly who is responsible for such things, we call them and have one, short conversation about the procedure for getting the stuff released, and then we call that person's _boss_ to try to secure permission for the underling to make it go easy.


Meta! Always go one step up the ladder!


;-b

[deadletter]

The party I am referring to was a 9 days ago, and resulted in getting raided by the cops. Jeremy is the only name on the confiscated gear. Someone in the city can be hacked by a) tracing the responsibility as high as we can, and then b) calling upstairs one or two layers _before_ the system itself bumps us up a layer.


Fun! Games with Bureaucracies!

;-b

[abbyrose]

The landlord's name is Gregg T. Doyle. However, I do not know his number. I believe that he lives in California and he used to have the property managed by Roanoke properties the first time Jeremy lived there but the property manager switched over by the second time they rented the house. Also, many people willing to donate to a fund for the cleaning service or relocation on my end so please PM me when that is set up. Thanks alot and lots of love.

[wingnut]

I'm not sure what I can do yet, but I just wanted to say that you guys are AMAZING for doing all this. Even just observing, the solidity of caring in this community brings tears to my eyes. I couldn't ask for a better "scene" to have fallen into two years ago!!

THANK YOU
wingnut

[deadletter]

So, since I'm a big information geek, one of my first priorities was trying to get a site made to help us _collect_ all the memories we can of Jeremy while everyone is freshly remembering.


And, it made sense to try to give the other communities of mourners the same tool.


So we built http://www.chickenhedlives.org



The hope is to have a tool whereby entire groups of people can have a central place for all the pictures, video, stories, entries about - anything with a URL.


We'll work on adding more things - still, I would want to emphasize that this is a _working_ site - come help us fill it up! When you visit, track down one new URL and put it into the system. There's going to be MASSIVE amounts of working looking for each and every newspaper article URL about this around the country - and yet that is exactly what we hope to do.


Thanks, and pass on that here is another way for people to assist us. Simnple, at home - and free! (warning: time and energy not included)


;-b

[philovirus]

I tried to post the precise link on the chickenhedlives site but not sure if it needs approval or if it just didn't like me :(
I did this last night for people to link to the chickenhed site quite easily:
http://www.nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=99108

[deadletter]

I see your submission, and mine - yours probably had 'type' as something other than 'web page' .


Matters not. Thanks! Good job!




Sarah suggested some pretty bracelets of silver and black (candy raver style) that either say 'ChickenHed' or 'Deacon', 'Jason', 'Sushi', etc.


if anyone out there wants to go make one, then post about how much it cost to find the beads. it's a cute bit of art that nods to everybody.


My dad, an attorney, pointed out that we don't necessarily _know_ for certain that the landlord will let them out of the lease - we have to ask. I would like to try to track him down today, if anyone knows better than I how to find the property managers, please post it here or call me at 206-383-7306

;-b

[paxus]

Great work, a step in the right direction : )

-&rew

[BabyJungleKitty]

Thank you so much for writing this. It means ALOT to everyone.
Ill be helping out as much as I can.

Ive already donated to the survivors funds, ill also try to donate to the crime scene clean up.

Also ill mail you about somthing else maybe you can help me with.

My heart goes out to everyone involved in this. I personally lost one of my best friends.

If anyone needs to talk let me know. Im always here for you.

Katie Rachelle

[annabelle]

:)

[pmocek]

Originally posted by deadletter I would like to try to track [the landlord] down today, if anyone knows better than I how to find the property managers, please post it here or call me at 206-383-7306

Here's a lead: Someone claiming to be the house's previous owner wrote in the comments (http://www.thestranger.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=5152) for today's "What will happen to the house" Slog post (http://www.thestranger.com/blog/archives/2006/03/26-01.php#a005152) that he has been in contact with the current owner recently. He says they're both in South America.

[maus]

Originally posted by deadletter
[B
My dad, an attorney, pointed out that we don't necessarily _know_ for certain that the landlord will let them out of the lease - we have to ask. I would like to try to track him down today, if anyone knows better than I how to find the property managers, please post it here or call me at 206-383-7306

;-b [/B]

My websearching skills found a professer at calpoly with the name D. Gregg Doyle (the name of the house owner) that has references to Seattle. I have sent him an email asking if it is him and my reason for contacting, if I don't get word from him soon, I will try and call as well (that's harder for me to do from work)

Next on my list: trying to figure out who the property management folks are.

[Recess]

Originally posted by Cethe
has anyone ever herd of the washington state labor & industries crime victims compensation fund?

i don't have a website off hand, but i doubt it's that hard to find.

application process etc....but good resource for assitance getting the house cleaned up & finding a new place

(360) 902-5355

http://www.lni.wa.gov/ClaimsIns/CrimeVictims/default.asp

"We pay after other resources are exhausted
State law requires victims to exhaust other insurance resources, both public and private, before using the benefits of the Crime Victims' Compensation Program."

[Shakti Goddess]

quote:
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" has anyone ever herd of the washington state labor & industries crime victims compensation fund?"
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As best I can tell from reading their site, their assistance is designed for medical and funeral costs after all other outside assistance and insurance is exhausted.

There also seems to be some assistance programs for the blood relatives of those murdered, but I couldn't find anything that would assist in the relocation of those who survived, however the interface wasn't super friendly and I may have missed something.

I also researched a larger government site and found a link for

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/help/map/wa.htm
It is a government program for victims of terrorism and acts of violence, I think this is quite an act of mass violence, but It is hard to understand their criteria.

It seems they offer a bit broader range of support, and financial assistance, however it involves a lengthy application process, and 4-6months for a decision, and then can pay out quite a bit, but in this circumstance it doesn't seem immediate enough.

Last night at the community center meeting I believe I remember a local organization which wished to help. Was this relocation and clean-up something within the scope of what they assist with?

I know we have some resources in our community, and will all be as absolutely generous as possible, but certainly there has to be some program that deals with the immediate needs of survivors, I mean, where do all my tax dollars go? (I don't think I really want anyone to answer that actually)

Renee

[maus]

Good news on the house cleanup front. The email address I found was indeed for the owner of the house. Here is what he had to say:

Hello--
Yes, it is my house, I have many positive memories there. I am also a member of the BurningMan community, and was happy to know some Burners were living there. I think that I would like to get together with Burners affected by this, on the Playa this year.

Building management will first have access to the house today, with an insurance adjuster. I think cleanup will be covered, but we'll know more today. Thomas is willing to work with you and the tenants, and we understand if they do not want to re-enter the house. We'll work it out.

I too am in shock. When I lived there, I was also strongly connected to Madison Market and activist groups, and there is a large community of folks who have been associated with that house as a center of community over the last 9 1/2 years--including me and my friends. I am very sorry for your loss, and my thoughts are with you, the tenants and party guests, and all the friends and family who suffer from this senseless tragedy.

Hugs to all. Peace.

D.Gregg Doyle

He also included the Name and number of the building manager, I left voicemail for deadletter to get that his way. With luck, cleanup will no longer be an issue we have to focus on, just keeping people fed and safe.

-m

[James Capricorn]

You guys are pretty amazing. :)

[Adlib]

Thank you again so much to Ben and everyone else doing this. You guys are hardcore troopers.

[TProphet]

I have a large master bedroom in my house with nothing but a saw and some sawdust in it (we were building a fence and sawed the stuff in there). Those can both be out in short order unless you'd rather they be there (sawdust pile is a nice place to lay eggs). Also, erratic is moving to Olympia so I'll have another room in a week or so.

If anyone from the Chickenhed house needs a place to float for awhile I own the place. You're welcome here as long as Adam or Jesiah vouches for you (or you *are* Adam or Jesiah). Adam has my number and if he doesn't, ask him to have Tad give it to you.

[kitemi]

thank you all for all of this work it is amazing!

I'm working with Nancy, Suzanne's mom, to try and organize a memorial for Suzanne. She's trying to meet Suzanne's friends, get in contact with them, but doesn't know how. If you know how, can you please contact me at supporteachother@gmail.com ?

Also, feel free to contact me about anything else that I can help with. I'm working with a lot of folks connecting them with resources (such as grief and trauma counseling), communicating on their behalf to authorities, or providing space for various get-together needs. unfortunately, i don't have access to a house. thanks to all those providing.

We're planning a get-together for Suzanne's friends and her family tomorrow at 7p. Email me if you want to know where, I'm asking that you email so that we can weed media out. Here's the post from the other thread:
http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=99152

thanks and prayers to all

[Cethe]

Originally posted by Recess
(360) 902-5355

http://www.lni.wa.gov/ClaimsIns/CrimeVictims/default.asp

"We pay after other resources are exhausted
State law requires victims to exhaust other insurance resources, both public and private, before using the benefits of the Crime Victims' Compensation Program."

damnit....yeah i figured that was the case, just didnt' have time to research here at work....

[00range]

Hi Everyone!!!

Deadletter, myself, and some other burners are going to come down to The Spot tonight with food and letters. If anyone else wants to do that too, that would be AWESOME!!!

We will be there from 9pm to 12 am, and I'm sure that we'll be hard to miss.

We will have a place for you to write letters to the victims.

One thing that we really need help with is more connections to the people who need food. We have a massive network that is ready to help, but we (sadly) don't know many of you yet. We need help getting the supplies and love to the right people. Please get back to me if you can help with this, or just come talk to us at The Spot tonight. We want to help in a major way!

It's time for communities to come together and make some magic happen, no?

LOVE!!!!!

-Gwen aka AGENT ORANGE

[hotsaucegemini]

Originally posted by maus
Good news on the house cleanup front. The email address I found was indeed for the owner of the house. Here is what he had to say:

Hello--
Yes, it is my house, I have many positive memories there. I am also a member of the BurningMan community, and was happy to know some Burners were living there. I think that I would like to get together with Burners affected by this, on the Playa this year.

Building management will first have access to the house today, with an insurance adjuster. I think cleanup will be covered, but we'll know more today. Thomas is willing to work with you and the tenants, and we understand if they do not want to re-enter the house. We'll work it out.

I too am in shock. When I lived there, I was also strongly connected to Madison Market and activist groups, and there is a large community of folks who have been associated with that house as a center of community over the last 9 1/2 years--including me and my friends. I am very sorry for your loss, and my thoughts are with you, the tenants and party guests, and all the friends and family who suffer from this senseless tragedy.

Hugs to all. Peace.

D.Gregg Doyle

He also included the Name and number of the building manager, I left voicemail for deadletter to get that his way. With luck, cleanup will no longer be an issue we have to focus on, just keeping people fed and safe.

-m

I am crying, silently, at the compassion from this man. I can understand now, why the vibe at 2112 was always amazing... the owner himslef invited tenants who were creative, joyous and eccentric. It heartens me to know this little tid bit of info. Does anyone else think it is so appropriate that Jeremy's service is on April Fools Day?!

[SupadjDaze]

My heart goes out to the families this tragedy has affected.... We are trying to do our part check this out I hope it helps....

http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?postid=1554144#post1554144

Our prayers are with you guys...

[Nukegrrrl]

Originally posted by hotsaucegemini
Does anyone else think it is so appropriate that Jeremy's service is on April Fools Day?! Oh, yeah :)