This was recorded as a Facebook Live video for my friends and social media followers and readers of my blog. If you don’t already know my story this probably isn’t particularly interesting. 😉 It’s just me sitting in my house talking – lol!
Thank you for commenting! Yes. Why how did you know?
I used a state of the art potato to record this!
Actually, no. I am a low income mother of disabled children and I have dedicated my life to helping others through my childhood Lead poisoning prevention advocacy work.
…As such I have an old laptop that my husband was given as a “gift” many years ago because it was dead. My husband and I used to work as consultants with Apple Computers (before I decided to do Lead poisoning prevention advocacy full time) and he was able to resurrect this P.O.S. laptop to some degree. The letters on they keys have worn off from my typing. The sound input does not work (we got it that way and were not able to fix it) so a friend of mine bought me the headphones I am wearing in the video (as a gift, in support of my advocacy) so that you can hear me when I make videos.
I have over $350,000 in debt because of attacks on my advocacy work over the past four years (since I did an event with Bernie Sanders in Flint, Michigan and since I was the named whistleblower in the Lead-In-Water case with the Portland Public Schools – which resulted in the Superintendent “retiring” and the Director of Facilities being fired.)
A huge chunk of that debt is due to lost income (money borrowed to cover costs) from my illegal arrest for crimes I did not commit (and for charges that were dropped in full) and another chunk is legal debt for members of my 10-lawyer legal team. If you are not aware of my lawsuit you can read it here – we are now suing the State of Oregon in Federal Court for multiple counts of civil rights violations against me (at the hands of incompetent public agency representatives over the past four years): https://tamararubin.com/2019/08/on-august-28th-my-legal-team-filed-a-lawsuit-were-suing-the-state-of-oregon-in-federal-court/
If you are feeling generous and would like to buy me a brand new state-of-the-art Apple computer as a gift (or a bag of potatoes to help feed my family for that matter – my kids like potatoes – but if I had a new computer that could make better videos I might be able to afford to buy my own potatoes!), I would greatly appreciate it.
My mailing address is:
Tamara Rubin
Lead Safe Mama, LLC
7933 SE 15th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97202
My husband actually put $80 down on a new computer for me the other day and I think we have to come up with $750 to buy it (used from a pawn shop)… so that’s an option too, but a brand new computer would serve me much better given how much of my time I spend online!
Again, Thank you for commenting. I will also send this to you to your email address to make sure you get it!
What about callaway? I probably bought them in the 80’s
What did you use to record this? A potato?
Hi Pat.
Thank you for commenting! Yes. Why how did you know?
I used a state of the art potato to record this!
Actually, no. I am a low income mother of disabled children and I have dedicated my life to helping others through my childhood Lead poisoning prevention advocacy work.
…As such I have an old laptop that my husband was given as a “gift” many years ago because it was dead. My husband and I used to work as consultants with Apple Computers (before I decided to do Lead poisoning prevention advocacy full time) and he was able to resurrect this P.O.S. laptop to some degree. The letters on they keys have worn off from my typing. The sound input does not work (we got it that way and were not able to fix it) so a friend of mine bought me the headphones I am wearing in the video (as a gift, in support of my advocacy) so that you can hear me when I make videos.
I have over $350,000 in debt because of attacks on my advocacy work over the past four years (since I did an event with Bernie Sanders in Flint, Michigan and since I was the named whistleblower in the Lead-In-Water case with the Portland Public Schools – which resulted in the Superintendent “retiring” and the Director of Facilities being fired.)
A huge chunk of that debt is due to lost income (money borrowed to cover costs) from my illegal arrest for crimes I did not commit (and for charges that were dropped in full) and another chunk is legal debt for members of my 10-lawyer legal team. If you are not aware of my lawsuit you can read it here – we are now suing the State of Oregon in Federal Court for multiple counts of civil rights violations against me (at the hands of incompetent public agency representatives over the past four years): https://tamararubin.com/2019/08/on-august-28th-my-legal-team-filed-a-lawsuit-were-suing-the-state-of-oregon-in-federal-court/
If you are feeling generous and would like to buy me a brand new state-of-the-art Apple computer as a gift (or a bag of potatoes to help feed my family for that matter – my kids like potatoes – but if I had a new computer that could make better videos I might be able to afford to buy my own potatoes!), I would greatly appreciate it.
My mailing address is:
Tamara Rubin
Lead Safe Mama, LLC
7933 SE 15th Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97202
If you don’t have enough on hand to buy me a new computer, here’s the link to chip in in support of my advocacy work: https://tamararubin.com/2017/01/chip-in/
My husband actually put $80 down on a new computer for me the other day and I think we have to come up with $750 to buy it (used from a pawn shop)… so that’s an option too, but a brand new computer would serve me much better given how much of my time I spend online!
Again, Thank you for commenting. I will also send this to you to your email address to make sure you get it!
Tamara Rubin