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  • About:
    • Two Organizations in One:
      • Wild Willpower PAC – America’s first “Civil PAC”
      • The Peaceable Assembly
    • Our Code of Ethics
    • Endorsement Letters:
      • Co-Founder & Former President of the California Lichen Society, Bill Hill
      • Richard Lonewolf, Ethnobotany and Wilderness Survival Expert
    • Special Thanks:
      • Kevin Ray Byrd
      • Jason Baker, Tech Support
      • Environmental Studies Professor Frank Schiavo, M.M.L. (1939-2010)
      • Bill Hill & The California Lichen Society
      • Ashawna Hailey (1949-2011)
      • Samaritans of the USA
      • To All the Tech Nerds
  • Our National Plan:
    • Right to Homestead Act:
      • “Who Owns Ames, Iowa?” – upcoming documentary
    • Civilian Restoration Corps:
      • Ecological Restoration:
      • Sustainable Cities
      • ** History & Purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps
    • Justice Accessibility Act:
      • Teach Jurisprudence in High Schools
      • Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Color of Law Crimes
      • Government Officials Must Provide Email Addresses
      • Additional Justice Reform Solutions
    • Weaning off fossil fuels
    • Education Reform:
      • Offer Local Native Language Courses in All U.S. School Systems
      • Sponsor Native Teachers to Train Wildharvesting Cooperatives
      • Teach Accurate, Non-Bias History in Schools
      • Teach Sustainable Gardening and Applied Ethnobiology in Schools
      • Sponsor Native Teachers to Teach via The Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
    • Swords to Plowshares Act (international policy)
  • Current Projects:
    • Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
      • Donate a Book – Help Build The Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
    • “Civil Rights Self-Defense” legal self-help website
      • Stop Courtroom Abuse!
    • Resources to Help You Live Sustainably:
      • Ecological Restoration:
      • Homesteading Starter Kits:
      • Highly-Efficient Gardening Techniques:
      • Clean Energy Inventions:
      • “Simple-Tech” DIY Home Improvement Techniques:
  • Cases in Progress:
    • California Cases:
      • Robbed by Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies
      • Homeless woman charged >$600 for sleeping outdoors (Marin County, CA)
    • Iowa – Ames Resident Seeks to Improve Iowa’s Justice System:
      • Transgender Iowan, arrested for going in the women’s restroom in 2006, still seeks justice (2022)
      • Following an unjust court ruling, officer warns Ames resident to “leave the state” for her safety (2009)
      • City of Ames obstructs Citizens from Petitioning (2018)
      • Transgender Woman Claims Nonprofit “Reliable Street” Retaliated Against Her for Filing a Civil Rights Complaint:
    • Standing Rock Class Action
  • Publications:
    • “More Valuable Than Gold” Ethnobotany textbook
    • “The Hidden History of Law” textbook series
    • “How to Legally Claim Abandoned Real Estate”
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  • About:
    • Two Organizations in One:
      • Wild Willpower PAC – America’s first “Civil PAC”
        • Sondra Wilson, Founder and Executive Director
      • The Peaceable Assembly
    • Our Code of Ethics
    • Endorsement Letters:
      • Co-Founder & Former President of the California Lichen Society, Bill Hill
      • Richard Lonewolf, Ethnobotany and Wilderness Survival Expert
    • Special Thanks:
      • Kevin Ray Byrd
      • Jason Baker, Tech Support
      • Environmental Studies Professor Frank Schiavo, M.M.L. (1939-2010)
      • Bill Hill & The California Lichen Society
      • Ashawna Hailey (1949-2011)
      • Samaritans of the USA
      • To All the Tech Nerds
  • Our National Plan:
    • Right to Homestead Act:
      • “Who Owns Ames, Iowa?” – upcoming documentary
    • Civilian Restoration Corps:
      • Ecological Restoration:
        • Native Animal Cooperatives
        • Oceti Sakowin Heritage Trail
        • Wildharvesting Cooperatives
          • Kern River Wildharvesting Cooperative
            • Bulk Native Foods and Herbs, and Backpacking Mixes
            • Our Commitments:
              • Coordinate Respectfully with Forest Officials
              • Uphold The Zero Trash Commitment
              • Use Positive-Impact Harvesting Techniques
              • Wildfire Prevention
        • Paid for by gradually transferring livestock subsidies
          • The Devastating Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Animal Industries
          • Animal Abuse & Subjugation in the Current U.S. Economy
      • Sustainable Cities
      • ** History & Purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps
    • Justice Accessibility Act:
      • Teach Jurisprudence in High Schools
      • Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Color of Law Crimes
      • Government Officials Must Provide Email Addresses
      • Additional Justice Reform Solutions
    • Weaning off fossil fuels
    • Education Reform:
      • Offer Local Native Language Courses in All U.S. School Systems
      • Sponsor Native Teachers to Train Wildharvesting Cooperatives
      • Teach Accurate, Non-Bias History in Schools
      • Teach Sustainable Gardening and Applied Ethnobiology in Schools
      • Sponsor Native Teachers to Teach via The Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
    • Swords to Plowshares Act (international policy)
  • Current Projects:
    • Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
      • Donate a Book – Help Build The Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
    • “Civil Rights Self-Defense” legal self-help website
      • Stop Courtroom Abuse!
    • Resources to Help You Live Sustainably:
      • Ecological Restoration:
        • Native Animals, & Organizations Involved in Their Restoration:
          • Plains Bison & Wood Bison Restoration – Get Involved
          • Elk Restoration – Get Involved
          • Pronghorn (Antelope) Restoration – Get Involved
          • Woodland Caribou Restoration – Get Involved
          • Bighorn Sheep Restoration – Get Involved
          • Mountain Goat Restoration – Get Involved
          • Porcupine Restoration – Get Involved
          • Prairie Dog Restoration – Get Involved
        • Native Prairie History, Ecology, & Restoration – Organizations (& Processes) Involved
      • Homesteading Starter Kits:
        • “Cold Frame Plants”: Broccoli, Cabbage, & Cauliflower
        • “Full Sunlight, Low Water”: Eggplants, Okra, Sunflowers
        • “Ideal For Raised Beds”: Asparagus, Carrots
        • “Leafy Greens” (& Spices of similar care)
        • “The 3 Sisters”: Corn, Beans, & Squash
      • Highly-Efficient Gardening Techniques:
        • How To Propagate Fruit & Nut Trees From Cuttings
        • Yard & Soil Preparation
        • *Wise* No-Chem Pest Control
        • Glass Jar Seed Starters
      • Clean Energy Inventions:
        • Ingenius Wind Energy Inventions
        • Innovative Solar Solutions
        • Water-Powered Energy Inventions & Purification Systems
        • Charge Your Electronics Using The Heat of A Campfire
        • Inventions That Clean Up &/or Process Trash
      • “Simple-Tech” DIY Home Improvement Techniques:
        • 7 Ingenius Uses for Salt
        • Vegetable Storage- for Best Results
        • Cob Housing- mixing mud to work like clay for walls, etc
        • Join ‘The Zero Trash Commitment’
        • Build Your Own Low-Cost Swimming Pool
  • Cases in Progress:
    • California Cases:
      • Robbed by Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies
        • California Man faces Fabricated Charges used to Further County Fraud
        • If an Officer violated your rights – who would you report the incident to?
        • Involved Parties
          • Record Owners – John and Cheryl Ross
          • Kern Cty. Sheriff’s Deputies – trespassing, forcible entry and detainer, constructive fraud
          • Neighbors who Robbed Us following the Ouster
        • Our Redress of Grievances
      • Homeless woman charged >$600 for sleeping outdoors (Marin County, CA)
    • Iowa – Ames Resident Seeks to Improve Iowa’s Justice System:
      • Transgender Iowan, arrested for going in the women’s restroom in 2006, still seeks justice (2022)
      • Following an unjust court ruling, officer warns Ames resident to “leave the state” for her safety (2009)
      • City of Ames obstructs Citizens from Petitioning (2018)
      • Transgender Woman Claims Nonprofit “Reliable Street” Retaliated Against Her for Filing a Civil Rights Complaint:
        • Legal assistance extremely difficult to find in Iowa
    • Standing Rock Class Action
  • Publications:
    • “More Valuable Than Gold” Ethnobotany textbook
    • “The Hidden History of Law” textbook series
    • “How to Legally Claim Abandoned Real Estate”
  • Join the Cause

Samaritans of the USA

A Message from The Founder of Wild Willpower, Distance Everheart:

      www.WildWillpower.org would not have been possible without the people who picked me up hitchhiking or gave me a place to stay, a meal , or a dollar or two along the way.  I began walking & hitchhiking the USA following September 11th, 2001 at age 21 to use less gas & write songs to protest what I thought was “an oil war” at the time.  I sought to learn to live among the wilderness in peace, & documented the journey through the songs that came to me on the guitar- many of which are still not recorded.  

      Below are just a handful of the hundreds of people who picked (me) up hitchhiking along the way.  This organization was built on this love & this is the spirit of what we intend to pay forward:

   Wild Willpower would have been possible without the kindness of good samaritans who gave their trust & time to help an often “dirty hippie” who was simply looking for & dreaming of a kinder world would have a place to simply be, & that others with differing ideals would also have their space to legally live among the wild as well.

2016-2017 – Still On the Road:

     Due to the fact that Native Americans were calling out for help from people around the world, it felt apparent to both me & my partner Kevin that we ought to just get our belongings together, have faith, & hitchhike to Standing Rock.  Some photos from the hitchhike:

Theresa Lynch Evans Picked Us Up Hitchhiking to Standing Rock “Just to Help Out”:
Kevin & me with a Good Samaritan who picked us up hitchhiking in Nevada & brought us to the Utah border– the lovely Teresa Lynch Evans.
After Teresa dropped us off, we were picked up by a Russian man named Yurig who took us into Utah & gave us food.
    Can’t believe we hitched w/ all this stuff, but we had just been robbed from our home so we just took what we had with us!! That’s why it took us so long but we finally made it. 

    Brief Interview w/ Some Folks who Picked Us Up Hitchhiking on the Way Here:

     We Arrived on September 20th.

Videos & Photos from August 7, 2002 when I first began hitchhiking to 2016:

   “Downtown Michael Brown”, helped Kevin Byrd & I in early 2014 get from point A to point B- just to help out:

   More videos will be posted to this page soon- here’s another:

   Here’s are just a few (an extremely small percent) of the people who picked me up hitchhiking along the way over the years.  These people are the heart of everything Wild Willpower stands for- our plan is to pay it forward.

(If I screwed up any of your names or you’d like to add contact information or a bit about yourself or a quote; [email protected] OR 415-798-7457)

Calvin Lee Walker:

Joyce Crew:

Jeff Taylor:

Chuck & Clair near Government Mountain, Arizona:

Juan O.:

Dan Miller (Northern California):

David Lemonhead Lobato (Moab, Utah):

Dallas of Sonoma Desert:

Distance & cool guy in Colorado:

A family from New Zealand:

Distance with Steve Miller & Joan Miller at their home in Moab, Utah:

Ernie Brown picked me & my friend Jason Baker in Northern California:

Christopher Rae, a really cool highway patrolman in California that gave me a lift further up the road while I was particularly dirty (it ain’t easy):

Hitching with my friend Rain Lou Aster (Chelsie Smith), Christopher Rey picked us up:

Austin Thomas:

Stuarte of Petaluma CA fixing Distance’s original set of Lightning Dancers:

Analisa Phoenix in Arizona:

Randy Bolt (Northern California):

Distance & Richard from Alturas, CA:

Steve:

A trucker named Daniel Nelson on way from San Jose to Lake Isabella (a lot of truckers picked me up):

Jacob:

 

More videos & photos coming as I dig them up!

Wish I had the names for these peeps:

    Its hard to stay organized on the road- I was robbed over 20 times so just did my best to keep it together.  People below include (in no particular order unfortunately) Don Waley, , Jackson, Joachim Preinesberger, Micah Janet & Wynn, Richard Smith of Nebraska, & Samuel Edgar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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