Oso Blanco Posted by Marek Vermin on March 18th, 2008
We’ve posted a new song on our pages: The Martyr Index on facebook and The Martyr Index on myspace. It is a song about Byron Shane Chubbuck, also known as Oso Blanco, who is a wolf clan Cherokee/Choctaw raised in New Mexico. Throughout 1998 and 1999 he robbed a number of banks and used the proceeds to send assistance to the Zapatista Rebels in Chiapas, Mexico. After the FBI learned that he was giving the money away to aid the poor and the dispossessed they dubbed him “Robin the Hood”. Following his arrest Oso Blanco was sentenced to 80 years in a federal prison and he is currently serving that sentence in the US.
For more information and to offer support to Byron, please visit his website at www.osoblanco.org.
To continue Oso Blanco’s mission and support children in Chiapas, visit the site of Schools For Chiapas
“Oso Blanco” is a track featured on our forthcoming album, Molotov Rocktail, on Meter Records. Look for it in April. It’ll be available free online or for sale on CD and Vinyl.
