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In this powerful episode, Carla welcomes Dawn Montecalvo, CEO of the Guadalupe Center in Immokalee, Florida, to discuss what it really means to go all in when early learning is on the line. From shifting the educator mindset from “job” to “career” to reducing turnover through professional development and support, Dawn shares how her team is creating real, lasting change in a community with tremendous needs.We explore how strategic partnerships, intention in language, and reinforcing early childhood as a nonnegotiable investment are transforming outcomes—one child, one educator, one classroom at a time.If you believe early learning is more than a program—it's a movement—you won't want to miss this conversation.
Liesa Priddy grew up in the south part of Immokalee. She owns and operates JB Ranch, a cow-calf operation that focuses on land stewardship and conversation. She has served our state in many capacities including as commissioner of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, on the Ave Maria Stewardship Community District, and the Big Cypress Basin Board to name a few. She was awarded the Land Conservationist of the Year award from the Florida Wildlife Federation in 2011. We can't wait for you to hear about all that she's done in the conservation space in this episode and what it means to back up a claim with scientific knowledge.
April is a busy month for citrus events. The Florida Citrus Growers' Institute was held in Avon Park early in the month followed by a citrus field day at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Southwest Florida Research and Education Center (SFWREC) in Immokalee. These events are the topic of the April episode of the All In For Citrus podcast. Michael Rogers, director of the UF/IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center, opens the podcast with a summary of the presentations given at the Florida Citrus Growers' Institute. Covered subjects are psyllid management, rootstock interactions with oxytetracycline (OTC), the development of a Bacillus thuringiensis citrus tree, optimizing the use of plant growth regulators (PGRs) and an update from the UF/IFAS Crop Transformation Center. Tripti Vashisth, UF/IFAS associate professor of citrus horticulture, discusses in more detail her Florida Citrus Growers' Institute presentation on the use of PGRs like gibberellic acid to improve tree health and yields. Vashisth has developed a program approach utilizing various types of PGRs during different parts of the season. Her results show yield and quality improvements in line with the use of OTC. She added that her PGR program would be a good option to apply during the label-required off year of OTC use. The PGRs are also a good complement to use with OTC. Sarah Strauss, UF/IFAS associate professor of soil microbiology, details the SFWREC citrus field day and the tour stop she hosted on the use of cover crops and compost to boost soil and tree health. Her research is studying how compost in conjunction with cover crops can benefit soil. The podcast is a partnership between UF/IFAS and AgNet Media.
Send us a textIn the latest episode of the Stories to Create Podcast, Cornell Bunting welcomes Larry Wilcoxson, a Senior Advisory Consultant at the U.S. Capitol, to share his remarkable journey of perseverance and transformation.Larry's story begins in Immokalee, Florida, a small agricultural town known for its tight-knit community and hardworking spirit. Growing up in an environment filled with both challenges and opportunities, Larry learned the value of resilience early on. However, as a young man, he found himself drawn into the fast-paced, and often dangerous, streets of Miami. The allure of the city led him into trouble, facing obstacles that could have easily derailed his future.But Larry's story is not one of defeat. It's a testament to the power of second chances and the strength of determination. Through self-reflection, guidance from mentors, and an unwavering belief in his potential, Larry managed to turn his life around. His journey from the streets back to a path of purpose wasn't easy, but it was transformative.Now, as a Senior Advisory Consultant at the U.S. Capitol, Larry uses his experiences to inform his work, bringing a unique perspective to policy and community engagement. His role allows him to contribute to decisions that impact the nation, and his background gives him a deep understanding of the struggles many face—making him a powerful advocate for change.In his conversation with Cornell, Larry opens up about the pivotal moments that shaped his life, the lessons he learned along the way, and his passion for giving back to the communities that molded him. His story serves as a beacon of hope for anyone facing adversity, proving that with determination and support, it's possible to rise above challenges and achieve greatness.Tune in to this inspiring episode of Stories to Create to hear Larry Wilcoxson's full journey—from the fields of Immokalee to the halls of the White House. Purpose & Profit Club™ for NonprofitsThe Playbook to Raise & Reach Millions Faster Than Ever Before -- No gimmicks!Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the showThank you for tuning in with EHAS CLUB - Stories to Create Podcast
John Quiñones is an ABC News correspondent who reports across "20/20," "Nightline" and "Good Morning America." During his 40-year tenure at ABC News, he has reported extensively for all programs and platforms and served as anchor of "What Would You Do?" and "Primetime." This discussion focused primarily on his work on "What Would You Do?," which just began its 17th Season on ABC. Podcast Highlights: The importance of ABC's "What Would You Do?" TV show Shift in the public's perception of right vs. wrong Shift in the public's view of journalism John's reaction when people ignore a potentially dangerous scenario Teresa DeZarn and the challenges of being an actor on the show Security on the set Fresh ideas from new Executive Producer, Emmy Award-winner Joel Relampagos Reaching out to teachers who inspired you John's youth as part of a San Antonio-based farmworker family The beauty of Latin Culture What white people need to know about being Latin in America Response when bystanders see people like them being threatened What John KNOWS Quiñones has won seven national Emmy® Awards for his work on "Primetime Live," "Burning Questions" and "20/20." He received an Emmy for his coverage of the Congo's virgin rainforest, which also won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award. In 1990, he received an Emmy for "Window in the Past," a look at the Yanomami Tribe. He received a National Emmy Award for his work on the ABC documentary "Burning Questions: The Poisoning of America," which aired in September 1988. In 2024, John was honored with the Distinguished Journalist Award presented by DePaul University's Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence and became a member of the NATAS Silver Circle. In 2022, Quiñones received the Lifetime Achievement Award from MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the country's oldest and most prominent Latino civil rights organization; was named a "Fellow of the Society" by the Society of Professional Journalists; and received the President's Award for Journalism Excellence from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. In 2021, Quiñones received the Carr Van Anda Award for his "enduring contributions to journalism" from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, as well as the "Inspire: Visionary Leadership Award" from the Anne Frank School in San Antonio for "What Would You Do?" scenarios that shined a light on antisemitism in the United States. In 2019, he received RTDNA's John F. Hogan Award for national and international reporting. Quiñones was also honored with a World Hunger Media Award and a citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for "To Save the Children," his 1990 report on the homeless children of Bogota. Among his other prestigious awards are the First Prize in International Reporting and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his piece on "Modern Slavery — Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic." Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings" and other ABC News broadcasts. He was one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion in December 1989. Before joining ABC News, he was a reporter with WBBM-TV in Chicago. He won two Emmy Awards for his 1980 reporting on the plight of migrants from Mexico. From 1975 to 1978, he was a news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas. During that period, he also was an anchor/reporter for KPRC-TV. Quiñones received a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications from St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. He received a master's from the Columbia School of Journalism. Quiñones received two honorary degrees: In 2016, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Utah Valley University and, in 2014, a Doctor of Letters from Davis & Elkins College. ON THE KNOWS with Randall Kenneth Jones is a podcast featuring host Randall Kenneth Jones (bestselling author, speaker & creative communications consultant) and Susan C. Bennett (the original voice of Siri). ON THE KNOWS is produced and edited by Kevin Randall Jones. www.OnTheKnows.com John Quiñones : https://www.johnquinones.com/ Randall Kenneth Jones: www.RandallKennethJones.com Susan Bennett: www.SusanCBennett.com Kevin Randall Jones: www.KevinRandallJones.com
Heather Howell Cleckler is a 4th generation rancher from Immokalee, FL. She graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Education. She also earned a masters in Speech-language Pathology. When she's not busy managing her family's ranch and outfitting business, she's busy being involved in the community, helping with the annual Immokalee Cattle Drive, and spending time with her family. Heather has always been the biggest supporter of HHS and we are so glad we get to start the year off strong with her!
KANSAS MEMBER AND PROLIFIC VIOLINIST RELEASES NEW ALBUM WITH STRATOSPHEERIUS ENTITLED ‘IMPOSTOR!' SPECIAL EVENT WITH JOE DENINZON & JASON GIANNI ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I'm your host Ray Shasho. Joe Deninzon has been hailed by critics as “The Jimi Hendrix of the Violin,” because of his innovative style on the “Viper” seven-string electric violin. Most recently, he became electric violinist/backup vocalist/rhythm guitarist for the legendary rock band, Kansas. Joe is also the lead singer and violinist for the progressive rock band, Stratospheerius, which has just released their 6th album, “Impostor! He can be heard on over a hundred albums and jingles as a violinist and string arranger. The band's recently released album "Impostor! features an impressive array of guest musicians from the prog rock world, such as Michael Sadler (Saga), Randy McStine (Porcupine Tree), Fernando Perdomo (Jacob Dylan), Chloe Lowery (Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Val Vigoda (Groovelilly), and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Flowers. Produced by Joe Deninzon and mixed and mastered by Rich Mouser (Neal Morse, Dream Theater, Tears for Fears), "Impostor!" promises to be a standout release. PLEASE WELCOME ELECTRIC/ACOUSTIC VIOLINIST/GUITARIST/COMPOSER/SINGER/MANDOLINIST JOE DENINZON AND DRUMMER JASON GIANNI TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS. PURCHASE THE NEW ALBUM BY JOE DENINZON AND STRATOSPHEERIUS Entitled IMPOSTOR! “Impostor!” The new album from Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius is available now on bandcamp & all streaming platforms. https://7dmedia.com/impostor Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius Impostor! Led by the remarkable Kansas violinist/guitarist Joe Deninzon, who also serves as the frontman and lead singer, Stratospheerius boasts a talented lineup including guitarist Michelangelo Quirinale, keyboardist Bill Hubauer, bassist Paul Ranieri, and drummer Jason Gianni. Impostor! features an impressive array of guest musicians from the prog rock world, such as Michael Sadler (Saga), Randy McStine, Fernando Perdomo, Chloe Lowery, Val Vigoda, and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Flowers. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JOE DENINZON AND STRATOSPHEERIUS JOE DENINZON VISIT https://joedeninzon.com/ Official website https://www.facebook.com/josephdeninzon/ Facebook https://www.instagram.com/joedeninzon/ Instagram https://x.com/joedeninzon?lang=en Twitter STARTOSPHEERIUS https://stratospheerius.com/ Stratospheerius Official website https://www.facebook.com/stratospheerius Facebook https://www.instagram.com/stratospheerius Instagram https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7RSICpqKgZ2IRsreeYtWZQ?view_as=subscriber YouTube https://open.spotify.com/artist/0lZ0G7PIgJsdjpq4394FLK Spotify KANSAS https://www.kansasband.com/ Kansas official website https://www.facebook.com/KansasBand Facebook https://x.com/kansasband Twitter https://www.youtube.com/kansas YouTube K A N S A S TOUR DATES Nov. 24, 2024, Nashville, IN Brown County Music Center KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 5, 2024, Fayetteville, NC Crown Theater KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 6, 2024, Roanoke, VA Berglund Center KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 8, 2024, Reading, PA Santander Performing Arts Center KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Dec. 11, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA Benedum Center for the Performing Arts KANSAS: 50th Anniversary Tour – Another Fork in the Road Jan. 23, 2025, Coconut Creek, FL Seminole Casino Coconut Creek KANSAS Classics Jan. 25, 2025, Immokalee, FL Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee KANSAS Classics Feb. 1, 2025, Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live Orlando KANSAS Classics Feb. 2, 2025, Tampa, FL Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa KANSAS Classics Feb. 14, 2025, Catoosa, OK Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Tulsa KANSAS Classics Feb. 15, 2025, Durant, OK Choctaw Grand Theater KANSAS Classics Mar. 15 - 22, 2025 Fort Lauderdale, FL 70's Rock & Romance Cruise 2025 DISCOGRAPHY STRATOSPHEERIUS 2004- Live Wires 2007-Headspace 2012- The Next World 2017- Guilty of Innocence 2023 Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius: Behind the Curtain (Live at ProgStock) 2024- Impostor! Support us on PayPal!
One of Florida's most successful early learning models can be found where you may least expect it – a rural, multicultural community in South Florida with a population of 34,000 people. Immokalee is home to Guadalupe Center, where educators are breaking the poverty cycle and shaping childrens' futures through innovative educational programs. In this episode, SMPR President Heidi Otway chats with Guadalupe Center CEO Dawn Montecalvo about her inspiring transition from film studies to the nonprofit industry, and the importance of early childhood education in strengthening communities.
Did you know that farm soil is increasingly becoming a reservoir for plastic? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Grey Moran, award-winning journalist and staff writer at Civil Eats, where their writing focuses on climate change, the food system, public health, and environmental justice. Moran discusses “plasticulture” and the increasing use of plastic in agriculture, and how the Fair Food Alliance is working around FL law which denies farmworkers heat protection.Related Websites: Coalition of Immokalee workers and the Fair Food Program: https://ciw-online.org/ Civil Eats: https://civileats.com/author/gmoran/ How Fossil Fuel-derived pesticides and plastics harm health, biodiversity and the climate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239621/
We learn about the Immokalee Foundatin's Mentor Program, which pairs volunteer mentors with students whose interests align with their expertise. The nonprofit has been supporting and educating students in the small, rural, mostly agricultural community about 25 miles east of Naples since 1991.
Legendary bass player John Lodge, who will be going on tour across the U.S. this July is on The Adventures of PipemanTHE MOODY BLUES' JOHN LODGE RELEASES DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED – MY SOJOURN THROUGH DEKO ENTERTAINMENT ON LIMITED EDITION 180G PLATINUM VINYL AND CD IN NORTH AMERICA TO COINCIDE WITH RESCHEDULED JULY TOURThe recording tells the story of ‘a day in the life', and includes “Nights in White Satin”, “Tuesday Afternoon”, and “Peak Hour”, together with a very special recording of “Late Lament” by the late Graeme Edge and performances by Jon Davison of YES.John will be back on tour in July, with his rescheduled dates, where you will be taken back in time as you experience the album live, in its entirety, together with a set of Moody Blues classic hits.Aug 2 Seminole Casino Hotel, Immokalee, FL (on sale March 12th)Aug 3 Amaturo Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FL (on sale March 15th)He has been voted one of the “10 most influential bass players on the planet,” and has been the recipient of many awards, including ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers), an Ivor Novello Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Prog Magazine.Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”. Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness. Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support Would you like to be a sponsor of the show?Would you like to have your business, products, services, merch, programs, books, music or any other professional or artistic endeavors promoted on the show?Would you like interviewed as a professional or music guest on The Adventures of Pipeman, Positively Pipeman and/or Pipeman in the Pit?Would you like to host your own Radio Show, Streaming TV Show, or Podcast? Contact the Pipeman:Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com Follow @pipemanradio on all social media outletsVisit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.com. Download The Pipeman Radio APPThe Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live Wednesdays at 1PM ET and Music & Positive Interviews daily at 8AM ET on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and replays on K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).The Adventures of Pipeman Podcast is also available on www.theadventuresofpipeman.com and www.pipemanradio.com, Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.
Legendary bass player John Lodge, who will be going on tour across the U.S. this July is on The Adventures of PipemanTHE MOODY BLUES' JOHN LODGE RELEASES DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED – MY SOJOURN THROUGH DEKO ENTERTAINMENT ON LIMITED EDITION 180G PLATINUM VINYL AND CD IN NORTH AMERICA TO COINCIDE WITH RESCHEDULED JULY TOURThe recording tells the story of ‘a day in the life', and includes “Nights in White Satin”, “Tuesday Afternoon”, and “Peak Hour”, together with a very special recording of “Late Lament” by the late Graeme Edge and performances by Jon Davison of YES.John will be back on tour in July, with his rescheduled dates, where you will be taken back in time as you experience the album live, in its entirety, together with a set of Moody Blues classic hits.Aug 2 Seminole Casino Hotel, Immokalee, FL (on sale March 12th)Aug 3 Amaturo Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FL (on sale March 15th)He has been voted one of the “10 most influential bass players on the planet,” and has been the recipient of many awards, including ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Publishers), an Ivor Novello Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Prog Magazine.Take some zany and serious journeys with The Pipeman aka Dean K. Piper, CST on The Adventures of Pipeman also known as Pipeman Radio syndicated globally “Where Who Knows And Anything Goes”. Check out our segment Positively Pipeman dedicated to Business, Motivation, Spiritual, and Health & Wellness. Check out our segment Pipeman in the Pit dedicated to Music, Artistry and Entertainment Subscribe to The Adventures of Pipeman at https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-adventures-of-pipeman--941822/support Would you like to be a sponsor of the show?Would you like to have your business, products, services, merch, programs, books, music or any other professional or artistic endeavors promoted on the show?Would you like interviewed as a professional or music guest on The Adventures of Pipeman, Positively Pipeman and/or Pipeman in the Pit?Would you like to host your own Radio Show, Streaming TV Show, or Podcast? Contact the Pipeman:Phone/Text Contact – 561-506-4031Email Contact – dean@talk4media.com Follow @pipemanradio on all social media outletsVisit Pipeman Radio on the Web at linktr.ee/pipemanradio, theadventuresofpipeman.com, pipemanradio.com, talk4media.com, w4cy.com, talk4tv.com, talk4podcasting.com. Download The Pipeman Radio APPThe Adventures of Pipeman is broadcast live Wednesdays at 1PM ET and Music & Positive Interviews daily at 8AM ET on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) and replays on K4HD Radio (www.k4hd.com – Hollywood Talk Radio part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). The Adventures of Pipeman TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).The Adventures of Pipeman Podcast is also available on www.theadventuresofpipeman.com and www.pipemanradio.com, Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.
Carlene Thissen is an American singer-songwriter who is the daughter of a generation with a deep desire to hand down peace and love to the "youngers": the Baby Boomers. She experienced firsthand some of the most captivating periods and moments in the realm of popular music, like Woodstock '69, when her path crossed with wonderful people to experience not only the music, awakening one morning at Woodstock to Joan Baez's voice, but the air of freedom and peace, and the feeling of having no fear of anything. After that experience, she turned into a working person and created a successful business. She stopped making music for 40 years, but deeply remembered the air of Woodstock. That changed when she got involved as a volunteer in the Immokalee Unincorporated Agricultural Community. From that catalyst event, she ended up working at the University of Florida's research center, which inspired her to get a Master's Degree in Latin American History, write a book based on her final thesis called “Immokalee's Fields of Hope,” (based on the moving stories she gleaned from the Immokalee people she got to know), make a documentary based on the book, which needed music she decided to write and perform, even if she didn't know if she could. But she did. From then on, she could not stop writing songs to tell stories of people who are often overlooked, like farm workers, the homeless, and children who lost their parents. She doesn't want to leave with music sitting out there that could benefit people. Carlene's journey is not just about music, but also about the generational value music can bring, the stories that have brought her making music with roots in the first edition of Woodstock, and the work as a volunteer with immigrant communities, which also led her to advocate for compassionate immigration policy, and writing books on the stories she came across. Carlene recently shared a capella version of her beautiful new song, "Carry It On," and moved to be near Woodstock, where the energy she experienced caused her musical journey to take flight and where she will continue to perform. To connect with Carlene: https://carlenethissen.com/ To get in touch with Tyler: https://www.tylerkamerman.com/
A bus crash this week near Ocala killed eight farmworkers and injured 45. WSLR's Ruth Beltran interviewed a farmworker leader from Immokalee and a lawyer from Sarasota who are close to this tragedy. Next: The biggest commercial developer in the region is proposing to turn one of the biggest mall properties in Sarasota into a complex that mixes retail and housing. That should be low-hanging, juicy fruit to build affordable apartments. But apparently neither the developer nor the city planning commission is willing to pick it. Ramon Lopez has the details. Then: One Sarasota County commissioner hates big buses, and at a meeting this week, he went on the record with his deeply held conviction again. All five seemed to agree that transit should not incur a deficit - in the same meeting they agreed to spend close to $100 million on roads, which generate no revenues at all for the county. So what do you do if you're in charge of the county's transit agency? We were there to listen and watch. Finally: It's becoming a routine for New College students. In less than an hour, there will be the official graduation ceremony on campus. But before that, yesterday evening, there was the traditional Alt graduation. Traditional, as in quirky and raucous. Florence Fahringer was there to report.
Two separate traffic incidents. Two separate individuals who were driven away by police. Two separate men who were never seen again. Are the cases of Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams intricately linked or could the similarities be merely coincidental?If you are interested in bonus content for our show or in getting some Coffee and Cases swag, please consider joining Patreon. There are various levels to fit your needs, all of which can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases
Un bus que transportaba a más de 50 trabajadores agrícolas hispanos, chocó con otro automóvil dejando un saldo de al menos 8 personas muertas y más de 40 lesionados.El conductor del otro vehículo está arrestado por manejar bajo la influencia de alcohol. Mientras tanto las autoridades recogen los vehículos para re abrir la carretera.La comunidad de Immokalee en La Florida, de donde eran procedentes los trabajadores esta de luto.En otras noticias: Michael Cohen regresó hoy al estrado y en su testimonio vinculó a Trump a todos los aspectos del plan para intentar silenciar las noticias que podrían perjudicar sus aspiraciones presidenciales.Dos candidatos a jurado para el juicio contra Bob Menéndez le pidieron al juez excluirlos aduciendo saber mucho sobre el caso. Un polémico video muestra a soldados de la guardia nacional de Texas lanzando gas pimienta a un grupo de migrantes que intentaba cruza la frontera.
Big O talks upcoming concerts at Seminole Casino Immokalee
Big O talks upcoming concerts at Seminole Casino Immokalee
Carlene Thissen is an American singer-songwriter, born and raised in New Jersey, and now living in Florida. Singing, piano, and guitar playing were taught to her by her dear father, mother, and cousin; but she's also daughter of a generation with a deep desire to hand down peace and love to the "youngers": the Baby Boomers. She experienced firsthand some of the most captivating periods and moments in the realm of popular music, like Woodstock '69, when her path crossed with wonderful people to experience not only the music, awakening one morning at Woodstock to Joan Baez's voice, but the air of freedom and peace, and the feeling of having no fear of anything. She ended up never meeting those people again, but their spirits and souls never left her side. After that experience, she turned into a working person and created a successful business. She stopped making music for 40 years, but deeply remembered the air of Woodstock. That changed when she got involved as a volunteer in the Immokalee Unincorporated Agricultural Community. From that catalyst event, she ended up working at the University of Florida's research center, which inspired her to get a Master's Degree in Latin American History, write a book based on her final thesis called “Immokalee's Fields of Hope,” (based on the moving stories she gleaned from the Immokalee people she got to know), make a documentary based on the book, which needed music she decided to write and perform, even if she didn't know if she could. But she did. From then on, she could not stop writing songs to tell stories of people who are often overlooked, like farm workers, the homeless, and children who lose parents, and songs to inspire everyone to Go Change the World. She doesn't want to leave with music sitting out there that could benefit people. Carlene's journey is not just about music, but also about the generational value music can bring, the stories that have brought her making music with roots in the first edition of Woodstock, and the work as a volunteer with immigrant communities, which also led her to advocate for compassionate immigration policy, and writing books on the stories she came across. In this episode, Carlene shared a bit of an a capella version of her beautiful new song, "Carry It On." Carlene honors the "God winks" in her life that brought her to the fulfilling life she enjoys today. While she lives in Naples, Florida now, she soon will move to be near Woodstock, where the energy she experienced caused her musical journey to take flight. She will continue to perform locally in both places, much to the delight of audiences who say her voice is reminiscent of her idol, Joan Baez! Learn more: Press Release: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1NkGl2D6JGPC3jWQomBrPZ1E2JLnotm8sYpeotqOzg/edit?usp=sharing https://www.carlenethissen.com/ Listen to her: YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/carlenethissen Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0eDwUAM9QGHWh4ZC2Ksua7?si=1Or6aa7cRdCHhFQVx6oILw Apple Music https://music.apple.com/us/artist/carlene-thissen/194758792 Follow her: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/carlenemusic Instagram http://instagram.com/carlenethissen ReverbNation http://www.reverbnation.com/carlenethissen X http://twitter.com/carlenethissen TikTok @carlenethissenmusic --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/maria-leonard-olsen/support
Tune in to the latest episode of the Grow Your Non-Profit Podcast with Tamika Peters, CEO and Host, in an enlightening conversation with Wynn Watkins, President, and Chairman of the Board at Trinity Life Foundation Naples.Discover the incredible journey of TLF, from supporting one at-risk youth to now impacting 125 lives. Dive into their growth strategies through key partnerships with law enforcement, the Juvenile Justice System, and expansion plans to serve in Immokalee.To get involved with Trinity Life Foundation or learn more about their programs, visit: www.trinitylifefoundation.org.At Grow Your Non-Profit, we're committed to holistic nonprofit management, exceeding expectations, and delivering substantial returns on investment. Engage in these enlightening discussions! Show support by liking, commenting, and subscribing to our YouTube Channel for empowering dialogues and insights driving positive change in our communities.Special thanks to our esteemed podcast sponsors:#VaxTruths: https://www.vaxtruths.org/#BestInsuranceUSA: https://www.bestinsuranceusa.net/#AHVED: https://www.ahved.org/#TrinityLifeFoundation: https://www.trinitylifefoundation.org#PremierMobileHealthClinic: https://premiermobilehealth.org/For sponsorship opportunities, contact Tamika Peters at (239) 293-2009 or via email at Tamika@growyournon-profit.com.Support the show
Miller and Moulton open a Monday show with Miller co-hosting LIVE from the Seminole Casino in Immokalee! They recap the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' win for first place in the NFC South, the Kansas City Chiefs' complaints with officiating after a narrow loss to the Buffalo Bills, and much more from the football weekend. Moulton closes the hour with "The Starting Five."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Frank Hannon released a new single today, Fool's Delight. We are honored to have a chance to chat with Frank about his new single, playing with the Allman Betts Family Revival this month in Florida, his ambitious single from last year, Octopus, on which Frank played all the instruments, we talk about Tesla's latest album, Full Throttle Live, and their killer version of Aerosmith's S.O.S (Too Bad). We also talk about what is in store for 2024 for Tesla, as well as the band members individually. We even talk about Tesla the man! As two fans of music, we also just talk the Rock! We talk a bit about Judas Priest, Blackberry Smoke, Aerosmith, and Paul Rodgers. You will hear Frank's new song too, we play it at the end of our conversation, so stick around!Short history of Frank .... Only 15 years old, guitarist Frank Hannon began playing in a band with bassist Brian Wheat. That band was called City Kidd. By 1986, City Kidd became Tesla, with Frank and Brian joined by Jeff Keith, Troy Luccketta, and Tommy Skeoch (Dave Rude replaced Tommy in 2007). Their debut album was Mechanical Resonance and they continue to release new music and tour extensively to this day. If you are in Florida, you can catch Frank playing with The Allman Betts Family Revival on December 10 in Fort Pierce, December 12 in Sarasota, and December 13 in Jacksonville. For tickets and more information, visit https://www.allmanbettsfamilyrevival.com/The mighty Tesla return to the road in January, starting in Immokalee, Florida on January 11. Visit https://teslatheband.com/ and https://frankhannon.com/
When Huey Howard got into cattle ranching in 1963, JFK was president, the Beach Boys' Surfin' USA topped the music charts, and a white landowner could refuse to sell property to a Black man.But that didn't stop the Leland, Mississippi, native from becoming one of Florida's few Black cattle ranchers. Today, Huey and his family raise more than 400 head of cattle, and they've earned respect in Florida's predominantly white beef cattle industry, in which African-Americans still account for only about 3 percent of our state's beef producers. The family was even honored a few years ago during a parade in Immokalee.Earlier this year, I met the 87-year-old at the Howard family's ranch in Felda, about 30 miles east of Fort Myers. It was a sweltering afternoon, so we settled into the air-conditioned cabin of Huey's gray Chevy pickup truck for a chat. Huey's nephew Gerlad Howard was in the back seat. Dalia spoke with Huey for the summer 2023 issue of Gravy Quarterly, a publication of the Southern Foodways Alliance. This episode's audio comes from that conversation.In this episode, Huey shares why he's passionate about raising cows, his favorite way to enjoy Florida beef and how he managed to buy his first plot of land after all.Related episodes:“Burger Beast” Sef Gonzalez on Florida's Best Hamburgers“We Got Engaged up at the Milking Parlor”: Modern Dairy Farmers Sutton & Kris RucksWriter Heather McPherson on What You Don't Know About Florida Food
The Tyler McClosky Show is a weekly business show hosted by Insurance Executive Tyler McClosky. Each week, he sits down with people in the industry of Insurance, Real Estate, Marketing and entertainment. The shows are designed to be raw and factual, while also entertaining a wide range of audiences. You will also be education on how to purchase private health insurance, while saving you and your family a ton of money! Tune in each week and visit us online at www.TylerMcClosky.comWho Is Tyler McClosky: From a life of sales starting as a teenager, I found my career at the age of 22. As a license insurance agent, the business world opened up. With a year as an agent, I quickly transitioned into a sales manager and built a team. With a small team of 5, we grinded everyday to find the right balance. Fast forward 5 years and 1,500 agents later, I am now the Chief Operating Officer for one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States, First Family Insurance!"Set the standard. And don't expect your employees to work harder than you do!"Call: 1.239.633.3140Email: TMcClosky@gmail.com Serving all of Southwest Florida, Including all of Florida's Gulf Coast, Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, North Naples, Lehigh Acres, Pine Island, Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, Bonita Springs, North Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, Mediterra, Quail West, Talis Park, Quail Creed, Oakes Estates , Miromar Lake, Pelican Bay, Vanderbilt Beach, Collier Reserve, Livingston, Marco Island, Golden Gate, Immokalee, Labelle, Clewiston, Arcadia, Bokeelia, St. James City, Estero, San Carlos Park, Buckingham, And Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Lee County, Charlotte County, Collier County, Hendry County, Glades County, And Desoto County
The Tyler McClosky Show is a weekly business show hosted by Insurance Executive Tyler McClosky. Each week, he sits down with people in the industry of Insurance, Real Estate, Marketing and entertainment. The shows are designed to be raw and factual, while also entertaining a wide range of audiences. You will also be education on how to purchase private health insurance, while saving you and your family a ton of money! Tune in each week and visit us online at www.TylerMcClosky.comWho Is Tyler McClosky: From a life of sales starting as a teenager, I found my career at the age of 22. As a license insurance agent, the business world opened up. With a year as an agent, I quickly transitioned into a sales manager and built a team. With a small team of 5, we grinded everyday to find the right balance. Fast forward 5 years and 1,500 agents later, I am now the Chief Operating Officer for one of the largest insurance agencies in the United States, First Family Insurance!"Set the standard. And don't expect your employees to work harder than you do!"Call: 1.239.633.3140Email: TMcClosky@gmail.com Serving all of Southwest Florida, Including all of Florida's Gulf Coast, Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, North Naples, Lehigh Acres, Pine Island, Sanibel Island, Captiva Island, Bonita Springs, North Fort Myers, Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, Mediterra, Quail West, Talis Park, Quail Creed, Oakes Estates , Miromar Lake, Pelican Bay, Vanderbilt Beach, Collier Reserve, Livingston, Marco Island, Golden Gate, Immokalee, Labelle, Clewiston, Arcadia, Bokeelia, St. James City, Estero, San Carlos Park, Buckingham, And Fort Myers Beach, Florida, Lee County, Charlotte County, Collier County, Hendry County, Glades County, And Desoto County
As recently as 1955, there were virtually no immigrants held in detention in the U.S. Today, the federal government holds tens of thousands each day, in 130 facilities across the country. But the story of how we got here did not start at the U.S.-Mexico border - it started on Florida's shores, 50 years ago. Through personal histories and meticulously compiled archival materials, Detention By Design will tell how the arrival of Haitian and Cuban migrants by boat in the 1970s and 1980s —and the crude experiments in small Florida jails that followed— shaped the immigration and detention system that we have in this country today. WLRN's Danny Rivero hosts. This second episode of Detention By Design follows the revealing story of Abel Jean-Simon Zephyr, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by boat in 1973. He asked for political asylum, but authorities —caught flat-footed— paid the sheriff's office at remote Immokalee, Florida, to hold him and others at its tiny jail. It marked the miserable, and at times tragic, beginning of the modern immigration detention system. Detention by Design is funded by The Shepard Broad Foundation.
On a special episode of South Beach Sessions, Edgerrin James joins Dan to discuss his improbable journey from Immokalee, Florida to reaching a Hall of Fame level in football, business, and parenting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On a special episode of South Beach Sessions, Edgerrin James joins Dan to discuss his improbable journey from Immokalee, Florida to reaching a Hall of Fame level in football, business, and parenting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The second episode of Detention By Design follows the revealing story of Abel Jean-Simon Zephyr, a Haitian who arrived in Miami by boat in 1973. He asked for political asylum, but authorities - caught flat-footed - paid the sheriff's office at remote Immokalee, Florida, to hold him and others at its tiny jail. It marked the miserable, and at times tragic, beginning of the modern immigration detention system.
Please consider supporting the show by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/blackcoldcase Marcia Williams, the mother of Terrance Williams, sued Calkins in a 2018 wrongful death action on behalf of her son's estate and four children. But the Collier County suit came to an abrupt close in 2021 after Crump's team missed a deadline to file for trial. Marcia Williams appealed to a Florida appellate court. Williams was the second man to vanish after an encounter with Calkins. Felipe Santos, a Mexican immigrant and Immokalee resident, disappeared at age 23 in October 2003 after his brothers saw him get into Calkins' patrol car.-------"It's been said in the Black community many times, but there's always a new story popping up in our newsfeeds that proves it needs to be repeated: No amount of being an upstanding citizen will shield Black people from racism."-------Thirty years ago, the 15-year-old Black girl from South Central walked into Empire Liquor Market and Deli, grabbed a $1.79 bottle of orange juice and put it in her backpack. A Korean-born merchant, Soon Ja Du, accused her of stealing it. Latasha had $2 in her hand. Du grabbed Latasha's sweater. Then Latasha punched Du in the face and headed for the door. Du picked up a handgun and fired a shot into the back of Latasha's head. Police later confirmed that there was “no attempt at shoplifting.” A jury found Du guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but instead of serving a maximum of 16 years in prison, Judge Joyce A. Karlin gave Du probation. For killing a 15-year-old girl who was walking away from her.Support the show
Fun Match down in Immokalee, Florida with Match Director Corey Adamski. - Next SFPRA match 3 Sept 2022, register below, https://practiscore.com/sfpra-september-regional-match/register --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gdpodcast/message
Dr. Michael Burton is the new director of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Southwest Florida Research and Education Center. He leads a team of researchers who work to provide farmers with the best information possible for them to be successful from their 320-acre facility in Immokalee.
Nuestra lucha por la justicia alimentaria debe incluir a los que trabajan más cerca de nuestros alimentos. La organizadora de trabajadores agrícolas, Lupe Gonzalo, de la Coalición de Trabajadores de Immokalee (CIW) comparte el profundo poder que se encuentra dentro de las voces de los trabajadores agrícolas. Como trabajadora agrícola, Lupe arroja luz sobre las condiciones abusivas en las que están sujetos trabajadores agrícolas, desde el robo de salaries, la agresión sexual, y condiciones similares a esclavitud moderna. Los intentos fallidos de responsabilizar a los propietarios de granjas por las atrocidades en curso llevaron a Lupe y sus colegas a recurrir al poder de la responsabilidad social. El programa y la campaña Fair Food de CIW amplifican las voces de los trabajadores agrícolas para promover el cambio y fomentar la responsabilidad entre las grandes corporaciones de alimentos para establecer un código de conducta entre sus proveedores. Yendo más allá de establecer protecciones y garantizar que las políticas de seguridad se implementen y hagan cumplir, CIW ha luchado para construir poder, voz y agencia entre los trabajadores agrícolas en Immokalee, FL e inspirado a defensores en todo el país. Our fight for food justice must include those working closest to our food. Farmworker organizer, Lupe Gonzalo, of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) shares the profound power that lies within farmworker voices. As a farmworker herself, Lupe sheds light on the abusive conditions farmworkers work and live in everyday—from wage theft to sexual assault to modern-day slavery. Failed attempts to hold farm owners accountable for on-going atrocities led Lupe and her colleagues to turn to the power of social responsibility. CIWs Fair Food Program and campaign amplifies farmworker voices to advance change and foster responsibility among large food corporations to establish a code of conduct amongst their vendors. Going beyond establishing protections and ensuring that safety policies are implemented and enforced, CIW has worked to build power, voice, and agency among farmworkers in Immokalee, FL and inspired advocates nation-wide.
In this episode of the Life and Football Podcast our special guest is Zedrick Bryant. Zedrick Bryant is a former Defensive Back for Eastern Michigan. Bryant, Son of Ms. Barbara Bryant and Mr. Mickey, Communications major, Has two sisters, Nihia and Clysha, and five brothers, Leonard, Marcus, Jubyress, Clyde and Taye, EMU: 2006: Slated to be a top player in the defensive backfield before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in early fall camp, 2005: Played in just two games, against Miami (Oct. 22) and Western Michigan (Nov. 5) while battling injuries, 2004: Saw action in seven games to earn his first varsity letter, Had five tackles on the season as a backup safety, 2003: One of the 2003 recruits, Practiced with the team but did not see any game action as a redshirt freshman, Named one of the Backup Eagles of the Week twice for outstanding practice effort prior to the Toledo (Oct. 11) and Central Michigan (Nov. 1) games, HIGH SCHOOL: Earned three years in football and two in baseball at Immokalee H.S. in Immokalee, Fla, Beta Club member, Member of the Academic Honor Roll, Senior Year: Captain of the football team, Recorded 85 tackles, including 45 solos, Had two interceptions, Missed four games with injury, Named to the All-Conference team, Junior Year: Lettered in both football and baseball, Sophomore Year: Earned letters in football and baseball. The Life and Football Podcast is available on the following platforms Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Anchor, Spotify, Breaker, Overcast Pocketcasts, Radio Public, Stitcher, Player FM, & YouTube!
Born in Venezuela, Samantha Romero immigrated to Miami, FL in to 2006, and is now a journalism student at FGCU. She's also a reporter at WGCU, and produces Noticias de WGCU en Español – a weekly news round up produced at WGCU and aired on Radio Conciencia, a community radio station in Immokalee, FL. Sam also works at WINK News where she edits video, and does photography for FGCU. Sam also produces music, documentary film, knits sweaters, and even breeds butterflies.
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee is joined by a superstar team of students and teachers from Immokalee High School. Falia Justima is an educator at Immokalee High School in Collier County Public Schools in Naples, where she has taught for four years. She is also an entrepreneur in the local community where she runs a real estate and small personal finance advising company with her sister. We're also joined by two seniors cousins from Falia's IncubatorEDU classroom team. Luz Cantero-Huapilla and Lizbeth Huapilla (Wapiya). Alongside some of their classmates they created the company Harvesting Housing to serve migrant farmers. LINKS: SXSW Difference Making conversation with Falia Justima Harvesting Housing video Margarita/Uncharted Podcast
As climate change progresses, more people will be forced from their homes and into exploitative environments. In the United States, this is particularly true of farmworkers.The climate crisis is, undeniably, a labor issue too.“like you i woke up in the dark. but i was reaching for animals, trying to beat the heat. like you sunrise usually found me in the middle of doing something. i didn't call it prayer, but i did believe that if i did it every day we would exist.”In today's episode, we hear the poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs read from her book, “DUB”, as she unlearns the separation between her work and that of her great-grandfather's. She shows us how poetry can help us imagine another way of relating to life on earth. We then travel to the agricultural fields of Immokalee, Florida. where Lupe Gonzalo is a senior staff member at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. She tells us about her experience working tomato fields, the work she does now fighting for farmworker rights, and the need to unlearn the systems of separation between land, food, and people. Take Action:Find more of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' work at alexispauline.comTo learn more about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers go to ciw-online.orgFollow them on twitter @ciw to learn about upcoming marches and boycotts and take part.
Last year, 1,500 steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania went out on strike for four long months. If you don't remember hearing about the strike, don't worry, we hadn't, either. It was against a company named ATI, Allegheny Technologies Incorporated, and even though the strike involved 1,500 steelworkers at nine different locations, it never really made the radar on the national labor scene in a year that saw a huge increase in both strikes and union organizing. So we're very fortunate that Samuel George decided to embed himself and his camera in the strike by Local 1196. Sam is an exciting young documentary filmmaker who works for the Bertelsmann Foundation, a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Washington, DC. Samuel's documentaries – which include "The Fields of Immokalee” -- bring viewers up close and personal to people and communities facing the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century, offering candid perspectives that allow viewers to draw their own conclusions. His films focus on the intersection of politics, economics, social issues, and daily life. Filming on the ground from the Turkish – Syrian border, to the factories of Juarez, Mexico, to elections in West Virginia, and now a factory in Western Pennsylvania, Sam's films seek to offer a voice to those affected by policy and macro trends, but who often are denied a seat at the table where decisions are made. Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike screens free this Saturday, March 19, at 4pm, at the MLK DC Public Library, 901 G St. NW in Washington, DC; CLICK HERE to RSVP. Produced by Chris Garlock, edited and co-produced by Evan Papp, Empathy Media Lab. @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 @DCLaborFilmFest @SamuelGeorge76 @BertelsmannFdn @empathymedialab @steelworkers Local 1196 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/labor-goes-to-the-movies/message
About Us: Northeast Mississippi business owners, industry leaders, Main Street Directors, school and hospital leaders discuss what's happening in our "little postage stamp of native soil" - William Faulkner. Interviews are recorded in Ripley, MS at Sun Bear Studio, broadcast every day at 11 am on The Shark 102.3 FM Radio and added here to help you stay informed. When broadcast on The Shark, the shows will either come from Main Street Moments or Heard It On The Shark. On Main Street Moments, Melinda talks to area Main Street Directors, Chamber directors and small business owners. Heard It On The Shark interviews are usually with industry, medical, non-profit and school leaders in North Mississippi. If you would like to be considered for an interview, you can call us at 662-837-1023. Ask for Melinda. Topper Time is a weekly presentation by Blue Mountain College Students about life at Blue Mountain College. BMC a private liberal arts college, supported by the Mississippi Baptist Convention, located in the northeastern Mississippi town of Blue Mountain between Ripley and New Albany. Founded as a women's college in 1873, the college's board of trustees voted for the college to go fully co-educational in 2005. The Shark 102.3 FM Radio Station and Sun Bear Studio are located in Ripley, MS and owned by Chris and Melinda Marsalis. Chris and Melinda have a passion for community development and love all of the amazing things that are going on in North Mississippi. This Week: The Shark 102.3 got the opportunity to talk to Marshall Tucker Band lead singer, Doug Gray about their 5oth Anniversary Tour. Doug called in from Florida to talk about how the tour is going and about their upcoming concert in Huntsville, AL. Nashville, Tenn. (Nov. 16, 2021) — In 2022, the TheMarshall Tucker Band (MTB) will celebrate five decades since its inception. To celebrate, the multi-platinum southern rock group will hit the road for its historic “50th Anniversary Tour.” The MTB today revealed over 30 live concert dates with stops in Clearwater, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Nashville, Tenn., Detroit, Mich., Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y., Pittsburgh, Pa., Washington D.C., Phoenix, Ariz. and more. “Five decades of The Marshall Tucker Band … sometimes it's still hard to understand,” says MTB lead singer Doug Gray. “We are just regular people. The fans have given us so many special moments over these 50 years. I'm so proud of our band.” In 1972, original members Toy Caldwell,Tommy Caldwell, Doug Gray, Jerry Eubanks, George McCorkle and Paul Riddle came together in Spartanburg, S.C. to form a southern rock band. They knew they had the magic for something that could reach people well beyond the South Carolina state line. They had the sound, the look, and the camaraderie. Problem was, they didn't have a name. One day while rehearsing in a local warehouse, they came across a key ring with the inscription, ‘Marshall Tucker.' It belonged to a blind piano tuner who resided in Spartanburg. It was this fated discovery that inspired the band's moniker, and in that moment, The Marshall Tucker Band was born. Dave Mason will join the legendary group on select live concert dates. “I'm really looking forward to joining the 50th anniversary celebration of this extraordinary band,” says Mason. “I've been waiting to get back on the road, and this is quite the opportunity to bring great music to everybody, everywhere.” “Our special songs, guided by the lyrics of Toy Caldwell, have given us a deep emotional connection with our fans and friends,” adds Gray. “We love you all and can't wait to see you on the road in 2022.” The tour officially kicks-off on Jan. 12 at the Dosey Doe in The Woodlands, TX. In the coming weeks, the second leg of the tour will be announced via marshalltucker.com. The Marshall Tucker Band “50th Anniversary Tour” Schedule:Jan. 12 – The Woodlands, TX – Dosey DoeJan. 14 – Corpus Christi, TX – American Bank CenterJan. 15 – Baton Rouge, LA – L'Auberge CasinoJan. 21 – Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall ^^Jan. 22 – Tallahassee, FL – Donald Tucker Auditorium ++Jan. 26 – Okeechobee, FL – Seminole Hard RockJan. 27 – Immokalee, FL – Seminole Hard RockJan. 29 – Miami, FL – Magic City Casino +Feb. 3 – Huntsville, AL – Mark C. Smith Concert Hall Feb. 4 – Atlanta, GA – Symphony Hall Feb. 9 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ~Feb. 10 – Detroit, MI – Fox Theater ~Feb. 11 – St. Louis, MO – River City CasinoFeb. 12 – Chicago, IL – Copernicus Center ~Feb. 17 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre ~Feb. 18 – Glenside, PA – Keswick TheatreFeb. 19 – Pittsburgh, PA – Rivers CasinoFeb. 20 – Washington D.C. – Capitol One Hall ~Feb. 23 – Torrington, CT – Warner Theatre ~Feb. 25 – Charleston, WV – Charleston Municipal ~Feb. 26 – Atlantic City, NJ – Harrah's CasinoMarch 3 – Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theatre ~March 4 – Cleveland, OH – MGM Northfield Park ~March 5 – Anderson, IN – Hoosier Park ~March 9 – Evansville, IN – Victory Theatre ~March 10 – Peoria, IL – Peoria Theatre ~March 11 – Shipshewana, IN – Blue Gate Theatre ^March 12 – Cherokee, NC – Cherokee Casino ~March 17 – Denver, CO – Paramount ~March 19 – Tucson, AZ – Centennial Hall ~March 20 – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre ~March 25 – Eureka Springs, AR – The Auditorium #March 26 – Roland, OK – Cherokee Casino RolandMarch 27 – Lubbock, TX – Buddy Holly Hall ~April 8 – Biloxi, MS – IP Casino KEY:~ with Dave Mason^ with The Kentucky Headhunters# with The Outlaws^^ with Firefall and Bertie Higgins+ supporting Kansas++ supporting ALABAMA About The Marshall Tucker BandNearly 50 years ago, The Marshall Tucker Band was founded in Spartanburg, SC. Thanks to hits like “Can't You See,” “Heard It in a Love Song,” “Fire on the Mountain,” and “24 Hours At a Time,” the 5x Gold, 3x Platinum-selling Southern Rock group has sold millions of albums worldwide. MTB songs have been featured in major motion picture films and television shows including Breaking Bad, Blow, The Box, Swing Vote, Half Nelson, My Name Is Earl, Cold Case Files and Good Guys. CMT (Country Music Television) named the MTB's “Can't You See” the #4 Greatest Southern Rock Song. The MTB's debut album, The Marshall Tucker Band, reigns as Gibson Guitar's #5 Greatest Southern Rock Album. Ultimate Classic Rockcrowned the MTB's “Can't You See” as the #1 Southern Rock Song and GRAMMY® Magazine named the group's logo as one of the most distinctive and iconic brands in music. For more information on The Marshall Tucker Band, visit marshalltucker.com or the official Facebook Page.
Hey y'all and welcome to Southern Macabre! A true crime, missing person, and paranormal podcast and blog set in the south. Today is the first episode of Missing Person Monday and I decided to choose one person from each southern state to tell you about. Some are people who left their homes and vanished, while others may just send a chill up your spine. One is actually a dangerous wanted fugitive! Photos of the missing will be on the Southern Macabre Podcast and Blog Facebook page. You will find the transcript for this episode along with the police department you should reach if you recognize anyone from today's episode on the blog. The first missing person I want to talk about vanished 37 years ago from Greenville, Alabama. Her name was Sherry Lynn Marler and she was only twelve years old that day when she and her step-dad, Raymond Stringfellow, went to the bank and he gave her $1 to grab a soda from the gas station across the street. This was 1984 so a drink was less than a dollar, for those too young to know that. Her step-dad maintained his innocence until he passed away in 2003, he was inside the bank so he had a solid alibi. Since 1984, people have reported seeing Sherry with a man in his fifties who was about 5'8” with a weathered looking face. Like someone who spends their whole life working outdoors. She was seen in Conley, Georgia, and New Orleans. Sherry was white with brown hair and brown eyes. Greenville PD (334) 382-3107 Agency Case # 8415816 Esterlyne Delmas was twenty-three years old when she walked away from her home in Immokalee, Florida on August 3, 2013. She didn't take her keys, purse, or ID so it is assumed she didn't intend to be gone long. She was never seen or heard from again. Esterlyne had moved to Florida from Haiti years before, but there's not a lot of information about her or her disappearance. She is listed as African American/Latino. She was 5'1” and had black-brown hair and brown eyes. Collier County Sheriff's Office (239) 252-0080 Case # 13-18797 42 year old Matilde Hernandez Gonzalez went missing from Powder Springs, Georgia on October 11, 2019. According to WSB-TV 2 there are “suspicious circumstances” related to her disappearance. Matilde was Latina, 4'11” tall, and weighed about 130 pounds. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and her eyebrows are tattooed. Paulding County Sheriff's Office (770) 443-3010 Case # 20191043402 This story is different from the last three. Austin Douglas Gamez (not Gomez) left with his friend, Teressa McCoy on December 27, 2017 to look at a house. They lived in Louisville, Kentucky. At 7pm the couple's rented black GMC Yukon was found in a part's store parking lot with Teressa's body inside. She was still wearing her seatbelt, but had been shot. Larry Sauer was arrested in December 2019 for Teressa's murder and Austin's presumed murder. He killed the couple at his home and then dumped the truck with Teressa inside afterwards. Police found evidence through warrants, witness statements, phone records, and audio recordings identifying Sauer's involvement in both murders. Austin's remains were never located. Police found half a pound of methamphetamines and some drug paraphernalia inside Sauer's home when they arrested him. Charges were dropped two months later because of a misread DNA analysis report, but he was charged with complicity to murder and tampering with physical evidence. Austin's family would like his body found so they can give him a proper burial. He was white/Latino, 5'11”-6'1”, 170-185 pounds, and he had a rosary tattoo on his chest and many tattoos on his arms. Louisville Metro PD (502) 574-7111 Case # 80-17-104905 (Gee-ang Thai Than Phan) If I mispronounce this man's name I ap --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Growing up in Immokalee, home to many agricultural workers and their families, presents many challenges as students juggle life outside of the classroom. Noemi Perez is the President & CEO of the Immokalee Foundation and speaks on these circumstances. She discusses her personal journey growing up within a hard-working community that is built on trust, which inspired her to continue this work. The Immokalee Foundation is celebrating 30 years of operation and works to guide students towards academic and career success within a community that is driven by agriculture. The town of Immokalee is in Collier County and approximately 35 miles from Naples, Florida. There is a sharp contrast between this rural town and its neighboring counterpart being one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. The Immokalee Foundation serves approximately 14,000 students per year with a concentration on students ranging from kindergarten to post-secondary attainment. Noemi explains the implementation of the Career Pathways initiative to provide at-risk students with exploration of their desired career field.
Episode links: Cornell Farmworker Program website Episode transcript: PAUL TREADWELL: Welcome to Extension Out Loud, a podcast from Cornell Cooperative Extension. I'm Paul Treadwell. KATIE BAILDON: And I'm Katie Baildon. PAUL TREADWELL: We got a chance to sit down and talk to-- KATIE BAILDON: We talked to Mary Jo Dudley. She's senior extension associate and director of the Cornell Farmworker Program in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University. PAUL TREADWELL: The format of this episode is the result of us wanting to give Mary Jo a platform to explain the Farmworkers Program in some detail. MARY JO DUDLEY: My name is Mary Jo Dudley. I'm the director of the Cornell Farmworker Program, which is a university-wide program. And my faculty appointment is in the Department of Global Development, which is in the College of Ag and Life Sciences. The Cornell Farmworker Program has quite a long history. It actually started under the name of the Cornell Migrant Program over 54 years ago when students, in order to graduate, needed to work on a farm. So for students who were from farming families, they would work a full semester on a different farm. But students who hadn't grown up on a farm would work a full year on a farm. The program was born out of student activism. Because at this time, a Cornell alum donated a large apple orchard in Wayne County to the university, and it became one of the first experiment stations. So many students worked on that farm, and they lived in migrant housing and worked alongside migrant farm workers who, at that time, were primarily Southern Blacks. This had a deep impact on the students. They were surprised about the situation of farm workers, in particular migrant farm workers. And they went to the Cornell Faculty Senate, along with their faculty mentors, and the senate approved a resolution that Cornell should have a program specifically dedicated to the needs of farmworkers and their families. So with that background, our program really focuses on farmworker-identified needs and opportunities. The program is dedicated to improving the living and working conditions of farmworkers and their families. But we also seek recognition for their contributions to society and their acceptance and full participation in local communities. So this includes things like equal protection under the law, earning a living wage, living in safe and comfortable housing, and more importantly, receiving respect as workers and as individuals to allow them to participate fully in their communities. So how do we understand what farmworkers need? And the way that we approach this is direct interviews with farmworkers in the format of a needs assessment. The interviews examine where the workers originate. Why do they migrate? How do they get here? How do they find their employment? What is their job? What is their day to day? What do they enjoy about their job? What do they find challenging? What do they do during their time off? How do they interact with others in local communities in the rural areas? And what are their goals for the future? And this aspect of understanding where they came from, why they came, how they located employment, and what their goals are for the future drives the agenda of the Cornell Farmworker Program, because we look at how people assess where they are today and where they'd like to be in one year, five years, 10 years. And so we can look at the current challenges and go from there to how to address those challenges. So who are the farmworkers in New York state? Currently, most of the farmworkers are undocumented workers that come from rural areas of Mexico and rural areas from Guatemala. And we have a small portion of workers who come from Jamaica through the temporary guestworker program. When we talk about farm workers, we often talk about seasonal or year-round and temporary guestworkers who come through the H-2A program. And those workers come with a visa with a beginning date and an end date. And they also have a very specific wage rate, which is higher than the New York state minimum wage for farmworkers. The 2017 ag census estimated that New York state has approximately 56,000 hired farmworkers and an additional 40,000 unpaid workers, which typically refer to family members. In addition, we have over 1,100 workers who work in packing plants, in the apple packing plants and in other packing plants. So when we talk about farmworkers, it's important to think about, who are we including in that pool? In New York state, we had a major transition around 2000. And preceding 2000, about 2/3 of our workers were migrant workers, people who followed the season and followed the crops. And about a third lived year round. But starting in 2000, that shifted dramatically. So currently, we have about 2/3 of the farmworkers live year round, and about a third migrate. And that's directly associated with the changes within the dairy sector, in which a workforce that had been a family workforce or locals, neighbors, cousins transitioned to an immigrant workforce, with those workers coming primarily from rural Mexico and Guatemala. And that is a heavily undocumented population. If we look at agriculture in New York state, because of our prevalence as leaders nationwide in apple production-- we're the second-largest apple-producing state, in pumpkins, in maple syrup. We're the third-largest dairy-producing state, and we're third in cabbage, grapes, cauliflower, and fourth in crops including pears, tart cherries, sweet corn, snap beans, squash, and we're fifth in onions. These are all very labor-intensive crops. So traditionally, that large group of farmworkers were referred to as migrants, those people who followed the crops. So they would begin in Southern states and work in harvest activities in Southern states and follow the harvest up the coast. For those who were what we call the Eastern migrant stream, they would work in the Carolinas, come to New York state. And once the harvest had been completed in New York state in November, typically around Thanksgiving, they would return to Southern states. We saw a change in this since 2000, where rather than follow crops, there was a transformation within the farmworker population where they would work on more than one farm and engage in agricultural production activities following the season of the year. So we find in upstate New York, we have people in the winter months-- January, February-- who are tying grapes, and later in the spring, they might be planting apple trees. And then, later, they are pruning apple trees, for example. And they will eventually move on to harvest activities and post-harvest packing plants. So by working in different farms on different commodities, they can basically find employment in agriculture year round. And agriculture has always been an entry point for recent immigrants because you don't need to know how to read and write in English to do agriculture. So if we look historically, it began with former African-American sharecroppers, and we've had any number of immigrants coming to the US that entered employment through farmwork, Italian immigrants, Finnish immigrants, German prisoners of war, coal miners. The [INAUDIBLE] who traveled the freight trains often lived from doing agricultural work. This changed with the introduction of guestworker programs. So the guestworker programs were actually a newer version of what is called the [SPANISH] program. When we have a labor shortage, and we can certify that there's a labor shortage, we can bring workers from other countries to do that work. And they come with a work visa referred to as H-2A temporary guestworker visa. And their visas are issued with a beginning date and an end date. Initially, we saw workers who were coming from Jamaica and other Caribbean Islanders. Later, we had US workers coming from Puerto Rico under contracts. They didn't have the visa because they didn't have to worry about citizenship. And currently, our H-2A guestworker program has workers from Mexico, Jamaica, and Guatemala. So in the '80s, between the 1980s and the 2000s, farmwork became an area for entry into the workforce for recent refugees. We had Haitians who arrived in Florida because of changes in Haiti. We had Guatemalans and Salvadorans who fled violence in Central America as well as coming from the other sides of the globe, refugees from Bangladesh, Southeast Asian women, Cambodian women. So it's important to understand that immigrants have always been a critical part to farmwork. For those workers who have lived in New York state for an extended period of time, they have created families here. Many of them have US-born children. That dynamic changes in that this pattern of migration-- moving north and south, returning to home countries-- has diminished significantly. It also raises different priorities among the farmworker population. The primary priority that we have learned about through our research is the heavy weight of immigration concerns among this heavily undocumented population. But those who have children also want to understand how to navigate in their communities-- what is appropriate in our actions with schools, how to locate daycare centers. We don't have statistics on how many people have families and how many people do not. But in general, those people who are living and work in fruit and vegetable year round are more likely to have family members. And dairy workers, which are obviously year-round workers, may or may not have family members. The major factor in this is that dairy workers typically have employer-provided housing. So some employers are not interested in housing a family, and their housing might not be appropriate for anything other than single men. So it varies tremendously. And we don't have statistics and don't intend to collect statistics on that because that changes constantly every day. But what I would say is that as we see more families, the interest in learning how to navigate in their communities comes to the fore. Most of the farmworkers who are here currently are here to work. And that's something that our research showed, that the farm workers come to work. And when you talk about their future, their plan is to return home. They don't come to stay. Over time, their personal situation may change. As they marry or they have children, that may change. But what motivates them to come is either they are fleeing violence, or it's an economic reality that they cannot earn money where they are from. And they come here to work, to earn money, to pay back the debts that are incurred with coming here, and to create a nest egg so they have something to go back to. They may purchase land. They may purchase animals. They may build a house. However, their primary priority while they are here is the workplace. They want to be successful in the workplace, they want to understand opportunities for advancement in the workplace, and they want to be involved in a positive workplace. So we did a large research project that we worked with producers and farmworkers to look at, what is a positive workplace? And on our website, we have the results of that research plus tips and tools for creating positive workplaces. And the tips and tools for creating positive workplaces revolve around establishing good communication coupled with mutual respect. So typically, in our interviews, in our needs assessment interviews, farmworkers will identify interest in how they can improve relations in the workplace with their employers, with their co-workers. And it's a challenge because, for many of them, their co-workers are also their housemates. But in understanding the workplace and understanding the need to communicate well with others in rural communities, they're interested in learning English. And they're interested in opportunities to learn English that are fluid and flexible because they may not have a constant time off. And most don't have their own transportation, and public transportation in rural areas is unreliable. So one thing they talk about is they want to understand what services are there and how they can access that. But since immigration is at the top of the list, it's important to understand that we live in an area of intensive immigration enforcement. And over the years, immigration debates have been stalled. We're now in a new era where we're talking about the Farm Modernization Act, which would provide an accelerated option for legalization of farm workers. But until that passes, farm workers talk a lot about the presence of law enforcement officials in rural areas that identify them as potential undocumented workers. And so this risk of having law enforcement come to your house or stop you while you're going shopping is a very real risk. And that can lead to deportation and lead to separation of undocumented workers from their US-born children. The ACLU refers to this as the Constitution-free zone of the United States, those areas in which immigration enforcement can take place without any necessary catalyst. And so the question of immigration is very central to the discussion about farmworkers. Some of them ask, are they supporting local economies? Are they doing work that others won't do? And our research points to the fact that they come to work, not to stay. Many ask, why don't they just apply for a visa? And there is no visa for workers on dairy farms. What we see is a situation where workers are doing physically demanding work in all kinds of weather. In our research, they discuss social, economic, linguistic, and geographic isolation. It's a relatively young workforce. In our research, they discuss challenges to adapting to new communities. That includes things like language, cultural norms and expectations. Many of the farm workers note that we talk a lot about time. We're out of time. We're running out of time. We don't have enough time. And so that's part of what they always find interesting. Of course, the challenges of living in rural, geographically isolated areas where there is no public transportation, the desire to have a positive workplace, to communicate well with your co-workers, to understand how to negotiate for changes in the workplace. And for those who now have families, they're interested in how to interact with schools, daycare. And as immigrants, many of them express loneliness, missing their family, missing home. I think one of the aspects that is often not visible is while the general public has a sense that this is very physically demanding work, they may not have as close a sense of the dangers associated with the work, for example, dangers associated with using ladders or equipment, and both mechanical equipment on fruit and vegetable farms and equipment in milking parlors, equipment in processing and packing plants. It's dirty work, and there are dangers associated with working with large animals on dairy farms. Another aspect, which is very prevalent in our conversations with farmworkers is that they work in both extremely hot and extremely cold temperatures. All of you who have experienced an upstate winter understand what it would be like to spend hours in February tying grape vines to a wire. And as we talked about a little bit before, the challenge is that many of them now have US-born children. In fact, in the US, there are over 4 million US-born children with one or more undocumented parent. And since the undocumented parent runs the risk of deportation, the possibility for family separation is very high. So part of what we do is we support farmworkers in addressing these needs and fill in the gaps. We have students who go to farms during the farmworker's day off and tutor them in English as a second language. And I'll talk a little bit about some of the other things. COVID-19 really changed the game with farmworkers. Our priority was maintaining ongoing communication with farmworkers. So we had to nearly, overnight, transition from face-to-face, on-farm workshops to developing a system where we could quickly communicate with a large number of farm workers. We developed a system of text messaging to 3,000 farm workers that we had their personal cell phone numbers. And we had their personal cell phone numbers because they have participated in an activity with us in the past few years. We do many on-farm workshops about how to navigate within an intensive immigration-enforcement environment. We do many workshops where we assist families in assigning temporary guardians for their US-born children. And so we had those numbers, and we utilize that system to begin communicating with farmworkers about critical issues. PAUL TREADWELL: And you're listening to Extension Out Loud, the podcast from Cornell Cooperative Extension, and our conversation with Mary Jo Dudley. As we talked to Mary Jo, the issue of the pandemic came up. And this section really looks at our farmworkers and the challenges they faced in dealing with this crisis, including isolation, access to health care, and issues of food security. So you had a database of 3,000 numbers that you could rely on. Can you talk a little bit about what it took to build the trust to be able to develop a database like that? Because obviously, farmworkers aren't just going to give any random visitor their cell phone number. MARY JO DUDLEY: That's right. So I personally have been working with farmworkers for over 16 years. And that means regularly going to farms, regularly interacting with people. We do workshops. We do training activities. We do troubleshooting. Our workplace relations project-- we interview farm owners and managers and ask them how their workplace has changed over time, and what are the challenges as well as the benefits. And then, separately, we meet with farmworkers and talk about what it's like to work in that workplace. We analyze what they are both saying, and we host an all-farm meeting in which we address the challenges that they face. And we have developed, as I mentioned earlier, a series of tips and tools that are available for farm employers as well as farm workers. One of the things that this research highlighted was that workers often did not have a face-to-face interview with their employer. They came to work on the farm, they shadowed another worker, but they never had that, welcome to the farm. This is what we're doing here. And so we put together a bilingual tool which is a worker orientation checklist that farmers can use. When you have a new worker, did you talk about benefits? Did you talk about how to ask for time off? Did you talk about scheduling? Did you talk about training opportunities? So that's an approach in which we interacted with hundreds of farmworkers. And in the immigration arena, many of the farmworkers who came here without proper documentation have US-born children. However, in order to create a legal document that assigns a temporary guardian for their US-born children, they have to have a current federal photo ID from their own government. So 13 years ago, we started working with the Mexican and the Guatemalan consulates to bring them to upstate New York so farmworkers could get those necessary documents without running the risk of traveling from the North Country to New York City, where the possibility of being detained was very, very high. So in a recent mobile consulate event that we had with workers from Guatemala, we had 400 people come in a single day. And so when they come, we collaborate with partners. And during that event, clinic was present to give free health consultations. We have pro-bono immigration attorneys on site in case people have immigration questions. We have workplace safety people on site to share resources. And so over the years, many farmworkers have attended either an on-farm workshop, a research project, a consulate activity. And so that's how we have so many personal phone numbers, because we asked them if they would like to be informed of workshops, consulate visits, et cetera. So obviously, of those phone numbers, a certain percentage no longer were active. But once we went through, we found that we had this way to communicate with about 3,000 farmworkers. When COVID presented itself, we had to interrupt our face-to-face interactions. And so we started initially sending, via WhatsApp or text message, links to videos in Spanish, in Mam, in other indigenous languages about the transmission of COVID-19 and how to protect oneself. We also organized Spanish language calls with a trusted medical professional, Dr. Canario, who's the medical director of Finger Lakes Community Health. And these calls were simply Q&A. But this system allowed not only for us to communicate information to farmworkers, but they could communicate back to us. They could text us back and let us know if they needed masks, if they needed additional medical advice, if they needed legal referrals, and for many, if they needed food. So we transitioned our activities. We worked with a group of local volunteers, the Bryant Park mask sellers, who sold masks. And we have distributed now about 8,000 masks to farmworkers. But at the beginning of the pandemic, none of us were familiar with masks, and farmworkers had a lot of questions about how to wash them, how to dry them, et cetera. So we included with the masks a bilingual graphic which showed how the mask should be worn, how it can be washed. And on the reverse side, we included the phone numbers for all the federally designated migrant health clinics. So if it's a mask that we distributed in this area, it has the phone number for Finger Lakes Community Health, or if it's in Western New York, Oak Orchard Community Health. Or if it's in the Hudson Valley, it was then Sun River Community Health. Because we had this two-way text messaging system, we started getting requests for food for people who, during quarantine, could not leave the farm. That's not a typical activity that we had ever undertaken in the past, but we needed to develop a an emergency response to that. And fortunately, we had a farmer who donated a large amount of beef. We worked with CCE to store that beef, and we worked with the local food kitchen, with Loaves & Fishes, to cook those meals. And so we were picking up a hundred fully-cooked meals every week and delivering those. During the season, we also had farmers who provided produce. So we would deliver to those people who were in quarantine a box of shelf-safe food, produce, and cooked meals. However, this really underscored food insecurity within the farmworker population, not only during quarantine, but because their children were not attending schools. While the schools might offer the continuation of meals that could be picked up at the school, most of the farmworkers didn't have transportation to go to the school to pick up the meals. So it underscored how much reliance vulnerable families had when school lunches and breakfasts were no longer available to their children. During COVID, we undertook another activity. We have always supported farmworkers with legal clinics, but we could no longer do face-to-face clinics. So we would get a text message from a farmworker family that had a legal need. We would conduct a legal intake over the phone and then match that farmworker with a pro-bono immigration or family law attorney in their area. The immigration attorneys often receive funding to serve a specific geographic area. And then we would have virtual legal clinics. The attorney would be at their kitchen table. The farmworker would be at their kitchen table. The translator would be at their kitchen table. And in order to facilitate that, we had to teach farmworkers how to download Zoom on their phones. So my students would do dry runs with farmworkers who were going to go to a legal clinic, and practice before the clinic. And this allowed for farmworkers to receive that necessary support, those people who were in immigration and deportation proceedings to receive the necessary support. And Governor Cuomo put into place the possibility for virtual notarization, so legal documents could be notarized via Zoom or FaceTime. So we were allowed to continue with those families who were interested in assigning temporary guardians for their US-born children. A parent who's undocumented who is facing deportation proceedings will often put into place a temporary guardian to avoid that those children become wards of the state. And they can name an individual that they know and trust. We did 10 virtual legal clinics, quite a bit of background work to make those happen. In addition to signing legal papers such as temporary guardianship, we also put together a packet of information for those people who were going to serve as a guardian, which includes all the information about the children-- their teacher, their pediatrician, their dentist, allergies, likes, dislikes. And we also used COVID to tweak our service directory. We have a Spanish and English language searchable database of services that are organized by geocode. So you put in your address, and you can look at the services, things such as housing, legal services, education, English classes, job training, safety, health services. And it's not just a simple list, but each service indicates, do they provide translation? If so, in what languages? Do they provide transportation? If so, how do you organize it? What is the general fee structure? And what are the documents that are required for one to access those services? Because you don't want to send an undocumented person to a government service where there are mandatory reporters. So we did a lot of revamping of our website. We have a Spanish language website, which is [INAUDIBLE], which is cell phone accessible. And also, during COVID, we developed visual materials on new regulations. There were state regulations, COVID farm safety regulations. There was not an easy way for those regulations to be communicated to farmworkers. So we developed an audiovisual animated video to share that information with farmworkers. Many things changed. The Driver's License, the Green Light Law was passed, so immigrants, regardless, could have access to driver's licenses. However, the DMV closed, so we mailed out a lot of Spanish-language driver's manuals so people could study for the written test. Also, right before COVID, the law that provides the Farm Labor Fair Laborer Practices Act, which revises the New York state labor law to include new protections for farmworkers, farmworkers and domestic workers were excluded from the National Labor Relations Act, which is the federal, which provides the right to organize, guaranteed workers' comp, et cetera, guaranteed day of rest. And that was changed in July of 2019, where the New York state labor law was revised through this legislation. So that raised a lot of new information. One of the things that we've been doing is, how do you take complex information and make it accessible to an immigrant low-literacy population? So I'm just going to show you this. As I said, the labor law affecting farmworkers changed, and it has many components. So how do you communicate it? [AUDIO PLAYBACK] - If you're a farmworker in New York state, there's a new law that you should know called the New York State Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act. This video explains what this new law means to you. This material was produced by the Cornell Farmworker Program at Cornell University. Pause this video at any moment to take note of the information. This law went into effect on January 1, 2020. To whom does it apply? This applies to all farmworkers in New York state with or without legal status. Under the new law, you have eight rights that could be beneficial to you. Right number one, the right to 24 hours of consecutive rest per week-- you could choose to work during your day of rest, but your employer can't force you to work. If you're unable to work for 24 consecutive hours due to weather or crop conditions, this counts as your day of rest. You should always keep track of the hours you worked and make sure that your pay stub reflects the exact number of hours worked. PAUL TREADWELL: To watch the full video, please visit bit.ly/cfb_video or see the link in our show notes. Now, back to our conversation with Mary Jo. MARY JO DUDLEY: I wanted to show that to you because we're using this animated form-- and this is the English version, and we obviously have the Spanish version-- to communicate complex topics. As you note, this new law came into effect January 1, 2020. And we faced a stay-at-home order two months later. And it was critical because there are certain aspects of this law, including paid sick leave, paid family leave, that became very critical during COVID. How would farmworkers be paid for the time that they were in quarantine, or the time that they were ill, or the time that they were caring for a sick family member? So what this required is a different way of working, but the priority being to maintaining ongoing communication with farmworkers and this two-way communication, which included our text messaging system as well as regularly scheduled health related calls in Spanish with Dr. Canario. And our most recent one was about vaccines-- why do you need it-- and a Q&A-- what are the challenges with vaccines? And general calls with farmworkers that were regularly scheduled, where they could just talk about issues that they were facing. So we went from in-person, face-to-face regular communications to developing a system to maintaining communication, using text messages, WhatsApp, Zoom calls, and regular telephone calls. The concrete when your life is primarily focused on your work-- certain aspects of that take on greater importance, for example, your housing. If you're working 60 hours a week, and you go home to a house where you don't have hot water, or the house is falling apart, you never rest. But if you go back to a house that you're comfortable in, you're able to rest. And one interesting aspect of farmwork is that many of the farm employers provide housing because there's no other housing available in rural areas. So the quality of the housing is extremely important to those that work on farms for their general satisfaction and their well-being. KATIE BAILDON: Historically, farmworkers have not been protected under the National Labor Rights Act, right? But then there are some protections at the state level now because of the new legislation. Is that right? MARY JO DUDLEY: When the National Labor Relations Act was passed, at that time, that was still a time of the Jim Crow laws in the South. And so that worker protection which gives the right to overtime pay, the right to a day of rest, the right to organize-- in order to get the support of the Southern Congress people, rather than explicitly state a racial exclusion, they excluded two kinds of workers who were typically Black, domestic workers and farmworkers. Since that is federal regulation, the only way that can be changed is states can amend their labor law. And in 1990, I think, New York state amended its labor law with relation to domestic workers. Other states, as you know, have amended their labor law with respect to farmworkers, such as California. And that adjustment of labor regulations, when you have the right to organize-- that evolved into the birth of many labor unions. United Farm Workers, based in California, was an entity that focuses-- has focused on organizing farmworkers. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee in Ohio focuses on organizing farmworkers. The typical union structure-- since many states' farmworkers did not have the right to organize, some states formed farmworker organizations that didn't use the typical union structure. So for example, I don't know if you've ever heard of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. That was a coalition of farmworkers in Immokalee that, rather than focusing their energy on changing the relations between worker and employer, they joined forces and targeted those that were making the most money from their labor. And so they put forth a campaign, which was called A Penny A Pound, for those that were buying tomatoes. And they focused on Taco Bell, Whole Foods, Burger King. And eventually, they were able to convince those people who bought the tomatoes to pay a penny more per pound. And that extra income was distributed among the workers. We can turn back to-- the United Farm Workers, many years ago, had a grape boycott. And so that was a consumer boycott, where consumers were encouraged not to buy grapes grown in California. Or the Farm Labor Organizing Committee had the tomato soup boycott. They encouraged consumers not to buy Campbell Soup until they changed their relationships with farmworkers. So there are different ways to think about organizing, and there are ways that farmworkers have organized informally for many years. Probably the most predominant is there's an organization of dairy workers. It's called [SPANISH], and they have organized. But before organizing around changing the labor law with its provisions for farmworkers, they focused on driver's licenses, the Green Light campaign. So those workers said, we can't have a driver's license. We have US-born children. If something happens to our children in the middle of the night, we have no way to legally attend to their medical needs. Similarly, we have no way to legally arrive at our parent-teacher conferences. If you don't have a driver's license, and you live in rural areas of New York state or any other state where there's no reliable public transportation, most of the farmworkers rely on an informal system of transportation. It's called [SPANISH]. They will hire a local unemployed or underemployed individual to give them a ride to town. And that ride to town may cost $50. So this is still an issue for us right now as we're encouraging farmworkers to access COVID-19 vaccines, is the transportation aspect. So there's a two-prong approach. One is the federally designated migrant health clinics go directly to farms and vaccinate all workers. Or in some areas, CCE has hosted joint vaccination clinics with the County Health Department. But we need to ensure that there's appropriate and accessible transportation for farmworkers to arrive at those clinics. The most successful model that we've seen is where the employers transport their workers. So there was an outbreak of COVID among a group of Guatemalan workers for whom Spanish is their second language. And their employer told them that people would be coming from the county health department to ask them questions in Spanish, probably in some version of Spanish, and that they should speak to them truthfully. Someone arrived at their house. They gave their real name, their address, and that person took photographs of them and of their house. The next day, they appeared in the local newspaper, photographs of undocumented immigrants that tested positive to COVID-19, with their address in front of their house. The only option for those individuals is to flee, whether they're violently ill or not, because that kind of information is an invitation for ICE to go to that location. That week, we had various reports of ICE picking up other farmworkers in the area, who had worked on the same farm for 20 years, who had US-born children, and took them to our federal detention center in Batavia that had a significant number of COVID-19 cases, and their bail was posted at $19,000. Make of it what you will. But did that person do that intentionally? I imagine not. But it illustrates the gap between an understanding of-- that would be a HIPAA violation if that was a health provider, right? But it was a journalist. And they didn't know who it was. They didn't know the difference, right? In the current context of anti-immigrant sentiments, it fueled the fire. And we saw this in rural areas where social media, Facebook postings, et cetera, pointed to immigrants, and farmworkers specifically, as bringing COVID to their area. Farmworkers are essential workers. They worked despite statewide stay-at-home directives. They had higher exposure to infection. And initially, they did not have access to PPE. KATIE BAILDON: On a final note, Mary Jo shared with us what brings her hope for this work. PAUL TREADWELL: And it's really an interesting section because it's-- after listening to the lead-up to this part, it really seems like hope is a challenge to maintain. But Mary Jo had some words about that. So we hope you've enjoyed this conversation, and here's Mary Jo. MARY JO DUDLEY: I think it's hopeful that the New York state labor law has been revised to provide protections for farmworkers. And as long as we can communicate that in an effective way, that opens up options for better well-being for farmworkers. I think that the partnership and the trust that we've developed with farmworkers allows us to work together to create approaches and materials that respond to both immediate and long-term needs among this population. I believe that through the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people in New York state and other states perhaps changed their perspective towards food, it opened the question of, who is producing this food? Who is milking the cows? Who is harvesting our vegetables? And so I have hope. And I have hope that we're now talking about immigration reform specifically for farmworkers. Because if we could find a way to diminish the fear associated with living undocumented in the US, we open up opportunities to be more creative. PAUL TREADWELL: Thanks for listening to this episode. Extension Out Loud was produced and edited by Paul Treadwell with help from Katie Baildon. KATIE BAILDON: For more about this episode, including show notes and more, visit extensionoutloud.com, and be sure to subscribe to Extension Out Loud on your favorite podcast directory.
The queen of mortgage herself Lauren Maxwell of the Maxwell Mortgage Team swings by to drop knowledge and share some crazy stories. Lauren is a powerhouse in her own right and has done over 300Million personally in closed loan volume and over half a billion with her team. Have you ever had satan look you in the eyes? Lauren may have. Listen to this story! What's Lauren's outlook in this hot market? "Buy and Buy Now" Here's why... Renting Vs Buying... We dive into the details The comeback of the century! Lauren discusses how she lost everything and had to build it all back during the crash. Emily's unintentional appraiser bribe... we'll give you a clue... it was see-through and blue lace... Everyone's a real estate agent and everyone's an MLO, how do we stand out in this business and not get discouraged? Thinking about hiring a credit repair company? Warning! Better listen to Lauren's take on it. What's Lauren's bread and butter and why? Why you should never say no or judge a book by its cover and how that advice Lauren gave Jess years ago translated into multiple deals and a long-lasting friendship. Emily can also attest to this as she shares a success story. Bankruptcy? Foreclosures? New Construction Loans? Manufactured Home Loans? Zero Credit? It's all here! Experience, success, advice, and knowledge aside Lauren also give back! Join her in giving back to the community as she has already committed to purchasing 200 backpacks for kids in need for school with the Immokalee backpack drive. She will also match whatever brought in. Lauren also picks out a family in need every month to give them a $1,000 check. Know a family who could use help? Listen in to see if they might qualify. Go Follow: FB: Lauren Maxwell IG: @laurenmaxwellteam @maxwellmortgageteam Web: https://crosscountrymortgage.com/Maxwell-Mortgage-Team/Lauren-Maxwell/ IG: @realestaterealitypodcast
Today, h.e.r.LIFE Blogcast host Rachel Malak sits down with Lupe Gonzalo and Natalia Naranjo (translator) of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to discuss the Fair Food Program and the Wendy's fast food Boycott. First introduced to Rachel by a Fordham CMS class (Communication & The Food System with Prof. Garrett Broad), the topic at hand is workers' rights. Today, we learn about how the CIW has established a widely accepted program to protect vulnerable farm workers in Immokalee, Florida. ...widely accepted by everyone but Wendy's. For more information about the CIW, visit https://ciw-online.org. And be sure to follow the CIW on Instagram @immokalee.workers. *** As always, thank you for listening! Find us on Instagram @her.blog.life: https://www.instagram.com/her.blog.life/ Subscribe to Rachel's YouTube channel for behind-the-scenes videos of recordings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvDljLIDd8mRegPxrGYqpA?view_as=subscriber Check out all our blog posts at https://herbloglife.online/
Haim Geri has dedicated his life to combating terrorism.He rose to the rank of Captain in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) and served in the highly trained Golani Infantry Recon Unit. He has served as the Chief of Security for Israeli Embassies in Venezuela, Mexico and Switzerland.An expert in counter terrorism, response to active shooter and Krav Maga, he is currently the Senior Instructor and academic lead at Force IMI in Immokalee, FloridaTo learn more about Haim, Force IMI or to register for a course with Haim, visit the Force IMI website at FORCEIMI
In today's episode, we talk to Don O'Neill, a member of Malvern Prep's Class of 1957, about his experiences leading the charge to save Malvern Prep from closing in the 1970s and working with the Immokalee Foundation in Immokalee, Florida. Mr. O'Neill also shares his advice for aspiring social entrepreneurs. CSItizen is a student-created/led program dedicated to celebrating and sharing stories of positive social impact, and inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs. The My CSItizen Moment Podcast is hosted by Cole Cherian '22 and Joey Bucci '22, two of the co-founders of CSItizen and members of the CSItizen Leadership Team, and it profiles members of the greater Malvern community making their own social impact. To learn more about CSItizen, visit csitizen.org or follow us on Instagram @csitizen.
This weeks episode is an absolute treat. Not only do we get to recap and discuss another success story through DOC platform. We also recap a great brokers open, cars and coffee and a feel good story about feeding over 250 families in Immokalee by bringing the community together for a turkey drive. -- For the treat we interview the eye and the talent behind CorraFilm, Coby Corradino. Coby's story is impressive and he is to say the least a hustler and a talented young entrepreneur. Are you an aspiring videographer, filmmaker or photographer? Coby share's with us how he and his team infiltrated one of the number one real estate markets in America, Naples Florida for real estate and businesses in general at only 20yrs of age. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, real estate agent and or business owner you wont want to miss this. -- Corrafilm is a Media production company that works closely with Real Estate Agents, Businesses, Events, and individuals in order to Build Brands, Inspire Industries, and Share your Story. Be sure to check them out on social @corrafilm to see some of their projects. You can reach him personally at 786-417-7210
Bailey Ferraro, who enjoyed a wildly successful week in Montgomery at the Million, joins the show this week to talk big money bracket racing. Less than a week removed from his back-to-back $50K finals, Bailey called in from South Georgia Motorsports Park to recap his Million week. During the conversation we learned where the FUG nickname came from, what it's like working for Bug McCarty, who's the better driver between Caraline and Tripp McCarty, crashing roadsters in Bristol, and racing at Immokalee, his home track. After the interview, the boys wrap up the Million and kick around their plans for the next few weeks.The DragChamp Show is a weekly bench racing style podcast where hosts Jake Hodge, Ryan Gleghorn, and Gary Don Free sit down with racers to discuss current racing topics and share racing stories. For more visit our website at DragChamp.com, our Facebook page, or email the team at jake@dragchamp.com, ryan@dragchamp.com, or garydon@dragchamp.com.To get the best of DragChamp delivered to your inbox, click here!
We have the hilarious Josh Pray form Immokalee, #Florida! Today he is going to lets us know 5 things that he has never told anyone! Josh is coming back to Off the Hook Comedy Club! Live Friday, December 13th! Tune in to start laughing now! Watch the full video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orqn0sk1Yr8 Show Josh Pray Some Love: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshpraycomedy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshpray
Comedian Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E rides along with Captain B as they rap some tunes for the #naplescaptainslog Siri can now help you listen to your favorite podcasts! Say things like “play The Captains Log” or “play my newest podcasts.” You can also ask Siri about the podcast that is currently playing and request to be subscribed! Just tell Siri “subscribe to this show!” Watch Full Video —————> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEizwj9TVMU Funny jokes and notes from a day and the life Off the hook Comedy Club. Off the hook comedy club post on twitter daily follow us #naplescaptainslog for the latest info. The captain's log is officially sponsored by Captain Brien Spirits maker of Captain Brien Sugar Free and Gluten Free Vodka, Barrel Aged Dark Rum, White Rum, and Gin! Check Eric Schwartz out and show him some love at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ericschwartz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eeericschwartz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericschwartz Website: https://www.ericschwartzlive.com/ PODCAST RECAP Miss something on one of our episodes of the #naplescaptainslog? Don't worry we got you covered! Here you will find a full transcript from this episode of the #naplescaptainslog! Eric Schwartz: ♪ I'm sad ♪ ♪ Drippin' in a downward spiral ♪ ♪ Need advice ♪ ♪ Hit up TripAdvisor ♪ ♪ Lookin' for a place to get me out of this mess ♪ ♪ Ooh the happiest place in the whole U.S. ♪ ♪ Southwest Florida ♪ ♪ Is it true? ♪ ♪ The land of the snowboards ♪ ♪ And the white hairdos ♪ ♪ The leaves don't change ♪ ♪ But the license plates do ♪ ♪ Where they invite reptiles ♪ ♪ Into the swimming pools ♪ ♪ Those crazy golden gaters ♪ ♪ They be wrestling with gators ♪ ♪ If you don't have a nice car ♪ ♪ You probably ain't from Naples ♪ ♪ Where they live up to the name ♪ ♪ Of the knee-high acres ♪ ♪ If don't root for the Pats ♪ ♪ You're a straight-up traitor ♪ ♪ Where they release pets to the Everglades ♪ ♪ And they have bunch of chupacabras and skunk apes ♪ ♪ I'm hype with the trip ♪ ♪ But I gotta ask the people ♪ ♪ If I do make the visit ♪ ♪ You gotta show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Where 69 degrees means it's winter season ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Up in Immokalee they got the orange juice squeezin' ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Fort Myers is lovely but also kinda foggy ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ They act all boujee 'til they hit the clubs ♪ ♪ But they got a lot of sea shells ♪ ♪ Even more golf courses ♪ ♪ Keeping them exclusive security forces ♪ ♪ Got kicked off the fairway ♪ ♪ Wasn't fair ♪ ♪ They were like sir ♪ ♪ This is a cemetery ♪ ♪ Oops my bad ♪ ♪ They're both green lawns ♪ ♪ One's eighteen holes ♪ ♪ One's a whole four one ♪ ♪ But now my golf cart's dead ♪ ♪ Do you have jumper cables? ♪ ♪ And while you're at it ♪ ♪ Why don't you show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Fort Misery Nap ♪ ♪ Down the cape in the rock ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Got the beaches on fleek ♪ ♪ Grandparents on lock ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Giving that shine ♪ ♪ To the two three nine ♪ ♪ Show me your Naples ♪ ♪ Show me yours ♪ ♪ I'll show you mine ♪ ♪ Oh you know it's on ♪ ♪ We got Brian Spina on the Captain's Log ♪ ♪ Stop drop and laugh ♪ ♪ That's how we do it in the present ♪ ♪ Never the past ♪ ♪ We goin' to the future ♪ ♪ Right now ♪ ♪ We got y'all tunin' in ♪ ♪ And how are you doin' today ♪ ♪ It's a nice day ♪ ♪ It's a Thursday ♪ ♪ Oo-Wee hey ♪ Captain Brien: Now that's a frickin' intro, dude. Eric Schwartz: That's how we do it. Captain Brien: I need that every time. Welcome to the Captain's Log, guys. Eric Schwartz is live, Eric Schwartz: What's up, dude? Captain Brien: What's up, buddy. Eric Schwartz: Two hands on the wheel. Captain Brien: Love it. I know, I know, look, I'm gonna turn on auto-drive, so we're good. Captain Brien: We're gonna be half-driving auto. Eric Schwartz: You have a self-driving car already? Captain Brien: A little bit-
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