Podcast appearances and mentions of jason glaser

Jason Glaser, co-founder and CEO of La Isla Network talks with Ian Welsh about the real dangers for outdoor workers, including in agricultural supply chains, from increased heat stress while in the field or on construction sites. They discuss the potential impacts of climate change and how these risks are spreading to previously temperate latitudes. Glaser argues why companies must take this seriously, not least because of the reputational risks around “sleepwalking into a scandal” allowing workers producing basic commodities to come to harm.  

Hosted by business and human rights commentator Ian Welsh, in this episode he hears directly how the disease affects sugar cane workers in Nicaragua and investigates the history of knowledge of kidney disease.Joining Ian are William Martinez, occupational health expert in Nicaragua, whose family members have been impacted by kidney disease, Dr Catharina Wesseling of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and La Isla Network’s Jason Glaser and Scott Montegna.

Welcome to the first podcast from the Adelante Initiative, dedicated to creating safe and productive work practices in the sugarcane industry. Hear partner organisations discuss its structure, aims and progress. Featuring La Isla Network’s Jason Glaser, Denis Chavarria from Ingenio San Antonio sugar mill, Nicaragua, Mario Amador from the Nicaraguan Sugar Producers Association and Joe Woodruff from Bonsucro. Host: Ian Welsh

This week: Jason Glaser, founder of La Isla Network, on how simple measures to allow farm workers access to water, rest and shade can save lives, and real estate services provider JLL's global chief corporate responsibility officer Richard Batten on how to talk to your suppliers' suppliers about modern slavery. Plus: Ikea's drive towards circularity, latest research from CDP, more problems in H+M and Next's apparel supply chains in Bangladesh, and why British chips are getting smaller, in the news digest. Hosted by Ian Welsh

Jason Glaser, CEO, La Isla Network outlines to Ian Welsh his work combating kidney disease in tropical sugar cane workers, and why famers providing water, rest and shade to workers in the field can mitigate serious health issues. Glaser explains how La Isla Network's programme in Nicaragua is working to prove the effectiveness of rolling out water, rest and shade, and voices his frustrations with lack of progress while also highlighting some inspiring partnerships. They discuss the challenges around introducing more mechanisation in sugar cane supply chains – mitigating health risks while also developing other income sources for farm workers.

A conversation recorded at the workshop “What’s Leadership got to do with it” November 10-11, 2015 with two Tällberg Foundation Global Leaders, Jamila Afghani, Jason Glaser and musician activist Ramy Essam moderated by Muni Figueres, former Ambassador of Costa Rica to the US and Tällberg Foundation board member. How and why did they decide to act and become an activist? How did thy make the transition from being a private person to a public person, an activist?

Jason Glaser, co-founder of La Isla Foundation will present on the Chronic Kidney Disease epidemic of unknown origin (CKDu) that is decimating populations of sugarcane workers in Western Nicaragua and the rest of Central America.

I recommend the below books for use when teaching about slavery in the United States between 1700 and 1900 to students in intermediate-level grades. In some cases, I also include Google Lit Trips developed by teachers in the Teaching American History Grant program.Most Loved in All the World by Tonya Cherie HegaminUnder the Quilt of Night by Deborah HopkinsonFollow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette WinterA Voice of Her Own: A Story of Phyllis Wheatly, Slave Poet by Katherine LaskyAlec's Primer by Mildred Pitts WalterDaily Life on a Southern Plantation by Paul EricksonDiscovery Kids: Underground RailroadElijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul CurtisHenry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen LevineIf You Lived When There Was Slavery in America by Anna Kamma [Lit Trip by Laura Conway, Cathleen Mullen, and Rachel Robertson]If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad Ellen LevineMeet Addie: American Girl (Book One) by Connie PorterNight Boat to Freedom by Margot Thiels Raven [Lit Trip by Jill Hardin]Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye StroudPriscilla and the Hollyhocks by Ann Broyles [Lit Trip by Jessica Graham]Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson [See this Lit Trip by Megan Leider and a companion lesson plan by Cynthia Weeden]Time For Kids Biographies: Harriet Tubman A Woman of Courage by the Editors of Time for Kids with Renee SkeltonUnderground Railroad Interactive Adventure by Allison LassiuerFreedom River by Doreen RappaportAlmost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonUnderground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities by Mary Kay CarsonAlmost to Freedom by Vaunda Micheaux NelsonMukambu of Ndongo by Patricia Procopi [Lit Trip by Andrea May and Jordan Savitt]Lest We Forget: The Passage from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three-Dimensional Interactive Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust Exhibit by Velma Maia ThomasUp the Learning Tree by Marcia K. VaughanJanuary's Sparrow by Patricia Pollaco (Note: This book contains graphic pictures and explicit text)Graphic Library: Graphic HistoryBrave Escape of Ellen and William Craft by Donald LemkeHarriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad by Michael Martin [Lit Trip by Melissa Rea and Shelita Oliver]Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion by Michael BurganJohn Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry by Jason GlaserEli Whitney and the Cotton Gin by Jessica Gunderson