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SCOTUS Racist Ruling Fuels the Blue Tsunami in Texas; Racist Trump Admin Attacks Afghans; World AIDS Day - TPN 12/7/25 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of December seventh, twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. Corrupt and cruel
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Speaker 1: Republicans and their addled convict leader celebrate after a favorable
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court ruling. Houston's Afghan leaders speak out an ongoing
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Speaker 1: attack by the White House. World's a day is marked
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Speaker 1: around the world, but not at the White House. We
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Speaker 1: look at how Houston is continuing to support those with
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Speaker 1: HIV KPFT lost a great programmer and friend. All that
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Speaker 1: and more on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington. This
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Speaker 1: is the People's News, and the People's News starts now.
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Speaker 1: The conservative majority in the US Supreme Court upheld a
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Speaker 1: new Texas congressional map. This potentially gives Texas five more
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Speaker 1: Republican seats in the U s House of Representatives, as
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Speaker 1: demanded by the convicted felon and addled seventy nine year
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Speaker 1: old Donald Trump. A lower court had ruled that the
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Speaker 1: new map was unconstitutional and was created by using racial profiling.
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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court's opinion stated that the Elpaso ruling that
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Speaker 1: briefly put the twenty twenty five congressional map on hold
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Speaker 1: was incorrect because it relied on circumstantial evidence that race
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Speaker 1: was a factor in redrawing district lines. Justice Elena Kagan
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Speaker 1: wrote a descending opinion arguing to uphold the lower court
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Speaker 1: ruling that would have barred Texas from using the new map.
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Speaker 1: She was joined by Justices Sonya Sotomior and Kaitanji Brown Jackson.
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Speaker 1: Today's order disserves the millions of Texans whom the district
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Speaker 1: Court found were assigned to their new districts based solely
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Speaker 1: on their race. James Dixon, president of the Houston chapter
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Speaker 1: of the NAACP, voiced his outrage.
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Speaker 2: Well, let me say, first of all, thank you for
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Speaker 2: having me on your show again for the Hannah. We're
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Speaker 2: appreciating him to share with your audience. This is absolutely
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Speaker 2: an overtly uh, an overt demonstration of racists. Uh, racist
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Speaker 2: decision making about the Supreme Court.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: The lower federal court in Texas got it right. Uh.
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Speaker 2: And we know that that opinion written by the Trump
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Speaker 2: appointed Republican conservative judge, Judge Jeffrey Brown. Uh, you wrote
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Speaker 2: very intricately the explanation as to why the maps that
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Speaker 2: we're talking about were racially jeromanded or are racular jeromantic maps,
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Speaker 2: and for the Supreme Court to rule against that lower
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Speaker 2: court decision unfortunately perpetuates, uh the notion of racism in
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Speaker 2: our in our put the judiciary.
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Speaker 4: What does it say for the nation, because it seems
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Speaker 4: like we're gonna be the black and brown community are
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Speaker 4: going to be losing losing influence or using losing political.
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Speaker 3: Seats all around us, all around the United States.
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Speaker 4: Now since every other states, now looking at Texas, has
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Speaker 4: say we can do that here, Florida is the prime
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Speaker 4: example of that.
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Speaker 2: Well, the first thing is it it definitely tremendously weakens
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Speaker 2: one's confidence that the courts will rule fairly all the
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Speaker 2: way to the Supreme Court. As you well know, the
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Speaker 2: landmark decisions that we've gained through the civil rights movement
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Speaker 2: have always been wan based on the Supreme Court being
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Speaker 2: willing to stand on the rule of law irrespective of politics,
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Speaker 2: because courts are not supposed to be political. A judge
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Speaker 2: should not be a political position. It is based on
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Speaker 2: the interpretation of the law and the exact thing of law.
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Speaker 5: And what this ruling says, amongst.
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Speaker 2: Others, is that we cannot can no longer have confidence
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Speaker 2: and rely on the Supreme Court not to be biased
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Speaker 2: that whoever appoints those to the judiciary on the Supreme Court,
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Speaker 2: their politics are controlling the decisions. And that is a
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Speaker 2: very an unfortunate and desperate place for us to be
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Speaker 2: in our nations. So the first thing is what this
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Speaker 2: says about the Supreme Court and the court system.
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Speaker 5: Secondly, of course, as you're mentioning the.
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Speaker 2: Politicizing, racial politicizing of these districts, of course Donald Trump
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Speaker 2: requires five new seats in Texas that are racist geimand
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Speaker 2: that we don't know what that means.
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Speaker 5: And this now becomes the model of what would be.
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Speaker 2: Exactly throughout the nation. And so now you've got state
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Speaker 2: state like California and others who will have to do
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Speaker 2: what they have to do to try to balance that
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Speaker 2: and to overcome it. It creates a war, if you will,
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Speaker 2: a war of ideology throughout the nation, of political and
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Speaker 2: racist ideology, and that's unfortunate. I think we're going to
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Speaker 2: see more and more upheople, to be honest with you,
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Speaker 2: because it becomes taxation without representation, and if the annihilation
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Speaker 2: of anything close to one person, one vote, and it
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Speaker 2: becomes vot vota oppression, voter suppression and all of us
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Speaker 2: are going to have to take a different look strategically
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Speaker 2: at how we participate in the electoral process and what
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Speaker 2: we do in between elections. I think it's going to
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Speaker 2: be critical now that we're dealing with this in in
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Speaker 2: the Houston area, in particular, the eight key Congression discrets
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Speaker 2: we know is reshaped, and so is the ninth, and
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Speaker 2: so is the twenty seventh, and uh so the twenty ninth.
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Speaker 2: So when we're dealing with this now, it's pitting blacks
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Speaker 2: and browns against each other, which is something we don't need.
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Speaker 2: But all of this is by design, and that's I
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Speaker 2: think it's important for all of us to recognize that
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Speaker 2: unifying to combat this racious political agenda is what is
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Speaker 2: going to require. And at some point it's going to
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Speaker 2: require us doing things again between elections. And I don't
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Speaker 2: want to give too much perspective on that at the moment,
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Speaker 2: but I will tell you, uh, the movement is going
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Speaker 2: to require other actions.
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Speaker 3: One thing, I.
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Speaker 4: Don't know how you're going to give people to vote,
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Speaker 4: because we saw what we've seen what's happening.
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Speaker 3: When we don't go out to vote. We had we lost,
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Speaker 3: we lost the Supreme Court and judges.
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Speaker 4: We lost most of the civil rights, a loss of
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Speaker 4: protection that we've had for years, and we still can't
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Speaker 4: get people.
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Speaker 3: To come out to vote.
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Speaker 4: How are you going to talk to people and get
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Speaker 4: them out because now.
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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, now, I tell you the good news is,
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Speaker 2: if as any positive, because of this outright heinous behavior
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Speaker 2: in these decisions, more and more people now are realizing
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Speaker 2: how significantly damaging it is, and they don't vote. I'm
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Speaker 2: hearing more younger people talking about oh now I see,
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Speaker 2: oh now I see uh the the the paintous behavior
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Speaker 2: of ice. Uh and this deportation madness is not got.
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Speaker 2: People say, oh now I see I didn't know would
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Speaker 2: be just bad. The cut the snap custom Medican Kay,
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Speaker 2: oh now I see uh F in healthcare costs, Oh now,
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Speaker 2: I see fool things saying we're runn out of food.
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Speaker 2: Oh now I see. So I think that if we
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Speaker 2: can get people to start saying yes, now we see,
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Speaker 2: we see now that uh if we don't vote, and
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Speaker 2: if we don't vote correctly, then there are absolute uh
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Speaker 2: repercussions that all of us are feeling in our communities
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Speaker 2: and uh and by the way, is we well know
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Speaker 2: snap be the fits being cut don't just affect black
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Speaker 2: free for brown people. Uh, there are more people who
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Speaker 2: in poverty who are white in terms of the numbers.
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Speaker 2: So when you start cutting snap, if not just black babies,
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Speaker 2: then brown children, it's also poor and disadvantaged white Americas. Uh.
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Speaker 2: When you start cutting medicaids and healthcare rises, tut rise
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Speaker 2: that that doesn't just affect black and brown communities, that
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Speaker 2: affects everybody. And now that people are recognizing that these
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Speaker 2: are my health care costs, these are my children, my
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Speaker 2: grandchildren who won't have nutrition, now I see. And so
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Speaker 2: we've got to keep that message going and began to
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Speaker 2: use the atrocious decisions that have been made that are
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Speaker 2: impacting people directly at content for our messaging to inspire, ignite,
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Speaker 2: and to empower people to become a voting machine against
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Speaker 2: this atrocious regime.
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Speaker 4: We see as now that and it's just it's you know,
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Speaker 4: I've always called him Judge our green but.
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Speaker 3: I know, yes, that's why that's old. I get.
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Speaker 4: But we see him running. Uh he took his district,
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Speaker 4: you know, and and now he's running.
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Speaker 2: He's putting us.
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Speaker 4: It's putting, it's putting our leaders against each other, which
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Speaker 4: is in Santa Sea.
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Speaker 2: It is sad to see sadnes See. And of course
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Speaker 2: let's be clear on this too. I played football and
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Speaker 2: I know that the game plan of a team is
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Speaker 2: based on which player on the opposing team he is
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Speaker 2: the biggest threat. And uh, if we can somehow neutralize
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Speaker 2: another five the players for relativity, we have a chance
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Speaker 2: to win. When you think about the fact that this
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Speaker 2: jereymandering targeted Congressman Al Grain in Houston just added targeted
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Speaker 2: congress Woman Jasmine Crockett in Dallas. Why Because Congressman al
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Speaker 2: Grain is a nemesis to this atrocious racist regime. He has,
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Speaker 2: without wafering, challenged their policies and published a published how
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Speaker 2: absolutely racist those policies are.
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Speaker 5: And so Hughes targeted.
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Speaker 2: And I want us to really recognize there, you have
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Speaker 2: a targeted player on your team. That's the player you protect.
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Speaker 2: You know, if I can use porsonagy again, you know
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Speaker 2: that if you don't protect each trials, the Texas are
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Speaker 2: Proub'm not gonna win. He's your most valuable player. We've
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Speaker 2: got to have the same attitude, in my opinion, to
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Speaker 2: protect those that the system is trying to eliminate. Because
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Speaker 2: Seniority matters with the matters content, recourage, and confidence matters,
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Speaker 2: and relationships and influence matters. Uh and and and so
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Speaker 2: when you start thinking about Congressman l Rain uh and
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Speaker 2: congress Woman Silvia got Here, seniority matters in this game.
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Speaker 2: And and and anybody who studies Congress and studies health
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Speaker 2: works understands that with our seniority, you're not going to
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Speaker 2: be on certain committees and and and you don't have influence.
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Speaker 2: So please got to really be strategic, thoughtful and not
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Speaker 2: simply emotional, and relates to how we strategize as going forward.
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Speaker 1: That was James Dixon, president of the Houston chapter of
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Speaker 1: the nuable A c P. Two National guardsmen were shot
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Speaker 1: in Washington, d c. Just a day before Thanksgiving. Specialist
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Speaker 1: Sarah Banstrom, a twenty year old who joined the Guard
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Speaker 1: two years ago after graduating from high school in Webster County,
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Speaker 1: West Virginia, died on Thanksgiving in a hospital bed with
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Speaker 1: her parents by her side. Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe is
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Speaker 1: still hospitalized and in serious condition. What is known is
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Speaker 1: the shooter was Ramanula La Kanwall, who was arrested immediately
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Speaker 1: after the shooting just a block from the White House.
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Speaker 1: He is a father of five children who came to
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Speaker 1: the United States after fighting with the United States in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: Lockinwall had worked for a CIA organized counter terrorism outfit
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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, part of one of the groups called Zero Units,
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Speaker 1: which took part in raids. Lochanwall came to the US
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one through Operation Allies Welcome OAW, a
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Speaker 1: Biden era program that helped resettle Afghan nationals after the
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Speaker 1: US military withdrawal, and have been living in a small
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Speaker 1: apartment in Bellingham, Washington. Immediately, US officials, including the convicted
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Speaker 1: felon in the White House, have been blasting Operation Alli's
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Speaker 1: Welcome program, saying it provided little or no security vetting
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Speaker 1: for those who entered the US, even though it's one
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Speaker 1: of the most rigorous in the world and can last years.
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Speaker 1: The Trump administration has jumped on this and has moved
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Speaker 1: forward its racist program to stop processing immigration of applications
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Speaker 1: of brown people into the country now from Afghanistan. People
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Speaker 1: in the Afghan community are terrified of the backlash of
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Speaker 1: hostility and violence that will come out of this move.
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Speaker 1: Members of the Afghan community in Houston gathered to address
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Speaker 1: those concerns.
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Speaker 6: The Afghan community of Houston expresses isteepest sorrow and concern
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Speaker 6: with solidarity the following tragic incident that occurred near the
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Speaker 6: White House in Washington, d C. Involving the National Guard
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Speaker 6: member and the individual of Afghan origin. We're strongly going
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Speaker 6: to end this violent act. The behavior of one individual
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Speaker 6: does not represent the values, morals, or character of the
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Speaker 6: Afghan community here in Houston, Texas or across the United States.
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Speaker 6: Afghan living in the United States reject the violence of
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Speaker 6: all forms. We honor and respect the National Guard and
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Speaker 6: service members and who dedicate their lives on a daily
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Speaker 6: basis in this country. We stand in full solidarity with
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Speaker 6: the National Guard and the injured Silvers member's family. Our thoughts,
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Speaker 6: in prayers, and support remain in this difficult time with
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Speaker 6: their families. One individual's action must not define the entire community.
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Speaker 6: The tragic event reflects the wrongdoing of one person, not
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Speaker 6: the entire Afghan community. Thousands of gaff Cains living in
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Speaker 6: America in Houston are law abiding residents who contribute the economic, cultural,
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Speaker 6: and civic lives of this city. It is unjust and
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Speaker 6: harmful to associate actions of one individual to the entire community.
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Speaker 7: Over twenty years of shared sacrifice must be recognized. For
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Speaker 7: more than two decades, Afghan stot shoulder to shoulder with
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Speaker 7: US forces, serving, assisting, interpreting, and supporting American missions with
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Speaker 7: loyalty and sacrifice. These shared sacrifices must not be overshadowed
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Speaker 7: or forgotten because of one isolated criminal act. Call for fair,
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Speaker 7: professional and impartial investigation. We support a full, impartial and
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Speaker 7: professional instigations by US law enforcement agencies. We trust that
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Speaker 7: legal process will review all facts and ensure accountability in
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Speaker 7: accordance with the US law.
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Speaker 8: Strong appeal to protect Afghan migration in humanitarian cases. We
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Speaker 8: respectfully urge US officials to ensure this assolated incident does
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Speaker 8: not result and delays, suspensions, or negative effect on Afghan immigrations, interviews,
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Speaker 8: humanitarian cases, seemily reunification processes, or other legal faithways. Thousands
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Speaker 8: of honorable Afghans continue to seek safety, reunification, education, and
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Speaker 8: the opportunities they rightfully deserve. This crime is the act
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Speaker 8: of a single individual. It must not harm Afghan's families
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Speaker 8: who have followed the law and contributed positively to this nation.
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Speaker 8: Commitment to peace, united and partnership the Afghan community and
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Speaker 8: Houston will always stand with the National Guard, our heroes,
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Speaker 8: and all those who protect and serve this country. We
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Speaker 8: remain committed to peace, united and strong partnership with the
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Speaker 8: US institutions and our follow Americans.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 9: You know, we know that the US president has assaulted
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Speaker 9: a migration to the United States. How is that going
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Speaker 9: to affect people in between status of trying to get
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Speaker 9: their papers right here?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you so much for asking this question. You know,
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Speaker 8: right now currently we have thousands of people in their
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Speaker 8: dy Guard are expires and most of them lost their
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Speaker 8: jobs and that's a big issue right now. And today
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Speaker 8: we have several interviews here in Houston, Texas for the
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Speaker 8: green card and their interview was there they got canceled,
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Speaker 8: which is you know, effecting on their lives and they're
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Speaker 8: you know, like like their ad cards expired, they don't
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Speaker 8: have a job right now, and they have big families. No,
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Speaker 8: it's automatically effect on their lives and we really asking
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Speaker 8: us from the US official that they can restart this process.
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Speaker 10: Again.
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Speaker 9: The difficulty with that is you have the backlash from
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Speaker 9: the from people in the community, because we always do
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Speaker 9: when things like this happen. There's always a backlash of
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Speaker 9: blaming the community and attacks on the community.
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Speaker 3: Have you had me of that?
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Speaker 6: So far, people are really hurt and they're in very
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Speaker 6: deep sorrow. We are all families of soldiers, we're all
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Speaker 6: servicemen become. My father worked in the service for forty
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Speaker 6: four years, So when one service member gets hurt or injured,
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Speaker 6: it feels like it's a family member and we all
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Speaker 6: feel that way. So there's a lot of panic shock
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Speaker 6: through the community. There's a deep hurt in the community.
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Speaker 6: We don't know what's going on. We're still on a
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Speaker 6: daily basis finding out. So as far as backlash, I
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Speaker 6: don't think anybody has done anything like that or feels
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Speaker 6: anything right now. Everybody is in so much shock that
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Speaker 6: we have not had the opportunity for this to sink in.
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Speaker 7: To add to that, actually love excit mental health. You know,
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Speaker 7: they definitely a negative impact on the mental health.
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Speaker 2: Vito.
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Speaker 7: These because we have worked with the US forces back
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Speaker 7: and I'm gonna come for twenty years and one person's
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Speaker 7: actions do not represent the whole nation, the whole community here,
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Speaker 7: and we have been served in the community.
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Speaker 3: You know, even.
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Speaker 7: Especially what the backlocks of the cases started even in
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Speaker 7: twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 9: You know, when things happen in abilities is always resulted blame.
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Speaker 9: It's always attacked with last time moss were attacked here
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Speaker 9: in Texas to masqu we're.
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Speaker 4: Crying or Urson get write down.
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Speaker 9: Various people that they even thought or Muslim were being attacked.
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Speaker 1: And this always happens, is like this.
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Speaker 7: Well, one person's action, I said, I do not represent
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Speaker 7: the whole. Well, it's not about Islam, it's not about it.
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Speaker 7: It's just a single person. You know, we have bad
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Speaker 7: Apple everywhere. Yeah, so it doesn't mean that everything should
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Speaker 7: be directly to Islam or or to the Muslim And.
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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, this is not a reflection Islam.
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Speaker 6: Anybody in Islam who commits murder or heinous crime is
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Speaker 6: not a Muslim anyway, he already left their religion because
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Speaker 6: Islam does not contribute to that. We are very peaceful people,
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Speaker 6: and you can see that from propaganda and other stuff
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Speaker 6: that's happened right now. There's a lot of Christians and
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Speaker 6: Muslims that are fighting for absolutely zero reason. Our religions.
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Speaker 6: If you look at it, clearly they're very very close.
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Speaker 6: We have very similar fates. Why would we out of
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Speaker 6: nowhere and a time where it's a very holy time
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Speaker 6: in the United States. I remember after nine to eleven,
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Speaker 6: I was here when George Bush took to the church.
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Speaker 6: He took a a mom, he took a Jewish and
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Speaker 6: Christian priest, and we all shook hands. In this country,
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Speaker 6: there was a lot going on, but we put that
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Speaker 6: aside and we moved forward, and good people, I always
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Speaker 6: believe overcome over evil anytime. You know, I have lived
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Speaker 6: through a US history in my time period from nine
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Speaker 6: to eleven to now. In nine to eleven, there was
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Speaker 6: a lot of backlash. You're right, there were in the mosques,
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Speaker 6: there were explosives, they were told. Other things happened across
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Speaker 6: the country. You're probably a witness to that. But then
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Speaker 6: black lives happened, and a lot of things occurred with
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Speaker 6: my own colleagues and friends. So this country has gone
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Speaker 6: through some deep sorrow. A couple of years ago, I
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Speaker 6: went to New York and there were posters of Asians
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Speaker 6: that said, we're American too. So at different times interior,
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Speaker 6: this country has gone through challenges. But we must unite
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Speaker 6: as one. We cannot be broken because one person gets
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Speaker 6: up and hurts a community. That's not the thing. For
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Speaker 6: twenty years, we stood side to side. My brother died
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Speaker 6: out there, his brother died out there. Your brother died
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Speaker 6: in the same war. We're all one people, We're all
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Speaker 6: service members, family members. We would not do such things
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Speaker 6: to another service member. I cry every time a service
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Speaker 6: member was brought home. When those thirteen service members were
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Speaker 6: brought here, we held a candle vidual right here in
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Speaker 6: sugar Land. I was there myself. So this is not
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Speaker 6: something that is going to break America. Muslims in this
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Speaker 6: country are very happy. We live very peacefully, next to
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Speaker 6: our Christian brothers, to our Jewish brothers, are Hindu brothers,
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Speaker 6: They're large communities here in Houston. Houston is like a
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Speaker 6: melting pot of cultures. I have sat with the mayor
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Speaker 6: here several times based on this. We've had cultural events here.
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Speaker 6: So this is not going to hurt us. This is
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Speaker 6: not going to hurt the Islamic traditions and values or
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Speaker 6: the Christian ones. We live very peaceful. I want the
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Speaker 6: whole United States in the world to know that Muslims
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Speaker 6: in the United States of America have lived peacefully. Yes,
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Speaker 6: different events have happened that have shadowed our values and
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Speaker 6: has shadowed and kind of shook us up. But at
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Speaker 6: the end of the day, we are in solidarity with
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Speaker 6: our Christian brothers, our Jewish brothers, and our other religions
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Speaker 6: that we peacefully have lived here. That's why people come
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Speaker 6: here to this country because they are valuing the fact
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Speaker 6: that they can practice any religion. And we have freedom
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Speaker 6: of religion, we have freedom of speed, we have other
24:47
Speaker 6: Miranda rights that we value and on a daily basis
24:50
Speaker 6: take use of very proudly.
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Speaker 9: Afghan's back home and we know the very process for
24:59
Speaker 9: people from here is long.
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Speaker 3: It can be two three.
25:02
Speaker 9: Years to to to come over to the United States.
25:07
Speaker 9: How is that going to affect the people that you
25:09
Speaker 9: know back home and what their status here?
25:15
Speaker 8: Yeah, right now, we will not talk about only in
25:18
Speaker 8: Afghanistan the people. There's thousands of people that's stuck in Pakistan, Tajikistan,
25:24
Speaker 8: human to buy an other be honest with you. After
25:27
Speaker 8: this accident, we receive hundreds of calls from the people
25:31
Speaker 8: from these countries nuh and they are there. There are
25:34
Speaker 8: some people that they sold their properties. Uh, they don't
25:38
Speaker 8: have they don't have anything to go back to Afghanistan.
25:42
Speaker 8: The countries like such as some other countries like Pakistan
25:45
Speaker 8: and these things. And nowadays they're trying to forcedly remove
25:49
Speaker 8: the Apghuns and they're deporting apguns from Pakistan, so they
25:52
Speaker 8: are in very bad conditions. There are there are people there.
25:55
Speaker 8: They already did their interviews in Afghan Pakistan, but their
25:59
Speaker 8: results not is shoot and we just hear that the
26:03
Speaker 8: National Visa Center they canceled the interviews in the process.
26:07
Speaker 8: Now the thing is like, we really need to be
26:11
Speaker 8: restart this process again. And there's thousands of people. They
26:15
Speaker 8: are stuck in Afghanistan. Their families are worth there and
26:19
Speaker 8: they work for the US military. So we just asked
26:23
Speaker 8: for the US officials that they need to restart the
26:27
Speaker 8: process and bring these families as soon as possible in
26:30
Speaker 8: the United States.
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Speaker 3: Well, they were, like he.
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Speaker 7: Said earlier, there is a vedding process. I was working
26:38
Speaker 7: with US four to the back in twenty ten or
26:39
Speaker 7: twenty fourteen, and I had to wait for more than
26:42
Speaker 7: a year. Then I went through a process and then
26:44
Speaker 7: came to the United States. In the process, the wedding
26:46
Speaker 7: process is there. It doesn't go anywhere. Even the twenty
26:49
Speaker 7: twenty one they came to Katar stayed there then came here.
26:53
Speaker 7: They were brought here to twelve of those US military bases.
26:57
Speaker 7: I was there for two weeks and most of us
27:00
Speaker 7: we're there for two weeks. There was a vetting process,
27:02
Speaker 7: so the vetting process is there and this negative that
27:07
Speaker 7: the first negative impact was Leo as he said, thousands
27:10
Speaker 7: of Abgians who work shoulder to shore with US forces
27:13
Speaker 7: they left behind. It's not for a year, for more
27:15
Speaker 7: than four years now and they dr case are approved,
27:20
Speaker 7: waiting for the visa to be printed and come to safety.
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Speaker 6: Thank you very much. We really appreciate all of you
27:27
Speaker 6: guys coming here. We want Donald Trump with this administration
27:32
Speaker 6: to know that all communities, all ft N communities will
27:36
Speaker 6: be fully cooperating with the system. Any questions they might
27:40
Speaker 6: have for us, any information they might need for us
27:42
Speaker 6: to leading to this investigation. We will fully cooperate with
27:45
Speaker 6: this because we're against any violence that happens anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Lock Andwall will be charged with murder and could face
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Speaker 1: the racist, cruel, corrupt, and incompetent Trump administration. They only
29:00
Speaker 1: want to care about their own people, which is white
29:04
Speaker 1: old men. Millions have died from HIV over the years,
29:08
Speaker 1: and millions still live with it here in the US.
29:11
Speaker 1: HIV specifically and STDs in general have gone up in
29:15
Speaker 1: recent years as people, especially young people, have waned off
29:19
Speaker 1: the use of protection and other devices. To stop the
29:21
Speaker 1: spread of STDs, we went out and talked to people
29:25
Speaker 1: locally who are working in the health industry to see
29:29
Speaker 1: how the battle against HIV and STDs is going. Fernaldo Curl,
29:35
Speaker 1: HIV prevention program manager with Harris County Public Health, spoke
29:39
Speaker 1: on what they are doing to help the black and
29:42
Speaker 1: brown communities.
29:44
Speaker 4: We know that HIV and STDs are up, especially in
29:48
Speaker 4: the black and brown cage and also younger people that
29:52
Speaker 4: in the past, especially during the AIGH crisis, it was
29:56
Speaker 4: acknowledged and people acknowledged it and took precautions.
30:01
Speaker 3: What's being done now to contain the spread?
30:04
Speaker 11: So let me let me I hope I understood you correctly.
30:08
Speaker 11: It was kind of like you were in and out
30:10
Speaker 11: on my I see that The main concern is is
30:14
Speaker 11: that you were you were talking about like with the
30:16
Speaker 11: federal funding and what are we doing to like mitigate
30:21
Speaker 11: like infection rates and things of that story with the
30:23
Speaker 11: younger population and how it's affecting them. Correct, Okay, Yes,
30:29
Speaker 11: So we luckily we are working with stakeholders, THUD and
30:38
Speaker 11: our county commissions on how HIV and FTI rates on
30:48
Speaker 11: affecting Eris County and those vulnerable communities. So there there
30:54
Speaker 11: are programs through like Ryan White, There are programs through
30:59
Speaker 11: the Department, the state Health Services that are still providing
31:03
Speaker 11: free HIV and sibilists I'm sorry HIV prevention as well
31:11
Speaker 11: as FBI prevention services. There are several fqacs such as Legacy,
31:19
Speaker 11: Thomas Street, b B B Avenue, three sixty Allies and
31:24
Speaker 11: Hope As Healthcare Foundation who we work collaboratively with, as
31:31
Speaker 11: well as the City of Houston Community Planning Group to
31:35
Speaker 11: help mitigate the spread of HIV through these resources. Also,
31:43
Speaker 11: we have innovative programs within the counties such as like
31:48
Speaker 11: testing one, two three, where you have those who have
31:52
Speaker 11: barriers such as transportation and things of that sort. With
31:56
Speaker 11: the county being so spread out, we're able to actually
32:00
Speaker 11: go into these vulnerable communities where we see the increased
32:06
Speaker 11: HIV in sessions daily, quarterly, monthly. With our wild and
32:12
Speaker 11: and real events within our own limical Health Services department,
32:18
Speaker 11: we take our mobile unit out into these most most
32:22
Speaker 11: impacted zip codes per se that may not have clinics nearby.
32:27
Speaker 11: Right So there's a lot of the service organizations are
32:32
Speaker 11: located actually within the six ten loop and a lot
32:36
Speaker 11: of the work that Harrison County Public Health does is
32:39
Speaker 11: outside of that sixtend loop to reach those populations who
32:43
Speaker 11: can't who who lack access the care due to transportation issues?
32:48
Speaker 3: Right, yes, what how do you that don't need?
32:53
Speaker 4: A bigger concern is how do you get the especially
32:58
Speaker 4: in the black and brown community testing, because it's either
33:03
Speaker 4: a lack of appathy or a lack of knowledge. Now
33:06
Speaker 4: that that this is still it is still an issue.
33:12
Speaker 11: Yeah, you're right, it's definitely still an issue. There's a
33:15
Speaker 11: lot of education needed within those communities. So we look
33:20
Speaker 11: to those grassroots organizations, those community UH pillars that are
33:27
Speaker 11: still within those black and black and brown communities that
33:30
Speaker 11: we can connect with and let them know the resources
33:33
Speaker 11: that are available to them. We have several campaigns that
33:37
Speaker 11: have been launched throughout the county, PSA announcements on radios.
33:42
Speaker 11: We're actually doing paid sponsorship on a lot of the
33:46
Speaker 11: sites that black and brown communities are on. We're also
33:51
Speaker 11: doing a new thing where we're getting with the social
33:56
Speaker 11: media influencers and we're able to past messaging and material
34:02
Speaker 11: onto them so they can get to those targeted audiences
34:06
Speaker 11: that listen to those voices that they're familiar with on
34:09
Speaker 11: a day to day basis.
34:12
Speaker 4: And this last question, how can people find out more
34:17
Speaker 4: about what what stuys you're doing?
34:21
Speaker 11: Say that again, how can PAP find out more about
34:25
Speaker 11: what we're doing?
34:27
Speaker 4: And you know it's people usually don't understand that testing
34:31
Speaker 4: only takes like a couple of minutes.
34:34
Speaker 3: It doesn't take long, all.
34:38
Speaker 11: Right, It does start and.
34:43
Speaker 3: The results the results take about maybe five minutes.
34:46
Speaker 11: Also, Yeah, so with the rapid testing that we have
34:52
Speaker 11: the hips that we do, it is an instant test
34:55
Speaker 11: and it is a whipp a fingerprig just like you
34:58
Speaker 11: were taking a blood Google and you get that test
35:02
Speaker 11: was back within one minute.
35:04
Speaker 3: Mhm. And either like free testing too correct on that.
35:11
Speaker 10: We do free test.
35:13
Speaker 1: That was Fernaldo Curl, HIV Prevention program manager with Harris
35:17
Speaker 1: County Public Health. Local organizations are confronting STDs and HIV firsthand.
35:24
Speaker 1: We talked to Jill Jans, who serves as Legacy Health's
35:27
Speaker 1: Navigation Director, where she oversees activities related to HIV testing, prevention,
35:33
Speaker 1: and transitioning to treatment.
35:36
Speaker 4: We know that the federal government is not really recognizing
35:40
Speaker 4: HIV or or or age is being an issue. A
35:44
Speaker 4: lot of people right now are to the fact that
35:48
Speaker 4: not like that I grew up in the you know,
35:50
Speaker 4: I grew up in the eighties and nineties, and I
35:51
Speaker 4: saw the age crisis as in this epidemic, so to speak.
35:59
Speaker 4: And it seems like now that people think that it's
36:03
Speaker 4: gone away or it's not existent.
36:05
Speaker 3: And in the Houston.
36:07
Speaker 4: Area, h STDs have gone on an increase with less
36:13
Speaker 4: people taken precautions.
36:15
Speaker 3: You want to talk about that.
36:17
Speaker 12: Yes, absolutely, you are so right that compared to the
36:23
Speaker 12: eighties and nineties, how we're viewing HIV today is very different.
36:27
Speaker 12: It still is absolutely something that's impacting our lives in
36:31
Speaker 12: our country. And as you mentioned, HIV and STI rates
36:35
Speaker 12: across the board are on the rise in Texas but
36:38
Speaker 12: also in Houston and Harris County. So for that reason,
36:41
Speaker 12: it's incredibly important that people know their status, which means
36:45
Speaker 12: that they come in and get tested so they know
36:48
Speaker 12: if they are living with HIV or if they have
36:51
Speaker 12: any other STIs.
36:52
Speaker 10: How can you.
36:53
Speaker 4: Get the information over to the black and brown community,
36:57
Speaker 4: which HIV and std is extremely high high, Yes, so.
37:02
Speaker 12: The information needs to go out to everyone in our area.
37:07
Speaker 12: As you mentioned, we do have some groups that are
37:10
Speaker 12: have a higher rate of impact with HIV. We've seen
37:13
Speaker 12: in recent years that black women in particular have had
37:17
Speaker 12: a higher rate of new HIV infections. Also, Latino men,
37:21
Speaker 12: both of those groups have had a higher rates compared
37:24
Speaker 12: to the general population for HIV. So it's very important
37:29
Speaker 12: that we make sure everyone knows that they are at
37:32
Speaker 12: risk and anyone who is sexually active should come in
37:36
Speaker 12: and get tested.
37:38
Speaker 4: How do you get that over because I know a
37:41
Speaker 4: stigma that, especially with Black women, that they're not they're
37:46
Speaker 4: not accessible to HIV.
37:50
Speaker 12: The HIV can impact anybody and everybody. So if you
37:54
Speaker 12: are sexually active, you are at risk for acquiring HIV.
37:58
Speaker 12: This isn't something that only impacts when group of people.
38:01
Speaker 12: It's not something that only impacts folks who are in
38:06
Speaker 12: going through certain sexual activities. It's just across the board.
38:11
Speaker 12: So we have seen rises were black women in particular,
38:15
Speaker 12: which makes it all the more important that people come
38:17
Speaker 12: in and get tested.
38:19
Speaker 4: And I don't I remember I remember in the eighties
38:22
Speaker 4: and nineties that the straight community felt that it doesn't
38:26
Speaker 4: affect them, but the.
38:29
Speaker 3: Rate, like the LEO GPTT community.
38:33
Speaker 4: Rates went down, where these straight community, the average people
38:38
Speaker 4: that contracted.
38:40
Speaker 3: HIV went up.
38:42
Speaker 4: So it's just still is it still that stigma that
38:45
Speaker 4: because I'm straight, I cannot I cannot.
38:50
Speaker 3: Getting any type of studs.
38:53
Speaker 12: There is that stigma for sure. As you mentioned, a
38:56
Speaker 12: lot of times people don't think that they can contract
38:59
Speaker 12: HIV if they're straight, and that it is something that
39:02
Speaker 12: could impact anybody. And along with that, there are ways
39:07
Speaker 12: of preventing HIV. So where there is a medication called PREP,
39:12
Speaker 12: which is a medication that you can either get in
39:14
Speaker 12: the form of a pill or in a shot through
39:17
Speaker 12: your doctor, and it is a medication that prevents HIV.
39:22
Speaker 12: We've seen a lot of people who are in the
39:24
Speaker 12: LGBT community see PREP as a tool for them for
39:29
Speaker 12: HIV prevention, but a lot of people outside of that
39:32
Speaker 12: community have not seen it as something that is right
39:34
Speaker 12: for them. However, PREP is good for anybody who is
39:37
Speaker 12: sexually active, including people who are heterosexual.
39:41
Speaker 3: What being about people don't know? What?
39:45
Speaker 4: I remember years ago that I got tested and the
39:51
Speaker 4: gentleman said, he pointed to Magic Johnson and he pointed
39:56
Speaker 4: to the cost of what appeal costs for h for
40:00
Speaker 4: somebody that's diagnosed with HIV. Is that still a problem
40:05
Speaker 4: of the costs.
40:06
Speaker 3: For people that have contracted That's.
40:10
Speaker 12: A great question. So the medications for HIV treatment is
40:15
Speaker 12: very expensive, but There are also some amazing programs such
40:19
Speaker 12: as Ryan White, which is a program which helps people
40:22
Speaker 12: who are living with HIV afford their medication. So if
40:26
Speaker 12: someone does know that they are living with HIV and
40:29
Speaker 12: they're worry they're not going to be able to afford
40:31
Speaker 12: their medication, they should absolutely come to Legacy because we
40:34
Speaker 12: have programs that will help them afford their medication see
40:37
Speaker 12: as the doctor and get all of their medical needs met.
40:42
Speaker 4: Oh right, more important question is how do we get
40:44
Speaker 4: in touches your organization and if they need testing, and
40:48
Speaker 4: testing only takes about a minute and to get the
40:50
Speaker 4: results at least about two to three minutes. If I'm
40:53
Speaker 4: not mistaken, it doesn't take long to get a result.
40:56
Speaker 12: It doesn't take long at all. There's different kinds of
40:59
Speaker 12: tests are quicker than others, but the kind that we
41:02
Speaker 12: use at Legacy is just twenty minutes, so not long,
41:06
Speaker 12: and it only requires a drop of blood, so you
41:10
Speaker 12: don't need to do a whole blood draw. It's just
41:12
Speaker 12: a little finger prick and you'll be able to know
41:14
Speaker 12: your status in twenty minutes and it is for at
41:17
Speaker 12: our Legacy locations. So if a free test at multiple
41:21
Speaker 12: spots and you asked earlier where we could find that out.
41:24
Speaker 12: We actually have a web page Legacycommunity Health dot org
41:28
Speaker 12: slash get tested.
41:32
Speaker 3: That testing also test for other h STDs.
41:36
Speaker 12: Correct well, that is true at some of our locations.
41:40
Speaker 12: We also offer free syphilis testing and free hepatitis C
41:44
Speaker 12: testing as well. We do have other sci tests at
41:48
Speaker 12: our legacy locations, like chlamydia tests, gunneria test, but those
41:54
Speaker 12: are on a fighting scale, so those would not be
41:58
Speaker 12: part of the free panel.
42:00
Speaker 4: Have you seen what and why are we seeing an
42:03
Speaker 4: increase in all these type of diseases when a lot
42:06
Speaker 4: of it, a lot of it not eradicated, but a lot.
42:09
Speaker 3: Of it was on a decrease for years. Sure.
42:13
Speaker 12: So one of the things about HIV and other STIs
42:17
Speaker 12: is that they do not have very many symptoms its
42:21
Speaker 12: any So a lot of people can go on living
42:24
Speaker 12: for a very long time without realizing that they have HIV.
42:28
Speaker 12: And if you don't realize that you have HIV or
42:31
Speaker 12: another STI, then you're not able to get it treated
42:34
Speaker 12: and get it taken care of. And so if someone
42:38
Speaker 12: does not get tested, then they are able to continue
42:41
Speaker 12: to spread.
42:42
Speaker 3: HIV to others.
42:44
Speaker 4: And we know that we've had we had incidents in
42:48
Speaker 4: the past where people knew they were HIV positive and
42:52
Speaker 4: still continue to be sexually active, which is I think
42:55
Speaker 4: in Texas now it's.
42:56
Speaker 10: Against the law.
42:59
Speaker 12: Well, fortunately, it's actually medication where if someone is living
43:03
Speaker 12: with HIV, they are able to take medication and become
43:08
Speaker 12: what we call undetectable. So that means that there is
43:11
Speaker 12: so little virus in their body that they are able
43:14
Speaker 12: to live a long and healthy life, and that does
43:17
Speaker 12: include a healthy sex life as well. So just because
43:20
Speaker 12: someone is living with HIV does not mean that they
43:23
Speaker 12: are no longer able to engage in that part of
43:26
Speaker 12: their life.
43:27
Speaker 3: Do you feel the knowledge that the knowledge is out there?
43:30
Speaker 4: The education because in the past, we had we had testing,
43:36
Speaker 4: like we had school education. We had uh, we had
43:40
Speaker 4: actually we had sex in the schools. We had other
43:44
Speaker 4: ways of uh of finding finding out. Are you know
43:47
Speaker 4: about sex and about sexual activity and about different type
43:51
Speaker 4: of diseases which we don't have too much anymore.
43:55
Speaker 3: Uh? Do you find it? That's that's a real issue
43:57
Speaker 3: and a real problem.
44:00
Speaker 12: Yes, making sure that knowledge about sexual health in general
44:05
Speaker 12: is incredibly important and it's important that all ages. So
44:09
Speaker 12: just because someone as an adult doesn't mean that they
44:11
Speaker 12: can't learn something new now. And at our Legacy locations,
44:15
Speaker 12: we actually have at teams of educators who are able
44:19
Speaker 12: to have those difficult conversations with people who might feel
44:23
Speaker 12: like is uncomfortable in other circumstances and make sure that
44:26
Speaker 12: they have the knowledge that they need. And so it's
44:28
Speaker 12: always important to get more knowledge out to the people.
44:32
Speaker 1: Legacy has locations all over Houston and you can go
44:35
Speaker 1: to Legacy Community Health All put Together dot org to
44:39
Speaker 1: find a location near you. Also, their phone number is
44:43
Speaker 1: eight three two five four eight five thousand. Another community
44:49
Speaker 1: organization that is in this fight is the B Busy
44:52
Speaker 1: Wellness Center. We talked to Javier Santo's case manager at
44:56
Speaker 1: B Busy Wellness Center.
44:59
Speaker 4: Okay, will get be busy a wellness and what do
45:02
Speaker 4: you do?
45:03
Speaker 13: So we're a multi specialty service center. We are a
45:08
Speaker 13: community health center clinic and we pretty much service the underinsured,
45:15
Speaker 13: no insurance or insured population in the Southwest area. We
45:21
Speaker 13: do everything from adult medicine, pediatrics, HIV treatment and prevention,
45:27
Speaker 13: UH and radiology.
45:30
Speaker 14: One thing that you know, I remember, I remember the
45:35
Speaker 14: struggle with HIV, the crisis, and you know, and how
45:40
Speaker 14: many people were dying and it seems that now that
45:43
Speaker 14: people think HIV is is done, nobody gets it anymore
45:48
Speaker 14: and and people looking using protection.
45:52
Speaker 3: Has gone down.
45:54
Speaker 4: How is the rate of HIV you have you seen?
45:59
Speaker 5: Well?
45:59
Speaker 13: I mean since I've been with the organization, I'm going
46:03
Speaker 13: to I would say about two years. Uh, in February,
46:07
Speaker 13: I have two years. It's it's it has no gender, no,
46:15
Speaker 13: pretty much is out there. So it's out there, it's real,
46:18
Speaker 13: and you know, we just try to get everyone on prep.
46:22
Speaker 13: Whoever is HIV negative, get them on prep, and the
46:27
Speaker 13: whoever is positive, try to get them to undetectable status,
46:32
Speaker 13: make sure their viral load is suppressed. But I have
46:35
Speaker 13: seen I've seen it especially in the black, African American
46:40
Speaker 13: and Hispanic population. We also did do a we had
46:46
Speaker 13: like a grant that we were working on and we
46:50
Speaker 13: it was we targeted everyone, but mainly we did see
46:53
Speaker 13: an increase in females. So it's it's it's out there.
46:59
Speaker 3: Yeah.
46:59
Speaker 4: How how hard is it to get people to know
47:02
Speaker 4: that HIV is still out there because it's not talked
47:06
Speaker 4: about as much, and practicing safe sex is not even
47:10
Speaker 4: talked about as much as it used to be.
47:13
Speaker 13: Correct, So I mean it's pretty It's all starts with education.
47:17
Speaker 13: We do have a community partner which is be Busy Inc.
47:22
Speaker 13: It's also in the Southwest location and they have an
47:25
Speaker 13: education department where they go to the schools and they
47:29
Speaker 13: also talk about healthy relationships and STDs and STI. So
47:36
Speaker 13: starting with, you know, with the youth. Also, I do
47:39
Speaker 13: know that certain pharmaceuticals have commercials and we have social media,
47:45
Speaker 13: So just spreading the word that way, I feel like
47:49
Speaker 13: that's a great way. And also we do have here
47:52
Speaker 13: I be Busy, we have an outreach team, so we
47:55
Speaker 13: are out in the field in the community spreading awareness,
48:00
Speaker 13: you know, whether it's with diabetes, hypertension, and then HIV
48:05
Speaker 13: testing as well. So just spreading the word everyone that
48:09
Speaker 13: you speak to, and then that person might tell the
48:12
Speaker 13: next person and you know, just education.
48:17
Speaker 4: What about what about getting people to get tested. That's
48:19
Speaker 4: a hard thing in itself. A lot of people are
48:22
Speaker 4: afraid to get tested for HIV.
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Speaker 13: That is correct. Yeah, I've a lot of people they
48:30
Speaker 13: just don't know or the fear of actually knowing their status.
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Speaker 13: But that is important because we can detect that at
48:37
Speaker 13: an early at an early stage, if if someone is
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Speaker 13: infected and they get get them their proper care.
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Speaker 4: What about about you know, it's not just the only
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Speaker 4: HIV is one thing, but we have also gono rhea
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Speaker 4: and other sexually transmitted press pressmitted UH diseases us out there,
48:59
Speaker 4: and you know, save sex and something that that that
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Speaker 4: parents don't parents are scared to talk to their their
49:05
Speaker 4: kids about UH. And I'm focusing on the kids because
49:09
Speaker 4: like one thinks, uh, sex it is not taught in
49:12
Speaker 4: a lot of schools.
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Speaker 1: Now correct.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, we did have a spike in UH. I think
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Speaker 13: it was syphilis. It was like a syphilis outbreak here
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Speaker 13: in Houston.
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Speaker 5: UH.
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Speaker 13: And that's a lot of things, a lot, a lot
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Speaker 13: of a lot of people just they know about HIV
49:30
Speaker 13: and then there's that stigma so they think, oh, you know,
49:32
Speaker 13: if I have HIV, that's like the end of the world,
49:35
Speaker 13: even though there's treatment and it's not like it was
49:38
Speaker 13: back in the eighties. But yes, try to also, you know,
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Speaker 13: we do have free HIV testing here at the clinic,
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Speaker 13: so making sure that they know, hey, it's not only HIV.
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Speaker 13: There are other STDs educating them, letting them know, Hey,
49:54
Speaker 13: but maybe are gonnery a syphilis HPV hurt you know everything.
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Speaker 13: So pretty much getting them educated to try to get
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Speaker 13: get them tested.
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Speaker 3: This prep.
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Speaker 4: Do prep work for all that also, or is this
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Speaker 4: prep just for just for HIV?
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Speaker 13: Yes, so we do have prep which is for HIV
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Speaker 13: that prevents HIV. We have the oral form, We offer
50:22
Speaker 13: the injection also, so we are up to date with
50:25
Speaker 13: all of them. We are offering those services. And for
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Speaker 13: the STDs, we do also offer DOXYPEP, and that one
50:32
Speaker 13: targets the media gonnerya, syphilis.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, explain now one because I've never heard of.
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Speaker 13: That, Okay, So yeah, So DOXYPEP pretty much it's like
50:45
Speaker 13: like a prevent like let's say you had an encounter.
50:47
Speaker 13: Just going to give you an example. Let's say you
50:48
Speaker 13: had a an encounter and you have seventy two hours
50:52
Speaker 13: to take that doctor cycling medication and it does prevent
50:57
Speaker 13: you or reduce the chance of you if you've been
51:00
Speaker 13: exposed to either STDs like chlamydia, gunneryia and syphilis.
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Speaker 4: And that, and you have to come in and get
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Speaker 4: it every every month, once a month or no.
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Speaker 13: No, So the prep since that one is prevention, that's
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Speaker 13: pre exposure. That one is that one. You do have
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Speaker 13: to do it like every two months, depending on what
51:25
Speaker 13: you get. If you get the oral tablet, you take
51:27
Speaker 13: it daily. If you get the injection, it's every two months.
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Speaker 13: DOXYPEP the one that targets the STDs. That one is
51:34
Speaker 13: post exposure. So post exposure means you take it like
51:38
Speaker 13: a one time thing and you it's uh, you have
51:42
Speaker 13: seventy two hours to take it.
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Speaker 4: One thing I learned a long time ago, that is
51:47
Speaker 4: that protection is one thing. But once you get HIV,
51:50
Speaker 4: I know, it's expensive. It used to be really expensive
51:54
Speaker 4: for you know, to take the medicine, the medication for
51:58
Speaker 4: for HIV. They keep you your system on a level.
52:06
Speaker 4: Is it still that way or is it or has
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Speaker 4: it gone well?
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Speaker 13: I mean, the medication is expensive. But we do have
52:15
Speaker 13: programs so if you're insured, we can provide you copy
52:19
Speaker 13: cards to help cover whatever the primary insurance does not covered,
52:25
Speaker 13: does not cover. And if you are uninsured, we can
52:28
Speaker 13: enroll you in what's called the Patient Assistance Program. There
52:31
Speaker 13: are certain programs that we can enroll and make sure
52:34
Speaker 13: that the medication is free of charge if you qualify.
52:39
Speaker 13: So it's just about digging, making sure finding out what
52:44
Speaker 13: the patients need is and try to eliminate any barriers
52:49
Speaker 13: so that they can get free medication because like you mentioned,
52:51
Speaker 13: it is expensive. It is expensive, but I'm grateful that
52:56
Speaker 13: we have these programs that you know in getting patients
53:02
Speaker 13: free medication.
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Speaker 3: I was just curious, do you also add to that counseling.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, so we do. We do counseling, and then
53:18
Speaker 13: we do have a mental health specialists here in the
53:21
Speaker 13: clinic also, uh we they prescribe medication and we also
53:27
Speaker 13: do have like you mentioned, counseling. So yes, we have
53:30
Speaker 13: all that. We have our own mental health department and
53:33
Speaker 13: then if we need to refer out for any additional
53:36
Speaker 13: services we do also. But in house we.
53:38
Speaker 2: Do have that.
53:40
Speaker 4: Tell listening audience how we get in touch with you
53:43
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53:48
Speaker 4: Busy Wellness Center.
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Speaker 13: Our phone number is seven one three seven seven one
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Speaker 13: two nine two, and we are here to service the community.
53:59
Speaker 1: That was hobby Or's case manager with B Busney with
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Speaker 1: B Busy Wellness Center. Their website is MYBBWC dot org
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Speaker 10: Her impact cannot be understated.
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Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 3: She was.
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Speaker 10: One of the most formidable voices in American pop music
54:58
Speaker 10: in the seventies. Her debut album dropped in sixty nine,
55:05
Speaker 10: and you know, on that album she had the song
55:13
Speaker 10: the First Time Ever I Saw in Your Face. The
55:17
Speaker 10: name of her debut album was first Take, Uh. You know,
55:20
Speaker 10: it's one of those albums that you know. A few
55:24
Speaker 10: years back, Rolling Stone listened as one of the you know,
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Speaker 10: five hundred greatest albums of all time whatever, you know,
55:34
Speaker 10: whatever you feel about Rolling Stone, at least they had
55:36
Speaker 10: the consideration to pick out a great album like that
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 10: At that time, the album was heralded, you know, as
55:51
Speaker 10: a really great work of art. But the song itself
55:56
Speaker 10: didn't really take off until Clint Eastwood put it in
55:59
Speaker 10: his movie Play Misty for Me in seventy two. So
56:05
Speaker 10: when he did that, boom, the song really takes off.
56:09
Speaker 10: This three years later, song takes off massive hit and
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Speaker 10: she ends up winning, you know, her first Grammy for
56:19
Speaker 10: Record of the Year. You know, her her style was
56:26
Speaker 10: just amazing, especially considering you know, when she came along.
56:33
Speaker 10: You know, she just had this this unreal blend of
56:37
Speaker 10: soul and and folk music and jazz and pop. It
56:45
Speaker 10: just yeah, you know, it just transcended all the genre boundaries.
56:54
Speaker 10: You know, she made sure that you couldn't lock her
56:58
Speaker 10: into any one particular.
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