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WC Accelerates Human Trafficking; Homeless in Houston; Unite Local 23 Fights for Workers - TPN 6/14/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of June fourteenth, twenty twenty six, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. The World Cup
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Speaker 1: brings trouble in the form of human trafficking. Houston unions
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Speaker 1: continue to fight the good fight. A survey of Houston's
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Speaker 1: homeless gives us the numbers of who and why people
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Speaker 1: are homeless. Hurricane season is here. Are you ready? Screwworm
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Speaker 1: is coming and can cost Texas farmars billions. Africa attacked
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Speaker 1: by Trump again as they are denied entrance to the
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Speaker 1: US for World Cup. Lots of things to do for
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Speaker 1: the summer, including free events at the Arboretum. 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: As Houston begins its participation in the World Cup. It
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Speaker 1: will bring thousands and thousands of visitors to the city.
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Speaker 1: It will also bring trouble and with big events comes
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Speaker 1: human trafficking for sex and labor of men, women, and children.
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Speaker 1: Houston has been long identified as one of the major
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Speaker 1: hubs for human trafficking. At a public event held by
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Speaker 1: the office of State Representative Jolanda Jones, people were educated
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Speaker 1: on what to look for, warning signs, safe reporting, and
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Speaker 1: how to protect vulnerable people before major crowds arrive. Maesha Culter,
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Speaker 1: CEO of Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, how big
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Speaker 1: human trafficking is.
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Speaker 2: It's really critical that the public have been opportunities to
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Speaker 2: start to understand what the warning signs of the human
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Speaker 2: traffickings and planning and what it really looks like for
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Speaker 2: a lot of people is relationships where power and control dominate.
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Speaker 3: How did they get into these relationships?
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Speaker 2: What happened to allow someone to become a trafficking victim
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Speaker 2: or where do.
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Speaker 3: They need the person who's trafficking?
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Speaker 2: Then what happens that they are now in this situation
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Speaker 2: and cannot get out, either mentally or physically or both.
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Speaker 3: Right, many trafficking victims.
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Speaker 2: First experience domestic violence, but they experience it at the
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Speaker 2: hand of someone.
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Speaker 3: Whom they paint they're in a relationship with. Most of
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Speaker 3: the time, people are going to be groomed by.
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Speaker 2: And know the person that is going to ultimately be
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Speaker 2: their perpetrator or their traffical There are two primary categories
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Speaker 2: that we need to think about when we think about
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Speaker 2: trafficking versus it's a sex trafficking, and that's the dominant
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Speaker 2: idea of trafficking, and it is probably the most pervasive
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Speaker 2: type of trafficking that people in our area experience. But
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Speaker 2: there is also labor trafficking, and this is where someone
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Speaker 2: actually thinks that they are working for someone, but guess what,
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Speaker 2: They're never gonna get paid.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna be.
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Speaker 2: Manipulated into being in a situation where they're providing some
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Speaker 2: type of labor but with no actual reward associated with them.
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Speaker 2: And this happens a lot, and it's the same sort
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Speaker 2: of scenario. They meet someone who offers them work. They
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Speaker 2: even may offer them work with some type of this
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Speaker 2: is what the incentive is, this is what the pay
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Speaker 2: is going to be, this is what you're where you're
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Speaker 2: want to reside. And they think that it's a real job.
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Speaker 2: But lo and behold, by the time they have engaged
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Speaker 2: in this work, they haven't gotten paid one re two,
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Speaker 2: three reads. And these are people who don't have resources,
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Speaker 2: so they keep going back to this well thinking at
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Speaker 2: some point they are willing to receive the reward of
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Speaker 2: their labor because that's what they will promise. But that's
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Speaker 2: not what is happening. The other part of the labor trafficking.
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Speaker 2: It includes domestic A lot of what we'll see is
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Speaker 2: here domestic servitude to someone.
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Speaker 3: Is a house people, someone is a nanny. They're doing
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Speaker 3: work but without any.
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Speaker 2: Reward add their cultural ward, construction, hospitality, restaurant.
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Speaker 3: We're thinking about all of these opportunities for people to
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Speaker 3: come here for this whole World Cup event, right and.
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Speaker 2: And there is sort of this dispute around whether or
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Speaker 2: not trafficking is going to increase.
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Speaker 3: As a result of this event.
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Speaker 2: Regardless of whether it increases or not, the fact that
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Speaker 2: you have opportunities that you can't exploit someone about the
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Speaker 2: perhaps saying I have this temporary work for you for
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Speaker 2: the FEEFA event.
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Speaker 3: You understand you're gonna work at this.
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Speaker 2: At this event for the next three weeks and you
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Speaker 2: get paid, but at for the entirety of the event
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Speaker 2: has concluded. So there are opportunities of exploitation right with
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Speaker 2: men this event that we're coming to.
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Speaker 3: Celebrate, to celebrate the sport, to celebrate you.
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Speaker 2: Know, these athletes and this uh this event could potentially
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Speaker 2: be an opportunity for people to engage in exactly the
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Speaker 2: level of traffic fee that we're talking about just on
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Speaker 2: the labor side of things, not even the sexual side
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Speaker 2: of things. But let's think about the sexual side of
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Speaker 2: things as it delinks to feeda So you have people
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Speaker 2: they come here, they're partying there, they're coming to cheer
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Speaker 2: their team on, and after their team wins their victory.
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Speaker 3: Guess what we're gonna go celebrate.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna go here to this place or that place,
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Speaker 2: and they go to a cantina and guess what is
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Speaker 2: housed yet those cantina is those those sex workers, those
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Speaker 2: young individuals who.
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Speaker 3: Are supposed to be there to do.
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Speaker 2: A simple service of weight staff, but behind the scenes, there's.
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Speaker 3: A sex work that's awful happening.
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Speaker 2: And now these visitors have this access to these traffic individuals.
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Speaker 3: So we are looking.
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Speaker 2: At the opportunity for us to see something and say
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Speaker 2: something right.
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Speaker 3: For victimization and where exploitations can also occur.
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Speaker 1: Hotels are normally used, but now sex traffickers are using
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Speaker 1: Airbnb or rental rooms for trafficking. Taylor Woodriff, prevention manager
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Speaker 1: for United Against Human Trafficking, spoke on this trend.
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Speaker 4: So we see trafficking, you know a lot of those
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Speaker 4: places of those are places often that we see sex
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Speaker 4: trafficking the motels, but also we see it in legal
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Speaker 4: massage establishments. We can also see it in private residences
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Speaker 4: or nail salons or truck stops. I think we have
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Speaker 4: this idea of you know, people that walk the streets
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Speaker 4: in high heels, but we need to update the reality
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Speaker 4: of what sex traffick inmos and not just sex traffic itself,
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Speaker 4: but also labor trafficking because labor traffickings are very hard
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Speaker 4: to identify it because it can masquerate as any business.
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Speaker 5: You see that at the home depot, you know, people
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Speaker 5: send us up and how hard is that again because
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Speaker 5: of the immigration issue, because people are less likely to
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Speaker 5: report it because they're scared of they're scared of being
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Speaker 5: deported or scared of their immigration status being.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so when we remove protections from populations are vulnerable,
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Speaker 4: we open them up to being exploited. You know, for instance,
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Speaker 4: if we remove the pathway to the citizenship, people are
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Speaker 4: going to be more resort to more desperate or extreme
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Speaker 4: measures to enter country, which makes them easy to exploit
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Speaker 4: by you know, coyotes or partel members. So moving protections
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Speaker 4: from vulnerble populations doesn't stop trafficking. It really emboldens trafficking.
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Speaker 6: How do you stop that?
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Speaker 5: And how do you plan on with the World Cups coming,
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Speaker 5: how do you plan on preventing a lot of the
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Speaker 5: traffic that's going on.
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Speaker 4: So the big things we want to do is we
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Speaker 4: want to give tools to the people. You know, we
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Speaker 4: are but one organization. We're small, but mighty. At the
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Speaker 4: same time, Houston is the most diversity in the US,
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Speaker 4: and you know, Harris County is a sprawn community. So
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Speaker 4: we want to educate the citizens of Houston and what
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Speaker 4: they see, whether that's you know, they're operating at Airbnb,
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Speaker 4: whether that they're law enforcement or first responder, firefire paramedic.
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Speaker 4: We were training first responders how to recognize our respond
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Speaker 4: trafficking the general public. We offer free trainings. Head out
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Speaker 4: at UAHT dot org to hit a set for a
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Speaker 4: free training.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Nissi Hamilton, former victim of sex trafficking termed doctor,
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Speaker 1: runs the Nissy Network.
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Speaker 7: I am got to Nie Hamilton's CEO of Niece's Networking Corporated,
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Speaker 7: who is now partner with Saint Luke's Common Spirit Health
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Speaker 7: and Human Services, and we are dominating the healthcare space
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Speaker 7: and bring an advocacy to survivors who need health care services.
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Speaker 5: Tell us, why don't you tell us how you went
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Speaker 5: from being how do you go to where you were
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Speaker 5: to where you're at now.
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Speaker 7: So I was trafficed at the age of fifteen years old,
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Speaker 7: and part of my journey, a lot of my journey
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Speaker 7: was through foster care. I had aged out of foster care,
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Speaker 7: so basically, instead of being taken back into custody, I
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Speaker 7: was out of custody and more of an independent I
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Speaker 7: wasn't seen as a child, especially after having a baby,
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Speaker 7: and that is called adultification, So I was treated like
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Speaker 7: an adult, and after having a baby, you know, survival
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Speaker 7: wasn't something that you think about in terms of sex
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Speaker 7: trafficking because the sex traffic hadn't even happened yet. I
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Speaker 7: was really just, you know, any normal kid that's surviving,
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Speaker 7: You just trying to find some wa to stay, you
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Speaker 7: know what I mean, And you're just trying to get
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Speaker 7: to the place of you know, security and just have
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Speaker 7: that protective presence around you, even if you don't have
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Speaker 7: a father figure. Unfortunately for me, I did end up
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Speaker 7: pregnant and I was sued by the State of Texas
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Speaker 7: for being homeless with the child being homeless with the
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Speaker 7: child man At that time of the trafficking loss that
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Speaker 7: we have today, we didn't have it then.
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Speaker 8: I mean, if you look at.
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Speaker 7: The if you look at the scale in services with DFPS,
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Speaker 7: who is the mother and then CPS they just started
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Speaker 7: dealing with trafficking.
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Speaker 9: Issues until twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 7: So imagine this happening in two thousand and three when
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Speaker 7: the first time we have ever heard the term human
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Speaker 7: trafficking was from President Bill Clinton, and we thought it
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Speaker 7: was something that just happened overseas. We had not considered
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Speaker 7: that trafficing happened here. The first time we ever seen
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Speaker 7: trafficking on television in the movie setting was in the
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Speaker 7: color purple, and we didn't understand that what we was
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Speaker 7: watching Celly went through was you know, every bit of
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Speaker 7: familiar trafficking.
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Speaker 9: You know, where we see the mother, you.
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Speaker 7: Know, ignoring the signs, you know what I mean, or
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Speaker 7: too sick to do something about, you know, her daughter
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Speaker 7: being you know, having sex with her stepfather.
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Speaker 8: You know.
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Speaker 9: The main idea is if the step daddy is having
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Speaker 9: sex with the step.
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Speaker 7: Daughter, then oh with your child, and you know, and
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Speaker 7: he's the stepfather or whatever, then as long as the
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Speaker 7: house is good as long as everybody can be taken
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Speaker 7: care of, as long as I could be.
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Speaker 9: I could be sick, but I'm sick in peace. We
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Speaker 9: all together. What goes on in this house stays in
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Speaker 9: this house.
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Speaker 7: Those ideologies, yes, please so please call.
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Speaker 9: Me A three two.
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Speaker 7: Eight eight six two again that number is eight three
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Speaker 7: two nine seven two eight eight six two and.
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Speaker 9: You can contact me.
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Speaker 7: If you run into a traffic and survivor you need
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Speaker 7: support services, please go to any Saint Lukes. I'm over
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Speaker 7: the entire Houston market and they will call me.
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Speaker 1: That was Nissy Hamilton, former victim now doctor working with
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Speaker 1: victims of sex trafficking. It is estimated that there are
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Speaker 1: three hundred and thirteen thousand victims of human and sex
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Speaker 1: trafficking in Texas. If you see something or know someone
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Speaker 1: who needs help, you can call seven one three two
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Speaker 1: seven four three five two one. That is the number
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Speaker 1: for Harris County Constable Precinct seven. You can go to
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Speaker 1: No Trafficking Zone dot org, No Trafficking Zone all put
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Speaker 1: together as one word, dot org, u AHT dot org
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Speaker 1: and also the NISSI network at eight three two nine
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Speaker 1: seven to two eight eight six' Two, houston is the
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Speaker 1: fourth largest city in THE us and billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: are coming in through, tourism including all the uptick and
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Speaker 1: activity from The World. Cup with all that revenue coming
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Speaker 1: into the, City houston's hospitality, workers including food and beverage
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Speaker 1: workers AT Nrg stadium and The Fan zone in Downtown,
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Speaker 1: houston are not able to participate in that economic. Boom
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Speaker 1: hospitality workers here make less than twelve dollars an, hour
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Speaker 1: far less than the minimum wage workers and members Of
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Speaker 1: Unite Here local twenty three spoke at The Harris County
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Speaker 1: Commissioner's court meeting this. Week Harris county runs the stadiums
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Speaker 1: but contracts the concessions to. Vendors they gathered in front
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Speaker 1: of The Commissioner's court.
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Speaker 10: Because we're tired Of houston workers being left. Behind houston
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Speaker 10: is the fourth largest city in the. Country over the
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Speaker 10: last few, years we've seen our city transform into a
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Speaker 10: world class tourist. Destination yet with more and more major
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Speaker 10: events coming to our. City but yet the workers across
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Speaker 10: the city that make these events possible are beer making.
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Speaker 10: It they're living check to check and working multiple jobs
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Speaker 10: just to make it.
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Speaker 11: By, however we have seen right through the power of
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Speaker 11: our union that these companies have more than enough to.
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Speaker 10: Pay the workers what they.
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Speaker 12: Deserve.
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Speaker 10: Right over the last, year since last, fall we've saw
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Speaker 10: our members, fight even go on strike to win life
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Speaker 10: changing wages and job security. Protections right across the, airport
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Speaker 10: across downtown, hotels convention center workers have won a minimum
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Speaker 10: of twenty dollars right with it going up in the
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Speaker 10: next few. Years and we see our stadium workers just
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Speaker 10: across the street from where we, working some most even
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Speaker 10: making less than twelve, dollars, Right how is that possible
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Speaker 10: in twenty twenty six do we think that's?
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Speaker 11: Fair how can you survive off of twelve?
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Speaker 10: Dollars and we, see you, know the companies making billions
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Speaker 10: of dollars, right and workers are. Struggling SO i want
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Speaker 10: to introduce one, worker one break worker that's out here
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Speaker 10: speaking of for herself and her co. Workers Ruby garza
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Speaker 10: a long time stadium. Worker So i'm going to pass
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Speaker 10: it over to her to share her. Story, YEAH i
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Speaker 10: let you just speak, It.
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Speaker 13: Okay my name Is Ruby. Garza i'm a beer vendor
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Speaker 13: at te. STADIUMS i have worked at these stadiums for
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Speaker 13: more than twenty. YEARS i make less than eleven at
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Speaker 13: one and twelve dollars at the, other AND i live
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Speaker 13: with my son and. Grandson we struggle to pay the
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Speaker 13: bills on. TIME i don't know how we do it,
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Speaker 13: sometimes but we make it in Sweet sometimes we have
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Speaker 13: to buy less groceries than what we need because money is.
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Speaker 13: TIGHT i would like to live on my own one
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Speaker 13: and IF i make a living, WAGE i. Can if
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Speaker 13: we make a fair, wage maybe my coworkers could give
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Speaker 13: their kids some more of their things they. Deserve the
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Speaker 13: prices of the drinks at the stadiums are incredibly. High
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Speaker 13: nearly all of them are more than WHAT i make
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Speaker 13: in an. HOUR a beer loan is.
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Speaker 9: Twelve dollars up to thirteen.
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Speaker 13: Dollars we deserve. Better that's why we are fighting for
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Speaker 13: respect and dignity at our.
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Speaker 1: Jobs unite twenty three in hospitality workers here are hoping
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Speaker 1: to get the same wage and work conditions that a
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Speaker 1: successful strike for forty two days Against Hilton americas and
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Speaker 1: The GEORGE. R Brown Convention center netted earlier this. Year
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Speaker 1: one negative site many coming to The World cup we'll
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Speaker 1: see In houston is the. Homeless through, tentrification the homeless
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Speaker 1: have been driven from downtown to the area's adjacent. Neighborhoods
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Speaker 1: Many houstonians are on the verge of, homelessness and not
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Speaker 1: just the city but all the outlying. Areas The coalition
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Speaker 1: for The Homeless HOUSTON Slash Harris county does an annual
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Speaker 1: point in time report measuring homelessness In, Harris Fort, bend
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Speaker 1: And Montgomery. Counties by combining count results with additional system,
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Speaker 1: data it gives you a more holistic picture of, homelessness housing,
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Speaker 1: stability and community. Needs Kelly young is The president chief
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Speaker 1: executive officer with THE. Cftch she broke down the numbers
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Speaker 1: and how the situation has become more problematic with high
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Speaker 1: rates of. EVICTIONS i think.
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Speaker 14: It demonstrates that our processes and the way that we
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Speaker 14: manage the pit count are, consistent which is helpful for
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Speaker 14: validity and for.
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Speaker 15: RELIABILITY i think it.
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Speaker 14: Demonstrates that our system is holding a fairly normalized pattern
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Speaker 14: because we are able to house people and we maintain
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Speaker 14: housing for those that were previously. HOMELESS i think it
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Speaker 14: is a stress point because we're not being able to
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Speaker 14: move on that. Number so that tells us that the
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Speaker 14: intervention is great and it's, working but we also need other,
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Speaker 14: Interventions so we need to develop multiple pathways.
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Speaker 15: Out of homelessness to ensure that we can lower that
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Speaker 15: number or see the adjustment in.
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Speaker 5: That night working last after is the, holest holest of
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Speaker 5: movement being moved out of downtown.
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Speaker 3: And the movements of the start the communities East.
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Speaker 12: Side southside or what does that say about keeping the numbers?
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Speaker 15: Numbers, WELL i think because it's a regional. Count one
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Speaker 15: of the nice things is that it's still the same,
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Speaker 15: areas so even if they move to East, side they're
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Speaker 15: going to be counted on that. SIDE i think the
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Speaker 15: bigger question is.
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Speaker 14: That we as a community have to recognize that if
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Speaker 14: there is no into intervention or resource for that person
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Speaker 14: and they're asked.
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Speaker 15: To leave any, neighborhood they're going to move somewhere.
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Speaker 14: Else and one of the, concerns obviously AND i completely,
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Speaker 14: understand is then well then you're just you're just moving
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Speaker 14: people to my neighborhood or you, know placing them where they.
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Speaker 15: Are my answer, is we're going to do that no
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Speaker 15: matter what until.
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Speaker 14: We get enough resources and we have enough exit strategies
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Speaker 14: so everyone on the street has an exit plan and
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Speaker 14: can move on with their lives and then we as
19:28
Speaker 14: a community can be engaging in legislative work or advocacy
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Speaker 14: work or supporting organizations to help grow the number of
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Speaker 14: beds so that people have a place to, go versus
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Speaker 14: just talking about how well now they're in my. Neighborhood
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Speaker 14: it's funny to me because it's like people want something
19:43
Speaker 14: to be resolved for, homelessness but then they don't want
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Speaker 14: it when it shows up in their. Neighborhood so maybe
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Speaker 14: if we don't pit ourselves against each other and the
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Speaker 14: individuals that are, homeless and we work towards figuring out
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Speaker 14: how to have as much, resourcing that that would be
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Speaker 14: the answer we actually.
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Speaker 5: Need what it is talking About egypt and you, KNOW
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Speaker 5: i know the governor has made it so that's the
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Speaker 5: users for landlords to have more power to evict, people
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Speaker 5: but people that are being evicted don't have that same.
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Speaker 5: Power AND i heard about eviction court and having lawyers
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Speaker 5: that represent.
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Speaker 12: People that are being. Evicted, yes something that's happening.
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Speaker 3: Here it is a beginning.
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Speaker 14: Process the county does have lawyers that are invested in some.
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Speaker 15: Of the the.
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Speaker 14: Courts But dallas actually has a model for it where
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Speaker 14: they give a nonprofit organization where literally their whole point
20:38
Speaker 14: is to go and fight the, eviction because it is
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Speaker 14: true the person who's facing eviction has no legal support
20:44
Speaker 14: unless they get some legal.
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Speaker 15: Support everything else is about.
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Speaker 14: Addressing the codifying of that, lease so the least stands
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Speaker 14: it's a legal, document you sign.
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Speaker 15: It these are the. Stipulations so some of it.
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Speaker 14: Is how do we actually work with landlords anderstand that
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Speaker 14: this person is going to end up being a better,
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Speaker 14: client a better resident for you over, time and eviction
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Speaker 14: is not the best option every single.
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Speaker 15: Time let's figure out another.
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Speaker 14: Source BUT i also think people have to realize the economic,
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Speaker 14: reality which is we are not in a situation where
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Speaker 14: housing costs are going to come down anytime. Soon so
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Speaker 14: we're going to have to be way more creative and
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Speaker 14: innovative as individuals about how we house ourselves and our
21:24
Speaker 14: families and our friends in multiple ways until that balance
21:28
Speaker 14: is back, out BECAUSE i think you're at the risk
21:30
Speaker 14: of them raising rent every, years and they could do, that.
21:33
Speaker 15: They have the right to do, it but we also
21:35
Speaker 15: have the right to. Disabled THEN i need to live
21:37
Speaker 15: somewhere with three.
21:37
Speaker 14: PEOPLE i may not want to do, that but for,
21:39
Speaker 14: now to build my, economics security and support and ensure
21:43
Speaker 14: THAT i don't end up. Evicted i'm going to have
21:45
Speaker 14: to make some really hard to hosts for.
21:46
Speaker 1: Myself THE pdf results are on THE cftch website and
21:52
Speaker 1: you can find out more about what they're. Doing hurricane
21:56
Speaker 1: season is. Here having a plan is the best way to.
21:59
Speaker 1: Survive Brian, Murray deputy director Of Harris County Homeland Security Emergency,
22:05
Speaker 1: management talks about how preparedness can save your. Life although
22:11
Speaker 1: forecasters state that this will not be as active a
22:15
Speaker 1: hurricane season as last, year As brian points, out it
22:19
Speaker 1: only takes.
22:19
Speaker 16: One so you're hitting on one of my really big
22:22
Speaker 16: sore spots, here and that's the hurricane. Forecast, Honestly, richard
22:26
Speaker 16: they mean absolutely. Nothing because if you only have one
22:28
Speaker 16: hurricane that hits, you that's the one that will define
22:31
Speaker 16: your hurricane. Season then, frankly that's bad. Enough what people
22:34
Speaker 16: need to be focused, on especially if you're living in this,
22:37
Speaker 16: area is being prepared to face whether it's you, know
22:42
Speaker 16: heavy ran and, flooding whether it's a, hurricane a, tornado something.
22:45
Speaker 16: Unexpected every single day of the, year we have more
22:49
Speaker 16: risks than any other jurisdiction of our size in The United.
22:51
Speaker 16: States anything can happen any, day so you need to
22:54
Speaker 16: be ready to face. That you, know outside of hurricane, season.
23:00
Speaker 6: Need.
23:00
Speaker 16: Prepared so the couple of things you can do just
23:03
Speaker 16: to get. Started the first is you need to have a,
23:05
Speaker 16: kit and a kit is actually really the things you
23:09
Speaker 16: would need to survive without being able to go to
23:11
Speaker 16: a store or you, know having someone bring you food
23:15
Speaker 16: for about seven to ten. Days that's, water that's you,
23:18
Speaker 16: know non perishable food, items that's your, medications that's the
23:22
Speaker 16: things that you need for your. Pets those are the
23:25
Speaker 16: things that you know to start off your. Kit the
23:27
Speaker 16: second thing you need to, do and this is important
23:29
Speaker 16: in light of hurricane, season is have a. Plan you,
23:32
Speaker 16: know only about maybe a little more than the third
23:35
Speaker 16: of our area is actually in a hurricane evacuation, zone
23:38
Speaker 16: so it's important for you to know where you are
23:41
Speaker 16: and if you are in a hurricane evacuation, zone have
23:44
Speaker 16: a plan for where you might go should you be
23:46
Speaker 16: called on to. Evacuate by the same, token the people
23:49
Speaker 16: who are not in a hurricane evacuation zone need to
23:52
Speaker 16: go back to step one and make sure they have
23:54
Speaker 16: that kit so that they're able to stay in their
23:57
Speaker 16: homes and you, know ride out the. Storm and the third,
24:00
Speaker 16: thing and you know That i'm going to point out
24:02
Speaker 16: is you definitely need to make sure that you stay.
24:04
Speaker 16: Informed one of the things that is you, know most
24:08
Speaker 16: challenging is you, know making sure that you are in
24:10
Speaker 16: a position to receive important. Information so the couple things
24:15
Speaker 16: with that number, one make sure that you have a
24:18
Speaker 16: battery powered or a hand crank radio that has The
24:22
Speaker 16: National Weather service weather band on. It that's going to
24:24
Speaker 16: be very, important especially you, know if we do lose
24:27
Speaker 16: power and all of a sudden you don't HAVE, tv
24:29
Speaker 16: you don't necessarily, have you, know your your plugin, radio
24:33
Speaker 16: or we lose phone. Service that radio will help you
24:35
Speaker 16: stay in you, know stay in. Touch the second thing
24:37
Speaker 16: is is make sure you're able to receive official, notifications
24:41
Speaker 16: you know from From frankly our. Office and you can
24:44
Speaker 16: do that just by going To Ready harris dot org
24:47
Speaker 16: and signing up For Ready Harris. Alerts we also have
24:50
Speaker 16: accessible alerts that are available to folks who you know
24:52
Speaker 16: NEED afl or braille and. Uh THEN i would also
24:56
Speaker 16: make sure you check your, phone make sure that those
24:57
Speaker 16: wireless emergency alerts are turned.
24:59
Speaker 6: On what do people do as far as if they're
25:02
Speaker 6: on a road where the hurricanes when the hurricanes were penning.
25:06
Speaker 16: Well and that was that was in a very special,
25:08
Speaker 16: situation you, know With Hurricane rego that came just After,
25:11
Speaker 16: katrina AND i think that's spooked a lot of. People
25:14
Speaker 16: you had a lot of people who were evacuating from
25:17
Speaker 16: non coastal, locations the Woodlands Katie kingwood that were kind
25:21
Speaker 16: of jamming up the roads and did make it more
25:23
Speaker 16: difficult for people who did need to evacuate to get.
25:25
Speaker 16: Out so the best thing that you can do is number,
25:28
Speaker 16: one when evacuations are, called they are, timed so we
25:32
Speaker 16: ask for people on certain zones and certain zip codes
25:34
Speaker 16: to evacuate at certain. Times so the biggest thing you
25:37
Speaker 16: can do is make sure you follow. Instructions you, know
25:40
Speaker 16: go when you're told to. Go AND i would also say,
25:42
Speaker 16: this you, know if you know you're in let's Say
25:45
Speaker 16: Southeast houston and they've just now called for evacuation Of,
25:49
Speaker 16: galveston let the people From galveston get out. First letting
25:53
Speaker 16: them get through our area before we evacuate in The
25:55
Speaker 16: Harrison county area makes it a lot easier to keep
25:58
Speaker 16: that situation from happening.
25:59
Speaker 12: Again are you.
26:01
Speaker 6: Do you your, Organization.
26:04
Speaker 17: Do you guys go out and and monitor the people
26:08
Speaker 17: driving and WITH gps and work with people trying to
26:12
Speaker 17: get get out of the fund.
26:15
Speaker 16: Zones, yeah so you're talking about a huge effort that
26:18
Speaker 16: spans a lot of different. Jurisdictions it's a joint effort between, counties,
26:22
Speaker 16: cities law enforcement and that's at the, local county and state.
26:27
Speaker 16: Level not to mention our partners At houston Trans, star you,
26:30
Speaker 16: know that's where our office. Is through their camera, network
26:33
Speaker 16: there's about a thousand cameras in the, region and when
26:35
Speaker 16: we start getting into the hurricane, situation the road cameras
26:38
Speaker 16: allow us to see all the way To, dallas all
26:40
Speaker 16: the way To, austin all the way To San, antonio
26:43
Speaker 16: so we're able to keep an eye on what road
26:44
Speaker 16: conditions look. Like and then we're able to help coordinate
26:47
Speaker 16: with the law enforcement officials at the state level and
26:49
Speaker 16: again at the local level to make sure that you,
26:52
Speaker 16: know travelers continues to move. Smoothly they can move vehicles
26:56
Speaker 16: out of the. Way the state will provide fuel at
26:58
Speaker 16: certain spots that people are running out of. Gas so
27:00
Speaker 16: there's different things that we, do but it's a huge coordination. Effort.
27:05
Speaker 16: Nobody it's not one agency that does.
27:07
Speaker 6: That it's funny when every hurricane season is always those
27:12
Speaker 6: that want to stay even when they're called on to.
27:16
Speaker 12: Evacuate what do you say to those? People and it's.
27:19
Speaker 6: Always there's always somebody driving. It they think they can
27:22
Speaker 6: make it in the flood zone and and the car gets.
27:25
Speaker 16: Stuck, yeah it's it's a real. Challenge and you, know
27:29
Speaker 16: as one who's had to evacuate, BEFORE i understand the
27:31
Speaker 16: instinct you feel like if you stay at your, home
27:33
Speaker 16: you can protect your. Property AND i don't think there's
27:36
Speaker 16: any more foolish thought that someone's going to, have you,
27:39
Speaker 16: know a, hurricane if you just break it down to
27:41
Speaker 16: what in its most basic, level it is a two
27:44
Speaker 16: hundred mile wide tornado with. Water and if you think
27:47
Speaker 16: you're strong enough to defend your property against, that you,
27:50
Speaker 16: know good luck to. You BUT i advise you don't
27:52
Speaker 16: same thing with. Water you, know you mentioned something about you,
27:55
Speaker 16: know rain and floods. Earlier good, lord if you see
27:58
Speaker 16: water on the, roadway you don't necessarily know how deep
28:00
Speaker 16: that water is the number one cause of death and
28:02
Speaker 16: flooding is people driving into. Water kind of brought up
28:05
Speaker 16: the you, Know it sounds kind of trite now to
28:07
Speaker 16: say turn, around don't, drown but it really is the
28:09
Speaker 16: best way to keep yourself.
28:10
Speaker 12: Safe and what some people have at.
28:13
Speaker 6: HOME i, LIKE i have a generator at home that
28:17
Speaker 6: DO i need anything?
28:18
Speaker 16: Else you, know generator is one of those things that are,
28:22
Speaker 16: great BUT i think it's pretty. Realistic it's not realistic
28:25
Speaker 16: to think that everyone's going to have. One, so you,
28:28
Speaker 16: KNOW i think if you've got, one, great make sure
28:31
Speaker 16: you know how to service, it make sure you keep it,
28:33
Speaker 16: fueled make sure that you're not using it. Indoors that's
28:36
Speaker 16: that's the generator safety, line you. KNOW i think just
28:40
Speaker 16: remembering what you have in your house that may come in.
28:42
Speaker 16: Handy you, know basic toolkit doesn't sound like a whole,
28:45
Speaker 16: lot but you, know do you have a, hammer, screwdriver some?
28:48
Speaker 16: Nails you, know do you have you, know clean, clothes,
28:52
Speaker 16: bedding things that you may need to sustain yourself just
28:55
Speaker 16: on a personal hygiene, level all those things are all.
28:58
Speaker 16: Important you, know we had several incidents of the last
29:01
Speaker 16: couple of years where we've had certain areas of the
29:03
Speaker 16: county that have been without, power sometimes for just a few,
29:06
Speaker 16: days sometimes for you, know more than more than a
29:08
Speaker 16: week or. Two you need to think about what does
29:11
Speaker 16: that look like for? You if you have to live
29:12
Speaker 16: in your house with no, power you, know what does
29:14
Speaker 16: that look? Like what do you need to make sure
29:16
Speaker 16: that you and your family are safe and that you're provided.
29:18
Speaker 6: For it's always a rush the home depot or the
29:27
Speaker 6: or the grocery.
29:28
Speaker 12: Stores when you say hurricanes come. In, yeah you know
29:33
Speaker 12: you can prevent that by going into starting. Early AND
29:37
Speaker 12: i think.
29:37
Speaker 16: That's a really good piece of. Advice and and the
29:39
Speaker 16: other THING i would also say, is you, know the
29:41
Speaker 16: whole disaster kid buying food and stuff that can get
29:44
Speaker 16: expensive really. Quick so what we recommend people do is
29:48
Speaker 16: this buy you know a bit of a. Time if
29:51
Speaker 16: you buy an extra can of green, beans an extra, canatuna, YadA,
29:54
Speaker 16: YadA YadA at each you, know every time you go
29:56
Speaker 16: to the grocery, store that kid builds up over, Time
29:59
Speaker 16: so that that's the first thing you can do to
30:01
Speaker 16: make that a little bit. Easier but to your point
30:04
Speaker 16: for having, sex you don't want to be that person
30:06
Speaker 16: the day before storm's rolling, in you, know trying to
30:08
Speaker 16: shop empty. Shelves so make sure you do it early
30:11
Speaker 16: and make sure you keep that kick, current.
30:14
Speaker 6: All, right and anything else you want to want to
30:16
Speaker 6: say to people that for this hurricane, season you, KNOW.
30:20
Speaker 16: I think it's it's just don't don't buy the hype
30:22
Speaker 16: of the. FORECAST i know that the forecast from The
30:25
Speaker 16: National Hurricane center and some of the other folks that
30:28
Speaker 16: do the forecast are saying it could be a light.
30:30
Speaker 16: Season but, again we don't know what that. Means it
30:34
Speaker 16: just means, that you, know maybe conditions aren't great for you,
30:37
Speaker 16: know a lot of. Hurricanes but if we get, one,
30:39
Speaker 16: frankly that's. Enough And i've now done enough tropical weather
30:43
Speaker 16: events And i'm good not doing another. One so get yourself,
30:46
Speaker 16: prepared and you, know make sure that if we do
30:49
Speaker 16: get something coming our way through The, gulf but you,
30:51
Speaker 16: know you're ready to react as soon as you.
30:53
Speaker 6: Can, also, tornadoes you, know you mentioned. Hurricanes we you,
30:57
Speaker 6: know we have tornados around and here also that affect.
31:01
Speaker 16: Us we, do and. Tornadoes you, know people ask me
31:04
Speaker 16: what scares. Me tornadoes is one of the things that
31:06
Speaker 16: does because there's absolutely nothing you can do to outrun,
31:08
Speaker 16: them and they're very difficult to predict until they're pretty
31:11
Speaker 16: much on top of. YOU i think that's just one
31:14
Speaker 16: of those things where you, KNOW i reinforced the idea
31:17
Speaker 16: that you have to be prepared all the. Time they're
31:20
Speaker 16: much less, predictable but it is something that's going to happen.
31:22
Speaker 16: Again going back to your, kit making sure that you
31:25
Speaker 16: have a few things that make your life easier and
31:27
Speaker 16: that's your basic toolkit along with you, know the, food
31:31
Speaker 16: water and other.
31:32
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31:37
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32:35
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32:50
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33:02
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33:06
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33:59
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Speaker 1: Org The World cup has brought dismay to many in
34:52
Speaker 1: The african, continent as THE us has Denied african delegations
34:56
Speaker 1: and fans of countries from entering our. Country they took
35:00
Speaker 1: AWAY usa To africa and Now ebola has come back
35:04
Speaker 1: and has killed hundreds in The Democratic republic Of. Congo
35:07
Speaker 1: in The Democratic republic Of, congo we talked about these
35:11
Speaker 1: issues and others Regarding africa with The Sepe, Cherry associate
35:15
Speaker 1: professor at The university Of.
35:17
Speaker 8: Houston this is Sept on The Sango. Cherry i'm associate
35:21
Speaker 8: professor at The university Of, houston and so The World
35:26
Speaker 8: cup is always an amazing, TIME i, think just on
35:30
Speaker 8: a global. Stage of, course as far as THE, us
35:34
Speaker 8: it holds a different POSITION i think in terms of.
35:37
Speaker 8: Sports but for the world for the most, part this
35:42
Speaker 8: is one of the largest and most important sporting, events
35:45
Speaker 8: whether you're thinking about sports or whether you're thinking about
35:49
Speaker 8: entering a national stage and what it means for a.
35:52
Speaker 8: Country so it's also very interesting that THE us is
35:58
Speaker 8: one of the host countries in this very pivotal moment
36:02
Speaker 8: for the country as it undergoes so many changes at the.
36:07
Speaker 8: Forefront of, course for THE, us among other issues are,
36:12
Speaker 8: immigration AND i would add THAT i think that this
36:15
Speaker 8: is a clear issue across the. World so you, know
36:21
Speaker 8: currently In ireland there's a lot of political and social
36:25
Speaker 8: unrest responding to An african immigrant who committed a violent,
36:32
Speaker 8: crime and so that has sort of reshaped at least
36:37
Speaker 8: the current moment of what's happening In. Ireland In South,
36:40
Speaker 8: africa there have been widespread protests Called march And march
36:48
Speaker 8: with an attempt to try and remove Largely african immigrants
36:54
Speaker 8: from the country By june. Thirtieth SO i want to
36:57
Speaker 8: sort of largely contextualize this FOR, us because it's not
37:03
Speaker 8: just The United, states ALTHOUGH i would add that the
37:06
Speaker 8: sentiment around nativism has been something that has been a
37:11
Speaker 8: stronghold for this country for some. Time it's just been
37:15
Speaker 8: unleashed in a different form, now especially with more funding
37:21
Speaker 8: around border, control et. Cetera but as far as The
37:26
Speaker 8: World cup and what it means For african countries to
37:30
Speaker 8: be denied, ENTRY i think there are several things that
37:33
Speaker 8: are going on, when of, course it continues to support
37:38
Speaker 8: this larger narrative That President Donald trump has continuously, shared
37:47
Speaker 8: not just in this, administration but in his in the
37:51
Speaker 8: previous term that he, serves where he Degraded african countries
37:57
Speaker 8: and undermined the positionality in, Nationhoods so it's not very
38:04
Speaker 8: surprising to me that he would try and deny the
38:08
Speaker 8: fans entrance here into The United. States on a very
38:13
Speaker 8: sort of small, level one would argue that his his
38:19
Speaker 8: thinking around that is that the fans would not return
38:23
Speaker 8: home and would take advantage of what, is you, know
38:28
Speaker 8: take advantage of the economy, here which is slightly dubious
38:32
Speaker 8: considering where we stand, currently although of course better than many.
38:38
Speaker 8: COUNTRIES i think the other, piece more fundamentally than, this
38:45
Speaker 8: this thinking of these fans coming here and staying, here
38:49
Speaker 8: and that of course is questionable because these are fans
38:52
Speaker 8: that we tend to see and many of us might
38:55
Speaker 8: know because they're dead past. Fans they travel around and
39:00
Speaker 8: concerning The World, cup some of them kind of are
39:07
Speaker 8: positioned as as informal, ambassadors if you, will when it
39:12
Speaker 8: comes to The World. Cup but thinking more, broadly, UHH
39:18
Speaker 8: i think what this does is? It uh? It it
39:22
Speaker 8: fundamentally suggests That african country don't have the same kind
39:32
Speaker 8: of CAN i, say, authority sovereignty because they're not, delft
39:43
Speaker 8: they're not given the same kind of latitude as other.
39:47
Speaker 8: COUNTRIES i think on a on a very basic, level
39:52
Speaker 8: we can we can understand this to be a very
39:55
Speaker 8: clear form of, racism and then when it comes to the,
39:59
Speaker 8: game it's. Health there's been continuous commentary about Various african
40:05
Speaker 8: players being parts of teams that are outside of the.
40:10
Speaker 8: Continent so this kind of the sense that there are
40:15
Speaker 8: AND i would say it goes Beyond african, players but
40:18
Speaker 8: there are a lot of very, stellar domineering players that
40:25
Speaker 8: are connected to the, continent to the diaspora, itself and
40:30
Speaker 8: so you see them playing for lots of different. Teams you.
40:35
Speaker 8: KNOW i think one thing that was striking for a
40:37
Speaker 8: number of fans as people anticipated The World cup was
40:43
Speaker 8: The french team and the song connected to The french.
40:46
Speaker 8: Team and there are a lot of remarks just on social,
40:50
Speaker 8: media for, instance where people were, saying, wow it's actually
40:55
Speaker 8: quite stark and string in some forms because you See
41:02
Speaker 8: african players who are representing The. French that's just one,
41:08
Speaker 8: example and that leads, us or it connects us to
41:11
Speaker 8: this longer history not just of, racism but of, colonialism
41:16
Speaker 8: of the kind of extraction Of european countries and the
41:27
Speaker 8: relationship between the metropol and the, colony which has since
41:31
Speaker 8: changed to a kind of neo. Colonialism and of course
41:36
Speaker 8: the players, themselves who are playing on different, teams are
41:40
Speaker 8: making very clear, decisions some economically, driven some in terms
41:44
Speaker 8: of support and and uh sort of the kind of
41:50
Speaker 8: notoriety that they might gain from playing for one team over.
41:53
Speaker 8: Another so it's a very interesting. Conundrum but it's also
41:57
Speaker 8: really frustrating because it speaks to kind of the larger
42:01
Speaker 8: sense of control that That President Donald trump AND i
42:07
Speaker 8: would argue some of the kind of shifting currents of
42:12
Speaker 8: power are trying to wield on a global. Scale the
42:16
Speaker 8: suggestion that The United states can make clear determinations about
42:22
Speaker 8: who gets to engage on a global. Stage and what's
42:27
Speaker 8: clearly being spoken, for even if it's not, explicit is
42:32
Speaker 8: That africa cannot be an active part of this this sporting.
42:38
Speaker 20: Event what was used as a excuse not to let
42:42
Speaker 20: some of The african Countries ina was was a bullock
42:46
Speaker 20: and we know that it has popped back up in
42:49
Speaker 20: The congo or you pop back up mainly because The
42:53
Speaker 20: United states ENDED.
42:55
Speaker 12: Usa AM i AM i correct on.
42:57
Speaker 8: That, YES i would agree with you on. THAT i
43:03
Speaker 8: think it is an interesting moment with the outbreak of
43:07
Speaker 8: a bulla largely in The, Congo, uganda et. Cetera more,
43:12
Speaker 8: recently they Are Congose americans who sat down represented REPRESENTED
43:23
Speaker 8: i guess the country, culture et, cetera trying to trying
43:29
Speaker 8: to share what they thought about this moment and just
43:33
Speaker 8: the difficulty of people coming back and forth and fighting
43:38
Speaker 8: this outbreak at the same. Time because the outbreak happened
43:44
Speaker 8: several years, THAT i think twenty nineteen or, so there
43:49
Speaker 8: has been quite a bit of work on thinking about
43:53
Speaker 8: how to how to sign me any outbreaks that would come.
44:01
Speaker 8: Afterwards some of that has been through. Research others of
44:05
Speaker 8: that has been in investing in community health, workers which
44:09
Speaker 8: a lot Of african, countries Particularly, Congo, uganda et, cetera
44:13
Speaker 8: have a strong network of who had helped think through
44:17
Speaker 8: The abola. Crisis and now WITH usaid not only being
44:24
Speaker 8: stopped or lower decreased around this, area that is meant
44:29
Speaker 8: that this some of the resources and the ways that
44:33
Speaker 8: countries have been able to kind of fight outbreaks in
44:37
Speaker 8: the past are not. Possible and for some folks who
44:41
Speaker 8: are quite, myopic that would mean that, well that just
44:45
Speaker 8: sort of Leaves africans in a lurch in this in this.
44:49
Speaker 8: Case but as we, know people travel and people move
44:53
Speaker 8: and that also means that diseases move and travel in the,
44:58
Speaker 8: past when The bula outbreak, occurred we saw right away
45:04
Speaker 8: That texas was a space and a hub for the
45:08
Speaker 8: movement of the. Disease it, didn't of, course deeply Affect,
45:12
Speaker 8: texans BUT i would say that was one of the
45:14
Speaker 8: big ports of. Entry and then yet, again here's what's
45:17
Speaker 8: interesting is that The congolese, team of course is is
45:22
Speaker 8: kind Of houston is kind of the hub for. That
45:27
Speaker 8: and so we have a lot of a lot of
45:31
Speaker 8: people who have been in the spaces that have been
45:34
Speaker 8: affected by a bullet in the past or even right,
45:36
Speaker 8: now who have come through come through to The United.
45:41
Speaker 8: States so when we CUT, aid we're not just cutting
45:46
Speaker 8: aid in a sense that we are undermining let's, say
45:50
Speaker 8: a humanitarian, outpouring which a lot of people tend to
45:54
Speaker 8: think of, aid particularly to like the continent Of. Africa
45:59
Speaker 8: but it also means that we are limiting our understanding
46:03
Speaker 8: of the. Disease we are limiting our understanding of how
46:08
Speaker 8: the disease moves and can affect the rest of the
46:12
Speaker 8: world and can have a huge impact not just on
46:17
Speaker 8: a certain region on the, continent but also on a global.
46:21
Speaker 8: Scale the other THING i just want to add for
46:24
Speaker 8: a kind of a larger context around that issue of
46:27
Speaker 8: aid is that we tend to think about it largely
46:32
Speaker 8: as THE us sort of coming as a world, power
46:39
Speaker 8: supporting people TO i wouldn't say, thrive but to cope
46:47
Speaker 8: with many. Things and it supports some of our some
46:52
Speaker 8: people's sort of stereotypes Around africa being poverty, wridden not
46:58
Speaker 8: necessarily having it infrastructure to handle lots of, issues healthcare
47:05
Speaker 8: and education maybe being one of. Them BUT i think
47:08
Speaker 8: it is really important for us to understand. That in
47:13
Speaker 8: the past you will see like an economist like them
47:17
Speaker 8: be Some moyo who have made this argument of you,
47:20
Speaker 8: Know africa doesn't actually need. Aid it just needs these
47:23
Speaker 8: multinational companies to pay their, taxes and if they paid the,
47:30
Speaker 8: taxes then those taxes would SUPERSEDE aid. Money so it's
47:35
Speaker 8: just something that sort of throw out, there not necessarily
47:39
Speaker 8: as a pushback around aid in, general but also as
47:44
Speaker 8: a sort of contextualization of the of the ways in
47:49
Speaker 8: which aid is connected to economic output and also connected
47:57
Speaker 8: to positioning countries in different ways for the.
48:03
Speaker 1: World that was The Shepey Masungo cherry associate professor at
48:08
Speaker 1: The university Of. Houston she was speaking On africa and
48:11
Speaker 1: those wanting to come into THE us for The World.
48:13
Speaker 1: Cup The Houston arboretum In Nature center is located In
48:17
Speaker 1: Memorial park and has a full summer schedule for kids and.
48:22
Speaker 1: Families we talked To Christine, mansfield senior marketing manager at
48:27
Speaker 1: The Houston. Arboretum, yeah so.
48:30
Speaker 21: We have so many great things to do here at The,
48:32
Speaker 21: arboretum especially in the. SUMMERTIME i know it's hot outside
48:34
Speaker 21: and a lot of people, think you, know let's stay,
48:35
Speaker 21: indoors but really that's not the case. Here we first
48:39
Speaker 21: and foremost have our summer camp, programs so that's something
48:42
Speaker 21: that you, know we have for ages four through, twelve
48:44
Speaker 21: and it's something that we're almost sold. Out we still
48:47
Speaker 21: have some nine to twelve year old, spots but most
48:49
Speaker 21: of our weeks are pretty. Full but if you can't do,
48:51
Speaker 21: that our grounds are open seven days a, week where
48:54
Speaker 21: a place that people can come and enjoy our. Trails
48:56
Speaker 21: we've got about five miles of, trails some shaded areas
48:59
Speaker 21: that people can walk. In an indoor nature center that's
49:01
Speaker 21: open from nine to four that it's free to visit
49:04
Speaker 21: and has lots of good information and activities all about
49:06
Speaker 21: the different ecosystems here at The, arboretum so lots of
49:09
Speaker 21: really accessible things for people to, do which is pretty.
49:12
Speaker 21: Cool we also have some preschool programs throughout the week
49:16
Speaker 21: that are for preschool kiddos and their parents to come
49:19
Speaker 21: and learn about, nature and those still have plenty of
49:21
Speaker 21: spots left there On mondays And thursdays and they're just
49:25
Speaker 21: a really fun morning activity for kids and their caregivers
49:28
Speaker 21: to come out and get outside a little bit during the.
49:31
Speaker 12: Summer one thing you do learn about the, outdoors you.
49:35
Speaker 21: Are absolutely and that's a good start to something else
49:39
Speaker 21: that we're. Doing we have a lot of different community
49:42
Speaker 21: science programs here and that really is the terminology that
49:46
Speaker 21: we use for other people call it citizen. Science we're
49:48
Speaker 21: adopting the terms our community, science which is also being
49:51
Speaker 21: used a lot, more and it really just means that
49:53
Speaker 21: we're getting our regular visitors to help participate in scientific
49:56
Speaker 21: discovery and. Projects and what that actually looks like is
50:00
Speaker 21: once a month we. Do one of our things is
50:04
Speaker 21: our Second Saturday Bird, Survey so the Second saturday of
50:06
Speaker 21: every month we have folks. Out you don't have to
50:09
Speaker 21: have any. Experience you don't have to have, binoculars so
50:11
Speaker 21: you don't have to know what that bird that's making
50:12
Speaker 21: that sound outside your bedroom window. Is that's what we're
50:14
Speaker 21: here to teach. You so you come with, us you
50:16
Speaker 21: learn about the birds that are at the, arboretum and
50:18
Speaker 21: you help us actively take a survey of what birds
50:21
Speaker 21: we're seeing throughout the different, months and that's a really fun.
50:24
Speaker 21: Opportunity we also just added a new one or two new,
50:28
Speaker 21: ones rather one that mimics the bird, survey which is
50:31
Speaker 21: our Fourth Saturday phonology. Walk and phonology is really just
50:35
Speaker 21: the study of living things over, time and this one
50:38
Speaker 21: is specifically focused on the plants here at the. Arboretom
50:42
Speaker 21: we're working With Rice university to have folks out and
50:44
Speaker 21: look at how you know when things, bloom what are
50:48
Speaker 21: the life cycles of the plants here at the Oar,
50:49
Speaker 21: Bretom when are things, changing what are they seeing throughout the.
50:52
Speaker 21: Season so that one is ticking off In june and
50:55
Speaker 21: is something we're going to do the Fourth saturday of every.
50:57
Speaker 21: Month and then the last thing that we just added
51:00
Speaker 21: is something called A Chronologue, station and that is a global,
51:03
Speaker 21: initiative a global program where we have three different brackets
51:09
Speaker 21: set up throughout the arboretum and different ecosystems where you
51:12
Speaker 21: can put your phone on this little, stand take a,
51:15
Speaker 21: picture and then email it to an email that's on that,
51:19
Speaker 21: stand and it will become part of its time lapse
51:21
Speaker 21: that you can view at any point that you want
51:23
Speaker 21: of that. Space so you get to see real time
51:25
Speaker 21: what some of these places look, like even if you're not,
51:28
Speaker 21: here which is very.
51:29
Speaker 6: Cool, yeah and you, know people people talking, again people
51:34
Speaker 6: talk about the, heat but In houston we also talk
51:38
Speaker 6: about mosquitoes and is that something that people should be
51:43
Speaker 6: careful of just to bring their bring their bring their
51:46
Speaker 6: bug their the mosquito would.
51:47
Speaker 21: Talk, absolutely, YES i would recommend. It you, know we
51:51
Speaker 21: we have a lot of shaded areas and in those
51:54
Speaker 21: spaces and mosquitoes love to hang, out especially after all
51:56
Speaker 21: this rain that we've. Gotten you, know in drier, summers
51:59
Speaker 21: it's not as big as an, issue but when we're
52:01
Speaker 21: having wetter summers like we are so, far we do
52:04
Speaker 21: definitely have mosquitos out. Here but pop on some bugspray
52:07
Speaker 21: and come on out. Anyway and, honestly one of my
52:09
Speaker 21: favorite times to come out here is when it's raining
52:12
Speaker 21: or in between rain showers because there's almost no one.
52:14
Speaker 21: Here the mosquito is usually a little bit better when
52:17
Speaker 21: it's actively raining outside and you kind of get the
52:20
Speaker 21: park to yourself and you get to see a lot
52:22
Speaker 21: of wildlife that's coming out because there aren't as many people.
52:24
Speaker 8: Around, YEAH i poke.
52:26
Speaker 12: About that a little. Bit what different types of wildlife
52:28
Speaker 12: just out.
52:29
Speaker 21: There, absolutely you, know we are a wild. Space you,
52:33
Speaker 21: know people, think, oh we're you, know next To Memorial.
52:36
Speaker 21: Park we're you, know right in the middle of the.
52:38
Speaker 21: City but we have a lot of really great wildlife,
52:41
Speaker 21: here and we're very supportive of the native plants and
52:44
Speaker 21: animals that are. Here so you will see, snakes you
52:47
Speaker 21: will see, armadillos you'll see. Turtles we occasionally have coyotes
52:51
Speaker 21: that come, through although that's usually when people are not,
52:53
Speaker 21: here so sort of more down in. Dusk but we,
52:56
Speaker 21: have you, know such a vast array of, wildlife and
52:59
Speaker 21: we're right on the central flyway as far as bird migration,
53:02
Speaker 21: goes so it's a great place to see. Birds we've
53:05
Speaker 21: counted well over two hundred different species of birds that
53:08
Speaker 21: we've seen here throughout the, years so there's so much
53:11
Speaker 21: diversity of plant and animal life, here and we do
53:16
Speaker 21: a lot also to teach people about, that both in
53:18
Speaker 21: our classes that we offer throughout the, years but also
53:21
Speaker 21: on site signage and those activities THAT i mentioned in
53:24
Speaker 21: Our discovery. Room we've got just really great ways for
53:26
Speaker 21: people to access nature sort of at whatever level they're comfortable.
53:30
Speaker 12: With but do you still have the goats.
53:35
Speaker 21: That is that's a great.
53:36
Speaker 12: Question so the goats aren't, Ours we.
53:39
Speaker 8: Don't own the.
53:39
Speaker 21: Goats the goats they're kind of like our contract. Workers
53:42
Speaker 21: we haven't had them out in a, while but we
53:44
Speaker 21: are planning to have them come back out In. August
53:47
Speaker 21: we will be sharing more information and dates on those.
53:49
Speaker 21: Soon we're going to be working with a new set of, goats.
53:53
Speaker 21: Folks our friends at rent To Ruminant texas have retired their,
53:56
Speaker 21: business but we've got some new friends that we're going
53:59
Speaker 21: to be working with and so we we'll expect to
54:01
Speaker 21: have some goats out here in Early august doing their,
54:03
Speaker 21: thing and we'll be sharing a lot more information as
54:06
Speaker 21: we get it about exactly where that will, be when
54:08
Speaker 21: you can see the, goats what the best you know
54:10
Speaker 21: plan of action. Is but for all of, that following
54:13
Speaker 21: up on social media At HOUSTON arbretam or going to
54:16
Speaker 21: our website At houston arbream dot. Org both of those
54:19
Speaker 21: are going to be the best places to get more information.
54:21
Speaker 21: About you, know when things like the goats or new
54:24
Speaker 21: programs come.
54:24
Speaker 12: Up they were actually working. Goats If i'm not mistaken,
54:28
Speaker 12: correct then you are very.
54:30
Speaker 21: Correct, yes the goats are one of our landscape management.
54:34
Speaker 21: Tools so you, know we've been adding things that historically
54:37
Speaker 21: would have happened here and this. Whole you, Know houston
54:40
Speaker 21: first and foremost was a prairie grassland. REGION a lot
54:43
Speaker 21: of people don't think of it that, way But Gulf
54:46
Speaker 21: coast prairie was very much what the ecosystems were out.
54:49
Speaker 21: Here people used to go duck hunting south Of Rice
54:51
Speaker 21: campus because they had prairie wetlands. There and we have
54:55
Speaker 21: been doing a lot to manage and maintain those native,
54:58
Speaker 21: ecosystems bring back more grassland. Areas and to do, that
55:02
Speaker 21: we're also bringing back tools that would have been used
55:05
Speaker 21: naturally to manage those, spaces so fire and large, grazers
55:09
Speaker 21: and now we can't have you, Know american bison out,
55:12
Speaker 21: here but we can have goats out. Here so we
55:14
Speaker 21: have goats out and they come and they will work
55:17
Speaker 21: on an acre at a time or half an acre
55:19
Speaker 21: at a time and really help us with a variety of.
55:22
Speaker 21: Species they help us, with you, know invasive species that
55:25
Speaker 21: we don't want there that are non. Native they help
55:27
Speaker 21: us with native species that have gotten a little too.
55:29
Speaker 21: Aggressive they can deal with, BlackBerry they can deal with
55:32
Speaker 21: poison ivy. Like they are very much working animals and
55:35
Speaker 21: they're helping us out a ton and making it a
55:38
Speaker 21: lot easier for. Them our conservation team and volunteers to
55:40
Speaker 21: go in and manage those ecosystems and improve the biodiversity
55:44
Speaker 21: and the health of. Them.
55:45
Speaker 1: Afterwards that Was Christine, Mansfield senior marketing manager at The Houston.
55:51
Speaker 1: Arboretum you can find out more by going To Houston
55:55
Speaker 1: arboretum put together dot.
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