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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies, a myth and Bullshit radio phonic

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Speaker 1: novella Look At a Radio hosted by Malamno. Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to Look at the Radio. Welcome to season

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Speaker 1: three of Look At Our Radios. Because fem revenge has

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Speaker 1: never sounded so sweet. Look at That our Radio is

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Speaker 1: a radio phonic novella archiving the brilliance and legacies of

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Speaker 1: women and fems of color. I'm Diosa and I'm Mala,

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Speaker 1: and we are less Mammy's of myth and bullshit. Last

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Speaker 1: look Radio radiophonic novella, which is really just a very

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Speaker 1: extra way of saying a podcast. It's a podcast and

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Speaker 1: we love our podcast. Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: So last time on look at Radio Capito fifty five Labla,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the narrative of She Devils and in media,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what word is this? As always look at

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Speaker 1: That our radio we record at Rado Spasio, a community

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Speaker 1: radio station hosted at Espacio eighteen thirty nine in Boil Heights.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us once again. Also special shout

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Speaker 1: out to Rape. We have new my and they sound amazing.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure in the past you've noticed that it picks

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Speaker 1: up a lot. You can hear the cars going by,

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Speaker 1: so hopefully you won't hear that this time. So once again,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you. SASO. Make sure you

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Speaker 1: check them out on Instagram. Yes, so we have a

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Speaker 1: full gupp for y'all today. We have a guest. We

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Speaker 1: have a lot to talk about, so we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: jump right into announcements and we have our first pop

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Speaker 1: up of nineteen very exciting, our first pop up ever. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: really ever, we're laid on the pop up train, but

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it with our own will spin, our

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Speaker 1: own little twist. So Mocha had the dominguetto coming up

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Speaker 1: February tenth, eleven am to four pm. What are we doing.

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Speaker 1: We are having the major pop up. I loved you,

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Speaker 1: but I love me more. So we need everybody in

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Speaker 1: the l A area. Anybody who's Alcamore, who's ever had

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Speaker 1: their heartbroken, who's little piste off because of an ex

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Speaker 1: If that sounds like you, come out to get um

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Speaker 1: February tenth, come to pop up. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: like an interactive sort of pop up. We're gonna have merch,

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Speaker 1: but we want you to bring items that maybe remind

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Speaker 1: gave you that you're ready to part with that you're

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Speaker 1: an old flame route in desperation. Yeah exactly, but once

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Speaker 1: telling the other day, I was going through, you know,

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Speaker 1: love letters at some random person that was pursuing me

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Speaker 1: gave them to me back in college, and I threw

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Speaker 1: them all away, and Mama was like, you should have

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Speaker 1: held onto them. Yeah, but I was ready to part ways.

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Speaker 1: So if you still have your stuff and you want

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Speaker 1: bring it to pop up. We're going to have um

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Speaker 1: ways to dispose of them, fun ways, cute ways, ways,

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Speaker 1: more to be revealed to be revealed, and we also

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Speaker 1: have a selfie station, a self love selfie stage. We're

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Speaker 1: One on one workshops are going to be free and

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Speaker 1: our socials on our Instagram for more information. So we're

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Speaker 1: segment called Vision Una. Vision is our newest little addition

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Speaker 1: us everyone's favorite segment. My favorite segment next to Unia

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Speaker 1: Vision now my new favorite segment. Okay, So this question

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Speaker 1: what is We're at the end of January, right, what

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Speaker 1: is a resolution? Resolution you're willing to share with our

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Speaker 1: look on what is? I guess my resolution? My resolution

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Speaker 1: And every here I get a little less messy every

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Speaker 1: year incrementally, and you grow. Thank you, Thank you for

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Speaker 1: validating me. Think there you have grown. You see that

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Speaker 1: to change the way we talked about. These girls are

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Speaker 1: not hookers or not someone's property, their children, and for

427
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: that matter, they're victims and someone's victimizing them. Who who

428
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,480
Speaker 1: are these people? And shouldn't we turn the table on

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00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: these folks? And instead of arresting the women, shouldn't we

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Speaker 1: go after the pamps? And how do we do that?

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00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: So it's been it's taken a while it's not easy

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Speaker 1: to change, um, you know, the culture of a department UM.

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Speaker 1: And so it's taken a really, really long time. And

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Speaker 1: it's also taken a long time to talk to neighbors.

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00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: No one wants to see a guy pick up a

436
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 1: girl and and pull up on their in front of

437
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: their driver, in front of their house and have sex

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00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,200
Speaker 1: at two in the morning, right, I mean, nobody wants

439
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:40,920
Speaker 1: to see that. Right. You don't want to walk when

440
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: you're walking your kids to school. You also don't want

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00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: to step on a used condom in front of your house.

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00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,399
Speaker 1: So it becomes a quality of life issue. And I

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00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: get it. I totally get and I understand. And some

444
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,119
Speaker 1: of these neighbors were up and ours because they just

445
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: don't want these prostitutes in front of the house. So

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00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,960
Speaker 1: it's also changing their way of thinking. It's like, this

447
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: is not a victimless crime. These children need some sort

448
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,880
Speaker 1: of UM assistance and we need to put the bad,

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00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: bad people away. So it's taken a really long time

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00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,800
Speaker 1: for us to change the way the neighborhood feels about

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00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,400
Speaker 1: some of these folks. And the way the Department lp

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00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: D in particular, you know, takes on this issue, and

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00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't until just a few years ago

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Speaker 1: that the law changed so that children who have been

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00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,679
Speaker 1: trafficked are considered trafficking victims because before they would be

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00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,119
Speaker 1: charged right for prostitution or solicitation. And so what ends

457
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:33,920
Speaker 1: up that's a great point. So what ends up happening is, um,

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00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: these kids get arrested, they get sent to driven a home,

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00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: and once in juven a hole, they get they get

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Speaker 1: prosecuted and now you've got a record right for solicitation.

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00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: And these kids end up in droven a hall. And

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Speaker 1: so a lot of these kids come out of the

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Speaker 1: foster care system, which is another thing we don't talk about.

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Speaker 1: Who are these children? Who do they belong to? And

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00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 1: so we've have failed these kids along the way. Someone

466
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,840
Speaker 1: took advantage of how their age and the fact that

467
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,520
Speaker 1: they don't don't necessarily have a permanent home, and so

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00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,719
Speaker 1: they've taken advantage of these kids. And some of these

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00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: kids have been passed around twelve thirteen times from home

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00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,520
Speaker 1: to home to home to home, and so yes, men

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00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: take advantage of that, and so yes you have women

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00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: recruiting other girls for the pimp. And so what ends

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00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: up happening I talked to the Juvenile UM, some of

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Speaker 1: the Juvenile Justices UM judges, and I said to them,

475
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,199
Speaker 1: I said, so if you're putting them back into prison

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00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: or into that prison pipeline, and after they do their time,

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00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: what happens to them when they get back into the

478
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: foster care system? And then what happens It's the same

479
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,719
Speaker 1: recruiting effort all over again. It's cyclical. So they do

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00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: their time, they go back to a group home, and

481
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,719
Speaker 1: they go back to a foster home, which the pimps

482
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,719
Speaker 1: know where they're at. They go back pick them up,

483
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: and then they came back into the streets. So what

484
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: we're doing isn't working. And so we've we've challenged the

485
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: foster care system and the city, UM, the County District

486
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:50,119
Speaker 1: Attorney's office that we need to look at the issue

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Speaker 1: a lot different. We need to train our social workers,

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Speaker 1: we need to train society to be able to look

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00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: at what the science of a of a victim is,

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Speaker 1: what it looks like trauma and formed approaches UM. I

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00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 1: used to work at Peace Over Violence as an emergency

492
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,479
Speaker 1: response to advocate and we worked. I worked with a

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00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: lot of young girls at the Start Center after their

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00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,439
Speaker 1: start exam right after they had been picked up or

495
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: recovered um or they sought out help. And it really

496
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: was incredible to realize how for many of them, by

497
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: the time they're fifteen, they've already had a very, very long,

498
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: difficult life. Right. And you know, mentioning the age group

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00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: that you mentioned, and that's the average age of entry

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00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,920
Speaker 1: is twelve to fourteen, right, And I think it's really

501
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: important that you bring it up because there's a common

502
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: misconception that you know, um, you choose this life, right,

503
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 1: And there may be adult women who do choose to

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00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: work as sex workers, but this is a completely different

505
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,159
Speaker 1: sort of issue, right, And that's my point when I

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00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: talked to neighbors in particular, when they're like, well, these

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00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,919
Speaker 1: girls are out there, it isn't it doesn't seem like

508
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:56,000
Speaker 1: they're they they're having a hard time with that. I said, well,

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Speaker 1: we're thirteen, fourteen years old and you have no place

510
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: to go or run away to. You and your parents

511
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: have kicked you out, or there's simply there isn't a

512
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: guardian to look over you. And that person is just

513
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 1: trying to survive and eat every day. What is she

514
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Right? And they're under the age of

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00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,560
Speaker 1: consent legally right. So there's all these different factors that

516
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: tell us will know this isn't right. You know, I

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00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: invite as many UM as people are that are interested

518
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 1: in this issue, I invite them to come with me. UM.

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00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 1: I formed a Human Trafficking Task Force, which I've advocated

520
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: every year for the past three years from million dollars

521
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: and it's and it goes through it just it goes

522
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: through the police department. But the whole purpose is we

523
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: partner up with the nonprofits who are actually reciping survivors

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00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: off the street. And so now we're gonna launch UM

525
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: at the end of the We launched it already, but

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00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: we're having a press conference this week in the South

527
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: Bureau because we've seen the number of of of kids

528
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: or women I should say UM decrease in the valley

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00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: because of our Human Trafficking Task Force. But they're going

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00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: somewhere else, and I'm not naive to that. I know

531
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: the problem will move somewhere else, and so we are

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00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: partnering up with UM, the South Bureau and the local

533
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: elected officials and community groups. UM. We've now established a

534
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: Human Trafficking Task Force in a South Bureau as well,

535
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,400
Speaker 1: because those numbers are just they're they're off the charts. Um,

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00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: you know you've got you've got thirteen year old half

537
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: naked at one o'clock in the afternoon walking around Western

538
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: Avenue soliciting. And so we've seen the numbers move around,

539
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: and so we're gonna try to make an impact there

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00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah. Um, you know earlier you you spoke

541
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: about societal awareness and even just community awareness, right, So

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00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: one thing we wanted to ask you are what are

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00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: some red flags that we as community members can look

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00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: out for for identifying a human traffic victim? What There's

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00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: a couple of things, and I I also like to

546
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: talk to parents about being awhere about who your kids

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00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 1: are speaking to on social media. Social media has completely

548
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: transformed the way we communicate with each other, but it's

549
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: also become very dangerous for some of these young kids

550
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: to be sort of learned into this world by some

551
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: guy on the internet, right, or or or another girl

552
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 1: friend that's, hey, come and meet this guy at the mall,

553
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: and somehow they get um, there is some of that.

554
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: Sometimes they get lurned into it or get kidnapped and

555
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: they fall into this world of human trafficking. But the

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00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: human trafficking that I'm talking about, UM, and what I

557
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: make my community aware of is please let us We

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00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: do not ever, ever, ever advocate you getting involved. These

559
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: pimps are are well known gang members. They are operating

560
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: huge enterprises of drug trafficking, gun trafficking, and human trafficking.

561
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: It's a one billion dollar industry in this country to

562
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: traffic kids. They have figured out that they make more

563
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: money trafficking a young girl, especially if you've got four

564
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: or five of them in your possession, than it is

565
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,400
Speaker 1: to sell drugs. And that's how the gangs are making

566
00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: their money. So we never asked the community to get involved.

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00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: But it's it's not that difficult. If you see the

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00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: same car circling your neighborhood over and over again. Everyone's

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00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: got a phone these days. Take snap a picture and

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00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: we have a human trafficking taskper scenari area. Send it

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00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: to the police department and we'll be able to track

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00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: run those license plane numbers and we probably would know

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00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: if that guy is familiar with the area of there's

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00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: some sort of UM wrap sheet on him. The other

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00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: thing is taking pictures of the girls. UM. I would

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00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: never recommend you walking up to one of these kids. UM,

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00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: because someone is watching that girl twenty four seven, even

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00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: if they're standing by themselves, or they might be standing

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00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: with another girl. Work in that corner, there is a

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00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: pamp either across the student in a motel room or

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00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: in his car, making sure that they're keeping an eye on,

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00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 1: making sure she doesn't run away, making sure there isn't

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00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: any cops around. So I never ever advise that you

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00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: walk into because the girl will probably just walk away

585
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: from you, even though she's probably dying to tell you

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00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 1: what's happening. That's never it's never a good idea, and

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00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: we never want to put her in jeopardy. She never

588
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: want to give the pamp the impression that she's got

589
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 1: some sort of relationship in that neighborhood, because then that

590
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: puts her in serious, serious harm. So what we try

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00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,120
Speaker 1: to do is so if you see the same car

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00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood more than two times, it is because

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00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: he's work in that corner with these kids, and we

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00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: want we want the license plate number and the make

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00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,080
Speaker 1: and mott of the car. UM. If you see the

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00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: same girl UM, usually we can take a picture and

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00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: then connected with UM one of our three organizations we

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00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: work with, which is Journey Out Saving Innocence and CAST

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00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: the three known organizations that work directly with survivors UM.

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Speaker 1: And so what we do is we try to figure

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Speaker 1: out if any of these organizations have ever seen her,

602
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: and if they have, there's probably somebody that they're working

603
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: within the organization that can make contact with her whenever

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00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: she's back on the street. So that's what we try

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00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: to do. But we never get involved with asking our

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00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: questions or confronting any of these guys because they're all

607
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:39,960
Speaker 1: armed and dangerous. Does that make sense, Oh, yeah, absolutely absolutely,

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00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: And you know, I think also it's important to talk

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00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 1: about all the different types of human trafficking that might exist.

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00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: So sex trafficking is a big one, but even labor

611
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,479
Speaker 1: trafficking right right, Um, that's that's the same thing. I mean,

612
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: you're under someone's control. A lot of them are working

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00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: off their debt to someone who bought them to this country,

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00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: and that's usually these nail shops, these mashops, these nail shops,

615
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: massage parlors, the restaurant industry, um, nannies, right, you have

616
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: a lot of it's sort of they become indentured servants

617
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,320
Speaker 1: and they're paying off the debt of how they got here.

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00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: Some of them get learned under completely different um UH circumstances,

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00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: their their promise, X, Y and Z, and they ended

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00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: up in someone's house UM, working seven days a week

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00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: taking care of kids and clean an entire mansion for

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00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: little or Normaley with absolutely no UM connection to the

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Speaker 1: outside world. That's labor trafficking. Absolutely, so many, so many

624
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: important issues UM that you've brought to the podcast today

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00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: and we thank you so much for doing so. Do

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00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: you have other UM initiatives, events, programs you'd like to talk?

627
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna just I'm gonna make a plug for

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00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: my human trafficking town UM, not the for the totlet drive,

629
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 1: so every you know, unfortunately we have this month to

630
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: increase awareness. But a couple of years ago I started

631
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: talking to some of the organizations like what are you

632
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: in need of Everyone's in need of money, and we

633
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: we actually need transitional housing to be able to house

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00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: some of these kids after we rescue them off the street,

635
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: and we're working on that. But you know what's really impactful,

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00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: and I've never thought about it, is when we rescue

637
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: a woman off the street, she probably only comes with

638
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: with the clothes on her back. So many of the

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Speaker 1: things that we take for granted as women, like your shampoo,

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Speaker 1: your conditioner, the products used for your care, feminine hiding projects.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these things these girls do not have.

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Speaker 1: So what we try to do is we do a

643
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Speaker 1: big drive. You know, shampoo, makeup, um, feminine hydring products, pads,

644
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Speaker 1: tampons in particular are very expensive. What we try to

645
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Speaker 1: do is we collect all of this for about a

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Speaker 1: month and then we equally distributed to the three organizations

647
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Speaker 1: and we restock all of their Tolley trees in their

648
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Speaker 1: offices so that when a woman wants to come in

649
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Speaker 1: and they just want to talk, they're they're greeted with, hey,

650
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Speaker 1: you can walk into our our our pantry and pick

651
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Speaker 1: out whatever you want. The other thing that makes a

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Speaker 1: big difference is these gift courts to like Target, all

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Speaker 1: Greens and CBS. So handing a woman a gift card

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Speaker 1: for fifteen dollars and saying, hey, just go buy your

655
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Speaker 1: own stuff if you don't see stuff here that you like,

656
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Speaker 1: if you've used before and you have a particular product

657
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Speaker 1: you want, It's very empowering for a woman to be given,

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Speaker 1: you know, in a form of not cash, but in

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Speaker 1: a form of cash gift card, so she can walk

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Speaker 1: in there and buy whatever. That's very important because usually

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Speaker 1: it's a man who's buying all that stuff for her

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Speaker 1: and controls it. And so that's what we do, and

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Speaker 1: we were Our drive is until mid February. So if

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Speaker 1: you want to contact my office, you can drop off

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Speaker 1: any of the toilet trees either at City Hall or

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Speaker 1: at my son Value or Vannine's office, or just simply

667
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Speaker 1: call me and I could get in touch with one

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Speaker 1: of my staff and we can we can go pick

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Speaker 1: them up from you. I have a lot of interest

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Speaker 1: from some of the schools, believe it or not, some

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Speaker 1: of the girls that I've interacted with, some of these

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Speaker 1: high school girls that want to sort of do their

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Speaker 1: drive at school, and they're they're leading the way. We

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Speaker 1: just had um uh An all girls yesterday show up

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Speaker 1: to City Hall with a U hot truck full of

676
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Speaker 1: feminine hygiene products. Yes, so you know, like always, women

677
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Speaker 1: are getting it done right. I mean, if anything, we

678
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Speaker 1: are the ones who take charge and we organize and

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Speaker 1: so on. So I was really part of the fact

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Speaker 1: that I met this young woman at an event and

681
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Speaker 1: she said she wanted to help. And I didn't even

682
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Speaker 1: have to ask her twice. She was already on it.

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Speaker 1: You know. She put together herself more class at school

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Speaker 1: and she got it done. And she has actually another

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Speaker 1: truck that she's going to deliver full of products next week.

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Speaker 1: So it's wonderful. Marlboro Marlboro All Girls School in Los Angeles?

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Speaker 1: Did you go that? I know, but I used. I

688
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,000
Speaker 1: went to a private Catholic school and we used to

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Speaker 1: run against them, compete against the class country. That was

690
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Speaker 1: the top school. They were number one and we were

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Speaker 1: number two for class country. I went there for the

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Speaker 1: first time last year. It's a beautiful campus. Thank you

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Speaker 1: very much for giving me her time. And I hope

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Speaker 1: your your listeners can really take a we all look

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Speaker 1: into this issue. It really impacts women in particular. But

696
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Speaker 1: even we have good men among us. Many to step

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Speaker 1: up and say we gotta be bet, we gotta raise

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00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 1: better men, and men got to get up and call

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Speaker 1: their own right. It's supply and demand right, right, who's

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Speaker 1: paying who's driving the sales, who's financing the billion dollars

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00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: and just who's making the money right, And so a

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Speaker 1: lot of times so we've got good, good men on

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Speaker 1: our side. We need more. We need men to talk

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Speaker 1: to other men about how this is not You're a

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Speaker 1: woman gave birth to you. You know you've got sisters

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00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:32,399
Speaker 1: and you know women girlfriends. We gotta do the right thing.

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Speaker 1: Many to step up and help us agree. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I actually have a few more questions, if that's okay. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to congratulate you for being elected as

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Speaker 1: City Council President pro tempore. Actually don't know what that means.

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Speaker 1: It's like my friend, but vice president know that it's

712
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Speaker 1: a big deal, because I wanted to ask you if

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Speaker 1: you could explain what that role means. So I was

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Speaker 1: assistant pro temp um when I first for the last

715
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Speaker 1: three years may be four, and we had one of

716
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Speaker 1: our colleagues moved on to the private sector, so he

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Speaker 1: vacated his seat. So there was another election. Basically to

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Speaker 1: be able to um elect, I got appointed as assistant

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Speaker 1: protemp but president pro tem you have to get elected

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Speaker 1: by your colleagues. So there was an election on January fifteenth,

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Speaker 1: And essentially is it's leadership. So it's the president of

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Speaker 1: the city Council, which is your president. Her Wesson. I'm

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Speaker 1: essentially the vice president of the City Council, and then

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Speaker 1: we have Assistant pro tem which is Jobuskaya, who represents

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Speaker 1: the harbor area of San Pedro. And so what essentially

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Speaker 1: is we are the leadership of the council. And there

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Speaker 1: has never been a Latina in my position, so it

728
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Speaker 1: is a lot. There is a lot of responsibility that

729
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: comes along with it. It's it's of course running the meeting,

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Speaker 1: sitting the agenda for the City Council, making sure your

731
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 1: partnering with your colleagues and everyone's issues are being addressed.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot that goes into, you know, making

733
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Speaker 1: sure that everyone is happy. But more than anything, it's

734
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Speaker 1: it's sitting the the agenda for the city Council, making

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Speaker 1: sure our communities are represented. That's what's more important, is

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Speaker 1: making sure everyone's has a voice. So I'm very honored.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's quite the uh, the vote of confidence

738
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Speaker 1: from from the council because I got a new unanimous vote,

739
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: and it's just another way to elevate latin as um

740
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Speaker 1: who want to enter the career of politics. It's it's

741
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: such a rewarding experience. It's hard and not everyone's cut

742
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 1: out to do this and they tell my my my

743
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: women friends. Listen, women are doing amazing things. Um, we're

744
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: running our own businesses, we're teachers, we're running down profits,

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00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: we're getting other men elected. We do a really good

746
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Speaker 1: job about doing that. We're running their offices. There's no

747
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: reason why we can't have more women on the city council.

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Speaker 1: Women are doing amazing things across the city. The issue

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Speaker 1: becomes is, you know, for some of us, um is

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Speaker 1: you know, are you it's a cut through business and

751
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: so a lot of people don't want to have their laundry,

752
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: their their dirty laundry, you know, being aired all over

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00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,400
Speaker 1: the place. And so I have a lot of respect

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Speaker 1: for that. But also women have to take so much

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Speaker 1: more into consideration. Some of us who have more who

756
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Speaker 1: are moms, some of us who um, you know are married.

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00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: We have to balance your whole home life between that

758
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: in our careers. But that's for any career woman, right

759
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: It's like finding that right partner that's going to be

760
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Speaker 1: able to support you to do that and not feel insecure,

761
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: right Like you're sort of taking the spotline and making

762
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Speaker 1: sure that we're also um in partnership with someone who's

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Speaker 1: going to be a partner in raising kids. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I have one daughter. I've made a conscious decisn't she

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Speaker 1: just have one? And she's a handful, she's ten years old.

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Speaker 1: But even that figuring out when I'm going to have

767
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Speaker 1: my kid right, figuring out what that looks like. When

768
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Speaker 1: I have to run around, you know, five days a week,

769
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Speaker 1: m between council meetings and community events, it does take

770
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Speaker 1: away time from my family. And for women, that's another

771
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: added responsibility. A lot of the men who run for

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Speaker 1: office usually have someone taking care about that at home.

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: So again, men do better. And you know, it's it's

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Speaker 1: the way it is. And we're and we're judged differently, right,

775
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: and we're making such a big deal about red lipstick.

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Speaker 1: And I've been a woman Martinez. We have noticed your

777
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Speaker 1: looks that you serve every single time. You are so

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Speaker 1: stylish and so fabulous. Favorite favorite things, Oh well, thank you.

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Speaker 1: You know what. I take a lot of pride about

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Speaker 1: how I look and think, you know, I I love

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Speaker 1: and Latina's do that right, and we we we we

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Speaker 1: pay attention to fashion. But I get it from my mother.

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Speaker 1: I think that you know, I've been wearing red lips

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Speaker 1: sinceince someth in high school, probably since junior. Our style

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Speaker 1: to our mother's right. My mom always said you were

786
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Speaker 1: a red lipstick when you leave the house, that by

787
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: us the vanyards, and you make sure you look right.

788
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Speaker 1: You said you look right, and so I just get

789
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Speaker 1: it from my mom. Private colors are part of our culture,

790
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Speaker 1: and I love um to stand out that way. Um.

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Speaker 1: I like a good makeup and like good hair, like

792
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Speaker 1: big hair. You know you have great hair. Great, it's

793
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Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot that goes into it. I

794
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: was just blessed with my mother's hair, I guess. But

795
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Speaker 1: I tell my daughter the same thing. And we gotta

796
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: show up, I mean, because so many people are depending

797
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: on this. But then so many people think we're going

798
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: to fail, right, I mean, there's the expectations we put

799
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: on ourselves is important, and we want to have the

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Speaker 1: smartest but we also want to have the look, so

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00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: we try to rock it every time we go to

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00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: city council. Absolutely, it makes the difference. It makes a difference.

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Speaker 1: So if people are, you know, wanting to know more

804
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 1: about you in your office, where can they follow you?

805
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: Where can they find you? How they can they can

806
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: follow me on on Facebook. I'm very active on social media,

807
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 1: you know, on City six, Neuri on Instagram. My my

808
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: Facebook page is just just google Neuring Martinez and you'll

809
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,880
Speaker 1: find me. The other thing I want to also promote

810
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: a good little plug in is for my Ready for

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Speaker 1: Women Fellowship. I think it's so important that if you

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00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: want to enter the world of politics, you understand what

813
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: it looks like. You know, it's just not about coming

814
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: into doing great interviews like you know I'm doing today

815
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 1: and it's fun, but it's also the policy work that

816
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 1: comes along with it. You know, how do you become

817
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 1: the best voice for your community making sure those issues

818
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: get addressed and yet your communities are not left out

819
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Speaker 1: Because we talk about budget, that's exactly what happens. It's

820
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,359
Speaker 1: like what communities are being left out making sure we're

821
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: fighting for resources and a lot of that happens inside

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Speaker 1: the building, and so people need to understand how the

823
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: building works. Um, the politics behind passing really significant legislation.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of politics behind that as well the

825
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: deals that are made. And so I want to be

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Speaker 1: able to create a fellowship to bring in some of

827
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: those ladies to follow me. Shutow my staff and myself

828
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: so you sell you yourself. Understand how this works. It's

829
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: just not about the campaign once you get elected. That's

830
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: only half of it. The other half is you need

831
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,240
Speaker 1: to show up and you need to you need to produce.

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Speaker 1: And so what I tried to do through the fellowship is,

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Speaker 1: first of all, it's paid UM because I don't believe

834
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Speaker 1: everyone needs to get paid. Everyone needs to get paid.

835
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Speaker 1: So I don't believe in free internships. I want people

836
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: to get paid what they're worth. And so the mentorship

837
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: program is geared towards UM college students or graduate women,

838
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: and we select about three or four a year, and

839
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Speaker 1: so we're getting up right now with a selections. We'll

840
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: begin in May. And so I want our listeners to

841
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: know that if you're a woman who wants to run

842
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: for office, you already know that. I don't want you

843
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: to think about it. You know this is what you

844
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: want to do. Give me a call, apply for a

845
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Speaker 1: fellowship program, Come get you have to get selected, Come

846
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: work with us for the entire summer, get paid, and

847
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: then go back, finish your education, go back to your neighborhoods,

848
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Speaker 1: and run for office. Beautiful creating opportunities. Nary Martinez. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being here. We really appreciated this conversation.

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