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Speaker 2: Welcome to Season nine, Love at First Listen.

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Speaker 1: O La La Loka Modes. Welcome to Season nine of

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Speaker 1: thot Our Radio is a podcast dedicated to our chiving

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Speaker 1: our present and shifting the culture forward. You're tuning into

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Speaker 1: Capitolo too, Oh Too, Last time.

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Speaker 2: On Look at our radio. We talked about the time

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Speaker 2: that we did something for the plot that was a

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Speaker 2: very fun storytelling episode from us. Go back and take

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Speaker 1: Today we are sharing a first of its kind Capitulo.

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Speaker 1: We were on location at a conference a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. We got some really incredible interviews with some

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Speaker 1: of your faves, which we're gonna share in a bit,

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Speaker 1: and also some incredible organizers workers that were also going

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Speaker 1: to share with y'all. Before that, we want to tell

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Speaker 1: y'all a little bit about ENDOLON, So end ALON.

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Speaker 2: ENDALON is a really important national organization. ENDLON stands for

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Speaker 2: the National Day Labors Organizing Network. I became familiar with

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Speaker 2: ENDOLON years ago. They used to be housed out of

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Speaker 2: the UCLA Labor Center in MacArthur Park, at least the

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Speaker 2: chapter here in LA and we got invited to participate

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Speaker 2: in their ninth annual assemblea Nacional. It took place in Union,

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Speaker 2: New Jersey at Keene University. And a little bit about ENDOLON.

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Speaker 2: ENDOLON improves the lives of day laborers, migrants, and low

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Speaker 2: wage workers. ENDLON builds leadership and power among those facing injustice.

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Speaker 2: So they can challenge inequality and expand labor, civil and

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Speaker 2: political rights for all. And the theme of this year's

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Speaker 1: I am so fascinated by the work that Endelon does.

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Speaker 1: I became aware of them when I was a community organizer,

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Speaker 1: and something that I love that they do is, of

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Speaker 1: course they focus on day laborers and low wage workers,

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Speaker 1: but if we really think about the system of capitalism,

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Speaker 1: we're all workers.

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Speaker 3: We're all laborers.

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Speaker 1: Some are on that classification, like very intensely and differently,

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Speaker 1: there's also like collar workers, but everyone is still a worker, right,

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Speaker 1: And so what I really liked about this conference is

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Speaker 1: also keeping in mind like everyone is deserving of dignified work,

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Speaker 1: no matter who you are and no matter the type

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Speaker 2: So at Endolan's Assemble Nacional, we saw laborers and organizers

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Speaker 5: This is my second workshop. Yesterday we did a sol

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Speaker 6: I think this kind of of conference are very very important.

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Speaker 2: So, like we mentioned at the top of the episode,

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Speaker 9: Impacto pest was Sante Grande.

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Speaker 8: Sa la communias migrantes, los corremos, pascus orita s pocon

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Speaker 8: and viso porpes tretantae proser. Also the poet represent community

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Speaker 8: Latina in a latinas in La Communa migrante genera conendilummos

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Speaker 8: redna loos horn leros, yes pstrahamos, collectio mene barris pus

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Speaker 8: es Luca k Service, Sada and National Porque pu Loos

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Speaker 8: Horna Leros Sofa and Puskies mus Mud.

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Speaker 2: After the protest at the Home Depot in New Rochelle,

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Speaker 2: the the group ofs and organizers made their way to

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Speaker 2: Union Square in New York City and we caught up

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Speaker 2: with them there where the protest continued on into a

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Speaker 2: march that went to Times Square. So we spoke to

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Speaker 2: Catherine from Beyond the Bars, which is a Miami based organization,

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Speaker 2: and she talks about solidarity withs from across the country

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Speaker 2: and the importance of rallying against oppressive laws.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, so I met the assemble this year because we

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Speaker 10: work with workers who have been incarcerated and we're seeing

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Speaker 10: that regardless of being Brown Latino, Afro Latino, or just

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Speaker 10: black American, we're being arrested, we're being criminalized, and so

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Speaker 10: we're standing in solidarity with our day labor brothers and sisters.

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Speaker 9: China, China, you know, the the.

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Speaker 10: AMIGA and everyone that's trying to bring up oppressive laws

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Speaker 10: against us. So powerful to know that just in Florida,

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Speaker 10: because we know how bad Florida is, It's not the

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Speaker 10: only place that's experiencing such bad like labor practices and

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Speaker 10: to see laborers that are struggling, but in that struggle,

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Speaker 10: our fighting has been beautiful and powerful. Yeah, they need

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Speaker 10: to know that one, we're all people and we're all

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Speaker 10: one bueblo, regardless of you know, where we're from.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 10: And to respect workers' rights, to respect our labor, and

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Speaker 10: to pay.

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Speaker 9: Us what we need to be paid, and to just

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Speaker 9: treat us as humans. We're humans.

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Speaker 1: This was such a beautiful protest an action. It was

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Speaker 1: so thoughtfully well organized, which I get again I think

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Speaker 1: speaks to the power of organizing and an organization like Endelon,

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Speaker 1: it's grassroots. There's a lot of planning, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of collectivism that happens in these type of organizations, and

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Speaker 1: so it was so beautiful to see the type of

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Speaker 1: impact that was being made here in New York or

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Speaker 1: in New York. And we caught up with Elmer, who

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Speaker 1: is from Palmdale, and he tells us the importance of

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Speaker 1: the theme of the conference, somos mass and why he

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Speaker 1: thinks it's a really powerful message and why we should

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Speaker 1: walk away with this message.

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Speaker 9: Times square personas persona.

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Speaker 2: And that is.

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Speaker 9: A solos sinnifiga quez. Someone's muchos, okay, mas yeso or game.

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Speaker 2: Yes. And finally, an Antelon conference would not be complete

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Speaker 2: without some type of like party cultural night.

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Speaker 9: They had an open mic. It was so much fun.

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Speaker 2: There were horn leos that were signing up to sing,

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Speaker 2: to read poetry. There was a saxophone player. He was

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Speaker 2: a complete intertal rock star. The horn leos get down

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Speaker 2: and they know how to have a good time while

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Speaker 2: also fighting for justice.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, locomotives for tuning into this very

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Speaker 1: special Capitolo. We hope you enjoyed coming along this conference

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Speaker 1: with us and learned something about the incredible work that

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Speaker 1: Endelon is doing and why we should support workers' rights,

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Speaker 1: day laborers, migrants and if you're looking for an organization

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Speaker 1: to support to get more involved with, definitely head to

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Speaker 1: Endolan's website. They're the National Day Laborers Organizing Network and

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Speaker 1: we hope to see you next year at the tenth

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