Good morning everybody and are you all awake? Not too rough nights yesterday? Okay. We're from Dropsolid, Wesley and I. I think I have an introduction slide so I'm Frédéric Wouters. I'm the Enterprise Architect at Dropsolid and Wesley is also an Enterprise Architect at Dropsolid. Morning. And if you don't know Dropsolid, Obligate. We need to introduce the company of course. Dropsolid is a Belgium-based company. We're in Ghent. We have employees all over the world, also in Ukraine. We have partnerships also in Europe. We started actually not even ten years ago. I think it's eight or nine years ago. And we've grown from two founders until we are now almost at a hundred people. So like steadily growing. And we're not only doing Drupal because in Belgium we're a Drupal agency but outside of Belgium we do digital experience platform. Now what a digital experience platform is I will talk more about this today. I'm going to do two parts. The presentation is in two parts. First I'm going to try to inspire you a bit with personalization examples that you can see in the wild which you probably have seen already. And the second part will be you doing the personalization workshop. So it's a workshop if you have your computer you will not need it in the first minutes. But it might be interesting if you're joining the workshop to open it. If you have a GitHub account or a Gitpod account that might come in handy because we're going to do it on Gitpod so you don't need to set up your docker locally or or lamp stack or whatever we're going to do it on Gitpod so it will work for everybody. Okay let's start with the inspirational part. There are still some people coming in come in and take a seat. Did you know that 89% of customers begin doing business with a competitor after a poor customer experience. So people change after poor customer experiences. And when customers are targeted with three personalized pages conversion rates double going from 1.7% to 3.4%. And when they're exposed to 10 personalized pages conversion rates jump to 31%. So it's not something that we invented and we think it works. No this is something that's actually proven and by like scientific institutes that they prove this kind of statistics. Now personalization, a very broad subject. What is it? You all know it. Spotify has made a wrapped where you get based on the things that you listen in your Spotify you get at the end of the year a report and suggestions of your music. And if you're a sportsman and you like Strava they also do it. So you see in the bottom it's fairly new. It's not I don't think it's a year or old or more. They suggest through it. So it based on your speed based on the distance that you run they will suggest routes near your location so that you can try other things and see this kind of personalization at work. Netflix most of you know it. I don't have it myself but I saw this presentation of them and they don't only recommend different things based on your viewing behavior but also the way they construct a page, the kinds of video that they will propose to you but also all these images are the same show. They will generate different images based on your viewing preferences. I found this mind blowing. So everything at Netflix is a recommendation. I say that 80% of what people watch comes from these recommendations. So Amazon also some of you might notice it's an online store. They sell stuff and they also do personalization. You see here on top there's some new things that are personalized. There's some things that based on your customer data profile, customer data platform is the server side component that hosts customer data profiles and they also have this component based on your viewing behavior. They will suggest items that might be interesting for you. Of course as GDPR is a thing in the bottom you see view or edit your browsing history because sometimes you're really like looking at items that you do not want to show up again on your page. And they keep this in the customer data profile. They don't just personalize the web pages but they will also send you marketing automation emails based on these things. So it's linked with the marketing automation system where Amazon will send you then based on these products that you have looked at. They might interest you more. Other vendors do this as well. For example, TripAdvisor if you visit certain cities they will keep sending you emails until you say okay I'm not interested in going to Germany anymore. Please leave me alone. Can you do this in Drupal? No you cannot. Drupal is too limited for this. But if you do it on a Drupal based DXP, Drupal combined with the marketing automation tool and a CDP then you can do it. And this is what we're going to do today. The moving parts in the system that we're going to do in the workshop is Drupal as a content management system, Mautic as the marketing automation tool and Apache Unomi as the customer data platform which will allow us to do the personalization. Okay. This is the moment where we start a workshop. So if you have any questions or if you're stuck just raise your hand and I come over to you and help you out. I'm going to explain some things first. So we're using Gitpod. It would be interesting if you can log in to Gitpod. I'm going to move this a bit closer so it's easier for me. And you need to create a new workspace. I'm going to do it all along so you can see the demo if you're not using a computer. Okay. Create a new workspace and here you can paste the Github repository. I prepare the Github repository with everything that's needed. It's based on the WB stack. I added a Gitpod config file and some commands that we will need. So this is the repository that you want to use. It's Wouter's F slash Docker for Drupal dash Mautic. This one is what you want to copy and you want to paste it in here. I'm going to leave it here. Give me a sign when you're ready to follow along. You can do it. That's a fun workshop and it will work for everybody. If you're like doubting, I see some people doubting. Yeah, do it. It's good. It's good. It's good. It will work on your machine depersonalization and it's really cool to do the demo. Ready to go? No. I'm going to give them a few more seconds so you paste the URL into the Gitpod, press enter. I'm going to press it already, log in, and then it will start checking out the repository and creating a workspace. Okay. So everybody is getting started here. What you see here is the get started with knowing Gitpod.  And you see in the bottom there's the terminal. This is the terminal of your Gitpod. So actually Gitpod is a Docker container where all your containers will be booted in. So you see that's already pulling in my Docker images. The Docker images that are prepared are in the Docker compose file. So this is where they are described. And what's in there is the database. It's a Drupal. It's a Mautic. There's a PHP MyAdmin. There's also varnish, but it's not enabled. There's also solar, there's elastic search, but those are not enabled. And you can see that after doing pulling them, you can see that they are started already. And then on the left side here, there's a remote explorer. Here you see which services are exposed. This is configured in the Gitpod YAML file. So you see also when you hover on them, there's a globe on the right side. This way you can visit the specific service. The service that I have is Mautic. PHP MyAdmin, you know, the database administration tool. Mailhawk to capture any emails that go out. Drupal or Drupal website and the database. You see there's public and private. Public means it's exposed to the Internet. Private means you can only see it if you're in the Gitpod session. The commands that I prepared are in the commands markdown file, but we're not going to need them right away. Let's start with configuring Mautic. You can open that by clicking on the globe on the right. And if anything, like if I'm going to start by configuring Mautic for people that are following along.  It's working. People are following along. Okay. I'm going to add a database table prefix. I just added one database in the project and we're going to do Drupal and Mautic next to each other. And the password is Drupal as configured in the .env file. You need to configure a Mautic username and a password. And then this is the email configuration in Mautic because Mautic is sending out emails. We will not be doing that. So I'm just going to skip this step. After configuring your Mautic, you will see the Mautic login screen. I'm going to log into Mautic with the credentials I just created. So we've set up Mautic. That was, I think, a minute or two. Great success. I'm going to give the people some time to do the flow. Because in Mautic, we will expose the API to Drupal and we will do this throughout. I'm going to configure this. In Mautic, you can do that by pressing configuration. And then we need to do some settings. So you have the API settings where you can say, okay, enable the API. I'm going to save it. You also will need to enable, to change the course settings because we need to allow the domains that we're using. I'm just going to, like, disable course. But you should, of course, add your domains there and not just disable it. This is obvious. What I'm also going to do is creating API credentials. So we're going to use OAuth between the systems. And therefore I'm going to create an OAuth 2 credential. This will allow us to let Drupal connect to our Mautic. Now, you see the redirectory. This is actually the Drupal URL where Mautic will point back to. To find that, we need to find Drupal in our Git pot workspace. You can click it here, take the URL, and then you can paste it here. But there's one detail you will need to add slash Mautic slash callback to this URL. You need to click this one here, like this. With this URL, Mautic can go back to the Drupal instance correctly. After clicking save, you will see that the client ID and a client secret has been generated. After this, let's go and create a form. We're going to use a form because the personalization will be as such that we're going to set up the food install profile on Drupal. And we're going to selectively show a form to people that only visit vegetarian food, for example. We're going to allow them to subscribe to the vegetarian newsletter. And therefore, we need a vegetarian newsletter form. So let's create that one. Standalone form. Yes, I'm interested in vegetarian dishes. And I want to add some fields. So let's add an email field. By clicking contact field here, this will link the people that enter their email details into the form directly to the contact created in Mautic. You want to do that in specific cases. I'm also going to add a first name field and a last name field. And so you see that I've added these as contact fields. This means that when a person submits this form, the contact will be created directly with these details. So it will be in the lead tracking system because Mautic is actually a contact management system. It's a marketing automation tool. So let's save this form. We're not only going to show this form to people that are vegetarians. We will also see in our group or front that people that like chocolate. So we're also going to create the chocolate newsletter form. I want the chocolate newsletter please. We're going to add the email field again. Make it contact field. So I'm going to add the first name and the last name again. Last name. Oops. Okay. Let's drag the email to the bottom. Save and close. So we have two forms now. I'm a chocolate. I want the chocolate newsletter and I'm interested in more vegetarian dishes. So these two forms will be selectively shown in Drupal based on the surfing behavior. This is the Mautic configuration part. We're done in Mautic. Let's now go to configure Drupal. To go to Drupal, I already told you, you need to click on the globe icon here. But you saw already that there is this provided host name, not valid. This is because it's a Drupal installed, like it's not yet installed. It's out of the box. And the host file does not contain the Gitpod IO pattern yet. So I'm going to add it now. How do you do that in Gitpod? I've added the commands here in the, let me enlarge this a bit, in the commands file. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to shell into the Docker container. The Docker container has been booted up, which you can see with Docker Compose PS. Here you can see the different containers. And by pasting this command, you will shell into the Drupal container. Oops, pasted a bit too much there. So you see here we're in the Drupal container, the what be Drupal container. In this container we can, I'm using VI to edit files. I don't know about you. Everybody has their preferences. So I'm going to edit the settings file. And as you see, I've prepared the correct host pattern here, which where I added Gitpod.io. So I'm going to go to the bottom of the file. And here I'm going to add Gitpod.io to the trusted host patterns. Immediately after saving this, you will see that your Drupal installation is actually ready to go. So I'm going to start installing Drupal. Make sure that you select demo, the Umami food magazine here, because otherwise we won't have the example content and makes it easy to work with. So there we go. This takes some time. Yeah. So the whole VI part, you can just actually just selecting Gitpod files as well. There's a file editor as well. Just in case you're not a fan of VI like Frederick is. Okay. I'm going to, you all know this, how it goes. I don't think I have to explain this to you, right? We're from Belgium as we told before. I'm not going to receive these emails. Okay. So we have a working Umami site working on Gitpod. I think it took us some minutes. This is great. After installing the Umami site, we will need to install some modules there. Valery, we were talking yesterday about installing a specific module on Gitpod. This is the step where you need to pay attention, right? So here you see we already shelled into the container and you can use Composer here. So we're going to install the Umami module, which will allow us to connect to Apache Umami instances. We're going to install the DrupSolid Personalization module, which is a module that we contributed to allow to connect to our specific Personalization engine where we added some AI to do the segmentation automatically. We're going to install the Matic Paragraph module because this not only adds Matic Paragraphs, I know the naming is confusing, but it also adds Matic Blocks. So Matic Paragraph adding Matic Blocks. And then we're also going to add Asset Injector because we're going to inject some JavaScript into the pages and the Matic module because the dishes, the food, the chocolate desserts, the soup have a lot of tags and we're going to expose them via the keywords Matic to our tracking system. So here we go. I was already logged in here in the shell. This should work. I'm going to do them one by one just to win some time. Don't want the demo to end too soon, right? It gives you the time to copy paste along. So all these models are now available for our Drupal in the code, in the installer, in the Docker container. We need to enable them, of course. So let's start with Unomi, Drupal Personalization, Matic Paragraph, Asset Injector, MetaTec, and I think that's about it. Yes. And then we're going to enable them. You saw a mark about internal page cache conflicting with the Drupal Personalization. This makes sense because the Personalization will show different versions of, for example, the front page to different users. An internal page cache will only cache one page for a specific user. So that's why it makes sense that we conflict with this model so we'll need to disable the internal page cache module to make this work properly. Okay, with that done, we're going to now need to configure all these modules. I'm going to start with the Matic Configuration. Here you see you can choose OAuth and we're going to choose HDPS. The base URL is the one that we created. I'm going to go to the credentials here because we will be needing them. And for this one, we won't need the trailing slash and the starting protocol. We will need the client ID, client secrets. The redirect base URL is filled incorrectly out of the box. So when we save this form, you will see that we are pointed to Matic and we need to log in there. This is the OAuth flow working. And now we will see that it wants us to approve the connection between Drupal and Matic, which we want. So now we've connected our Drupal with Matic. This means that we can now create Matic blocks and connect to the API. At Drupal, we also have some implementations where we have custom modules pushing data, tags, contacts, things directly into Matic and the API of Matic is exposed via this module as well. So it's actually sort of a Matic API module, but the naming is confusing. So Matic is configured. Let's now go to the Unomi module. Was it not enabled because of the conflict? Let's see. We're going to need it. There we go. Unomi. We're going to use the drop-solid platform connector. The cookie name here, this is the, yes? Apache Unomi is the tool that we use under the hood to do the, it's actually the customer data platform. So it's a CDP tool. You remember the three globes that we have. So we have Drupal for content management. We have Matic for the marketing automation. And Apache Unomi, that's a tool that we use for customer data platform. So that's where all the customers, the profiles are being saved. It keeps track of sessions and we can segment users in that tool. So when enabling that one, we're also going to use HTTPS. And there we're going to go to a platform. I'm going to show you the credentials. This is our interface because Apache Unomi out of the box is a REST API. And we've built an interface on top of that to make it easy. I'm going to use the Floresta CDP, take the information here. So these are the credentials that we will need to connect to Unomi. So we're using one of our platform for now. But you could just as well set up a Unomi yourself. But we didn't get that to work and get bought yet. But yeah, we're using this one because it's easier for now, for demo purposes. But you could... You can connect to a raw Unomi as well. We just made it easier a bit. We will need the client secret there. I generated one. It's this one. I also shared it in the chat on the event app. For this specific session, I copied it so you don't need to copy it from the screen. Maybe leave it a bit on the screen for people who do not have access. I know. Sorry, I'm sorry. Just no way around it. It's automatically generated. Do you know me? Client secret. Maybe we need to explain a little bit how things are connected to each other. So we have a Drupal that is running on its own. It connects to MOTIC. That's just for creating the forms and sending the form data. Subscribing to newsletters basically. MOTIC is a bit more complex than that. And then we have the CDP, based on your browser or your behavior. It will send all the meta text to that too. To the CDP and then from there. Okay. It's going through the frontend. I'll go deeper on that. We have ten more minutes, so I'm going to continue the workshop if that's okay. We've now configured the MOTIC module. We've configured the Unomi module. We still need to add a JavaScript so that the tracking starts to act. So therefore we're going to go to the Asset Injector at the JavaScript there. And here in our text file, I've added the scoring.js. So this is the Unomi tracking script. And in the Unomi tracking script, you will see that there's a default tracking script, which is also exposed in our DrupSolid platform. So you see, we call it the Capture script, which just captures user data and saves it into the customer data platform. But I've added something specifically for this workshop if there is keywords, which will be the tags that are on the dishes in the Unomi. It's going to be chocolate. It's going to be soup. It's going to be vegetarian. And for each of these dishes, I cleaned it up a bit, I'm going to add a specific field to the CDP. Why do I do this? To explain to you that the CDP is not something that's fixed. You can add your own fields, your own data into the CDP. So you can have a commerce system putting commerce data into the client data. You can add, like, a visiting behavior to the CDP and you can have, like, the mailing system adding mailing preference to the CDP. So this really, that's why it's called the customer data platform. This is where the customer data comes together. So what I did is I've added the recipe field here, and I'm going to add plus one after visiting a recipe. Okay. Let me come to that also in the end. It's good. It's good. It's good.  Did I paste it now? No. So I'm going to paste it here. This is the Unomi script. Let's not pre-process it and load it in the head. There's also the Mautic tracking script, and you can find this under configuration. Tracking. Friedrich is now doing this via the asset injection module, but normally we do this via Google Tech Manager normally. That's what most people do. This is not the best practice. This just works for the workshop. Good. Good one. Okay. So I've added the Mautic and the Unomi script, and then there's one more thing I want to configure, and I added the specifics in the commands file. We need to make sure that the tags and the categories of the recipes are exposed to our tracking. Therefore we go to configuration, meta tag, content, and there you will find the keywords, and this will expose the categories and the tags that the recipe is in to the frontend so we can start working with it. The tracking script will capture all metadata. That's what the JavaScript basically does, all the metadata that is in the head of your HTML. It will copy that and send that to the Unomi instance. Sorry. Okay. I'm going to the frontend. I'm going to open in my inspector, and then if we look at some dishes, let's see if it works. So what's happening here is I have also another thing you won't do on production, but you see that the courses, this is a main course, it's vegetarian, pasta, and it's baked. There are some other recipes. Let's go there. Chocolate is good. This is there. One more thing we need to configure in Drupal is the actual personalization. We need to add a blog that will show up only to people liking chocolate. This is the magic mustard. I'm going to add some other blogs, like we do in Drupal. And then I'm going to do it via the content, place blog, and I'm going to add a custom blog. There you see that there's the Maltic blog, which is added here from the Maltic Paragraphs module, remember. So we're adding the, let's start with chocolate, subscription blog. And here you see that there is a form field where you can select the form. And these are the Maltic forms. This will allow the forms to be injected automatically into Drupal. The next thing you see here is the Unomi segment selection. This is added by the Drup Solid Personalization module or the Unomi module. And here you see some segments already. There's a lot of segments. I prepare these segments for you because I do some preparation in advance, right? I think there's a surfing form Czech Republic, likes vegetarian, soup person, and we were talking about chocolate, so people like chocolate. This blog, I'm going to save it and position it because that's displayed, the title for now, content. So we're showing this with a Maltic blog for now, but you could do it with any other blog. Yes. We do it because, well, that's part of the demo, but you could add an image to an extra chocolate image on your home page based on the section that they are in. I like vegetarian food, so that's why I'm adding the I Like Vegetarian Food blog, and the second newsletter I'm interested in vegetarian dishes will only be shown to people looking at vegetarian food, likes vegetarian. To illustrate this, I'm going to select the content region, drag it on top of the content, save the blog, and now as an admin, of course, I will see these blogs, let's go to a recipe and you see there are the blogs, but of course I'm an administrator, I see all of them, but as an anonymous user you will not see them. You will only start seeing them after the segmentation detects that you're a chocolate kind of person, or you like vegetarian dishes and you have visited these vegetarian dishes a lot. How does this work, the CDP? I'm going to show it in the Robsol platform interface because that's where the magic happens. This is the view on Apache Unomi, so here you see I'm going to take the vegetarian one, what happens here is this is the name of the vegetarian segment and here you see these are the fields that we are adding via the JavaScript into the CDP. So this can be anything, if you have a commerce system and it's about the size of your orders, or it can be if you're doing Azure integration and it's about specific fields that a user has, and so this allows people to be segmented in different kind of segments. That's the easy way because we're doing it in JavaScript and it's logical, but we also have a discovery mechanism which allows the AI to look at, okay which kinds of groups are there on the side by looking at the traffic and just automatically trying some groupings. I'm going to just illustrate that. So we have some example groupings here. Of course, our florist has an example website so the traffic might not be making sense here, but these are groups so this is about taxes, this is about goods, this is about specific names, and this is about accounting, so here you see that this has detected these kinds of groups on the example website. You can run it with discovery with four groups, three groups, and this is what you try a bit as a marketeer. You try, okay give me some groups, try three, try four, try five, and then we say, okay this is the division of things that I see on my website then you can say, okay transfer them to segments, and with these segments, this is a different kind they can be automatically segmented because we know the traffic that looked like the segment and we can automatically segment and do this into these categories. So we have two types of segmenting here. We have the logical where we say, okay we are visiting chocolate stuff, we add a counter, it's a scoring mechanism, and we have the automatic segmentation where it's really based on your surfing behavior and just trying to make it fit in one group or another. Yeah, it's a K-means model, so what it does it's take like all of the data, and all the data means all of the events that happen, so page loads and with every page load there's a title, there's keywords, so you can actually steer a bit what is in the AI, but it takes all this into account and I have this amount of traffic of two weeks and try to group them in three groups based on all this data and then it gives you three groups and it takes the keywords of the keywords to show you, okay these are the groups that we think it makes. We say about two weeks of traffic is like, it depends of course with AI, like always the more data you have the better your grouping is of course. But valid question, good one. So I'm going to show you, I show you the vegetarian light, so what I've configured here is if people have visited more than four vegetarian dishes, they're going to fall into this segment and they will start seeing this. The segmentation was already active, I created these in advance, so actually when we now the moment of truth, let's see if it works. It's not on your computer, it's on Gitpod, so let's see, I'm going to be a vegetarian today. Small side track, we also created a browser application called the segment selector, because what I'm going to do now is manually be a vegetarian by selecting the dishes, but imposing this on your marketeers is not a good thing, so we have a browser app so they can just put me in the segment let's check how the site looks, just a small side track here. So this is oatmeal, this is carrots, let's see I'm going to just check all of them I don't remember the amount that I put there, so for variations sake, let's find something else, maybe some chocolate back to the recipes, Mediterranean quiche, no, which is a vegetarian I expected it to come like run now, no I did save the blocks right, yeah I did save the blocks, yeah I was scripted there yeah, but maybe look in the visitor logs of your soup gluten free no, it's not there's no errors, it's okay it has to work, it will work the block is there right we saved it right, just check quiche, that would be very drooplish the meta tags, I saved those should work now let's see vegetarian let's do some chocolates of all, see if that one works better exciting I don't remember which amount I put it, so based on the surfing behavior, you can alter the scoring mechanism also you can change the time constraint, so if I'm in chocolate for this time and you can let it expire, this is in your control because it's a JavaScript API it's a REST based thing, so you can really have control over it, but you see this is only visible for people that having this kind of surfing behavior, and I visited other pages in between, so if you want to keep track of this in code it's an entirely different thing so this is really something to you could do it of course, you can do it in JavaScript in the front, but it's a different thing, but now we're really using the CDP to make it different just one more takeaway we're also using this on our production website so dropsolid.com dropsolid.com and also here you see I'm already logged in as an administrator and you see here this block for example is only shown to people from Prague, I'm going to illustrate this by showing you the segment and how it works so platform CDP now I'm going to go to the dropsolid CDP here, segments here you see the block segment and because we track a lot of the user data, you can work based on things that they have visited but also we do a geocoding we don't save the IP address because that would be fingerprinting and we don't do that but we geocode it and we save the country and the city which allows us to see if a person has a certain language, if the country code is checked, if they're coming from a UTM campaign that would be via the browser or LinkedIn ads, so there's multiple mechanisms that you can use to start making your segments, you really give the market your control over that I think this is the essence of the workshop and it's about time, right? Yeah, a couple more minutes maybe you could quickly explain how this is GDPR proof Okay, so yeah, it's a valid question and something that you also wanted to know about is the JavaScript, right? The tracking Yeah, so basically what does it end up being modic? Okay, so why did we set up the modic? Yes, so what we did is we show the we rendered the form on the pages here the moment the person enters the details into modic there will also be a profile I'm going to show it in production But it's two different profiles basically for the same person then we have also a profile, but the segment that I fall in as an anonymous visitor the moment I fill in these details the segment also goes to modic modic is a marketing automation tool I'm going to find myself in modic and show you the segments that I am in so Frederick There is an update available Did I click? So here you see this is my modic profile my email profile because I was you see here it's also keeping a track and the modic tracker does also these things it's very limited because it only tracks page views and not events which is very limited but you have the details here and here you can add custom fields so in modic you can add custom fields and you see that I was looking at the jobs at the drop solid side it's the starting session that I used so these segments I was surfing the drop solid side if we translate that to umami it would be I'm a chocolate lover and maybe also like vegetarian food and then you can create an email let's now go to the campaigns dropsolid.org and then you can really create personalized email campaigns so making the bridge to modic you cannot only personalize on the front page or the detail pages of your website but you can also let's see if I can edit this campaign here start the browser you can really send different newsletter based on segments that people are in if I'm a technical person this is the newsletter if you're in marketing you will receive a more marketing oriented email if I'm tech I will receive a more tech oriented email this is the first level of personalization receiving a different email modic also has that built capability we didn't do anything on that to also have dynamic blocks inside one email so you could also say I just want to make one email with a dynamic block based on the preferences so you can make a dynamic block where they like chocolate and add some chocolate stuff in there so this gives you the possibility not only personalize on the web page but also on the email side of things so you really have like a personalized experience throughout the contact with your client I'm going to come to your JavaScript one more the single source of truth is our customer data platform it depends because we have clients where the single source of truth is for example the CDP that they have that they say to us we have a CRM and this is the master data so there you need in modic you can also do the synchronization both ways you can say we're the master of the preferences but you can also say pulling the preferences from Drupal for example we have a client where we have a Drupal profile managing their preferences because it's taxonomy terms and it flows into modic so this is also really depends basically per case basis yeah absolutely thank you yeah I have to finish it off so Drupsolid also built I contributed to the EU cookie compliance module which is the module that allows to show accept on a EU compliance way and these JavaScript trackings we also for example on the Drupsolid side we integrated it with them so that if you deny it there will not be tracking of course if there's no tracking we cannot see over the multiple sessions what you're doing and then we cannot do personalization but since it's an addition it's also not a problem I think we're done okay thank you we're also very happy to answer questions here at the booth thank you


It's logical that the urban spaces we spend time in affect our well-being, but do we really understand how they influence us? I'd like to share with you the results of a study assessing the well-being benefits derived from urban spaces. It's part of a larger SEI City Health and Well-Being Initiative focused on secondary cities in the global south. Sustainable development will depend on how our cities adapt to deal with challenges like population growth, economic development, and climate change to name a few. Early-accessible space plays a large role in whether our cities are livable. We know that even urban nature can improve well-being. However, most of this evidence is from the global north. A better understanding of the factors creating well-being in the global south settings is needed to ensure urban space provides multiple societal benefits, especially in the face of pressure to densify. In this study, we focus on two secondary cities' case studies, Udantani, Thailand, and Nekuru, Kenya. We used participatory mapping to better understand which and how space was being used and why. We analyzed the data using the cultural ecosystem services concept to understand the connections between space, activities, and well-being. Cultural ecosystem services refer to the non-material benefits that people obtain from nature. Our results show that both the built and natural environment are important for well-being in both cities, but in different ways. We also explored the pathways between cultural activities and well-being by connecting two existing frameworks. Together with our participatory mapping data, these frameworks can be used to guide urban planning to better support personal well-being. Our key takeaways relate to the roles of different types of spaces in the urban environment, their distribution across urban space, and what that means for spatial justice and resilience in the global south context. This wordle graphic highlights the key issues and hopefully encourages you to check out our Climate Expo poster for more details on the key insights, our recommendations for urban planning, as well as links to our project. Thank you, and if you have any further questions, please be in touch.


Yesterday, as you no doubt heard in the news, the Assassinations Committee of the House of Representatives began its first formal investigation hearings into the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tomorrow in Washington, James Earl Ray, convicted in the assassination of Dr. King, will be testifying. We're going to be hearing a lot in the days ahead from the usual coalition of black leaders and lawyers representing James Earl Ray, suggesting that he was not in fact guilty alone, that he was part of a larger conspiracy to kill Dr. King. Well, NBC News correspondent Don Harris has been looking into these claims, and this morning here on today, he has this report. Under the terms of the law, James Earl Ray is guilty of killing Martin Luther King Jr. In March of 1969, he entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. At the trial, the district attorney told the court that he had a witness who saw Ray run from this bathroom from which the killing shot was fired down this hallway toward the stairs.  In the bundle, there was a rifle with one fired cartridge casing in the chamber. Ray's fingerprints were on the rifle, and it was of the same caliber as that used in the assassination. Two in the bundle were several other items, including binoculars and some clothing that belonged to James Earl Ray. Ray acknowledges that he was in Memphis, that he bought the rifle, that the other items in the bundle were his, and even the fact that he rented a room in the boarding house, number five, just down the hallway from the bathroom from which the shot was fired. Now, James Earl Ray says he did not kill Martin Luther King, that though he didn't know it at the time, he was involved in the conspiracy, but that he didn't pull the trigger. Two men to whom Ray had written letters denying he was the assassin went to visit Ray in prison last week. The Reverend Jesse Jackson, who was on King's SELC staff and traveling with him in Memphis, and the Reverend James Lawson, who organized the marches in Memphis in 1968. After they had talked to Ray, I asked if they believed he was the killer. I do not. I have profound doubt that he killed Dr. King. I am convinced that he was not involved alone. We went with Reverend Lawson back to Memphis, Tennessee, walked again through the neighborhood where King was killed. We went to talk to some witnesses that Lawson believed could prove Ray was not the killer. We have witnesses who say that James Earl Ray was not in the boarding house or in the bathroom when the shot was fired. The witness who could testify that Ray was not the man in the bathroom said Lawson was Grace Walden. When King was killed, she lived in the room next to the bathroom from which the shot was fired. It was her common law husband, Charlie Stevens, who told police that he saw Ray run from the bathroom. Grace Walden says Stevens was lying. Charles Stevens was a junkie who couldn't see his own face like no one else's. But you could see the man pretty good. Yes. Was the man James Earl Ray? No. Several witnesses agree with Grace Walden that Charlie Stevens was drunk at the time of the shooting. But both Grace Walden and Charlie Stevens have told different stories at different times. Walden said in a statement made on the night of the shooting that the man she saw run from the bathroom was a white man, not much taller than she is. She reportedly told the FBI she saw nothing. Now she says, Charlie picked James Earl Ray here. I don't think the man looked anything like him.  You think the man you saw was a nigger? She was destroyed by the state of Tennessee as a witness. James Earl Ray's attorney says the contradictions in Grace Walden's statement are understandable because of the heavy dosages of drugs she was given at a mental hospital. Lane says Grace was put into a mental institution and kept there for nine years because she refused to identify Ray as the man in the bathroom. The hospital records show that when she was placed in the institution they decided that she probably should be kept there until after the trial of James Earl Ray. That's some medical diagnosis. There were other witnesses, Reverend Lawson and Mark Lane thought we ought to talk with. We now have three, the affidavits of three Memphis witnesses who saw him at the gasoline station approximately between the hours of 5.15 and 6.30. Ray's lawyer showed us transcripts of taped conversations with two people who said they saw Ray at a service station at the time of the murder. But when we attempted to talk with those witnesses we found that one had died of natural causes a few days ago. The other denied ever making such a statement or that he'd ever seen James Earl Ray. Still, there is that taped conversation. The third no one could find, not Reverend Lawson, not Ray's attorney and not us. Reverend Lawson and Jesse Jackson and a number of other people still believe James Earl Ray should have a new trial. They believe there was a conspiracy to murder Martin Luther King and that the FBI was somehow involved. The many memos and strategies of the FBI to disrupt, to destroy, and I'm using words from their memos, the civil rights movement to neutralize and destroy the character of Dr. King and so forth. So that at least in my own mind I suspect that the FBI had some involvement in the death of Dr. King and the assassination of Dr. King. Really, Reverend Lawson? They had, by all means, the best motive. Mark Lane says that his client, James Earl Ray, had no motive, that Ray is not a racist. Reverend Lawson, incidentally, agrees. Lane said that Ray had been forced by law enforcement officials to enter a plea of guilty. In fact, if you would ask James Earl Ray today, you say you didn't do it, why should I believe you? His answer would be, as it has been on numerous occasions the past, you shouldn't believe me, we should have a trial. If Ray were convicted in a new trial, either of pulling the trigger or of knowingly taking part in the conspiracy to kill King, he could be executed. If Ray were acquitted in a new trial, the case would be unsolved and reopened. In any event, for those people who believe that the truth about the murder of Martin Luther King has never been told, a new trial seems to be the best way to get at that truth. Don Harris, NBC News, Memphis, Tennessee. 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Hi everyone, I am here with two amazing people Melanie Derigo a current congressional candidate running to represent New York's third Congressional district and a long time friend of the show and Namiki cons also also the host of her own show the Namiki show Thank you both for being here. Thank you for having us Really excited. Okay. I've talked to a lot of candidates and they all have their sets of issues We're not talking about people who have a very luxurious life We're talking about working-class people who run for Congress that come on my show and what a lot of my viewers don't realize is that They're still working full-time jobs. They still have families and it's really really tough so Organizations like Matriarch for example They help these candidates with financial support institutional support training support And that is really crucial because to just do this on your own when you have a limited amount of resources is very tough So we're gonna talk about matriarch today, but really what I want to Let people know is if you are running for Congress or considering running for Congress We've got you covered in this video right here So I want to go to Melanie because Melanie is just a normal person. Melanie has no connections to wealthy people She doesn't have her own independent wealth. So running for Congress is one thing But when you actually run for Congress, it's an entirely different game And you've basically been running now for multiple years because you ran in 2020 You're running again. So talk through just how difficult it is to maintain a viable campaign, but also Not go crazy. Also have a life Yes You know your life really does become the campaign So I think it's really important that the folks you surround yourself with whether they're staffers volunteers They sort of become your extended family You know not sugarcoating it. It is a seven-day a week Ten hours if you're lucky more like 14 hours a day type of job and it's non-stop, you know So you have to have a significant work ethic And I think you have to really remember the reasons you decided to run because it'll test you in ways You cannot possibly imagine that being said it's all worth it, right? Because in the end we're pushing for change and we're inspiring others and we're growing our movement each and every day so but it is it's you know, it's it's definitely a commitment and One thing that I really wanted to ask you both about is when you're running for Congress for the first time a lot of people have no idea Where to begin? Isaiah James for example, he's come on my program before he said that he literally googled How do I run for Congress because for people who are just normal working-class citizens? There's there's no support provided to you like a lot of times these establishment wealthy people who are running for Congress They kind of get poached, you know, they are sought after but if you're running because you want to often times You don't know there's a lot of barriers So Namiki, where do you even begin like what's step number one if you think I might want to run for Congress? This is I get this question multiple times a week And I'm really happy you asked this because one of the aspects of matriarch and it's it's important I think it it it's it's unique to our organization, but it shouldn't be unique I think that other progressive organizations out there should really lean in on the class related issues because if we want a Congress that is Really representing the progressive issues that we all buy for we need people who have that background And we need to address the systemic issues and the barriers that are faced when you come from the working-class What is working? I mean we all we're all working unless you're you're you're in the upper echelons at this point Income inequality is so vast that there's barely any middle-class left We're all workers and we're all you know in in this in this were cogs in this machine of monopolies and you know Bezos's and Elon Musk's and you know Starbucks and that's why we're seeing so many strikes and in organizing efforts across the country So when you say what is the first step to running for office? I think it's that fire in the belly I think I think it's you know, I'm really feeling angry about what's happening in my community I've been active in different ways whether it's in a union union effort as a Starbucks worker or in Bessemer, Alabama As an Amazon worker or you're on strike as a coal miner You know these are the issues that most Americans are facing right now And you don't have to you could be a teacher who's it was upset that the budget has you know kept getting reduced And that salaries haven't gone up and that classes are Extremely large and you don't have the resources to write to provide to the children And of course the pandemic is a whole other set of issues um these issues were obviously Talked about a lot in media and in the progressive movement and on Capitol Hill But when I was watching what was happening During the pandemic how everybody was talking about frontline workers and then seeing what was delivered that would really get to They're making their lives better forget about just a band aid like Fixing what happened during the pandemic You know making lives go back to where they were pre-pandemic, which was not great That's when we at matric realized we have to lean in even further On the working class aspect. There's been so many other reports that show that 100 of the people who were affected during the pandemic were working class women 100 not 99 percent 100 percent That number should be on every single congressional member's desk every single state Lawmakers desk every school board members desk. They should feel that in their bones And so you know when people say what how do I run for what's the first thing to do? Well matric has decided we're doing this massive training uh as melanie knows she was one of our candidates in 2020 our pandemic candidates Uh, very tough race to begin. Yeah a lot of crises have popped up But we we learned through that that there is an opportunity to Create a basis of knowledge for anybody who's currently running or thinking about running in 2022 Not just congressional anymore. We're broadening out to um All the way down ballot from school board to congressional to senate board. That's great And and that's really to provide The training for how you basically run for congress or for office excuse me But also on top of it, there's a whole other set of issues that working class candidates face In getting to viability meaning like you're going to get all the big endorsements You know, there's there's a lot of challenges along the way that progressives and working class people face that The establishment doesn't or rich candidates don't and i'm sure you know melanie can speak to a lot of that But we're going to be addressing those in the training as well A lot of things we've learned over the last few years with so many progressives running Yeah, I wanted to ask melanie because um, you know, a lot of people don't realize that you know You see these really great candidates some candidates were phenomenal But their campaigns consistently like they're underwater, you know, you you launch a campaign and you have a good message Uh, but the problem is that you know, you're working too much at your normal job So, you know, you're you're kind of stretching yourself too thin and you have to quit Uh the campaign or you know, you are putting in all this work But ultimately you know, you're not going to win because you're just not raising enough money because you can't dedicate resources So just like running for congress like what's what do you think is the one thing that people just don't understand? About this and like I always say it's a self-sacrifice But like put it into perspective because I don't think I would ever want to do it after hearing from all of you You candidates Yes, for sure. Um, look, I I don't think that there is a broad understanding at what it costs to run for congress and You know, it's particularly for working-class people and I'm just talking about I mean, there's a big cost But the financial cost is huge for working-class folks, you know, um I think that the Majority of voters who aren't really engaged don't realize that when you know a multimillionaire runs for congress. They're really You know in an entirely different demographic and they're going to then legislate from that perspective, which is You know, most of congress today Um, I think, you know, I'm a big supporter for publicly funded elections at all levels I think this that would be a really great equalizer and I think it would really help us shift the balance of power Something that I know matriarch understands really well Which is why they are so wonderful with the resources that they bring to working-class candidates. Um, but Uh, until that happens, I do think we need to normalize giving and and this is something that, you know 15 years ago, I had no idea about I just I it was not so I that was Where I was in my life And I I didn't think I was part of that donor class and the reality is that we're all part of it You know, if we all want to say if we all gave five dollars imagine what that would look like We could actually rep we could elect candidates that represented us right because I mean it is it is not easy I mean to be competitive you have to raise close to a million dollars and and that is very difficult when you are a grassroots candidate Yeah, yeah, absolutely and and one thing that I wanted you to touch on Namiki is uh this um problem of reaching parity in congress There's still way way more men in congress than there are women and they are disproportionately writing legislation that affects women I mean look at texas for example banning abortion So I've always been of the mindset that we have to increase representation of women But there's a really clear difference between descriptive representation and substantive representation So descriptive representation means we just get 50 percent women 50 percent men in and of itself That's important But what we really strive for is substantive representation and matriarch is the only Organization that actually pushes this because there's a difference between getting in another rich woman Who's just going to legislate the same way that like the rich straight white men have been legislating and Okay, I mean sure we've aesthetically made a difference, but you're not substantively changing it So the emphasis that matriarch really puts on these candidates is we want working class Women people who don't get recruited people who don't have independent wealth that they can use to kind of just feel their own campaign Talk about why that's so important Because I think that a lot of people Given how the democratic party tries to weaponize identity politics for lack of a better word they kind of hear Oh, well, we need more women in congress. They hear that and they dismiss it But it really is crucial especially in modern politics going forward So yeah, talk through that because it's it's something that I think people need to think more deeply about I'm so happy to say this because this is something. Um, I you know, we face it sometimes and I think myself in the media when I talk about it I'm I get a lot of Comments from people but mostly supportive, but you know, this is a systemic issue and systems exacerbate Uh The conflict between you know, I don't think that that we look at a lot of marginalized communities I think we're we've evolved to understand the systemic issues that a lot of marginalized communities face But women we're still we're still not there yet. Um, and part of that is because You know, many white women of privilege have been part of the patriarchy the capitalist patriarchy I I don't think it was conscious. I think sometimes it's for for survival and I would never ever ever blame those women And so, you know, I want to make it very very clear that when we talk about capitalism in this extreme form of late stage capitalism It is a very patriarchal Uh mindset and you know, let's just start with the fact that uh, You know, the people who the treasury the fed Uh CEOs of most corporations, uh, the list of billionaires in the world Uh, you know, most of them are men most of them are white men and they have been for really long time There are always going to be some exceptions here or there But as long as you're in the system the power structures that are dictated by these people It's going to determine how things are operated. What issues are brought to the table? What you're willing to leverage to get another issue We're so lucky right now that we have a group In the squad of strong and progressive caucus of strong feminists from the working class Who understand what it means on a personal level? Cory bush, uh, was in the class with melanie and Cory is one of our founding members You know, one of the first things she did when she got to congress was say, you know Let's let's boot these these like january 6th Terrorists from congress, uh, or let's censor them at least and then she you know, of course did an incredible housing demonstration on the steps The capital that moved Uh, joe biden to actually doing something she was owning her power She was owning her experience But until you can change the power structure of congress of state legislatures You know, what that does when you have more working class women Determining the power structure It actually urges other women that may not necessarily be from that background to operate from that mindset because They're conditioned by the the conditions that we all You know grow up in But what we really believe and the pathway to getting there because that's that's the end goal, right? Or that's the mid goal I guess you could say um The the the beginning process is you know, the democrats I think all of us understand the democrats Have completely ignored most of the country. They've said Unless it's a winnable race in our mind based on our, you know, whatever analysis We're not putting any any energy there. We're not putting money into state parties anymore They've been doing this now for 15 years putting no money into state parties and local parties And of course that happened as the Koch brothers decided. Oh great opportunity We're going to go in there and we're going to recruit all the way down the college level And they've taken over state legislatures and they've passed, you know, everything from restrictive reproductive rights laws to of course defunding education and and taking on unions Which is a big organizing mechanism for the party. So the democrats have completely ignored parts of the country So that we think that we can't win some of these parts of the country This is all while they support rich candidates We believe that yeah, it's great to challenge bad democrats as as melanie has been doing And like let's just reiterate melanie has been running against one Of the worst democrats in the democratic party and it would be great to see more progressive organizations backing her effort Because he is in the areas in the country that are republican that used to be democrat not 20 years ago five years ago And even though they might be r plus 15 based on a kook score five years ago They were you know, the democrat kathy hokel's district. Who's our governor of new york? That is an r plus 16 district a republican Is the is the member there kathy hokel was the congressional member less than a decade ago So we know democrats can win there and we really believe because this is where the starbucks workers are organizing Don't forget. We really believe That it's the working class women Who can win in those districts because you know the average person in in that district Is is making like working class wages? And and the democrats have just abandoned it and said now we can't win because you know republican owns it now And it's a rich republican Well, we don't believe that so we are are willing to go in places that democrats won't go to make the case Also important, which is what's happening with melanie right now A lot of folks don't understand it takes a woman at least three times to run before she wins That's the statistical average. I'm gonna get a little higher with working class women So that is why it's so important for us to have these institutions that have their backs Not just in preparing them to run along the way But being there for them when the going gets really tough because unfortunately the attacks are a lot worse against working class women We see it publicly, but it's really bad when you don't have the attention of the national media and we want to make sure We have their backs Yeah, so what I really like that's starting to happen Which is the one thing that possibly breaks me out of this doom or mindset is the fact that we're all this entire movement is starting to kind of form our own Um alternative establishment for lack of a better word. I mean when we think of like these rich candidates, right? They are They've got the backing immediately. I mean me and melanie talked about this in uh her interview where it's like, you know You have this promising candidate who currently is running in you know an open race, of course more people are going to jump in But you know, why would the democratic party establishment reject her? So you don't get that institutional report and in many states these progressive candidates who are running They get rejected and fought against by the democratic party establishment So what I see over the last couple of years is this groundswell of new movements forming that have been missing that have made it very difficult for us to Win without so for example, you know dsa Providing institutional support justice democrats brand new congress and now matriarch. So melanie. I want you to talk through so a lot of candidates they get involved and They feel as if the weight is on their shoulders and they're doing this without no institutional support How does matriarch specifically help candidates and why are these types of organizations important for helping your campaign? Yes, well, I was lucky enough to be chosen as part of the inaugural matriarch class And I will tell you that I would have been lost without matriarch. Um, I can't tell you the amount of late night calls But I would you know reach out to know me or uh, you know another member of the board with an issue and they were there for me I I think One of the elements that is so different and unique about matriarch is that one they get it But they invest early in your candidacy and then they do everything they can whether it's You know introducing you to other folks in the movement helping you expand your coalition guiding you On whether it's field or comms or you know, whatever it is They were there for me and um, you know to your point mike that There is institutional knowledge that you just don't know if you haven't run And even if you've worked on campaigns, it's a whole other ballgame when you're the candidate So having the opportunity to work with someone like nomi and know that she had my back is someone who had run for office and could Uh, not only give me the institutional knowledge and guidance But also someone who could help me sort out the emotional labor of running for office because that's really you know That comes up. It just does it can get very hard So to have someone in your corner like that is um, I mean, there's just I I'm so grateful and and I I you know, I just can't thank you enough for that nomi but um, one other thing I will say because I think matriarch has done this really well And I think it's it builds upon what you were saying mike about creating this movement I think you know, we have worked to go in terms of um building together across all spectrums, but for the matriarch family, uh, We've really developed a sisterhood and that is so important for women and working class women, especially because It does feel lonely when you're running, you know, when you're running for office You can feel like you're on an island of one and and there's so much pressure Especially for grassroots candidates because it we are so emotionally invested in pushing and fighting for the change, right? um So to know that I could reach out to quarry or one of my other sisters or no man Just you know, say hey, I'm having this issue or can someone just talk we had meetings where we just we didn't talk about anything with the campaign We just talked about what was going on inside, you know, and that's important It's important, but it also helps us build um To your point our own institutional support because you know matriarch is helping not only develop leaders but create leaders and those folks who then go on can Help the next class and and I think that's what it is It's not just a you know, sometimes we see that there's a candidate's indoors They go off and then that's it But what I find really special about matriarch is many of us are really returning To see what we can give back to the organization and still learn and grow together But um, I think over time this is going to be a very powerful organization That truly will shift the balance of power and help elect more working class women Yeah, and what's so different about these types of grassroots organizations is that normal people can just easily reach out to them Like if you are a corporate democrat, not like you're not an actual like congressional corporate democrat But if you support like centrist democrats and you want to run for congress I mean and you try to reach out to cap for example, you know center for american progress Or one of these really big firms They're not going to return your email, but you can reach out to matriarch You could tweet at namiki and you're going to get a response. So the barrier to like just communicate Um, it's not there, you know, so it's accessible and that's really important. Uh, namiki I wanted you to um, talk a little bit more about this event on the 29th and what specifically people can um Can expect what to uh, what to come away with Why this is going to be helpful if they have no idea where to begin or if they're already running for congress Because I have a lot of candidates that I've talked to that I don't think they're associated with matriarch Uh, but let us know uh, because I again, I just I don't think people know where to begin But they have the instinct maybe I want to get involved and run for congress So does this kind of help with that and so you're trying to raise $30,000 What does that uh, what does that go towards because the event itself is you're trying to pay for tickets for the candidate So kind of talk through what this is about because I think that if something like this happened every single year, honestly We would as a movement be a lot more successful because again, like you have to run multiple times And part of that running multiple times to win Is you you know what you did wrong the last time and you correct that but if we get it right the first time We increase our chances of success, obviously So like the more that we have these support systems the better our full be so i'll shut up and let namiki uh Plug this event because I think people really need to know about this and consider going if you're if you're watching this as well Yeah, I mean you're you're right like if I think this is something that we learned You know made sure it launched a little bit later in the cycle, you know early enough but a little bit later in the cycle in 20 20 and we Didn't have time to put together a very comprehensive training and you know is always on our agenda And so for the last, you know, I would say year we've been in 2021. We've been preparing for this training and um I mean it's it's turning out to be a pretty fascinating training We'd wanted to do it in person But the good news about it not being in person is that We are offering it to as many candidates as possible and their support Senior staff because it's you know a lot of this stuff right, you know, they would want to learn about too um, and we want to do it for free because uh, we are We're supporting working class candidates And it's it's really important not to spend your money on on things like this So we uh the the program is going to cost $30,000 mainly for operational costs I mean, it's just at the end of the day like you got to pay for that stuff And it is what it is, but we want to Have as many candidates as possible and people who are thinking about running all women all women Of working class background, of course, then they're progressive And their support staff come we're going to be addressing the institutional barriers You know when to hire consultants. Who do you hire?  How to look out for scam artists? This is a big thing in politics. That's so huge Like these consulting firms will take advantage of you if you don't pick the right one So that like this alone can save you so much money as a candidate so much. I wish I was kidding so much money You have no idea Um, and you know when it's it's it's for so many progressives It's small dollar donations that are fueling their campaigns and it takes a long time Um, you know, so that's one aspect, uh, there are new tools available that are available only to progressive candidates That we're going to give tutorials on we're working with some of these companies that offer them to progressives Uh, how to do rapid response when you're when you're you know, women face more attacks than ever And there there's a pattern of attacks at different stages in the campaign and into office And how do you prepare for that? How do you see it coming? Um, how do you respond to it? When to respond to it? We have someone who's worked very very closely with a lot of people on this And it's it's a special team where we're just really grateful to have that person join us for the training Um, uh, you know how to build a campaign plan A lot of people don't know you need a campaign plan to run and if you don't like it comes down to the micro detail I was lucky enough to have a team that was because we had a short election Uh, our campaign plan was everything and you know, I didn't even have a moment to breathe. It was we were on that plan So, you know and then and then the sisterhood that there's the there's the Uh, quote-unquote spiritual aspect of it, which is how to take care of yourself as a candidate when to take care of yourself We want to build that camaraderie that we had in 2020 but expand it outwardly We're going to have a few leaders come and speak to us, you know We're going to have somebody talk about how power moves with women and how to own your power because You know, whether or not we all see it when you come in as a confident woman Like people feel that and and that could be for good or bad by the way You know, there are people who are drawn to it and love it and then there are people who have a lot of issues They got to work out and get very very Triggered by it and you know, how do you own and protect your power and your campaign and and be aware Of of what's happening in every single aspect of your campaign. So it's it's a completely different type of training I have been in more trainings than you probably can imagine as has mentioned of our team We realized that there were class issues or gender issues that went beyond Some of the stuff that other trainings deal with some really great stuff that they deal with that We've been inspired by and then there were just institutional issues things that have been that have come up in the last You know two cycles that we've learned as a movement even these platforms I know you get this mic the platforms have changed so much Giving used to come online and it's much more difficult now because the monopolies have limited the ability To for progressive candidates to raise money online And also, you know, there's donor fatigue. It's it's real. It's not great, but it's real And there are a lot of candidates running and people are vying for the same resources So, you know, we address all of these things we try to You know, we want to work with all the candidates to create a a good roadmap And and prepare them for the races, but but you're right. It's it's going to cost us $30,000. So We are reaching out to the the the larger progressive community to contribute whatever you can It's just going to operational costs costs very transparent about that like It is what it is. We have to have the platform for it. We have to have the trainers, you know, be compensated We have to of course, you know, get the word out, which is really important So number one, if you can give whatever $5 a hundred dollars you can do more. Thank you That that we have a link for that that it'll be up. Um Yeah, I'll have it in the description actually too Uh, and then of course, it's bitly slash train women Um, and then of course, you know, if you do know a candidate or someone who's working for an amazing woman Woman running for office congressional all the way down to to local um state level Uh, please urge them to sign up And urge them to felt the nomination because nominations for endorsements are open until the end of january right around the training We are urging all of the candidates who are seeking endorsement to go to this training Because you know, it's valuable. It also makes our work a little bit easier too Yeah, and I'm glad that you Oh for sure No, I'm glad you brought up the sisterhood element because I don't think people really Understand how important the element of like communication and networking is it doesn't just make the candidate's life easier But if you are a comms director for example for a grassroots candidate And you know someone with a connect to someone in media who might be able to interview that is phenomenal So for example, I'm working with someone who's working with a campaign that has other connects that have just like kind of Brought me other candidates and it's been very easy I mean, um, you know, if you if you know these people and they have other connections You can help get your candidate's name out there and that is going to make everyone's lives a lot easier Like oftentimes I'll just like send out a million dms to different candidates and you know oftentimes Yeah, I won't get responses or I do but we can't you know couple dates But if you just have somebody that's like, hey, I know this person They're a great candidate. They're you know progressive It just it makes networking makes a huge difference I think people really need to know that and the community like actually being able to talk to each other about how terrible your day was You know for fundraising or this attack that you got from your opponent It's it makes a huge difference and I'm pretending as if like I'm speaking from experience But I've interviewed enough candidates to where I feel like All right, you're all stronger than me because I would never do this shit So I mean you need these kinds of resources like you need these types of events This this event reminds me of the uh, it was like the 2018 I think it was after brand new congress lunch They did a candidate boot camp, but I remember that was like aoc's first time and they all Like were figuring out the resources and whatnot I think that these events are really important and the fact that it's free is really really crucial So I'll put the donation link down below. Is there anything that I'm leaving out before we uh before we go Support matriarch Yes, support me. Yeah, melanie dorigo new york's third congressional district and folks like we're all kind of in this together We're we're a community again If you don't know where to start You're not alone if you want to run for congress if you're even thinking about running for congress That is incredible. Just kind of know what to expect though because it's It's a lot.  What do you say? Yes, let's do it


Some medical personnel, including the Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Aki Abayomi, have gathered for a conference to speak on the importance of art in health. Plus, TV Africa's correspondent, Ngozika Ohai-Chesi has more on this report. It is the first inaugural National Art in Health conference in Nigeria and a guardian of medical students, professionals, healthcare institutions and stakeholders to promote art in the well-being of Nigerians. This year's theme is the arts, health and youth, which focuses on advocacy from the local to the national level through education on arts and medicine. Practices and hospitals, healthcare centres and communities. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Aki Abayomi, speaks on the impact of art on patients and staff. The Lagos State Government is 100% behind artists. We are the plan to totally transform the appearance of our buildings, both in terms of art display and in terms of design. I've just come from a new building that we're going to be commissioning on Saturday. And if you just walk through the building, every wall has beautiful art that is aimed at uplifting the spirits of both patients and staff that work there. Professor Abayomi also speaks on sickle cell disease and the effective way of treating it. We all think that every sickler or every assess patient is going to live a terrible life of pain and suffering and early death. But what we discovered in Jamaica was that actually lots of people who are born with sickle cell never ever manifested with any of the symptoms of sickle cell. We only knew they had sickle cell because we tested them at birth. The Convener Habs and the Vision of Art in the health and its impact on general well-being. Deputy Public Affairs Officer with the U.S. Consulate Jennifer Falls highlights the support that the U.S. has given to the growth of healthcare in Nigeria. Our vision is that in the next 10 years, about 1 million Nigerians would have benefited from the use of art either in the hospital or in the community for their mental health and personal well-being. The U.S. Mission in Nigeria works very closely with our Nigerian partners to improve the health of the population because when people are healthy they can live full lives, they can get education, they can get jobs, they can provide for their families and that all contributes to the growth of Nigeria. The facilitator of the event encouraged government agencies, NGOs, art groups, healthcare professionals and institutions, among others to advocate and advance arts for the collective health of communities in Nigeria. For Plus TV Africa, Gozika or HSE.