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I wouldn't even write it at the studio I went and got my mind right like I say, I'm sitting in Indian style by myself and I started thinking back to my partners like T Cat Lily little Riochi, you know all these young boy They had super swag and the big will the Caprice's knowledge here. I was like on a different level Now did I have more I'm not gonna say it was a bigger little but I was older, so I'm 745 be in fact Acry and join life. Well, I'm just saying he just can paint the picture visionary. So but so I use they swag Yeah, you know And I started to think okay. How could I use this? You know what I mean? And I sat man It came up with that hook first.  I'm let it scare you So now I was in my zone Yeah, I took them for the hook. Yeah and put me into the song And a I'm gonna tell you something if you like that, I love it Then wait till you hear this It going down. I didn't know what the funny thing is going down. You know what a funny thing What you see? 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And Mrs. Hawaii is my mainland, live streamed Fridays at 3 p.m. keeping it on the bright side and off the grid. Manu Oku, the official bird of the city and county of Honolulu, is being celebrated next week Saturday, May 20th at the second annual Manu Oku Festival. With me to talk about these beautiful winged-axe grubats are Ashin Sidiki, seabird and waterbird coordinator with the Division of Forestry and Wildlife at the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Benton Kaili Peng, Ph.D. biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Joni Peters, coordinator of the Manu Oku Festival and administrator for the Conservation Council for Hawaii, Ana Aikako, Honolulu.  I mean, we didn't know what we were doing really, Joni, but now we're all a little more relaxed because it was such a good time. I know, and it was really popular and well-received in the community. So, give us some of the basic details. What is it? So, this year we're having it at the Iolani Palace grounds at the Coronation Lawn right outside of the Iolani Palace, where it will be on May 20th and it will be from 11 to 3 o'clock. And we will be having two very big craft and activity tents with 24 partners. And people will be able to do crafts, games, and just learn about the Manu Oku. We'll also be having tours, Manu Oku tours will be having a scope. They will try to be, they will try to scope a check so that people can come up and look at a live check. We're also having some characters, some custom character, characters from Metagode. I'm sure you all remember Lani Mu, Lani Mu will be there, also with Kavika Mu. We're also having a custom character come from the Mainland from National Wildlife Federation. His name is Ranger Rick, and so we'll have a lot of fun things for the kids. We'll have free entertainment, we have snacks, we have a custom contest. So I hope everybody dresses up. It's a nature custom contest. That was one of the surprise, really amazing things. People did just incredible things making costumes. There was this toddler that was in a, maybe we'll see the picture of it, an octopus. That's why I thought it was so cute. And then these two little bugs, and then Michelle Schwenkela, whose artwork was in the Honolulu Biennial, she crocheted a Manu Oku with a fish in its mouth and made a very cute, very cute, very cute, she and her son have it, so we never know what's going to happen. But so Manu Oku, these birds, why did they get chosen? Do you know, Kelly? I think what spurred it on was 2007, the Mayor Mufi Hanaman established a proclamation, recognizing the Manu Oku, the white term, as the official bird of Honolulu. Up to that time, it was recognized by the Fish and Wildlife Service being protected and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is recognized by the state of Hawaii as a threatened bird. But this is a unique bird that only, mainly exists in the main Hawaiian islands, only on Oahu, and right now the southern part of Oahu. And so it had a specialist significance to the county of Honolulu. And I think Mayor Mufi Hanaman recognized in that and with efforts of conservation council for Hawaii and some biologists were able to help write up a proclamation recognizing the bird. Culturally, we know the bird is important to navigators. When the bird goes out to search for food, navigators from offshore an island can see that and it will point them in the direction of where the bird is coming from. And as the bird flies back to Fetus Yang with the food in its mouth, the navigators too can follow the bird back to and find the island where those birds are nesting. But these birds migrate. You said they're migratory. So how far do they go? Well, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, they're found on many of the islands, Midway, for example, Laysan, most of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands that you find many white turns there. And but in the main Hawaiian islands from Kaua'i to Hawaii Island, we only find them on Oahu, which is kind of unusual. We have about 700 birds that were found in study in 2003 and about 75% of those birds are all breeding. They don't venture too far off the island. They only go to find fish and they come back to their nest and feed their chicks. So right now in the main Hawaiian Islands, only Oahu and maybe again the southern shore of Oahu doesn't, it's not found past Hickam Air Force Base to the west, it's not found eastward past New Valley. So kind of a restricted area where you find the white turn in the main Hawaiian Islands. But in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, they're all over the place. But for us, living on the main Hawaiian Islands, you want to see them. You only see them mainly in downtown Honolulu, Kapiulani Park, parts of New Valley. I live in New, so I get to see them. You're familiar with them? They're one of my annual markers. But you say they live here full time? I thought they just came back from nesting. I only see them part of the year. Yeah, they are here throughout the year. They primarily are nesting from January to April. Mosin nesting, fledgling is occurring in March. So we're just a little bit past the primary nesting season. But there have been observations of eggs and nesting chicks throughout the year. But most of this I'm constricting in the beginning of the year. I guess we used the wrong word. Didn't we? Nesting season. Oh. That's right. That's one key element that I forgot to mention is that another unique aspect of this bird is that it doesn't produce a traditional nest. It doesn't go and get twigs or leaves of grass to form a nest. It lays directly in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands on the ground in small trees. Some mad made structures in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. And then on Oahu, because we have a lot of cats and mongoose and other predators, they're found in taller trees, kukui, mahogany, monkey pod. And the egg is laid directly onto the branch and balances there. And the mother or father is on top of that egg for, anywhere from two to three months until the chick comes out of that egg and the chick will stay there on that branch. So yes, there is no traditional nest per se. The egg is bare right on the branch and it delicately balances on that branch until it's ready to hatch. That seems like a really fragile way to do reproduction. What shape are these birds in as far as populations? What is their status? Yeah, so we just did a study that was completed in 2016. And so the population actually, from the last census we did, which was in 2002, has dramatically increased actually their population. So we have about 2,300 birds now. Wow, that's quite a big difference. So we had about 700 in 2003 publication and now it's 2,300. 2,300 of which about 1,400 are breeding pairs. So they're doing really well. Now how do you know that? Well, I personally did not go out and count all these birds, but we did have Eric Banderworth along with Rich Downs. They did a lot of the survey work with other volunteers as well, helping out and they counted all these birds. Well, how can they, they look so similar?  So how do they know which bird is which? So these birds generally they'll nest in the same tree. So they'll come back and they'll nest where they nested the previous year. And so when they're nesting, they're there for quite some time because they're coming back, they're sitting on their eggs for like a benton set about a month or so. And then once the chicks hatch, they're constantly going back and feeding the chicks every day. And so it's pretty easy to monitor. They're pretty conspicuous in terms of where they're going. Well, that sounds like a lot of leg room to track down those kind of numbers. But you also knew which ones were part of nesting pairs or whatever we call it, and which weren't. How do you, if the bird isn't going to, do they, even when they're not taking care of young, do they go to particular trees? Yeah, so they just observe the behavior of the bird and then they recognize whether or not they're breeding that year or not. And so these birds will pretend some of them nest once a year but some of them nest up to three times a year. Wow. Yeah. Okay, so now I wonder we got our numbers up. But that's incredible really given that Oahu, they haven't been here a long time, I sort of remember from last year. The first sighting was in 1961 of a breeding pair at Cocoa Head, East Honolulu. So ever since the 1960s, there had been biologists just with Audubon Society volunteers who had been tracking these birds. And then now we have this recent study to continue that work that started in the 60s. But it's kind of unusual. In 1960 is when the first observations began here on Oahu and it's the only place in the main Hawaiian islands we know the white turn exists. And it's also interesting because the range hasn't really changed even though the numbers have increased but the density of the birds have changed. I know in just the years that I've been, I've been four and a half years where I live now and some years we have more pairs than others. This year we only have two pairs. Two years ago we had three pairs. But I guess, you know, things happen and I don't know what's the lifespan of the birds. Does anybody know? The oldest one that we are aware of is 42 years old. Oh yeah. So that's a long one. That's amazing. Do they have just one chick at a time? Yes. Okay. So on the migratory part, some of them are migratory and some of them aren't. I mean I'm a little confused because you said they stay relatively close to home wherever that is but they're also a migratory bird. Well they're protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and they do migrate in terms of feeding but I think their home is like the birds that are here in Honolulu, they stay here generally but we do get birds from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in terms of how far they're going from here we don't really know. Well it's not like the Kolea where it's got an annual track or something like that. No, these birds are resident all year. Okay, okay. And besides the use as a trap for navigation, was there ever any other sort of cultural mention outside of Hawaii? No, there isn't. But maybe I should translate the name, so Manu Oku. Manu is bird in Hawaiian. Kuu is one of the Hawaiian gods and is usually recognized with fishing and so I think the name that the Hawaiians gave it is maybe reflective of its ability to go onto the ocean, fish for fish and come back. Other than that and is used by navigators, I'm not aware of any other cultural uses of the bird. Unlike other sea birds, we have other uses for feathers for different things. Manu Oku seems to be in the literature only for navigational purposes. So because they weren't, so were they here before? I mean if it was in the traditional literature for navigation and then they were here in the 60s, so maybe they were here before and then they disappeared? Yes, and they may have been found on other main islands as well during the time of the early Polynesians and maybe there was a decline where as more people inhabited the islands that could have occurred. But we're just not sure. There is a big gap in the knowledge of the cultural uses of the bird as well as just this biology. We have knowledge of some forest birds that go back to the 1800s, you know. But for this bird, for the main Hawaiian islands, it's mainly found just on Oahu for some reason. Were the feathers used at all? This bird, we don't know that hasn't been found. That type of information hasn't been found yet. Well let's take a little break and then come back and learn more about these beauties. Okay. This is my main love. I'm Kaui Lucas and today I'm talking with Joni Peters, Kaylee Peng, and Ashin Siddiqui about next Saturday's Manu Oku Festival and not just about the festival, about this beautiful bird. It's so delicate looking and they seem to, often one sees them in pairs. Why is that? Well they have a strong pair bond so you'll see often two birds together and then they're very good parents as well. So when the chick is learning to fly and they stay, when they're juveniles and they can fly, they often stay with the adult for a couple months too so you often see three birds flying together. And so that's the parents are teaching the little one how to fly. I live in the back of a valley and so they spend a lot of time and also I work downtown. As you mentioned Kaylee, you see them all over the place. I was surprised when I heard that they eat fish because they seem to spend so much time having really a lot of fun just flying around and spinning cartwheels and stuff. Do we know anything about that? I mean, there's no fish up there? Why they are in the valley, that's a good question. Well they're seabirds and they do eat, mainly they eat goatfish or flying fish and you'll see them coming, as Benton was saying, coming back with fish in their mouth to feed their chicks and they'll do this every day while their chick is being reared during that time period. But the trees that they're choosing are generally these large trees that they're able to fly in and out of easily and perhaps your valley has a lot of those types of trees that they like, I'm not sure. But the playing in the air thing that they seem to do, I don't know if you see them downtown, I was just wondering, are they just having fun? I mean, we tend to think that animals don't spend a lot of time frolicking, but maybe they do, I don't know. I don't know, biologists can't let you pick. Yeah, I'm not sure, I've been followed by that too, just watching them doing those acrobats in the air following one another and even when I think they're landing on a branch they just hover over the branch and they take off again and the other one's following it. So I don't know, I'm a botanist by training, so I learn what I know about the terms actually from Dr. Eric Vanderwerf. But I am also mesmerized by the way they fly and sometimes you can hear their call which sounds like a small little raspy laugh. Wonderful birds. Thank you for putting, I've been trying all day to think of a way to describe the sound they make. Yeah, me too, it's like a raspy laugh or you can kind of like the joker, that type of repetition, but it's kind of raspy and very unique, very different from a pigeon. Some people might mistake it for a white pigeon but the way it flies and the way it sounds is much different. Joni, back to the event on Saturday, we've been showing a few of the pictures. So what kind of activities do you know? There were some amazing ones for kids to do last time. Can you tell me what we have this year? Yes, I know some of them. We will be making little Manuoku chicks and we auto pom poms and it's really cute. The kids love that. We will also be having some games, relay games where the kids will be holding, or adults, will be holding a little branch with an egg and you have to balance the egg and it's a relay game. So that's one of the more exciting games that we will be having. We will also be having a game that you will be trying to pick up little food and try to put it into a spot just like how the Manuoku adults try to feed their chicks the little fish that they gather. So we have a lot of activities. Metagoda, as I mentioned earlier, some type of relay game and the exciting part of that is the kids will get a little treat, a little cold treat from medical for participating in the game. So a lot of fun activities. So I think I read there were over 20 partners in this. I believe we have 24. Wow, that's for only the second time around for a conservation event. We have doubled what we had last year. Yes, Honolulu, really the gathering place. Wow, yeah, you can see some of them. So talk a little bit about Conservation Council for Hawaii. Sure, Conservation Council for Hawaii is a non-profit organization. We're over 60 years old if I remember correctly and our main goal is to preserve or protect the native species, both plant and animal, and or ecosystems for the future generations. That's our main goal and we do that through things like this Manuoku Festival where we talk and educate about the bird, doing fun things for the bird. We also do some policy work. So that's what we mainly do. We network with other organizations as well. I love that this isn't about selling anything. I love that it's free. It was such a nice atmosphere. It was kind of low-tech in a way, but then some fun high-tech stuff like the viewing and learning about the way the scientists are learning about these. But having this be something that's really more about community, having fun, learning. That's right, because it's open and free to the public. Everything is free. So, yeah, come down. Where are you suggesting people park? Downtown is hard to find parking, I think, but Ilani Palace will have some open parking. Street parking will be available this Saturday. It should be good for street parking. The post office has parking lot across the street. That's really easy. Or maybe a leaky place. That's right, yeah. So, Ashene, now that we know that we have 23 of these gorgeous little things, 2300 of them, are they endangered of being unendangered? Well, we can say they're doing well right now, and there are a number of reasons we think that they're doing well. So, like Benton had mentioned, that they're only found in downtown Honolulu, which is kind of odd. Sea bird in downtown Honolulu, that's where they're thriving. And so, one of the things we think is that there are these big trees around. Businesses that are probably doing some kind of rodent control for whatever reason. And the birds might be benefitting from these types of actions. And as well, they're found, even in Waikiki, they'll be in the median strip where the trees are growing. And there might be less predators there because they were surrounded by this traffic area. So there are less cats, possibly there are less mongoose there. So these types of habitats may be okay for the species. One of the issues that we are always concerned about is there's a lot of tree trimming that's occurring in downtown Honolulu, which has been an issue.  I must say I was walking down Richard Street yesterday and they were trimming the trees. And I was looking in the ground. Yeah, and we are working, the state is, and what their partners are working with, some of these tree trimming companies to help identify. Talk to the arborist and he's like, no, we didn't see any of the birds. We looked, we checked. So they know. And a lot of them love these birds too. So it's a good partnership in some cases. There was one in the news recently that was, does anybody know that story? Yeah, it was a state building downtown. News talked about this pair of birds stopping an eight million dollar project. So that was just March. Like I mentioned before, March is one of the prime seasons for the fledgling to come out and eggs. So luckily, some people recognize this as a potential issue. I believe state got involved, our law enforcement got involved, and the contractor was able to just put a stop for a short time until, you know, the nest, the quote unquote nest was left bare, you know, the fledgling would left and the pair mother and father also left. And then the construction could start again. So the tree aspect of it, I know that I'm also involved with the outdoor circle and so we pay a lot of attention to trees. And last year there was some people talking about the trees. I hope they do this year also because that's interesting that here in Hawaii that they're in trees, but in other places they nest on the ground, you said, Fsheen. Or was that... Yeah, they do. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, you can find them on the ground. You can find them in small shrubs and trees about the size of head height, you know, five, six feet tall. But Honolulu is much, much taller. And excuse me, it's because of predators. We don't have... Northwestern Hawaiian Islands don't have rats and mongoose. And so the birds can be close to the ground. And other seabirds are there as well. But in Honolulu, even though we have a thriving turn population here, they're still threatened by some of the feral cats you see around, rats that come out at night time. But I'm glad to hear that the population is doing so well. So a few years back, I happened to be walking through the palace grounds. One of the chicks had fallen down and somebody knew who to call. Any of you happen to know who to call now? Yeah, so actually there is a Huey Manuakoo Citizen Science Project. And actually there's a person named Richard Downs who's been an amazing volunteer or organizer of this Huey. And he is a person who would be the best person to respond. So how does someone get in touch with him? Yeah, so we have some pamphlets, but I have his phone number I can share. Yeah, sure. Please do. Please do. I should find it. But yeah, he would be the first person to call. So Huey Manuakoo. Maybe people can Google Huey Manuakoo. There is a website. And his number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And his name is Richard Downs. And the reason why we want to call him first, because he is able to hopefully put the chick back in its nesting tree, so that the parents will come back and feed it and it'll have a normal life and fudge normally. Because otherwise, and we have, you know, it's a little bit more difficult for the chick to survive if we have to try to rehabilitate it and if it's taken away from where it's naturally found. So the first response is we want to take it back to exactly the tree that it's been found in. Well, thank you all for coming here down to our studio, Think Tech Studio today and talking about this. I hope I will see you at least. Yes. Next Saturday at the Iolani Palace. Thanks for sharing your both of you, all of you. Aloha. Aloha.


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Hello and welcome to Abledon on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the differently able. I'm your host, Lauren Seiler. I'm Ian Seiler. And on this program, today we focus on the Vermont Worker Center. The Vermont Worker Center was created in 1998 by the, and it is a statewide grassroots organization of individuals and families who are committed to standing for justice and they have hundreds of individual members around the state who work and who work over with a dozen partner organizations, unions, churches and community groups, etc. With us to discuss the Vermont Worker Center, which is also part of the Poor People's Campaign, is Leanna Gayet and Christine Smith. Welcome to Abledon on Air, how you doing? Thank you. What exactly are you guys doing for the Vermont Worker Center now, because we know that there's strikes going on with nurses and health care and that's important. So what exactly are you doing? We are trying to get the word out for everybody to be able to get universal health care. What exactly is universal health care? Is health care for everybody? Nobody is excluded. It doesn't matter if you're in poverty or you're getting a lot of money. It's for everybody. Well, in your opinion, because you know that they're trying now, I've done research that's trying to, during this current administration, they're trying to cut Medicare and Medicaid and make it horrible for people to have health care, because recently now, for example, in Burlington, nurses are striking and you can't strike when people need nurses. What is your opinion on that? When you have patients going into the ER, the first people you see are the nurses. You don't see the doctors first. And you know, if you see a doctor first without any kind of triage, the doctor doesn't know what's going on. They're just listening to what you tell them. So going through a nurse is better because you can give them basically everything that they need to know to pass it on to the doctors and then they can evaluate you more. Leanna, how important for you is health care, knowing that this current administration is cutting stuff? Well, right now, health care is very important to me because without insurance or whatever, I would have to pay hospitals and doctors and specialists. Since this is part of the, and the Poor People's Campaign got started by the Martin Luther King Jr., how is this part of the Poor People's Campaign or what is different about this and the Vermont Worker Center, both? The Poor People's Campaign goes along with the Vermont Worker Center and we go to board meetings with the Green Island Health Care Board and people testify about why insurance companies don't need a raise and whatnot because the last board meeting we went to, they wanted, Blue Cross Blue Shield wanted a raise and NVP Health Care wanted a raise. A raise as far as employees or deductibles? They wanted to raise the rates to where Blue Cross Blue Shield wanted like 12% to 13%. The Poor People's Campaign and Vermont Worker Center won that one. They only got like 3%. Thank goodness. So we did win that one, yes. Thank goodness because they, and they're wages. Why do they want to raise the rates though?  That's what they want. It is. It is.  Yes, it is.  You need to get the right plan fit for you, not for five and six thousand more people that pay the same. Okay. There's something called slamming. What that means is that you'll get something in the mail stating that you must have this health care situation and not your own. What's wrong with that? They are trying to get you to drop your own and pay for their plans. But it doesn't work because a lot of people cannot afford it. No. You've got low income families. You've got people who can't afford to even put food on their table. Yes. So how in the world are they going to be able to, they're going to have to choose between having food or health care. I'd rather choose both and have Medicaid and Medicare instead of having a high priced insurance rates and not be able to afford anything. And I've been going around town here in Montpelier. In terms of the, I wanted to get to the petition. What exactly are you guys trying to do with those petitions?  Once you get all those signatures, what are those signatures represent? We've got to follow up with the people that have signed the petitions and see if they're interested in becoming a member of the Vermont Worker Center. And some people say yes. Some people say no. So it all depends. Some people are afraid to sign because they're afraid that, okay, if I get involved with this, my benefit is going to be taken away because of it. Exactly. That's not what we stand for. We basically stand for, you know, trying to get everybody insured, not just one person. Everybody, yeah. Because we know that Bernie, the Bernie Sanders just won the primary, hopefully, because he's trying to fight for good health care. And that's what we need, you know, on our back door. You know, we go out with these petitions and, you know, we knock on the doors and we, you know, let them know who we are and who we're with and explain a little bit about, you know, why we do this and then ask them about what their health care is like, you know, if they're happy with it or if they don't have none or are they fighting for it. But some people don't want us to know. But, you know, the more that you can ask questions and then get their own story, you know, then we get them to see if they want to sign the petition. But we also encourage them and invite them to our dinners to where that we have once a month so we can understand their stories and share their stories with other OCs, which is organization committees. Right now, Washington County is so far the only organization in Vermont that does the dinners once a month. And you know, we have our turnouts and then we have slow turnouts, but we get our point across. And your point is, good health care now, co-pays, right, a lot of people in terms of, because originally we're from New York. Vermont in New York, the Medicaid in New York has no co-pays. What the heck? When we get here to Vermont, we have co-pays, co-pays, co-pays on medications, so I'm going to use why is there, in your opinion, should there be co-pays or shouldn't there be? I don't think there should be co-pays because a lot of people can't afford them. No. It's two, three bucks each time, but you can add that up, 30, 40 bucks a month. Yeah. And for me, with my Medicaid, I hit my deductible pretty quick. Okay. What is a deductible? A deductible is what you pay out of pocket. Once you've hit that, then your medicines are free. You don't have to pay the rest of the year. A lot of people are not that lucky. No. They're really not, and they're struggling to pay for that. I've gone into pharmacies and people will go and pick up their medicines, oh, I can't afford this. And even if it's a dollar or two dollars, sometimes they will waive that. Oh, they do waive it. It depends on the pharmacy. Yes, it depends on the pharmacy. I've had a couple of mine waived, but the majority of the time I've been able to pay. But it's hard. It's either do we need milk or do we need medicine? I think we need medicine more than we need milk. Well, the three things that are mainly important, rent, food on the table, clothes on your back, and bills. I mean, people can wear newspaper, but it doesn't work like that. It doesn't. And then it's like your medicines are on the back burner. You can die without having no medicine. So going back to your question about the Vermont Worker Center and the Poor People's Campaign, we're all about the same thing. We come together as a full circle, as one. We put our voices all together and get these petitions. And then we want to take them. We want to get so many of them, so many. And take them to the governor and say, look, we're not going to back down. We are not. You're not going to push us around and say, well, no, you don't need health care. You know, for me, I would say, well, if the governor wants to do that, then maybe he don't need a phone. He don't need medicine. He don't need a house. He don't need clothes on his back.  And then maybe he will sign this Act 48. It's already been passed in 2011. Let him push it and say, yes, we do need this universal health care for all. In terms of phone and everything else, health care is extremely important. In certain states, people are buying $1,200 cell phones and not even paying them rent. And we don't have good health care. They don't have a pan. What's more important? A phone, I understand people, I mean, they took away pay phones pretty much. But I understand you need a phone. But why are you paying $1,200 when you need a bandaid or you need an aspirin? An aspirin in the hospital, I think, I'm not sure you're still paying for aspirin, but years ago, $10, $20 just for one aspirin is crazy. All the medicine that you get in the hospital is on your bill anyway. Yeah, pretty much. Aspirin is along right with it, you know? Pretty much. In terms of what people's care paid, now you guys are similar or you guys are working together. But what exactly how does that play into? We do work together. We do rallies together. We go to different towns and do a rally. We just did one in June in St. John'sbury. We had the Poor People's Campaign. We had the Vermont Workers' Center. And I think there was a couple other different groups. And that went really well. We marched up and down, I guess, basically I think it was Main Street there. And there was quite a few people that were out watching us and stuff, and it was an amazing turnout. And we did a picket line here in Montpelier in front of the city hall. And some of the Green Mountain Board members actually saw us outside doing it as they walked into the city hall for the board meeting. But I'm not really sure if they said anything to us or not. Only two of them did. When we all went into the city hall to go speak at the Green Mountain Care Board, I was one of them that spoke, and I told the two people that did stop and talked to us. I actually told them that we appreciate that they have heart. It was like the other care boards. They just didn't seem to have heart. They didn't care. What happens if they have nothing? That's right. How would they feel? Even then, people driving by us also honked their horns when they saw us do it. And I got some compliments because Channel 5 News was there, and some people saw it on TV. So I got some compliments from the building that I live in. Now, in terms of, you know, because in certain states, you have to wait like 16, 17, 18 hours to be treated. You guys are fighting for good health care. In your opinion, especially in Vermont, the hospitals, like in terms of lack of staff, now because of ... I want to ... How is it important not to wait so long for treatment? For example, CBH, also known as the University of Vermont Medical Center. You either wait there like half an hour just sitting in the waiting room, waiting for triage. But people come in by ambulance and they are treated much quicker than the other patients are. So would you like to see ... I would like to see the nurses treat patients on time so we don't have to sit around and wait forever for a nurse or a doctor to come in and talk to us. My opinion is if you come in by an ambulance, it's more tragic than if you come in with a broken arm. Well, you have somebody shot or something. Exactly. So you have to put those patients first. The ones in the waiting room, it doesn't ... When I go, it's not as long. Just when you get in the room, you have so many doctors to so many patients and you have to understand their situation too because if you have someone that comes in critical at the same time that you're back in the back of the room, which one are you going to choose? You're going to choose that critical one before and I can understand that I've worked on both sides of healthcare. As what, nurses? No, I'm almost like an LNA, but I worked with MR patients. A lot of people don't understand what that is, but it's mentally ... Not your tradition. Yes. Which we don't say anymore. Exactly. We're not supposed to say. As a matter of fact, yes. We're not supposed to because it's a category and everybody is a category, which they should not be. Some hospitals here in Vermont still have, when I came to Vermont to be treated for a seizure, they still have that on the medical form, mental retardation. Yes. Because if they don't know exactly what is wrong, they want to make sure that they're going to diagnose you the correct way and not mess it up. There still are doctors and stuff that still mess things up, but they're only human like we are. Another thing for the Vermont Worker Center and put poor people first is healthcare is a human right. Everybody deserves to have it. Like housing. Housing, exactly. That's another issue. It is. I just found out Sunday that the shelter in Berry put 50 people in houses. So they're trying to eliminate homelessness by 2020 and they're starting off pretty good. I still see a lot of homelessness on the streets. Homelessness in healthcare is like together. It's like, if you're on the street, let's say you're on the street, okay?  The elements in the wintertime can put somebody in the hospital. That's why they have overflow shelters. Yeah, they just renewed it in a Bethany test. Yeah, they just renewed the overflow here in Montpelier. And I think they had like $30,000 put into it, just so homelessness in the wintertime can decrease. Yeah, because the shelter helps people with Medicare, they help them with health insurance if they need it, they help them with other things. And I understand that you have Montpelier is building a bus station with apartments above it, but that's not going to take everybody off the streets. Like the abandoned buildings in Barrie, they need to turn those into apartment buildings. They do. So what do you think would come first here? They could put apartments. Do you think? Okay. Instead of making it a parking lot. But there's one thing that needs to be fixed. You think the healthcare system in the United States as a whole need to be fixed because if certain countries like Israel, Ireland, and European countries have free healthcare or universal. I do. And they do. And I think USA needs to have the same. Honestly. Instead of waiting until somebody is like 65 and then be like, okay, they get free medical. They should help the disabled and the low income people and be like, okay, they need free Medicare to help them with whatever. And so do you think the millionaires or the people that the rich people need to help out the poor people, if possible, with the whole healthcare? And there's been rich people that have been homeless, too. You know? Yeah, but rich people that are homeless don't stay homeless for long unless they go bankrupt. So how do you think the self care problem should be fixed? What is your main take on it? My main take on it is that we all need to come together and have one voice and show up at the state house and say, look, please help us. Don't put us on the back burner anymore.  Yeah, they can. But what happens if they go from having all this money to having zero? They're going to need healthcare, you know, let them help support us for a while and give us what we need. Because they're getting all the tax breaks. They don't have to worry about anything. All the tax breaks are coming down on us, which is putting us all in a bind. They should put on the middle class. They should put on the rich more. Exactly. Why should we have to pay them? They get away with murders. It's not good. Yeah, but I think that we all need to just come together as one nation, like it says, you know. One nation under God. Thank you. Yes. It all needs to be like the pledge. We all need to come together. We all need to stick together. What are the future goals of my work? Keep fighting. Keep fighting. Keep going to these boards, the Green Mountain Care Board and saying what we think and basically giving them hell for wanting to keep raising the prices up and have the support. That's basically what we're looking for, is the support and the people that join our cause. You can have people say no, but then they think about it after you leave. Wow, they make a lot of sense. How do I get in contact with them? So I'm just going to put this out there. There is an OC meeting on the 13th of September at the Green Church in Berry, which is an organization committee. Okay. Organizing committee. And our dinners are every 4th Saturday of the month. If you would like more information on the Vermont Worker Center or any event that they're having that's coming up, please contact the Vermont Worker Center at www.vermontworkercenter.org or vwc.org. Thank you.


Alright, hi everyone. So the last search trick that I want to share with you is the process for searching within journals at Janks. This can also be another really quick and powerful way to help narrow down your search a little bit. So I mentioned in the searching the database video that it's always a good idea to start paying attention to the types of journals or the names of journals that are appearing over and over again in your search. Often times when we conduct research we see a collection of journals that seem to be publishing information about our topics. So take note of those. And when you do find the name of a journal, you can actually come here to our library homepage, go over to the journals tab, and use this search journal finder feature to search by name of the journal that you're looking for and then search within it. If you're wondering, well, I really want to do that. That sounds like a good idea, but I don't know any journals about my particular topic. You can actually use the second link down here where it says Use Browsing. Browsing is a browsable journal database essentially that pulls from all of our major databases and any other online subscriptions that we might have. So if you're not sure what journals to look for or which ones yet, you can come over here and you can browse by subject area. So communication and fine arts live under the social science and behavioral science subject area. So you can come in there and then click on communications and journalism and get a further subject breakdown of major communication journals that we have available. So you can come over here and maybe pick one. Let's go down to this one about rhetoric, composition and speech. Since that's the example that we're working with and a really good one for this particular student was rhetoric and public affairs. So we could come in here and see the current volume that's available and then drill into other ones as well. So browsing can be a way for you to actually discover what journals might be out there on your particular topic. But to search within it, we are actually going to go back to the homepage and now I'm going to click on that search journal finder. So I'm going to type in the name of the journal I'm looking for rhetoric and public affairs and click search. And what I'm looking for is does janks have access to this and yes it does in two different options here. So we could search either CMMC or we could search JSTOR. I'm going to pick CMMC since that's a database we are familiar with if you've watched the other video I created for you. So when we land on the journal landing page within our CMMC database, we can click on this link that says search within this publication. And then this allows us notice on our search box at the top here as a little JN for journal. So we're searching within this particular journal and then we can throw in some keywords. So let's keep with our keywords that we were working with before. We're going to do rhetoric again on my first line and then we also want to do division and go ahead and click search. So it's the same search box that we were seeing before, same search construction as when we were doing the database search. But we're searching in a little bit different way, searching within a journal here. So we get a list of five results. But the idea behind searching within a journal is that you're scoping your search a little bit to be a little bit narrower and hopefully a little bit more specific to what it is that we are looking for. So pay attention to those journals that you're seeing a lot. Try to use a search within this feature and you can use some basic keywords to see if there's other potential articles that might be out there. Thanks.