It is now time for Member Statements. The Member for London North Centre. Speaker, the government has previously said in this legislature that there will be no pause or delay when it comes to funds promised to the Thames Valley District School Board. And yet, teachers and parents at Masonville Public School are still waiting for the government to sign off on the funds needed to expand and repair their school. Masonville is relying on this investment to address critical overcrowding. Half of their students are stuck learning in the schools over 13 portables, two of which are in the parking lot. 300 students are forced to share a single washroom and the boys washroom has only two stalls. Currently, the school's gymnasium can't even fit all of its students inside. Speaker, Masonville students deserve better. Under the school's new design, the gym will be expanded to include a general arts room, a beautiful stage and room to host athletic events. Students and their parents deserve a place where they can gather as a community and celebrate their academic, artistic and athletic achievements. Funding for the school's expansion will do just that. The designs are completed, all the legwork is done. We're just waiting for the government to act and not engage in an overly difficult review process. If these funds aren't issued soon, construction could be delayed for yet another year. Masonville had to wait long enough under the previous Liberal government. Enough is enough.  Let's release these funds so that London students can attend the school they deserve. Thank you. Member, statements to Member for Perry Sound, Moscow. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm excited to rise today to celebrate the accomplishments of the West Perry Sound Health Centre. This week the West Perry Sound Health Centre has been awarded accreditation candidates accreditation with exemplary standard standing for the second time in a row. Accreditation Canada's criteria balances global best practices with community needs to assess all aspects of a health organization. West Perry Sound Health Centre was compliant with 100% of the required organizational practices and has a 97.6% compliance rate with over 2,000 accreditation standards. CEO Donald Sanderson proudly accepted the recognition on behalf of West Perry Sound Health Centre, crediting this word to their team's commitment to quote, quality improvement and the delivery of compassionate, patient-centered care. The West Perry Sound Health Centre has always been an icon for compassion within the community. They have long-term care facility, acute care programs, six nurse practitioners led clinics and deliver services to rural communities. They continue to offer innovative health programs will simultaneously being recognized as a pay-setter hospital for their consecutively balanced budgets. I want to thank Accreditation Canada for their work maintaining a high standard of care in our health system and offer my congratulations to the frontline team members, physicians, health professionals, volunteers, board members and staff of West Perry Sound Health Centre for this tremendous accomplishment. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member Statements, Member for Algoma, Manitoula. Well thank you Speaker and I want to recognize Dr. Dieter Porn from Little Current and he received Canada's Family Physician of the Year working in rural and remote areas in one of the most difficult job in Canada's Canadian medicine when it requires a high level of expertise, broad skill sets, excellent interpersonal skills and leadership skills. That is according to W.E. Osman M.D. Other friends of his, Dr. Stephen Cooper says he is a very capable competent physician and throughout his career he has demonstrated his ability, his skill sets and knowledge make him stand above. He is a silent leader not in your face kind of guy but he knows what is right and at the right time he delivers it on every situation from Dr. McCrae. Dr. Porn is wonderful. He has served the community for a long time and is most collegial with doctors and in other communities. He also takes fitness very seriously and he practices what he preaches from Dr. Hamilton. It is an award that is well deserved. He has also been involved in teaching for many, many years from Dr. Maureen Reed as the rural physician Dr. Porn has practiced the full range of practice. She notes that from some two decades Dr. Porn has served as a corner on Manitoulin Island. He has served as an important role model for the Northern School of Medicine and from Dr. Roy Jeffries Dr. Porn owns special interests in sports medicine has been a tremendous asset to the muscular skeletal ailment segment of the medical students curriculum. Speaker, he deserves all the accolades that we could provide him. Thank you. Thank you. Member statements. The member for Markham Union Dome. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last Sunday, I attended a walk a mile in her shoes event hosted by Yellow Break House at Markville Mall in my writing of Markham Union Dome. This event entailed many men and women marching together in women's footwear like high heels to demonstrate their solidarity with victims of domestic abuse. This form of abuse is all too common in our communities and not all victims has the opportunity to seek help. However, this sort of events contribute to raise awareness of this occurrence which may help women and children and during this form of abuse to come forward with their preferences to those who can help them. Mr. Speaker, our government has proven to the people of Ontario that we care about women's issues and are employing efforts to alleviate the severity of domestic abuse in our province. Just recently, our government has pledged to invest 11.5 million in supporting our shelters and is appointing consultative committee on violence against women. This is soon. It will help vulnerable women and children and is a concrete step towards resolving this issue. And we are collecting shoeboxes to support shelters in this week. So please support it. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member's statements. The member from Mrs. Saga. No, Brampton Center. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Last night, I had the pleasure to attend a community meeting at the night's table in Brampton that was actually organized by the Peel Poverty Action Group, Tough Times newspaper, and Annie Bino, the executive director of the night's table. The night's table is a food bank in Brampton, actually in my riding, one of the only that we have access to in Brampton. And at this meeting, many community members shared with us their concerns around cuts to social assistance programs and, you know, the very services that they were dependent on. One gentleman in particular shared his concern about not being able to purchase a new pair of shoes. He asked that I would bring this concern here to the legislature and perhaps even ask our premier if he would be willing to take his shoes and try to walk a mile in them. I hope that I do have an opportunity to discuss that with the premier in the very near future. The night's table has seen a dramatic increase in their usage, doubling, in fact, last year. They served 3,879 people in the city of Brampton. That's a staggering number of people accessing our food banks. And as we head into the holiday season, I just want to take this opportunity to remind us all, wherever you are in the province, please find your local food bank, learn how you can engage with them, hold a food donation drive, or in fact just take a couple of non-perishable items to your own local food bank and make sure that everyone can have a very happy holidays, a merry Christmas, and a very happy New Year. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Member Statements, a member for Ottawa South. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I'd like to say a few words about Mike Foley, who was a member of Ottawa's hockey community. Mike passed away on November 17th. He was a devoted and caring son, an older brother, a great husband, father, and grandfather. Mike dedicated his life to hockey as a player, a coach, a fan, and a photographer. He was a member of the Ottawa Senators' Equipment Staff for 26 years. He coached his daughters, cheered on his granddaughters, and continued to play hockey on Sunday mornings. Mike and I were friends when we were teenagers at our cottage in Norway Bay. Spent a number of really kind of glorious and fun summers together. And even though I haven't really seen Mike much in more than four decades, I know that he continued to be the kind and fun loving and always willing to help person that he was then. So to his mother, Gwen, his wife, Nancy, brother Jay, his daughters, Julie Allison, his grandchildren, Haley, Cameron, Tessa, and Hannah, and to his Ottawa Senator family, Mike was truly the kind of person we all want to be. Generous with his time, loving to others around him, and although I haven't seen him, as I said, in almost four decades, seen him a few times, I'm really proud to have known him. So on behalf of Mike's family, I'll put this across, it was in his remembrance in the paper. Mike would like us all to say hello to everyone that we come across. Even if you don't have time to stop and talk, just say hi. You'd like that. Thank you, Speaker. Member Statements, and Member for Durham. Thank you, Speaker. I rise today to voice my support for the Lakeridge Health Bowmanville Hospital Redevelopment and Expansion Project. Speaker, the Bowmanville Hospital has been in long need of a substantial renovation and update. The incredible frontline healthcare workers are challenged daily to meet the demands of a growing community. Speaker Durham is one of the fastest growing regions in Ontario, and the Bowmanville Hospital had its last expansion approximately 30 years ago. One of the major priorities our party set and communicated in this year's election campaign was ending hallway healthcare. In order to bring an end to hallway healthcare in Durham, we must make an outdated and overcrowded hospital a thing of the past. My constituents in Durham will only increasingly rely upon the services provided by our community hospital in Bowmanville in the years to come, and we need to make sure the services are there when people need them most. Speaker, I will continue to be a strong voice of support as Lakeridge Health works with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to move forward in the approval and planning process. I want to thank the minister and her hardworking team of staff and officials for their commitment to ending hallway healthcare in Durham and province-wide. And I want to specifically recognize the Bowmanville Hospital Foundation for their ongoing efforts to raise funds for this important project. Together and with the support of the municipality of Clarington, we will make this redevelopment project a reality. Thank you. Member statements. The member for Tomiskaming Cochran. Thank you. On Friday night, I had the pleasure of attending Tomogamy Country Christmas, one of the most beautiful light shows I think in the province. And as you know, lights form an important part of this holiday season. And for those of us in the Christian faith, probably the most important light was the star of Bethlehem. Everyone knows the story, how the wise men followed the star to find the Christ child. A part of the story that isn't told as often is that the wise men stopped first to visit King Herod. And they told the story of the Christ child and King Herod became envious and became jealous.  And Mary and Joseph and the Christ child had to cross the border into Egypt. And at that point, the Christ child was an asylum seeker. And we in the Christian faith and many other faiths have to realize that at this time of year, we have to be lights, lights of mercy and lights of compassion. Because the people on which, the person on which our faith was built was at one time needed the help of others. And he was given it. We always have to remember that. Merry Christmas. Joyeux Noël. Prétec castor. Thank you. Member statements, the member for Brampton South. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I would like to highlight the great work that's being done in Brampton and the Costa Peel region by the Boys and Girls Club of Peel. I'm proud to announce that the Boys and Girls Club of Peel, which happens to be located in my riding, received a three-year grant of $659,900 from the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The focus of this funding is to help improve the family dynamic and strengthen the relationships between parents, children, and the community. This is achieved by providing educational workshops, physical activities such as exercise classes, support groups such as social groups, gardening clubs, sewing clubs, family nights, and many other parent-led initiatives. The programs are currently focused on helping families and youth in two local, low-income neighborhoods. And now with the OTF funding, I'm thrilled to announce they will be able to expand into two more areas in both Brampton and Mississauga. The Boys and Girls Club of Peel has been providing vital programs for young people in our community for many years. I'm pleased to see that the Ontario Trillium Foundation is supporting the community organization and the great work that they have been doing across the region. I want to thank the Ontario Trillium Foundation for seeing the true value of the Boys and Girls Club of Peel and what they bring to the community. Our government for the people is committed to making life more easier for Ontario families and businesses, and we continue to deliver on that promise. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For statements, member from Mississauga, Aaron Mills. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take a moment today to talk about the Mississauga Santa Cruz Barade that happened last Sunday, December 2nd, in my beautiful riding of Mississauga Aaron Mills. This is the second annual Santa Cruz Barade happening in Mississauga Aaron Mills, a ceremonial parade that celebrates Christmas, an initiative presented by the Mississauga News and the Mississauga Aaron Mills Auto Center that I am proud of and fully support. I had the pleasure to walk in the parade with my team and many supporters, giving out candies and spreading the Christmas cheers, seeing Mykonosthetian Sea and a smile on their faces. Mr. Speaker, it gives me a great pleasure to see the smile on the face of children seeing Santa Cruz enjoying the parade and the candy cans. Kids and children from all ages and all ethnicities, there were about 30,000 attendees this year and over 50 groups, floats and entertainers, totaling 1,000 individuals, including all of the volunteers. I want to thank all the organizers and volunteers for amazing work they did, and I want to wish Mississauga Aaron Mills and all of Mississauga and Ontario a very merry Christmas, a happy hunker, happy holidays, and a happy new year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.


Alright let's get started everybody. Let me get a little chat back. Let's see if everybody can hear me, okay? Good morning everybody. Good to see you Dennis, Andrea. Good to see you all. Let me change get some lighting over here. I see a little bit better. It looks good. Alright good to see everybody on YouTube Facebook Live looks good. Yep I got this person S. I don't know who you are But yes, we were looking at that that CH that CHEK is doing really really well this morning We've been trading that one Had a really good talk a little bit more about it, but had a really really nice pop nice iceberg orders on that one on level 4 So that looks good. Linda. Good to see you all. Good to see you Gary. Jamal. Good to see you all Randy listen first of all like to welcome all the new Cyber traders that are in our cyber trading room today. I always tell you to start on a Monday So you have a nice fresh week what to expect and see how what we do here and once again if you're on YouTube Facebook, obviously if you want to join us our trading room just like us friend us on the bottom and click the little alarm and Just do a $9 trial enjoy us for a week, but for the ones that are here that are here for the first time I just want to let everybody know you're only here to watch. Okay, please don't buy anything Don't trade anything that we're doing. You're here to see if all the people make money doing this You're in the original trading room that we start over 25 years ago And you know and then you're gonna see why we've been around for so long But most importantly it's not about me or my instructors and staff It's all about seeing hey Can we teach you how to think for yourself because remember it's not about the winners It's the losers everyone has an issue with and you want to see how we take care of our losers not the winners But let's go over a couple of stocks that obviously of moving on obviously you could see the CH EK doing great right now. Just want to bring up the level four so you can see what's going on We just got a nice little pop right here you could see that there was a really big little iceberg order that showed up right here on the bottom and Looks like the guy did get did buy a little bit, but now all of a sudden starting to make this big push I'd like to stop for a while. You can see here from this morning. What's it broke through this? We were watching it around 8 30 had a really tough time breaking this 370 I mean it's 360 355 was going back and forth now the stock is already at 380 That's not bad. You know listen 30 cents Thousand shares three hundred dollars. We're gonna make that you know what still wait for that stimulus check for 1400 I'd rather do this better. It's a lot easier a lot faster less stressful and they make it a lot easier But anyway, there's a couple more that I'm moving but I want to talk about what happened last week before we start going through the watch list because we had a couple of nice little stocks that did move and Obviously, I want to start off with what everyone's very familiar with the reddit stock. So I want to talk about AMC AMC last last week had a really nice run up and let me just bring this out So you see a little better so you can see that AMC is obviously been having a really nice push and You know the tough thing about AMC is that it's got these shakes at certain times, but you can see it I mean just on on Friday. We did really really well with it It went from the 980 and a shot straight up all the way to 11 dollars really nice move And it did it literally in about 30 minutes, you know, we're getting a nice little gap up already this morning I like to going into the I like to going into holding the weekend because you could see it was hovering and Closing at the highs of the day, which is a really good sign now The thing is on the long-term chart is what we have to look at right here You got major resistance levels here at around 12 right on 1250s 1274 right around there Until it breaks that resistance levels then the stock obviously kind of a good run But but you could see it's got to get past that Ceiling, you know, that's your major major resistance levels And I know you all know about game stop I mean I have to go back and forth about that But that thing literally came down to 50 dollars after making a big 500 all run the things already at 276 Listen, I don't I don't own it. I didn't trade it. Just gonna let everybody know that That it's it's a pretty volatile stock. So it's somebody's gonna get burned. Somebody's gonna burn. Listen Do you really this how I answer this question? Do you really think game stop is worth more than United Airlines? Yeah, do you really think you know that this should be at 280 and Delta Air Launch should be at 50 Okay, so it's fun, you know, it's the fun training it but guys got to be careful because somebody, you know You know how conservative we are when it comes to trading we get in we get out we get really nervous and You can see how the things back off pretty quickly So but I feel a little more comfortable trading stop like AMC but because it's still at $12 still You know, we're always got our finger on that on that button another stock They made a really interesting move was snapchat on Friday, right? Snapchat had a really nice move snapchat took a big hit on what to 75 went down to 50 Had a little bit of come back. We did really well in the clothes on Friday on snapchat also But you know, once again, it's a little inexpensive side You know, we're not really a fan of trained expensive stocks, but it was okay And I just want to finish off with one of the stock timber because the stock obviously I'm probably gonna put it back On the watch list add a really nice move a little cheap little stock that one did well and can let's not forget about can Can this was just literally in February was a five dollar stock shot up broke all-time highs went to 40 on on Friday, it was it was a great run-up 32 to 39. Are you kidding me? That's what we trade That's what day traders all about and I know you guys do really well and the list goes on and on but listen That's the past. That's what happened last week. It's a new week The good thing about what we do is like it's never you're never out of business There's always gonna be new ones. There was a lot of stocks to move last week, but once again You saw that they moved you have something to look forward to here's a new brand new week to start all over again So overall last week up. I was basically four for five I won every single day other than Wednesday, and that was a time of Thompson. I own the last couple hundred bucks I wasn't that bad on on a on a Wednesday, but shockingly Monday and Friday Which is my worst days, you know, I'm batting 50 50 actually did pretty well on it So anyway, let's talk about what's moving this morning Let's go hop over here. What's going on with the check? Let's go check it out. All right Let's go see what's happening. This stock is moving really nicely You can see that the market does open at seven o'clock. There are people all the time they keep ask How do you guys trade pre-market is because you got the rule brokerage account But anyway check is doing really well at a really big pop at a dollar fifty stock is up a hundred and fifty percent so far It's up two dollars and thirty three cents beautiful push. Look at that. We're already at 390 and it does. I don't see any side of backing off Let me go look over here really quick on my iceberg. Okay, so here you guys ready to want to learn a little bit more about Cybertrain University's iceberg orders. You got about 300,000 share seller just popped up at four bucks What do you think is gonna happen at four? So when we find out you got to jump in the trading room. All right But maybe if it's something does happen, we'll go check on it But there's a couple of the stocks that are moving obviously that was the stock that we've been trading this morning Since about eight o'clock When we all jumped into the room, there's a couple of the ones I do want to bring up I want to start off with F. A. M. I let me take that off the So you guys can see a little bit better on YouTube F. A. M. I there we go. So that one, you know had a really really nice poach I'm just keeping an eye and see what's happening right for four dollars right there See if the guy gets done or not On that C. H. E. K. So anyway, you got a nice little iceberg order that Prevented the stock and going higher on this F. A. M. I had a nice push here at 325 But remember when we get to something like this, you could see it started trend down that took a big You know hit, you know from where it was but it's still up We saw this happen before and all of a sudden these things obviously take off, you know at the open Well, it's gonna be on the watch list because it is up It's got already traded 5 million shares and that is obviously an alert to me I just want to keep an eye on this right here. Hold on Where am I just looking over here on this iceberg order? You see you see that guy out there for two to everybody see that 280,000 shares see how the thing is literally going up there. It's almost there. It's gonna test this guy I want to see what it does Maybe get a little lesson here. I'm gonna teach you guys I'm gonna throw a little bone in there for some of you people online because you're kind of looking at it You've seen it Guess what it's not a unicorn It's not a rainbow, but it really is a real order and you know what you could see when it hits something like that You see what ends up happening now. It's starting to go down. All right, so anyway, why would that happen? Why would that happen, you know, why would the stock go down, right? Yeah, it was a Fibonacci that did it. It's the Fibonacci ACER another stock that's moving pretty decently stocks up by 66% Stock is obviously you had a nice little push. She started breaking down right around 7 a.m She's got some nice support levels here around 550. I see there's some iceberg orders out there, too Nice spread nice tier sizes good volume. Like I said, just like just like the fami You know, sometimes it'll pop up out of the open But as of right now, it doesn't have the really nice trend as the as the check But you know, we'll see how it works out when it opens up. What else we got here. We got the One that's here. What else we got? Ebon. Remember Ebon? Ebon was Unbelievable on fry. I've got to throw that one in the last couple of days. Ebon obviously is still on a move Let me bring this up so you guys can see a little bit bigger So Ebon was also a stock I've got to mention on which was a huge winner on Friday The stock were from 720 up until 11 o'clock shot up to about 1050 by a thousand shares of that What does that add up to? Oh about maybe three thousand dollars on a thousand shares. Yeah, do that every single day You're talking about three quarters of a million dollars. That's why we're in the trading business But anyway, it's up again this morning. That's what happened in the past today Looking at it. It's got a nice little trend. It's gapped up a little bit I'm gonna put this back on the watch list. It does got major resistance levels though right around 13 Okay, if you were here on Friday, you know that because we saw some massive massive iceberg waters By the way, I'm getting close to that four dollars. I think the guys didn't get hit Think the guys gonna get hit just gonna bring this over here. It looks like the guys getting tested Yeah, he's gonna hit look at that. He just sold 50,000 shares sold a hundred He saw 200 he's getting done. The thing is gone. That's what I'm calling talking about when you break iceberg orders like that What does that do? Somebody wants it the stock goes higher. That's why that's how resistance levels get broken fellow traders now Let's go on because I get ready to trade Couple of the stocks that I'm moving to this morning We got N-tech All right flat Little trend right here looks like it's you know, it's up eighty five percent, but it's it's holding right here Let's see how that one opens up. I don't think uh Too much news on it that made it push yet, but it's up another one. That's up this morning I NVO nice little trend nice little push right there 550 went up to six dollar almost 756 50 About twenty three percent three hundred thousand not as much as the other one, but that's also not bad We keep an eye on that the open and the a EZ s one last one very cheap little stock nice little trend Very inexpensive everybody could afford this stock, you know, this is something that we're looking at Now that bit that basic. Oh another one keep an eye on IA AI AI the stock took a major hit This is more of a swing trade, but this one did pretty well on Friday, too It was a hundred and seven dollar stock went all the way down to 75 Start to make a little bit of a push and obviously all the airlines What we got going on over here just want to bring this back over here So guys to see what's going on you can see the stock already just popped already for it 412 Once it got rid of that major major iceberg order right there. That was huge right there Not a nice little push That's what we teach sub traders and fellow traders on YouTube Facebook All right anything else we got called out Norman saying ebon is moving also ebon Yeah, I mean listen We got that major resistance levels right around here around that 1150 Norman if it does break it You know, I see a big iceberg order out there trying to get and trying to that's been holding it down If it does get past that that one also look pretty good. What else we got? YouTube fan over here says f a m I So anyway, I already said that one already. I talked about that was a second one on the list You know the only thing I don't like about it. She's been holding here since about 8 o'clock this morning She went down about 20 cents 25 cents, but she's holding pretty strong There's a big iceberg order here at $2. We got to break through that first before we see any sign of light Of the stock to trending up, but I do like it any other one. I think I think we talked about bingo We thought bingo bingo I love bingo bingo has been a fun stock for us to trade. This is the stock that we trade It was at 20 cents went to about $16.  Did it have nasty shakes everything else? But bingo obviously overall has been pretty good Anything else I'm missing. Oh Great 10 joins the S&P 500. Could you believe this stock four dollars stock four dollars in March? It's at a hundred and forty percent this to me Was probably the best performer all the entire Market that made a rebound listen you could throw in Wayfair you could throw in, you know Netflix you could throw in I Don't even think Tesla could even even come close. Well, maybe Tesla was down to About 99 dollars, it's up about 800 percent, you know, it basically went up. I'm sorry about eight times Pen pen and start at four Actually a bit low at 375 and the thing has not no shown any any signs of backing off That's why I'm also a fan of draft King, but draft King is down I don't know they pulled some stout that they need like a billion dollars some that whatever some news on that's why it's down But on listen, they're both in the same industry, so it looks pretty good. All right guys We're gonna get ready for the market open up anything else lead it on Leading me you made 14 cents on that check. All right.  It's nice. So we start the morning with a profit, right? Especially on the Monday. It always makes you feel good. All right. Anybody else on this thing? So poppin cause in SOS, I know I don't that that's what you're talking about somebody in YouTube is bringing up a stock I don't know exactly what you mean by that. Oh SOS the stock SOS, you know what? Thanks for bringing it out. Yes. Great coal great push like the stock a lot. We've been trading the stock SOS Thanks for sharing that. Yeah stock had a really nice push Let's go check out and see what's going on in the level four on that stock. So SOS I could really well SOS is another Chinese Company that does I've got it does it that's the one that that does like ambulance service Anyway, they're bringing up over here You could see had a major resistance levels right around here. It looks like it hit it a little bit Right around here on 330. It was a big iceberg order. How many shares of about 55,000 right around there Looks pretty strong though. It just had a nice little move right here So keep an eye on that. That's good call. All right Grant says Grant on you on our trading room says the See back is moving to also Yeah, you know, they're there. You got to remember very very nice call see back definitely going on the list Absolutely better than the other ones. You see what happens. You got three moves You got one at 7 a.m. One at 8 a.m. One at 8 30 and you got one at nine There's those are the those are the main program trading times when things make their move So obviously this one just came out just at nine. This was even nicer. All right guys Let's get ready for the open you got about 10 minutes go fill up your coffees and let's get ready for another exciting week here at Cybertrain University once again If you just join us you want to join us here at Cybertrain University Just click us like us on the bottom do a nine dollar trial And if you're here and you are doing your trial today, remember we said earlier look listen and learn and make sure you talk to Education advisor so he tells you exactly what you're expecting and what to see here So we could teach you and show you if this is for you because remember Trading is not for everybody and that's not a bad thing Okay, at least you know what the facts are and then everyone here cyber traders you see something you say something Let's have a good week and let's go make some money. We'll be back


Pamela Sullivan. She is a professor at Oregon State University. Our research focuses on developing and understanding how terrestrial water storage and water quality are influenced by humans and by climatic perturbations. And the title of Pam's talk is, are rate changes in biotic processes altering subsurface hydrologic partitioning in the end of the sea? And with that, I'm going to give the floor to Pam. Well, good morning, everyone. While I get my screen shared, I'm assuming everyone can hear and see everything. So I modified my title a little bit this morning to make it something a little more tangible. But this is a question. And I think maybe we don't have an answer to this question. And in my opinion, it's, it might be something that's exciting for you all to think about as, as you move through this, this meeting. And it's something I've been thinking about with a whole cast of characters, as you can see at the bottom, faculty members and postdocs and graduate students and undergraduate students. And what we're asking is, is subsurface plumbing responding to climate and land use change in the Anthropocene? And I want to take a second and I want you to think, does it, if it is changing, does it matter? Would you want to be able to bring that into your models? Now, the idea behind this is that we have anthropocene, climate change that's taking place in the Anthropocene. We know that land cover has been changing. Our atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are rising, which can have cascading biotic effects. And so can the eutrophication that's occurring across our landscapes. So we're asking the question, are all of these processes altering that subsurface structure? And if they alter that subsurface structure, what we have taking place is the potential for changes in the hydraulic properties of our soils and our regolith, changes in the preferential flow paths of those systems. And then we also have then changes in the depth distribution of the organic carbon in these systems. These feedback to them influence potentially the storage of water on terrestrial earth. It's partitioning between different compartments of the mirror service and the ground waters. This impacts the functioning and distribution of our microbial communities in these environments. And that functioning and that distribution then feeds back to influence those hydraulic properties and to influence the rate at which dissolved organic carbon is being decomposed. These therefore interact together, the way that water flows, the way that carbon cycled to alter the propensity of weathering, which feeds back into our climate systems. But just in and of itself, that water storage has the potential to impact our climates as well. So the premise of this talk is kind of based on one fact that the distribution of pores in our subsurface govern the way that water flows. And that if you change that distribution of pores, you change that flow path, you change those water residence times, you change water mineral interactions, and therefore you can change water chemistry. This is a figure by Leisham Jen. It's a great one because it depicts macro pore presence that could be influencing vertical flow, but it also shows the interaction between horizons and horizon boundaries that can help to support lateral flow in the subsurface as well. So the interactions of these different kinds of properties of our soil can begin to austrially change the way that water flows through it. So if we take a really simplified approach to this, we can say, okay, well are there changes that are taking place in our landscape such that they change the proportion of interflow and the proportion of groundwater recharge such that they might even impact the chemistry and the water quantities and the timing of those to our streams themselves. Now this is a simple character, a simple figure by Leely, but I think it helps us to understand these potential impacts that are taking place. Now here this is one example from the Coal Creek. It's in Gunnison, Colorado, so not far from at least the land lab area right now. And what we're looking at here are concentrations of two constituents, dissolved organic carbon on the top and magnesium on the bottom. And what's been observed as we've had this decline in this environment of 40% snow cover over the last 20 plus years is a change in the concentrations of dissolved organic carbon making it into the streams. And here that's about a tripling or quadrupling, but we haven't seen it in some of the geogenic species like magnesium, but we have seen it in things like iron and manganese. And so there's a question here. Is this simply just a biogeochemical cycle that is changing or is it a relationship to a change in flow past in the system that are delivering different solutes to the system? And so we're taking modeling approaches to start thinking about that. Now there are other observations that are taking place that have shown us that soil structure is changing and it may be changing rapidly at least in the last 15 years if maybe not even in the last couple of decades. So this is work by Daniel Hermes, 48,000 petons through a natural resource conservation service. He used that with the changes in our past precipitation of the last 50 years to examine the soil structure in its response to changes in mean annual precipitation. What was observed here is that we have mean annual precipitation regressed against mean residual effective porosity. Now that residual effective porosity means that we've actually taken it and we've been able to normalize it for clay content and for organic matter content and then look to see what's driving these changes or how it relates to mean annual precipitation. And we see that in the A horizon and the B horizon, it declines that effective porosity with increasing mean annual precipitation. Now you could say to me okay well this could happen over very long time periods as these soils are forming. But what we see is that soils that have been plowed recently that this rearrangement of fabric is also taking place. If we use this idea of fabric being rearranged as a result of changes in our climate on mean annual precipitation and we run that out into the future to 2100, we can then begin to think what does that mean for our saturated hydraulic conductivity, the way that water flows through the system. We could look at an area like the Pacific Northwest where I live right now and what you can see is that you could have a reduction in saturated hydraulic conductivity by up to 60%. Now porous structure isn't only changing near the surface. We have evidence that's from the shale hills critical zone observatory but also other places like the Snake River which is showing that they may also be sensitive at depth to changes in groundwater table dynamics. So here's just some drill core material going all the way down to 20 meters. When we're at depth, we see this presence of pyrite framboids. As we move to the surface, we see the opening of porosity and slight infilling of iron oxides. In this environment, this location where this transition occurs, we call that the pyrite reaction front, it's actually governed by the position of where we have deep dissolved rich permanent interflow which is rich in dissolved oxygen and then we have our regional groundwater which is low in dissolved oxygen. Where these interact, these young waters and these old waters actually governs that boundary that's there and so we can think to ourselves well over time if our incoming precipitation changes for land cover changes in these environments or if pumping in some environment changes and changes the interaction of these water table dynamics then we could have cascading effects on the generation of porosity at depth. Now it's not only just the idea that we have changes in our structure that are resulting maybe from mean annual precipitation or changes in water table dynamics but we also see that there's something very powerful that's been changing in the Anthropocene and that's the potential that rooting depth has been changing globally. So this is work by a PhD student Emma Hauser at the University of Kansas. Here what you're looking at is a comparison of rooting depth distributions pre-anthropocene and rooting depth distributions now. You'll see in the red we're getting to shallower roots and the blue we're getting to deeper roots and what it demonstrates to us at least since the start of the Anthropocene is we have shallow roots by 16 centimeters globally but if we run that on into the future to 2100 what we find is that even given different kinds of climate scenarios we will still be shelling by another 60 centimeters globally. Now these roots are really important because they help to support potentially up to 70 percent of the macro pores that are in our soils so those macro pores that we have are about 50 nanometers or bigger in size and they are what helps to transport our liquids some more particles in our gases and systems. So if we take kind of a conceptual image of this we can think to ourselves well macro pores themselves they only represent two percent of the soil volume or regular volume but they actually in control 70 percent of the water flow potentially fits through those so we have to ask the question as our landscapes change right let's say we have a woodied environment and that woody environment changes we have some macro pores that are left behind what does it actually mean as our land cover itself changes does it actually alter the hydraulic partitioning of these environments. So there's some other kinds of fun research that's coming to light right now and this is work done by Sharon Billings lab at the Calhoun Critical Zone Observatory and she puts forward what she calls the below ground wetterman hypothesis and in this what we what we state is that the Anthropocene's modification to rooting networks and ecosystems imparts structural and biogeochemical signatures deep within regulus profiles. Now we know that we can change things near the surface if we change our land cover but what she's what we're showing here is that here in the old growth system compared to this agriculture I'm ever generating pine in this environment we see that we have at depth two meters really large differences in the rooting densities of these environments but we also see really large differences in the actual chemistry and the biogeochemical processes that might be taking place so I'll bring your eye over here to these hardwood systems and what we see is that the organic acid concentration compared to the soil organic carbon content is much greater in these at depth in these environments compared to regenerating pine and agriculture so we have this potential for for stimulating more weathering in the system down here in addition what we see is that at least at two meters of depth 22 percent more modern carbon at depth here in this hardwood system than compared to what you might have in regenerating primes or agricultural systems so it indicates to us there's these large changes that are potentially taking place in the subsurface not only in terms of its physical structure but its biogeochemical interactions as well so this is work that's been done by my phg student Erin Coop and here we're trying to ask the question okay to what degree do these soils start to even matter to our climate system themselves and so using that same nrcs database and and conglomerating it using huck six levels he looked to say okay well each of these watersheds or each of these huck six levels and basins that we see how far do they fall away from the butico so how much are they able to meet their evaporative domain and we said okay well that distance that they fall away from this um empirical curve can we explain that actually using the information about the soils themselves and so when we analyze this data what we what is revealed is that soil structure which is the roundness and the solidity and the organic carbon content along with the eridity index is able to help explain about 50 of the deviation away from that butico curve so it's giving us this hint right that these soils are playing such an important role potentially in governing what's taking place in our climates so the question is do these changes to the critical zone subsurface be back to govern climate so before we had our our pre-anthropocene kind of condition right we had one rooting network we had hydrologic cycle that was taking place in one one manner we moved forward into the Anthropocene in some places we've shallowed our roots in some places we've deepened our roots and we can take a look and ask the question well what does that mean that rooting depth distribution in this instance to the degree of coupling to our atmosphere and to the critical zone weathering engine and we might we might theorize right that as we change those rooting depth distributions we actually shift the degree of coupling between our atmosphere and that weathering engine so the question is is this important for climate projections so i'm going to open it up for questions and thank you very much and let you know about a couple of upcoming opportunities


Hello, what's poppin? We are on twitch. We are not live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells Man, let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK um Ali G on human rights You know what? I've discovered or what I've realized while I watch an Ali G. He'd be touching on some key points, man He'd be really touching on some stuff But it'd be he'd be funny the way he do it, but he'd be bringing a like to situations It's funny. It's a good guy here. Let's get into it. Now Today we is gonna be chatting to some About the issue called human rights How long has there been human rights? The ideas have probably been there since the beginning of time But it's only since 1948 that we've talked about what we owe each other as International and universal Somebody else from Georgetown University was on this show They had they didn't Get in cahoots with each other and let each other know what was going on as the right to Be in private change since December the 11th. Hey, remember Orwell's 1984 about big brother. No No, I don't even it's just the the idea that that there's a big brother there And he is filming you and he is taping you and he's watching every move you make Does you think it is possible that we is even being filmed now? Well, obviously we're big Hey look, he had one look look how he he is so excited that his joke here. Look is even being filmed now Look, obviously we're big But by the u.s. Yo Well, even I is shocked on the drive down here from new york Driving down The car I was in was stopped at these kind of barriers Like four times four sets of these barriers that they had obviously Just set up and the only way we could get through them was is he talking about at all the The drive-offs and you add some kind of bribery thing he dropped a couple of dollars actually we call those toll booths right Is freedom of speech really all that don't it just give me julie the right to talk rubbish all day long I think we probably will accept a lot of rubbish so that the right itself won't be infringed Yo, but if she's nagging all day long and say oh, did you see sex in the city last night? Oh Oh, do you see my new shoes? Oh, I was pregnant again, whatever, you know Make me crazy, isn't it free speech is limited when it begins to harm someone else's security and safety You see what i'm talking about like he's touching on real He's asking real questions. He's touching on real subjects, but he's doing it in a funny way I like this guy man Can people force other people to say things?   It is It is and also I know a glizzy eating wasn't a thing back then But you know what that's against my human rights To picture you eating a glizzy With only mustard No, no About me love odd dogs ain't that a form of a form of torture Yes, but not So let's talk about Women rights.  Absolutely And what is your other hobbies? They call it a hobby Feminism, I don't consider a hobby It's it's a way of life Does you think that women should have Equal rights in the workplace? Absolutely. Yes, see see I'm talking about how he touching on real like equal rights in the workplace with women It's a real subject still even to this day It's touching on that but watch what he about to get funny ain't there the danger if them get equal rights in the workplace Then them will start asking for them at home I don't see that as a danger at all. I think they should have equal rights at home So does you think that Women should be expected to do the cooking and cleaning when they come home from work No, so does you think it's better that they does it before they leave I think the question is how it gets done. All right, I guess my husband it cleans the house I don't I guess he wants me to clean. I hire a clean lady. I don't clean. Well, he does the cleaning He cleans as long as you couldn't and you can hire the cleaning lady.  Yeah, I did get it. Yeah, I did get it.  No, you mean that jug? I said, you know, I said like they're right Like what we're talking, right? Yeah In England, we say that you're right like your right hand side. Yeah, you know, you're right And then the left like us talking as if they're babbling. Yeah If you got to explain it if you feel like you got to explain it, man When you really don't it's just not it it didn't hit The dudes joke earlier hit harder than that one. It's not to them Where's the line if my employer comes up and says to me honey, you know Makes a joke like that What am I supposed to think? Yeah, you're gonna laugh. Then you're gonna think what? What's he trying to get at? What's he insinuating? What does that mean for my job? But you must have been trying well are not to laugh It wasn't funny to me. But you was laughing. I did. I did laugh. Yeah I loved I didn't yeah, because it's a well But did you did you not laugh because you didn't understand? No, I understood it But for me because it takes a while to get because it's too thin I believe that you just get it. Yeah, I got it Don't back her explain the joke. Oh, this is golden. It has to do with the size of their breasts I got it. All right. Okay. The fact that she did this was even funnier that that has to do with the size of their breasts I got it. All right. Okay. You didn't get because I thought maybe sometimes I ain't saying I does this but if someone says a joke I I go yo No, I don't say I didn't get but if I didn't get I say yo, I don't like keep that to yourself. Yeah, I don't like Yeah, you're saying that Say that stuff somewhere else. Well, yeah, that's what you should have did man 10 these days someone else explains me Right. No, I got it. It's just offensive to me This has been well interesting. So you've got one word you want to say yo peace and respect December 10th human rights day. Oh, that's what's okay. December 10th is human rights Love and peace respect love peace So I do wrap with that love and peace respect love peace He wouldn't be cool so bad boy if you don't put your leg down That your lip there's space between your sock and your leg where I see hair like cumbra So I do wrap with that. Yo, so yo check it out.  Yo, uh that Whatever that I've been bought from minis. I is talking about Loving it Love and peace I was talking about december the 10th Um, just stop stop. I was talking about the 10th of december You've got to remember because there's gonna be some things And I ain't talking about september. It's talking about december and yo Yo, what's your respect? Yo, cuz I was talking about respect on the dex. That's my man This is cringe. This is cringe. Now we move into the cringe. I Yo checks he pays the checks of money And that's what it's all about All right You can really respect yo. Good luck with what's happening. Yeah safe. Yo safe All right, man, till I leave you like comment subscribe Turn on your post notifications bell is man. Don't forget if you want to follow me on any socials It's down in the description below And y'all know what we do on patreon. So if you want join us if not, that's cool. I'm gone


Securing the land rights of people affected by dams in West Africa. Large dams can provide low carbon energy, helping countries reduce emissions and providing electricity for urban centres. They can also contribute to food security through developing irrigated agricultural schemes. But building dams is controversial. Dam construction often displaces huge numbers of people and can cause major environmental damage. And these impacts are difficult to manage over the long term. For a dam to contribute successfully to society's development and in a way that is sustainable, everyone must benefit, including local people. In rural societies, people's livelihoods depend on land. So proper land tenure is key to ensuring dams benefit the local population. Before the dam is built, the thousands of people who lose their land as a result of the dam's construction, its reservoir and agricultural schemes must be properly compensated. Compensation can take different forms. In place, people may be given new land, but when resettled, their rights need to be protected. These rights might include the right to rent out the land, the right to farm it or not, or the right to leave it to their children. In contrast to traditional land rights, which are rooted in customary occupation of particular areas over many decades and centuries, new land rights can be established through modern legal documents and be supported by social negotiations and agreements. States must put procedures in place to manage expropriated land, to ensure people are compensated and their rights secured in a way that is just. This may mean drawing up new policies and governance tools to use when building dams and irrigation schemes. The proposed ECOWAS directive on large water infrastructure, for example, requires the region's governments to ensure that affected people have secure rights to their new land. There can be complex challenges to address. When people are compensated with new irrigated land, it first needs to be registered as legally belonging to the state. Once this is done, the state's investment in the land is protected and it can then provide different types of leases or contracts to mimic the traditional rights farmers had to the land they farmed previously. Building large dams has long been criticized for eroding the rights of the communities they displace. But there are solutions. Governments, donors, consultants and local communities themselves can work together to address the issue surrounding proper land tenure, to understand the new context and adopt new legal tools that support and secure the rights of affected people. If compensation and new forms of land tenure are implemented well and with full participation, local communities can benefit from the dam and the newly developed irrigated land in the long term, instead of losing their livelihoods. At least 150,000 people will be displaced by the dam's planned on the Niger River alone. Decision makers must meet the challenge to ensure secure land rights for all. Learn more.


Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Buenos dias. How are you? I seem like people are still waking up and still getting here this morning. But thank you for those of you who were here before 10 o'clock, for those of you who are with us with a lot of energy. My name is Graciela Sanchez and in a few minutes we'll go around and ask all of you to introduce yourselves. I'm in this very strange position because we are being filmed by a now cast. Is there anyone else from the media? Is that you over there? We are. Rebar reporting. Is that you, Graciela? Yes. Yes, Graciela. Amen. Okay, so anybody else from press? I'm not reporting this. Okay. Okay. So on behalf of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, on behalf of the Buena Mente of San Antonio, which is everyone around the circle, I hope, we welcome you to what is just the continuation of many conversations by the community to try to resolve the problems that we face daily, especially, I mean, the title of today is Take Back the City, Take Back our San Antonio. Esperanza is almost 30 years old and during that timeframe, we have found ourselves always resisting a lot of new policies and development in the city that comes from somewhere else, but it doesn't seem to be something that the community has asked for. And try as we may to resist as we educate each other about what the issues are. It's about East to Ridge pipeline coming in costing $3.4 billion. It's about all this decade of downtown where the downtown, you know, some of us remember was the downtown for everyone, that we shop there, that we played there, that it was ours, right? And now it seems like we've read today's paper, it's going to be for the techies only, or for the folks that are wealthy enough to live in townhomes or efficiencies. That started $1,000 for 400 square feet. That's not my family, that's not me personally, and I know it's not anyone here as well. But that development and all those changes are taking place and it was making those decisions. Esperanza, as I mentioned, has been part of the work, you know, we've come from the history of many, many, many, many people before us. We don't come to our consciousness, it's not for the fact that our aluevas, that our visa aluevas, taught us that and also existed.  Gianna will explain part of our timeline and power map and possible features in that step in a bit after we, again, introduce ourselves. But just remember, I mean, I, the last couple of issues in La Vos and we don't have any, we have some right here and some downstairs, but a couple of months ago it was all about Brackenridge and, you know, it was just a female that Madia Beniosava sent to some folks and suddenly it's, you know, there's several articles in La Vos and people respond because they're not, we're not happy about what's happening in Brackenridge part. The next issue incorporates concerns about the Alabama budget courts. We saw what happened with Victoria courts, what, 15, 20 years ago. La Vos was then known as an Anglo, low income housing that was both in the 40s, then becomes more brown and black as time goes on. The first of the historical public housing entities in the city that goes down and now it's Hema's view and it's, you know, if 10% of the people that live there are low income or affordable housing, that's about all. So what happened to those other 90% of the community? Where did they get this place to? And then we saw just recently Victoria, I mean, quickly courts and so we know that the Atlas and Apache courts are next. And so they, the San Antonio Housing Authority did apply and fortunately did not get the choice grant that they did get for the weekly courts. The part of our resistance is to do community consciousness raising, education, you know, and to love ourselves for being working class, for being whatever we are, you know, the diversity that we are, but people ultimately who work for justice, people who ultimately work for class. So I think I'll just end there and again, it didn't start in May around Bracken Ridge or talking about Atlas and Apache courts. You know, we've talked about the public space. In 2007 we saw our access to the streets denied because in 2006 tens of thousands of immigrants and migrants and supporters of, you know, of our migrant immigrant community said no to the policies in 2006. And so we never seen so many people march. But within months the city said, no, we don't want you all to march on the street. And suddenly we saw downtown Maine Plaza disappear and go to Maine Plaza Conservancy and then suddenly we couldn't access the Plaza like we used to and Travis Park. So it's all just a continuation, neoliberalist policies in this country. So let us know that today is not the beginning and it's not the end. We hope that this continues on because we need to work together for the solutions and together we win. We separate both of them apart because it's too much for any one person or any one organization to do this work. So, Janet, do you want to just have everybody introduce themselves? Should I just? Yeah. So, okay. Barbara, do you want to ask Barbara with how rural and neighborhood and the Janet to be candid commission on elderly affairs? And yeah, and just like Barbara, just kind of keep it short so that way we can go through and really get to the important. So, if you and who you are isn't important yet. That's just what's happening. Eddie Ecker, also the Department of Terrorist and Agenda. And they broke the case. They put a handle on it. And so, yeah, I'm getting out of what I could make an alliance and when I have to deal with it, I'm out. For a better or what, it's a little too much south of City Hall and coming down there. Oh. Thank you. My name is Regan. Are you? I live in Regan Hill. And they're already here. Eddie Ecker, I'm the Department of Terrorist and Agenda. Eddie Ecker, I'm the Department of Terrorist and Agenda. So, I'm from Polsky. I'm here to tell you about my year in Seattle. So, I'm just going to ask you a lot. My name is Steven. I'm a former U.S. president. I have a good social democratic opinion and I think I've seen things slightly different. I've already been running out of faith. I've been working so hard. I'm trying to make my home under each side and we are under the salt. I work for the great Epidocca Alliance but also I'm on board of the Tees to Campaign for the Environment. We recently started a campaign against corporate control of Uber and how they came into the city. My name is Rhett Smith, I'm an Industry 5. I'm Tony Elmora, and I live in the Carol Heights neighborhood. I'm also with the Faculty Association of Pearlsville College. Our students, families, the kind of part that we haven't known in a year. My name is Kady Sarko, and my family for the past seven generations has been targeted by the so-called urban renewal projects that have developed over actually the centuries because, like I say, it's been seven generations of the past. How about the corporate interest that you like? The idea that Amy was built by my grandfather in 1928, and I think this had a story building, but it just wasn't designated that or a city. But because the city council decided that he was going to, well actually we've got a ride, but we couldn't do it. But in any case, it was demolished in 2002. The Esperanza was one of the groups that joined forces, and I have to tell you, it's been very disappointing to me to see how the process has been so degraded. We lost the case obviously, but at least there was a process. And now with the degradation of our rights, you can't even speak up anymore.  So the media too has been very relaxed in really telling the whole story. So that's really something very concerning to me because you can't even start a black thing. They cut it off for me. Here we go. Thank you. Denise Stalker from West Ford, a little three and a half street neighborhood about a half mile north of Pearl. Chuck. My name's Amalia Valdes, and I'm a Buenos Aires staff here at Esperanza. Obviously I'm near up in Laredo, but we're seeing near the Casiano Park, which is one of the oldest parks and it has not been touched as far as getting better. We just had a linear trail opening and a ceremonial there, and we weren't really a part of us talking about the ceremony, but yeah. So I'm involved in that, and I'm a person here at Esperanza. My name's Natalie Rodriguez, and I'm an intern here at Esperanza. My name is Lauren Ferris, and I live in Tobin Hill. My name is Jant Olson, and I'm on the board of the Esperanza. My name is Eduardo de Juarez. I'm a civil rights attorney for the federal government. I'm born and raised on the west side in Prospect Hill. I presently am a little niner, but I've always been on the west side of my heart. My name is Mary McGuire. I've been a sociology professor at the University for the last 23 years, and in my retirement I'm working hard on the Agua Viva Coalition and water issues. Jim Spicker, my main interests are homelessness and affordable housing, with a side interest in actually having the city pay attention to data when they make decisions. Hi, my name is Andy Flores. I'm from the Hotel Union College here, and right now we're working on something around Tender Park, and now we're putting the hotel in Tender Park. I'm Francesca, and I'm an intern here tonight. I'm Ramona Rivera. I work at Kono 101 on the radio station and do a community calendar where this was posted on, and that's how I actually found out about it. I live in District 5, and there's something bottom one against the city. They were trying to build three urban loss, 200 feet from my house, and the legal size letter had a very small portion in Spanish. Most of my neighbors don't even know what it says, so I did the old-fashioned thing and went knocking door to door. I have been gone for 10 years from my neighborhood. I was living in California. I've just been there about a year now. Seeing the transformation, I love some of it. It's one that I don't. So when I went to my neighborhood and I was like, hey, Tenochita, come in. So I had the coffee and water in everybody's house caught up and then by the signatures turned out, the applicant pulled the application, so we won that battle. They called me to join the bar for my wedding. I'll take that all day. And I have my son with me and Nathaniel, the Superman fan in the back. It's because of him that I'm doing this, and they haven't helped me research all the time. The taxes that they're growing up, growing up, growing up, they're seven, they're four, and they're $3,000 a year for them. This is what you're going to have to pay in 10 years when you're out of college paying loans. So me and you need to get on this together. So we use here to observe and watch how black-minded people can do things together and hopefully have some real wins on our side. Yeah, you say your name. I'm from Spicewood, which is up the road near Marble Falls. I'm involved with Miagwa Niveda, Interheia Mia, Green Party. I mean, there's just a whole slew of organizations that I've been involved with here for the last decade or less. I'm an anthropologist, and I'm directly involved with the creation of a new medical school that's supposed to be community-based at the University of Incarnate Word. I'm Joe Boccosti. I'm there studying various issues and I came here to learn about the issues and find out what other people had to say about them. My name is Al Campbell. I came here from New Orleans with Katrina. I just bought a house last year because I just decided after about 14 years that I'm going to stay here in San Antonio. But I've been involved with a lot of initiatives that deal with poverty and the impact of poverty upon people in the East Side Promise neighborhood. I don't know if you're familiar with that. A $30 million grant through United Way who manages that grant to help people rise up out of poverty. I live in the Coliseum Willow Park area. I don't know if you know where that is by the AT&T Center. I'm buying a house that I bought last year and my monthly house payment is less than half that people pay to rent in that same neighborhood. When we talk about affordable housing and we talk about economic disparities my neighborhood property is being consumed almost as soon as it comes on the market. And it's one of those strange dichotomies in that if you have money and you can buy property and invest it seems logical to do so. But at the same time for people who are suffering economically where they could pay and rent what I pay for a house note they could really add some stability to their lives. The other part of this aspect is I've been involved with poverty issues is that we continue to teach everybody that to panacea to poverty is getting a good education and getting a good job that pays good money. That is the main reason that poverty exists because we are participating in the economic disparities that exist in our society because of our goal of success and that is having money and having things and being recognized as somebody. My position is when we teach, when we learn how to develop and maintain healthy relationships between and amongst ourselves and we pass this knowledge, skill, ability and willingness to do so to our children issues that we face now they will face fewer of them because we care about each other and that's what's missing. Good morning my name is Mike Sanchez I think of myself as an opposed worker but today I came as an observer. I'm Phyllis Sanchez, I'm here with my husband Sam invited by my brother-in-law Mike Mike's been very involved and he invited us and I came to learn and observe but my particular interest is in the homelessness among people recovering addicts or people with addiction problems or people who have committed crimes and paid their dues to society and cannot get housing because they have records or addiction problems and remain homeless and become in the cycle of crime and addiction and crime and addiction because I have that in my very household and my family members do not seem to find a way out of that cycle and I never thought we would be faced with that I mean my family members grew up in middle class America and have found themselves in circumstances that they can't get out of because of this housing issue. We are some of the homeless, domestic us and we're neighbors there on the east side so yes poverty and workers that are not recognized and maintaining workers in poverty by paying on poverty wages is a tremendous problem and housing of course all these women that are working real hard and continue to stay in poverty and it's just a pit that they cannot get out of and we need to do something about it so yes I'm working towards those goals but domestic us and we do That's an outcast and you can read your name Hi, I'm Jay, I'm just entering an outcast with me Jeremy Cash, I'm also going to turn You didn't give your name Let's read out your name Back there Okay, that's my husband's house Hi everyone, my name is Jenna and I'm done and I am the staff here at Esperanza and I'm from the west side of San Antonio and so what we're going to be doing next is we're going, as you look around you see we sort of have the beginnings of the timeline and so we wanted to focus on the bulk of today of really kind of going back into the history of San Antonio and Texas and looking at like how this development and how this corporate takeover of our space and how public spaces have been privatized throughout our history because oftentimes we hear oh well this is new or like when we're especially around what's happening recently around Bracken Manager if it's around something else it's like this is new this is something new we have to stop it now it's like well it's been happening and then also we also wanted to look at the history of resistance and what people have been doing historically to kind of stop it because we know that that's whenever there's been oppression there's also been resistance so we're going to spend about 15 minutes we're going to get you all some markers the purple markers or dark colored marker is going to be what you can remember of something that happened even in Texas it could even be nationally if it was an event if it was a person who did something if it was that you think it sort of related to displacement if it's related to developers and corporations having all this power or the red is going to be resistance so if you can think of an event or a person or a movement or something that was a way to kind of combat what's been happening so we only have a few markers so you all can share you can talk but try to keep the red markers at least for resistance so that we can kind of share like Charlotte Ann from Nowcast was here yesterday she made sure to say the founding of Nowcast as a way of resistance and we appreciated that Nowcast is filming today and has been present at the Breckenridge meetings and if they hadn't been there there would have been no recording because the city itself did not record those proceedings so I'll make sure I put 1987 as the answer created so things like that when I'm tonight here so if you all jump up and have markers we'll spend 15 minutes doing that and maybe I don't know later on you can say a little bit about the importance of history I'm not sure if you're right I'm not sure I'm not sure just a minute just some of the stuff that John said but also we'll have some time that if people want to really speak to something and really expand on something we're also going to do that what we think of the first like native people indigenous people migrated it's because it means land to sacred waters it might have been named other things also we do not know that and so that's 11,000 years ago and then we have 1492 so I don't know if Antonia what if you want to kind of speak to colonization and from my perspective as an historian is that we are living we still live the structures and the legacies of colonialism or imperialism we stand at that and how in each era that we are concerned with those structures and those inequalities keep being reproduced in a whole variety of ways and structures and where our communities that we are from that we are concerned about where we fit and to say well that was in the past and it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it doesn't mean it was like a violence of displacement of oppression of enslavement and we can go on and on and finally the only other thing that I would say is that San Antonio has a distinction of being one of the one of has the distinction of being a holding on the first place of cities in the United States with the greatest economic disparity and so it begins there and that is one of the main concerns so for me it's important that we maintain a historical perspective huge part of it so colonialism then reflects the conflict that already existed in the European continent between the Mediterranean cultures Spain, Portugal and ultimately Liberia and the northern of the trans-Albacan cultures that conflict that we've known for at least a thousand years prior to that in fact much longer what I don't see being spoken here is that the indigenous people that were here before the Europeans came here were also in conflict with one another over land, water you know food property rights ownership whatever you call it for example in the American south-west we've seen a web of people everybody looks to them as a spiritual center for indigenous people at least the western part of this country but they were in constant conflict in conflict with a different group that were down in central Mexico they have a different spiritual center and they were in conflict with each other just like the modern day conflict between partisans and Arabs let me just interfere very quickly yes but those historical conflicts with those communities and those people got shifted, changed and totally warped by colonialism and we are the product of colonialism and imperialism so not to disregard what you have said but what the reality that we live is not the most previous indigenous gay conflicts and wars but the consequences of western European colonialism and its collaboration we also at some point have to deal with our own contradictions I just wanted to comment on that so I guess we're going to we can move on but just so that we can get to the present time so I know we can spend a lot of time here which is good, this is very good and then also just keep in mind which word yeah just yes cool so then we move on we said San Antonio we have put here a name or you can say renamed San Antonio this was by the Spanish in 1697 and you have it it continues with the history of colonialism some of quite you know imperialism socialism soldiers militarism we're moving on to US immigrants or if I was the US more settlers more fighting battle out yeah sorry sorry sorry I'm sorry thank you thank you okay so I put fighting so US immigrants reached the settlement of San Antonio in 1925 18 1825 this is that name then we put more this is like the official fighting over the that has blend we have about Elmell 1936 1836 I'm sorry I don't know why I keep saying that you're such a kid 1836 then this was before 18 18 18 okay then you have the end of the you have the Republic of Texas somewhere sorry over here you have the end of the Republic of Texas is not probably the Union United States then you have the tree at the water festival more people if anyone wants to speak to that 1848 1848 okay someone out of this 1910 Bishop Shaw early founded early need war little bit of church and school and that was in response to the influx of citizens that came in from Mexico because of all the turmoil that was going on in Mexico so they were coming in they started settling the west side because that's where they settled some people that had money I believe couldn't settle anywhere else because of segregation so that's why they were coming to the west side when you was there in the very 1910 hundreds the church was established in 1910 which church already was a very well-known church and it also it was 1912 the Walupe sorry can't say this the Walupeanan Society there in the church what was interesting to me is to find out that it was originally founded with the intention to develop leaders among the women they're rarely surviving but they're still around yeah okay so 1928 someone added the city of Austin master plan and then the construction of I-35 sure but yeah I'm not sure of the year I think it was the late 20s but city of Austin this is I guess one of the early manifestations of institutionalized segregation in the city of Austin I went to school in Austin so heard a lot about this highway and the history behind it and it's a really big dividing line in the city of Austin see the east side was kind of left for Latino communities and in Austin it was very underdeveloped not a lot of economic opportunity on that side of town and everyone every communities of color were forced out of the city and forced to develop that side on their own and this driving up in that highway is a constant reminder and you still see that very quickly let me start the 1930s somebody put the topic of worker movement and someone also put my family supported in 1936 so if anyone wrote that one in to speak to them in the 30s there was a depression many times as the economic downturn they turned against the immigrant they're taking their jobs and that's why we're in such dire straits so a lot of families were uprooted and deported and my family was uprooted even though my grandmother was a US citizen my mother a US citizen but she was married to a undocumented man my grandmother so when he was deported I mean what's a woman with children going to do she's going to go with her husband or we have the situation that exists now with many families being torn apart so my mother a US citizen raised in Mexico refused us to this day to speak a word of English even though she's a US citizen okay if somebody's talking to her in English she will ask her name for her so that's resistance okay but we do need to see that these things have happened in the past and they're happening now thank you well and then so very quick two things the river walk construction begins I wasn't too sure if it actually began and the administrator was the idea of beginning the construction in the river walk well there's the 1921 flood that's not here and so part of the you know vision was for then just to cover it up and basically the conservation society the sanitary conservation society has its roots there and they saved the river after the 1921 flood and this is you know WPA money I don't know and raised so Roosevelt putting people back to work and those monies come in to develop the river walk and lots of the beautiful bridges that we see up on Tampere or Roosevelt and places like that and the post office downtown so unlike the Obama use of monies at least it seems like Roosevelt put a lot of people back to work and we're still living with that beauty and I had read the other day that Jack Jack White there was someone who was one of the managers of a hotel and they wanted to try to begin the construction of the river walk so even like back in the days it was then the hotels and the big businesses that were like we need this development but Emma and the and the and Weber and Union CIO is basically starting up in the country right so the AFL the CIO part of it is organizing here and the Communist Party is organizing in San Antonio and Emma the Neuga a 17, 18, 19, 20 something year old in all those years organizes with other women especially to have at that point in my opinion the largest marches in the 20th century so again we're talking about 8 to 10,000 women strong with the men around but it was woman led and they were out there and they got arrested and they were again struggling for paying or they were getting paid six or seven cents a pound and then they were used to like four and five cents a pound and they could actually have gone the factory it was already met how? recognize recognize but it was cheaper to get the women's labor rather than using and buying all the machinery so the women demonstrated march and we also have Maury Maverick at the moment also supporting her voice and the voice of all these labor activists and you know he doesn't go down industry as a good guy because he's supporting these reds and the communists we're going to keep on moving just again if you've spoken once we're going to let other people speak first so Pat we're going to we've already heard your voice and I know you have my cell okay I'm sorry I could sit here quiet okay I'm sorry I thought you had I mean so I wanted to add something to it that was actually the seed that's the conch shell it led to hearings on the minimum wage starting here let me part of 1939 yeah 1939 Apache force built then you put someone added sorry what is I don't know I also inaugurated a 7% mission under Mexican market to raise funds for whoever wrote I did it okay that's right I wrote that because my grandmother moved into the San Francisco mission in 46 into the wild what she called the Mexican market out there she and Archbishop Lucy decided to he had come from California and they started charging for entrance into the mission to try to protect them because it had dilapidated church also so they worked together and that's where so then the conservation society needed money they owned a granary at the time and the part between the granary and the cut through to the mill the church included and then they moved it down to in the 48 down to allow me to to make money for all of this preservation San Antonio someone also took the year that their father built their house on 510 Elvin street in 1934 Eda Eda street Eda so they got from the destroying San Jose Mission House right Roosevelt was supposed to be taken all the walls out that everybody's so happy about right now and that was developers including Zachary et cetera and they stopped them from doing that and now Roosevelt is going to go straight to parallel primaries in the ninth late late they were that's the first subject it was to clear that constitutional prior to that all of the farmers why are we why are we why are we prior to around 1941 then we go to the fifties 1952 I was on the put up here so it's earlier yeah it was in the thirties we have all the urban renewal projects and first the first project I found a building school does who wrote this I'm sorry I have a terrible one in that okay so the war ends in 1945 World War II President Eisenhower was the commander of all the farmers and he saw how good the German autobahn was how quickly they were able the Germans were able to get supplies to the pros so because he entered the White House I believe in 1952 he instituted the highway program across the country the very first highway that I believe came to San Antonio had an economic marriage I mean not even half we just cut it basically you can drive by it right now and it's right in front of the front board of the church what that did is not only did it give part of the people to Guadalupe churches they did the same in Guadalupe there was another church parish I can't remember but the end result of that was that it was the beginning of the urban renewal projects across the country now it didn't happen in San Antonio the 40s went urban because it was illegal in the state of Texas to confiscate anybody's property and put in the eminent domain and they instituted an into the state of Texas constitution so that they could come into San Antonio and bulldoze my neighborhood 500 buildings perfectly neighborhood I've gone to the city records and it's written as prostitution and it was a derelict and urban and it was appalling because my mother who's still alive and God 94 years tells me it was a beautiful neighborhood and there were poor people but everybody it was very it seemed very hard working and the way the city wrote it because it was so horrible that they had to bulldoze some of the buildings the only thing they left was the church so that was the beginning and if you read my church that was an Italian neighborhood then they went to the German church you know the church right by the river center that was the German neighborhood bulldoze that and then the last of the big families was the one around heaven's fair and those were Polish so all of those were systematically raised one after the other and a lot of these I mean if you go by the part of the neighborhood there's nothing there it's like still you can hear a poon drop except for the highway and it's because they destroyed the economy there the neighborhood it's driving and there were my mother says well there was a sanitary factory which was by the way the first mechanized country they had cleaners they had a hospital a women's hospital they had in fact there were so many women dying in childhood they instituted an orphanage there I mean there were just things going on in the community that were very vibrant and contributing to the community the city bulldoze and from there on it hasn't stopped so now they call it economic development they call it so I just right now I just want to raise hands to do so comfortable with that but I know there's some folks that here may have either been younger or maybe their families were displaced because of a renewal so if anyone was displaced they're having families the drought impacts it moved people from farms to 35 built splitting the south side from the west side of San Antonio they also put Elmo Cakes here born in 13 junior that movement so Bright's movement 1963 Kennedy was assassinated 1966 yes sure so as a young child I remember Bryce and they grew my family a portrait of course the president of his wife and I don't remember this something to us as a Democrat at least for them I try to write something for something but nothing that stood up on my mind was Kennedy being assassinated and then being able to see it afterwards and how it affected at least the community thank you so if I 1966 farm worker strike marched to Austin start of sorry do you start with a Chicano move Chicano oh sure I'm not saying that nothing happened before 1966 but I think the Chicano was one of them we were kind of asleep and so after the farm worker strike in March that came to San Antonio in 1966 and went on to Austin very kindly he just pissed us all off because he wouldn't meet with a proprospective after they had walked almost 500 miles he met him and he grumbled and he said no father is going to Austin because I'm going to be there and so he just pissed everybody off and when they got to Austin there were 10,000 people there waiting for them and finished in March after 1966 you had Russell and the boy in us showed up with all kinds of groups and organizations that started after 1966 a valuable end filled with a lot of things and I'm not saying we did everything but it kind of sparked people's attention about where the Chicanos were on the issues that were affecting Houston and by the way all of you have a flyer we're going to have a 50th anniversary celebration here on Labor Day for that it's 50 years it's a few surviving farm workers God bless their souls today the walk is strong they had nothing going for them in 1966 there were no food said there was nothing and they took a risk that they lost their jobs with their employers by going on this Friday and then when nobody was listening to them they said let's march and let's take people in this city of Texas to know what's going on down here on the border