Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices, June 13, 2024 - Full Show
6/13/2024 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Univisión's Alex Hernández guest hosts the June 13, 2024, episode of "Latino Voices."
Mexico elected its first-ever woman president — how some Chicagoans helped make that possible. And a new photo exhibit captures a past life in Pilsen.
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Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices
Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices, June 13, 2024 - Full Show
6/13/2024 | 26m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
Mexico elected its first-ever woman president — how some Chicagoans helped make that possible. And a new photo exhibit captures a past life in Pilsen.
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LETS YOU KNOW, VOICES SOME OF SEMI THIS OF NORTHEAST.
YES, WHEN YOU YOU'RE QAEDA WHICH EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING AT 5, 6, YOU ON HAS THE EVENING OFF ON THE SHOW TONIGHT.
MEXICO HAS ELECTED ITS FIRST EVER WOMAN PRECEDENT.
SOME CHICAGOANS HELPED MAKE THAT POSSIBLE.
I'LL LET YOU HE PURSED PROGRAM IS CONNECTED.
SPANISH SPEAKING RESIDENTS TO NATURE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
IT'S A LOT OF HISTORY IN THE PHOTOS.
A LOT OF LOVE.
AND A NEW PHOTO EXHIBITION CAPTURES OF PAST LIFE.
IN PILSEN.
WE MEET THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS HE RETURNS TO CHICAGO.
WE'RE BACK TO KICK THANKS OFF RIGHT AFTER THIS.
CHICAGO TONIGHT, LATINO VOICE HE'S MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE SUPPORT OF THESE DONORS.
MEXICO IS REELING FROM ITS HISTORIC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
YOU KNOW, THE SHAME BOMB HAS BEEN ELECTED AS THE COUNTRY'S FIRST WOMAN AND JEWISH PRECEDENT.
AND IT WAS THE FIRST TIME MEXICAN NATIONALS ABROAD GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CAST IN-PERSON BALLOTS.
CHICAGO'S MEXICAN COMMUNITY SHOWED UP IN THE THOUSANDS AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE TO VOTE.
BUT NOT EVERYONE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO.
JOINING US NOW WITH MORE ARE FED THEM AND THIS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO.
SHE'S ALSO THE AUTHOR OF A BROWN IN THE WINDY CITY, MEXICAN AND PUERTO RICANS IN POST-WAR CHICAGO, IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS ACTIVIST COURT.
CAN AND HISPANICS?
A CASE MANAGER.
I GOT MEET RAKHINE.
WE DID REACH OUT TO THE MEXICAN CONSULATE FOR COMMENT BUT DID NOT HEAR BACK IN TIME FOR THE SHOW.
I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
COURT CASE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE WEARING PARTIES.
COME ASK YOU WHO YOU VOTE.
WE THING THAT'S VERY CLEAR.
BUT FIRST LADY WE'RE GOING TO SHARE WITH ELECTION, AS WE ALL KNOW, IS VERY HISTORIC.
LIKE WE MENTIONED, CLOUDY CHAMBERLAIN IS THE FIRST WOMEN JEWISH, A PRECEDENT AND THE MEXICAN HISTORY.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HAVING A PRECEDENT WITH BOTH THESE IDENTITIES IN A CATHOLIC MAJORITY.
IT IS A REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENT HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT.
AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO REMEMBER THAT SHINED ON BECOMES I BELIEVE THE 12TH WOMAN, PRESIDENT AND ALL OF LATIN AMERICA, A REGION THAT UNITED STATES TIME TEND THINK IS LESS POLITICALLY PROGRESSIVE LESS ADVANCE IN TERMS OF GENDER EQUITY AND ISSUES OF THAT NATURE.
AND THE FACT THAT MEXICO HASN'T ELECTED A FEMALE PRESIDENT BEFORE WE HAVE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES VERY TELLING.
THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY NEXT.
MY NEXT QUESTION TO YOU AS WELL.
WHAT'S WHAT'S THE MESSAGE THAT THIS SENDS THAT MEXICO THEIR FIRST WOMAN JEWISH PRECEDENT BEFORE THE U.S.?
YES ON BOTH COUNTS, DAVE MEXICO HAS SURPASSED THE U.S.
I THINK IT FORCES US TO RECONSIDER.
YOU KNOW HOW WE THINK OF OURSELVES AS AMERICANS AS BEING AGAIN, MUCH MORE ADVANCED, MUCH MORE DEVELOPED AND SOPHISTICATED POLITICALLY COMPARED TO OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH.
AND IT SHOULD FORCE US TO RECONSIDER.
POSSIBILITIES IN MEDICAL YOU KNOW WHAT WE MIGHT EXPECT GOING FORWARD, WHAT WE WERE VERY CLOSE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
ALSO, YES, MEXICO IN REGARD.
VERY CLOSE HOPE.
IT'S QUESTION TO YOU.
WHAT WHAT DO YOU THINK?
IT'S A MESSAGE THAT MEXICO IS SENDING, YOU KNOW, HAVING ELECTED THEIR FIRST A WOMAN AND U.S. PRESIDENT.
WELL, IT'S AN INCREDIBLE BE TREE FOR MAKES CAN AND THEY STARTED VOTING 60 YEARS AGO AND WOMEN WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE IN ELECTION.
SOME TO THE LATE 50'S 1958.
IF I'M OR 1964.
SO IN 60 YEARS BECOMING FROM NON-VOTING TO ELECTING A PRESIDENT, THIS AND INCREDIBLE TRIUMPH.
NOW THE AND THAT IS THERE IS THE PARTICIPATION OF THE LEFT IN MEXICAN POLITICS SINCE 1979 FOR THE COMMUNITY'S PARTIED IN THE UNIFIED SOCIAL BEAST THEN THIS SOCIALIST MAKES CAN PARTY STARTED WEANING SENATORS.
WE NEED CONGRESS MEANT AND THIS IS JUST THE LATEST CONSEQUENCE.
APPALLED THAT, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, CLOUDY BUT LISA LEFTIST HAS BEEN A LIFT TO SINCE I MADE LIKE THE ACTUAL PRESIDENT AND THE YOU WERE ONE OF THE THOUSANDS RIGHT ON THAT SUNDAY READY TO ANY IN THE MEXICAN IN CHICAGO'S MEXICAN CONSULATE.
BUT YOU DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET TO VOTE.
WHAT HAPPENED?
WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT THE NATIONAL ELECTION SEEMS TO TO BE THINK THAT SO MANY MEXICANS WERE GOING TO VOTE.
LOGISTICALLY THERE WHERE 1500 PRE-REGISTERED MAKES SENSE TO BOULDER, THE CONSULATE IN PERSON.
I'M 1500 EXTRACT BOUTS AND A CONSOLATION BY THE ELECTION THAT IT IS THAT IT BOULDER WAS GOING TO TAKE 62 SECONDS TO BOAT.
REALITY WAS THAT THEY WERE TAKING BETWEEN 5 AND 10 MINUTES.
SO YOU CAN IMAGINE, RIGHT, MIDDLE OF THE WHERE YOU EXPECT YOU'RE EXPECTING SO MANY WHAT TIME DID YOU GET TO THE MEXICAN CONSUL 07:50AM.
HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE THERE?
IDLY ENDED OR READ CLOSE?
YES, BECAUSE THE LINE WAS ALL AROUND THE BLOCK SURROUNDING THE MEXICAN CONSULATE.
SO THINK ABOUT 400 PEOPLE PER BLOCK, RIGHT?
SO 1600, AT LEAST RIGHT WHERE I DON'T THINK ALLOWED MISTER VOGT.
I THINK ON OFFICIALS YOU DID ACTUALLY GET TO VOTE, RIGHT?
YEAH.
WAS LUCKY TO GET AT THE LAST MINUTE.
IT WAS LIKE 20 MINUTES TO GET IN.
HOW OFFICE?
HOW HOW LONG WERE YOU IN LINE FOR ALICE ARE FROM 7.30, IN THE MORNING.
SO LIKE PROBABLY X 7.
THEY WERE TELLING US THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO PULL.
THE OR VOICES KHALID THIS TIME.
NEXT.
GIVING YOU OTHER OPTIONS LIKE IT WAS.
WAS IT ALREADY TOO LATE TO VOTE ONLINE?
BECAUSE YOU HAVE PRE-REGISTER FOR.
SO THERE WERE 3 OPTIONS, BOTH PAUL SO THAT THEY WILL SEND A BALLOT TO YOUR HOUSE.
SHE WILL SEND IT BACK BEFORE BEFORE THE ELECTIONS.
YOU COLD SIGNING TO DO MINE.
AND THE CONSULATE.
THERE WERE 20 LOCATIONS, I BELIEVE 19 THAT WERE FUNCTIONING THEY DIDN'T EXPECT THIS AMOUNT OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF THE CONSULATE.
THAT'S THING.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO BLAME THE MEANING STATE PUBLIC THAT UNLESS YOU'RE NOT.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT BETTER.
WITH WHAT'S AND THIS.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NOT ONLY HAPPEN HERE IN CHICAGO, APPEARS CAN CLOSE TO OPEN FOR IN-PERSON VOTING.
YEAH, THERE WERE IT WAS THE SAME PROBLEM.
HIS SOLUTION.
YOU ACTUALLY VOTED FOR WHAT DIFFERENT CANDIDATE RIGHT WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN THE RESULTS WERE FINALIZED?
HONESTLY, WE'RE SEE THIS COMING.
WE'RE NOT EXPECTING TO WIN.
WE JUST DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE ALL THE POWER TO ONE PERSON.
BECAUSE GIVING THE POWER TO ONE PERSON'S, HE'S MAKING A MISTAKE AND THAT HAPPENED BEFORE WITH THE POLITICAL PARTIES THAT WERE IN MANDATE AND MEXICO.
GOING BACK WITH YOU CLEARLY YEAH.
BOATING THAT WE CAN DESCRIBE IT AS A CHAOTIC.
PRETTY MUCH DISORGANIZED WHITE LIKE ANYTHING.
THE MEXICAN WITH SEEMINGLY UNPREPARED FOR THE VOLUME PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW, I THINK WE UNDERESTIMATE HOW MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS AND MEXICAN-AMERICANS MUCH ONLY ARE INTERESTED IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS.
AND SO THEY WERE VERY UNPREPARED IN THAT REGARD.
I MEAN, IF WE LOOK AT VOTING HERE IN OUR ELECTIONS IN THE U.S. ONLY 11% OF ALL UP THE NOSE IN THE CHICAGO AREA OVER THE AGE OF 18 VOTED IN LAST MAYORAL ELECTION.
AND MEXICANS, OF COURSE, OF THE MAJORITY OF LATINOS THE AREA RIGHT?
WITH SUCH LOW VOTER I THINK WE CAN SAFELY SAY THIS IS A POPULATION THAT IS LARGELY VERY DISENFRANCHISE, NOT ABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINIONS AND LOCAL ELECTIONS IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
IF THEY'RE NOT U.S. CITIZENS, IF THEY HAVE GREEN CARDS OR IF THEY'RE DOCUMENTED OR HAVE SOME OTHER STATUS.
AND SO THE FACT THAT SO MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TURNED OUT AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE OFFICES TO CAST THEIR BALLOT TELLS US THAT PEOPLE INTERESTED.
THEY'RE INVESTED.
THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS.
HOW DO YOU THINK THIS TRANSLATES TO THE ELECTIONS HERE IN THE U.S.
THIS NOVEMBER?
WELL, I HOPE THAT IT'S AN INDICATION THAT MORE PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE AND ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, CAST A BALLOT ON ELECTION DAY.
I THINK THAT TOO MANY HAVE TAKEN A LATINO VOTERS FOR GRANTED FOR TOO LONG.
AND THE FACT THAT WE WITNESS THIS HISTORIC PARTICIPATION MEXICANS ABROAD OUTSIDE OF MEXICO AND THAT THE ELECTORATE HAS A.
VOTED IN THE FIRST FEMALE, A JEWISH PRESIDENT.
MEXICO AGAIN, REALLY REMARKABLE AND HISTORICALLY FROM IT.
WHAT YOU WAITED FOR SO LONG, WHAT MOTIVATED YOU TO TO KEEP WAITING STAYING LINE AND TO GO VOTE AND IT DID VOTE FROM ABROAD.
I HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR THIS FOR 35 YEARS.
SO TO BE HERE DEFINITELY.
AND WE COLLABORATED WITH THE ELECTION NEEDS TO TO TO REGISTER VOTERS TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT EVERYBODY KNEW OR ELECTION DAY BECAUSE THE KIND OF TO THE OPPOSITION WAS CALLING PEOPLE VOTE ON JULY SECOND, YOU KNOW, 40'S IS BUT WE PARTICIPATED VERY HEAVILY MAKING BE ELECTION WHAT ABOUT INSPIRES HIM.
YES, I WAS SAYING BEFORE SHE'S MEAN THAT AN ACTIVIST FOR EVER I MET HER WHEN SHE WAS PROBABLY 21 OR 22 SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SHE'S ALWAYS BEING IN POLITICS, BUT SHE'S ALSO A SCIENTIST.
SHE SAID ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTISTS, PART OF A GROOVE.
GOT KNOW WHAT PRICE AND SHE SAY A FANTASTIC PERSON.
CONCERNS IN AN INTELLECTUAL AND PRETTY SURE SHE'S GOING TO GOLF GOVERN MAKE EQUAL.
HE IN AN INCREDIBLY DEMOCRATIC BUT SHE'S GOING TO MAKE MAKING SURE THAT MIKAL BENEFITS THE MAJORITY OF MEXICANS FOR 80 YEARS.
WE HAD A SUPER MAJORITY OF ONE POLITICAL PARTY OR 2 POLITICAL PARTIES.
AND NOW THE OPPOSITION IS COMPLAINING THAT WE DO HAVE MY JOINT.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND FROM VERY YOUNG PARTY, MY FROM MY VERY BECAUSE WHAT'S YOUR TAKE?
WHAT WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM FROM A NEW GOVERNMENT?
HONESTLY, REALLY PROUD TO HAVE THE FIRST WOMAN A PRECEDENT MOVING FORWARD WITH JUST WANT THE BEST FOR MEXICO.
WE HAVE COUPLE POINTS.
ONE BETTOR CONSULATES, BETTER SERVICES SEXUALLY KUZ TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO GET YOUR I THINK WE'RE HE TAKES ABOUT 2 WEEKS AND THEN THE THEIR EMPLOYEES PROBABLY LIKE GOING SO IT TAKES LIKE AN HOUR OR 2 HOURS TO GET YOUR PASSPORT.
WELL, ONE PROGRAMS THAT ARE FOR KIDS, THE U.S. FOR HAITIAN ESL CLASSES I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN READ THEM.
WE WE ARE VERY SHORT ON TIME WE WANTED TO TAKE YOUR TAKE ON ON ON.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT WHAT YOU EXPECT FROM FROM THIS GOVERNMENT?
AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU ACTUALLY FOR JOINING US TODAY.
UNFORTUNATELY, OUR TIME VERY SHORT.
BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR I'M SURE YOU COULD HAD TO WAIT SO LONG IN LINE.
BUT BUT YOU MADE IT AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND WE'RE GOING TO BE BACK WITH MORE TO TONIGHT.
LATINO VOICES RIGHT AFTER THIS.
DON'T GO LISTEN TO THIS.
ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT AGRICULTURE, CHICAGO STREET CANOPY IS IN DECLINE.
THE SENIOR RANKS FAR BELOW THE NATIONAL AVERAGE WITH THE DISPARITY OF TREES ON CHICAGO'S WEST AND SOUTH SIDES.
BUT THE LOCAL CONSERVATION GROUP OPEN LANDS HAS BEEN WORKING TO REVERSE THIS NARRATIVE.
3 TREAT KEEPER CERTIFICATION COURSE WHICH IS NOW BEING OFFERED SPANISH.
JOINING US NOW WITH MORE ABOUT THAT, THIS EFFORT, OUR DON'T YOU WANT TO GET THE COMMUNITY ARBORISTS THAT OPEN?
THAT'S WHO RUNNING THE GROUP SPANISH TREAT PURSE PROGRAM.
AND IS A CERTIFIED TREE KEEPER WITH OPEN.
AND SO WELCOME BOTH OF YOU.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY.
AND THIS IS A VERY PROGRAM FOR PEOPLE WHO FAMILIAR WITH IT.
DO NOT THE TRICK KEEPER PROGRAM ACTUALLY WAS LAUNCH MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO.
PEOPLE MIGHT NOT KNOW THIS 1991.
WHAT IS THE TREE KEEPER ACTION TREE KEEPER IS GOING TO BE OPEN LANDS.
VOLUNTEERS.
IT'S A VERY INTENSIVE COURSE.
IT'S ABOUT MONTH LONG, 8 CLASSES, HOUR-LONG CLASS.
AND SO THEY LEARN ALL ABOUT TREE BIOLOGY TREND VACATION.
HOW TO PLANT TREES HAD A UPROOTING TREES, HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR TREES.
EVERYTHING TREE RELATED.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TRAIN THEM.
AND THEN ONCE THEY'RE DONE WITH THE TRAINING PROGRAM, THEY'RE THEN ABLE TO COME OUT AND VOLUNTEER FOR US FOR A DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT WE DO LIKE PRUNING PLANTING A TREE.
AND THEN TORY, THINGS LIKE THAT TO PRETTY MUCH ANYONE THAT'S INTERESTED COULD DO.
THIS COULD LEARN HOW TO DO EXPECT.
THERE IS A PRETTY MUCH ALMOST NO RESTRICTIONS, ESSENTIALLY ANYBODY FROM SOMEBODY IN HIGH SCHOOL ALL THE WAY TO SOMEBODY WHO IS RETIRED AND ACTUALLY A LOT OF OUR TREE KEEPERS ARE FOLKS THAT ARE RETIRED AND ARE ALWAYS HAD AN INTEREST IN THE ENVIRONMENT.
NOW THEY HAVE THE FREE TIME TO DEDICATE TO IT.
ALL RIGHT.
YOU'RE ONE OF PERSONS, RYAN, YOU ARE INTERESTED AND YOU'VE GOT CERTIFIED YOUR TREE.
COOPER NUMBER 19.
0, 5, RESUME HAVE HERE IN MY NOTES TO BE EXACT.
YEAH.
WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR EXPERIENCE LIKE?
AND WHAT YOU DO IS A TRICKY PROTECTED.
YES, A LAKE THAN IT WAS SAY.
WE HAVE 4 MAIN MAIN THINGS THAT WE DO.
WE DO TREE-PLANTING.
SO WE GO OUT AROUND THE COMMUNITY'S PLAN, SOME TREES IN AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE AS MUCH WE HAVE PROVEN SO NO RAIN DURING THE SUMMERTIME IS WHAT REPLANTING HAPPENS IN THE WINTER AND SPRING.
SO MORE ON THE ONE'S TIME.
WE HAVE PRINTING EVENTS GOING AROUND THE CITY, MAKE SURE THAT THE TREES, ESPECIALLY IN PARTS ARE GETTING TAKEN CARE AND THEN LASTLY, WE ALSO 2 WALKS AND LIKE TREE INVENTORY.
SO YOU GO AROUND THE COMMUNITY, LEARN WHAT REEVES SPECIES ARE AND YOUR LOCAL AREA, BUT ALSO TRANSITORY.
SO THAT IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF CUT THE STREET, YOU HAVE TO GO AND SEE WHAT SHE'S THE HOPE.
AND SOME ALSO SOME OF THE EVENTS.
AND ALSO RIGHT I STEPPED UP CHAPTER LEADER.
SO WAS THAT YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE LIBERTY, SO MUCH UP THERE.
WE HAVE A BOOK CLUB.
SO WE GO OUT AND READ BOOKS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH TREES.
SO YOU HAVE A LOT OF LIBERTY ALSO WITH OPEN TO KIND OF IF THERE'S 3RD YOU SURE THAT THEY WANT TO DO.
YOU CAN DO WHAT WHAT INSPIRED TO DO WHY WHY ARE YOU DOING?
FOR ME ACTUALLY STARTED WITH A TREAT OR THAT I DIDN'T LINCOLN PARK SOON I LIVE IN EDGEWATER.
AND SO IS ARBOR DAY.
I WAS KINDA EXCITED TO DO SOMETHING TO GET IT.
GO OUT THERE.
BE A MAJOR AND LEARN ABOUT THAT TREAT OR LEARN ABOUT WHAT AN ARBORIST WAS.
SO I WAS LIKE, OH, MY GUY, YOU GET PAIN TO TAKE CARE OF TREES.
LET ME LEARN MORE ABOUT IT.
SAID THAT WAS SEARCH ABOUT 2 PROGRAMS IN CHICAGO.
LUCKILY OPEN LINES AS AND AMAZING ORGANIZATION DOING A LOT OF WORKING AROUND THAT.
SO I LIKE TO SEND EMAIL LEARN ABOUT THE TRICK KEEPING PROGRAM AND GOT INVOLVED.
YOU SEE YOURSELF DOING THIS FOR YEARS TO COME?
YES, I ACTUALLY I'M REALLY INTERESTED BECOMING EVENTUALLY SOLD AS AN ARBORIST I HAVEN'T DONE IT YET.
SO I'M INTERESTED IN EVENTUALLY I'M DOING.
AND WHAT'S INTERESTING, I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GET MORE PEOPLE MOTIVATED ON DOING THAT.
DO NOT FEEL THAT WIRE TREES DECLINING CHICAGO IN WHAT CAN BE DONE TO REVERSE THAT.
A MAJOR REASON LOSING TREES IN THE CITY IS BACK AND 2012.
WE HAD THE EMERALD ASH BORER COMING TO THE REGION.
AND SO A LOT OF THE TREES AND OUR CANOPY HERE IN CHICAGO WHERE ASH TREES.
SO WE'VE LOST A LOT OF THOSE.
SHE IS ANOTHER REASON TO IS WE HAVE A MATURING CANOPY US.
WE HAVE A LOT TREES.
TREES ARE LIVING THINGS.
SO AFTER A WHILE AFTER COUPLE OF DECADES IN THE GROUND, ESPECIALLY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT.
THEY TEND TO DECLINE NO LONGER THE LONGER BE ALIVE.
AND SO WE'RE NOT KEEPING UP WITH THE LAW SAYS THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OPEN JUST TRYING TO ADDRESS WITH US TREE PLANTERS.
GRANT PROGRAM, AS WE ALL KNOW, RIGHT?
TREES ARE A SOURCE OXYGEN.
BUT WHAT HEALTH BENEFITS TO TREES BRING BRINGS US ALL.
THEY HAVE SO MANY BENEFITS.
SO WE HAVE LIKE YOU MENTIONED OXYGEN.
THEY SOCIETAL TREE LINE STREETS.
PEOPLE DRIVE A LOT SLOWER.
THERE.
THEY HAVE COOLING EFFECT.
SO YOU HAVE PROVIDING SHADE, LOWER YOUR ELECTRICITY COSTS.
SO IF YOU HAVE YOUR AIR-CONDITIONER IN THE SHADE IS NOT GOING TO BE WORKING AS HARD STUDENTS TO HAVE ACCESS TO TREES ON ON THEIR SCHOOL CAMPUSES TEND TO PERFORM BETTER TO HAVE A LESS BEHAVIORAL ISSUES AT 10 TO CRASHED WITH HIGHER GRADES.
IT'S THIS IS SPEAKING ABOUT THE PROGRAM SPECIFICALLY.
WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT TO EXPAND THE PROGRAM TO SPANISH SPEAKERS?
ONE OF MAJOR REASONS IS THAT THE LATINO COMMUNITY, WE HAVE A CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH NATURE.
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE DO WHEN THE CLASSES WE ASKED EVERYBODY TO SHARE.
WHAT IS YOUR TREE STORY?
AND SO IT'S JUST INTERESTING TO SEE THE SUBTLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 2 CLASSES.
SO IN THE ENGLISH CLASS THAT TENDS TO BE MORE THE TREE THAT WAS IN THAT BACKYARD THAT WAS PLAYING THERE, WHEREAS WITH THE SPANISH KEEPERS PUBLIC.
IF YOU REMEMBER, A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT LIKE, YEAH, I GREW UP AND LATIN AMERICA.
THESE CHEESE.
WE'RE PROVIDING FOOD FOR ME.
I WAS PLAYING IN THEM.
AND SO PROVIDED SUCH A VITAL ROLE.
THERE'S THIS MISCONCEPTION LATINO COMMUNITY DOESN'T APPRECIATE THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT IT'S JUST THAT NOBODY HAS US ABOUT IT IN OUR LANGUAGE.
INTERESTING.
BUT YOU ACTUALLY PLANTED THE 1000 IN APRIL 10,000?
I'M SORRY, 10,003 A PRO AT ARBOR DAY.
WHAT OTHER TECHNIQUES HAVE YOU LEARNED?
YEAH.
SO THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS.
THE BASED ON HIS PRONING IT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE STUCK ON A SCARED OF THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING AND CUTTING SOME BRANCHES OFF.
AND SO IT'S REALLY KIND OF HANDS-ON.
BUT OTHER PEOPLE SEE IT AS A SCARY THING BECAUSE THING THEY'RE GOING TO HURT THE TREE WAS ACTUALLY AN AMAZING THING.
SUPPORT IT.
WHEN THERE'S LIKE 5 YEARS SINCE THE COVID, THE BIGGEST ONE IS TRAINING.
YOU WANT TO TRAIN THE TREE TO GROW UP A PROPER WAY.
SO IT'S BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.
THAT'S WILL BE HUGE.
ANOTHER WANTED JUST KNOW HOW TO ADVOCATE FOR TRAINS AND LEARNING HOW TO TALK TO YOUR ALDERMAN TO YOUR NEIGHBOR OF THERE'S THIS TREE THAT'S NOT GOING TO TAKING CARE OF FULL COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT DIFFERENT.
AND YOU HAVE, JOE, YOU WERE VERY SHORT ON TIME.
SO I JUST LAST QUESTION, 15 SECONDS.
YES, REAL QUICK.
WHAT CAN WE DO AS A COMMUNITY TO TAKE CARE OF TREES?
REAL QUICK TALKED TO NEIGHBORS, TALK TO NEIGHBORS ABOUT TREES, EVERYBODY HAS SOME FEELING ABOUT.
YOUR AWESOME.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, GUYS.
UP NEXT, THIS THE PAST LIFE IN THE PILSEN THROUGH THE LENS OF A CAMERA.
STAY WITH US.
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
THE NEW PHOTO COLLECTION AT THE HAROLD WASHINGTON LIBRARY.
IT'S GIVING A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR LATINOS IN CHICAGO DURING THE 1990'S AT THAT TIME, JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER ACCUSED SHOOTING A WHAT'S A STUDENT AT COLUMBIA COLLEGE WHEN A CLASS ASSIGNMENT BROUGHT HIM TO THE PILSEN NEIGHBORHOOD.
AFTER GRADUATING, HE LEFT THE UNITED STATES, TAKING THOSE PHOTOS WITH HIM.
BUT YEARS LATER, HE TOOK A CHANCE AND RECONNECTED WITH HIS SUBJECTS.
NOW HE'S BACK IN THE REVISITING THE PEOPLE AND PLACES VISIT ALL THOSE YEARS AGO.
AND THE IMAGE I GET THE SHOT WHERE CLEARLY RAINING A LOT.
AND YOU CAN SEE PICK UP CHURCH.
WHAT ARE THE BEST STREET?
I IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SHOT.
SO IF YOU KNOW, STARTED POSTING BACK IN AND PEOPLE STARTING THEIR CAUSE THEIR PARENTS AND ALSO SORT OF SPREAD THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
NEXT UNITED STATES 1994.
WAS COULDN'T SAY NOBODY GOODBYE TO THE MANY PEOPLE.
ALL RIGHT.
SO THIS IS AT TIMES THAT I CAN BE CHRONIC TO SHOW THESE PEOPLE.
AND SO MY OPTIONS.
I DO EXPECT TOO MUCH BECAUSE I HAVE A KNOCK-ON EFFECTS.
THING THAT PEOPLE.
WELL DONE ON THE U.S.
SO I WAS KIND OFFERING THAT THE PERFECT.
FEW YEARS LATER HE WAS OUT HERE IS BROUGHT OUT HERE.
BUT SEVERAL GROUPS DID A SHOW OF HIS WORK.
THEY LAID OUT THE PHOTOS AND PEOPLE CAN COME AND DO INTERVIEWS.
TALK ABOUT ANY MEMORIES FOR THE PHOTOS OR SEE IF NEW ANYBODY IN IMAGES SHOW.
CAN TELL YOU FROM THE BOTTOM MY HEART THAT YOUR PITCHERS HAVE BROUGHT SO MUCH LOVE.
YOU CAPTURE PICTURES THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO HAVE DONE IT.
SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T HAVE A CAMERA.
SOME PEOPLE MIGHT TO HAVE MONEY FOR PELL UP FILM OR THEY JUST DIDN'T THINK SO.
BUT THE PICTURES THAT YOU'VE CAPTURED BY SO MUCH FROM THE LEFT BECAUSE THESE BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES THAT WE PROBABLY WILL NEVER SEEN.
NEW CONSTRUCTION.
SO YOU COULD SELL THAT THAT THE LONGER HAS THE CANOPY AND THEN THE NEXT TO HOMES RIGHT THERE, THEN YOU'VE GOT THE ALLEY AND THEN THE HUGE CORNER BUILDING RIGHT INTERESTING TO SEE HOW MUCH NEIGHBORHOODS CHANGE THAT HASN'T CHANGED, BUT DEFINITELY A DEFINITION HAS CHANGED NEIGHBORHOOD OF BUT IT'S A LOT OF HISTORY.
THE PHOTOS, A LOT IT'S I HOPE PEOPLE CAN SEE ALL THAT SEE THAT THE LOVE HAVE FOR CHICAGO WHEN THE RESIDENTS OPPOSED HIM, SAID.
SHE SAID TO THANK YOU FOR ALL.
CAFFERTY.
WHAT'S IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD?
THANK YOU FOR ALL CAFFERTY WATCHING OUT.
I. I CAN.
I IT'S IT'S A AND THE BIGGEST.
HAVE BEEN YEAH, I ABOUT HAVING SEE THE EXHIBIT IS OPEN THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR.
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WE LEAVE YOU TONIGHT WITH MUSIC FROM JOINING KIND THE SHOW.
GHANA MEXICAN CHICANO SINGER AND TV HOST WAS THE BELOVED PERSONALITY AND HELPED INTRODUCE THE WORLD TO SUPERSTAR SINGER SELENA.
HE DIED TODAY.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS 77 YEARS OLD.
NOW FOR ALL OF US HERE TO KIND CAN I LET YOU KNOW, VOICES A LOT OF COLUMBUS.
WE WOULD HAVE.
WILL BE.
MADE BY ROBERT A AND CLIFFORD LAW WHICH IS PROUD TO HONOR FOUNDER AND SENIOR PARTNER ROBERT CLIFFORD, WHO
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