And also youth ambassador. So, its just really fun, and you get to learn leadership, you get to experience like being part of the team. And my favorite part is that you get your word out into the public, like you could speak for what you believe in. Damian the name of your team is the tobacco free trailblazers. Graciela yes. Damian why that, why that name . Graciela so, actually my friend anna recommended it to me. And its so tobaccofree because im antitobacco. Trailblazers because, like, i want the trail to like blaze, you know . So, like i want to, like, make the path like clear, like yeah, i just want to blaze the path. Damian brandy, i would imagine that you have to stay on top of your game to keep up with your daughter. Brandy navarro i do. Damian shes so bright and intelligent. Brandy i do. Graciela thank you. Damian tell us about why this is important to the family, having her as an ambassador. Brandy for us, its important to be able to see the youth be able to vocalize themselv
Working with our community. We have a strong community, a very Large Community here in all counties that we have in our jurisdiction. And there are a lot of important programs that we need to do. And first of all, our first aim is to help them and introduce them in their rights. Because nevertheless, the condition in which they come here, we need to respect and be worried about their rights. Damian and one of those rights and the fact were celebrating that week is labor rights week, derechos laborales, and thats where you come in, consul rodrigo. Tell us about the role and what were doing this week for labor rights. Rodrigo navarro yeah, during this week, have the 11th edition of our labor rights week. Its an event of the council thats throughout all the country in the United States, 50 office. We promote labor rights for all the people working in this country, regardless of their immigration status. So, were paying attention to any wrongdoing by their employers, trying to catch up wit
Damian boy, and the culture there is so rich. I mean, its been for decades. Rodrigo yes, yes, and its the reason why we want to preserve a lot of the beautiful assets that we hold near and dear to our hearts, and fiestas las americas is one of them. Damian i saw some images, you sent us some images, and lucha libre is part of it as well. Rodrigo i know, mexican wrestling. Its always fun. Damian well, i mean, in the mission, there are so many cultures within the culture of the mission. Tell us about the diversity within that Diverse Community there in the mission. Rodrigo of course. You know, a lot has changed, but however, the essence of the Mission District is very strong. And that essence is mexican, is nicaraguense, puerto rican, filipino, africanamerican. So, all that created this beautiful melting pot of what is the Mission District and why its so, so cherished in San Francisco and the bay area. Damian let me ask you this. Theres been kind of a tug of war with gentrification there
[musica] y comenzamos con un evento patrocinado por oficiales policiales, se llama shop with a cop, o ir de compras con un oficial de policia; con nosotros, danny acosta, es el jefe de la policia del distrito escolar de foothilldeanza, distrito del colegio comunitario danny, Bienvenido Al programa. Danny acosta muchas gracias, damian. Damian trujillo gracias por estar aqui; platiquenos un poco de shop with a cop, tenemos video que vamos a mostrar, que es de los oficiales, llevando a Los Jovencitos a ir de compras, gratuitamente, en tiempos navidenos. Danny acosta si, la razon para hacer eso, es para reunir la comunidad, y acercarnos mas con, con la comunidad en que trabajamos, ¿verdad . , no sobre, sino en una ciudad, pero en todo, en todo el condado; pero tambien las ideas que tal vez tengan, para dejarles saber que son policias, hay personas atras del uniforme, de la placa, y que somos iguales, y estamos ahi para ayudarles; asi, para quitarles un poco del temor que tal vez tengan, c
Damian and we begin with the shop with a Cop Foundation here on comunidad del valle. Darrel cortez is a retired san jose cop. He is the leader of shop with a cop Silicon Valley. And danny acosta is a police chief. Tell us where you are the chief at, danny. Danny acosta im a chief over at foothillde Anza Community College District. Damian wow. Well, welcome to the show. We know all about the shop with a cop, darrell. Its a Great Organization that helps the community all the time, but, you know, you need the help, and thats why youre having a fundraiser. Darrel cortez well, great. Thank you for having us, damian. Its a pleasure. Yes, we wereso we are celebrating 16 years of being involved in our local community. Were a latinoled nonprofit, all volunteer. Danny is on our board. Hes been with us since day one. Hes very, very active participant and donated his time for the marieta programs that we promote in the community. And so we are having our annualour one and only fundraiser called fi