Joe, its great to see you. [speaking foreign language] little joe im doing great and i hope you and your family are doing well. And let me say first, gracias for having me on. Second, i wanna wish everyone a great thanksgiving holiday, although were in the situation that we are with the virus. And thirdly, i want to offer my condolences to all the families and friends of victims of the virus. Its just so heartbreaking. I do, on behalf of myself and my family, offer condolences and to all families damian yeah, thats very nice of you, joe, and youre speaking from the heart and youre speaking in the first person because you went through it. Talk about what that was like. Were gonna get into your book. We have the whole show with you. But talk about thewhat it was like to go through it and youre still probably in recovery. I dont know if theres any lingering effects that you still have. Little joe well, i as far as lingering effects, i think im just a little short of breath. I hate the wor
And theres daniel, thank you for being on this show. Celso, tell us first about this Great Program that youve implemented there at evergreen. Celso batalha well, its a Pilot Program, its not institutionalized yet. Its just an attempt that we are trying to outreach to the community that serves our Community College. And we expect that some of these students will be part of our cohort. But the idea is if you look at thehello . Damian yes, keep going, were looking at your video. Celso oh, okay. So, should i start all over or damian no, go ahead, keep going. Celso okay, so if you look at enrollment in american universities, about 5 million of students are immigrants, or sons and daughters of immigrants. And thats where the numbers, about 30 of the population of the students in the university. If you look at california alone, the number jumps to 50 , which means if you go to the College Campus and you bump into two students, one of them will be a son or a daughter of an immigrant, or him or
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And so, we have some video of a lot of the rosie riveters, from 23rd to 28th of march. A whole week of financial we couldnt get away from that area. But thats when you all came in and you took the role of we had to stay within our area. Tia mary of the men. Damian the men. Education for our community. Damian and what do you think of the way women in general tia mary yes, uhhuh. Damian and so, what other jobs were some of your friends we are going to have different events, doing tia mary well,veters . Let me tell you. Are treated now . Tia man honor to see that they accept different information because we think that its very important they had very strict earners. Us and we have every right as everybody else. To give our community the opportunity with outreach we couldnt talk with anyone. We couldnt ask questions. Damian and then i always see you a lot in parades we had ani had to go up the ladders, programs to improve their way to life. I work on the b29s. And youre at events for veter
But of course, tuesday, march 3 is officially and that is sometimes i believe intentionally that message our primary election day. Damian so, because in the past, is put out there, that no election day was the big day for people like yourself, what you do, it doesnt make that much of a difference. And now youre saying its a month before, the day of, were trying to flip that narrative, and a month after. I they are really taking strids were trying to flip to take back their power. One is with more options of how to vote, not just vote by mail or on election day, but early voting. And i really hope that as election day arrives, right, Santa Clara County is joining the list of counties implementing the voters choice act. I mean, people already have their ballots. And as secretary padilla mentioned, so, voters in Santa Clara County will have the option of voting you know, we have vote centers. I had a bill to prioritize vote centers on college campuses, anywhere they choose over the course