have to work for it. this is derek parker. hi t. derek. he s in a position called a co-manager. he went through the initial part of the internship, and he s now staff now. derek is running operations, derek is a full time farmer. and that is the board in the back that parker runs. this is a big part of empowerment, the youth run the board. and they keep their relationships with all the accounts. these are all the companies and businesses that buy the food? yeah, and parker is our vanna white. vanna so when you started here as an intern, was your goal to still be here nine years later? no, hell no. when i m done with my aa, i m out of here. but then i started realizing, i want aid job where i felt like i was living a legacy. the most amazing thing about this farm is the workers, college students getting up before dawn to work hard. when i was in college, i was going to bed at dawn. and i hadn t been working. let s talk about the thing i keep hearing about here is food
operations of the farm. exchange for the sweat equity, we provide them a full tuition to college and $500 a month. wow, so it s a past, present and future, all in about a hundred yards. so this is our packing ship. i think what i shared, this term, we are frying to introduce called digitize. indigionize. how do you repurpose the structures? this chicken shed is a packing facility. every one you see is between 17 and 24 from our community and maintaining a 2.0 in college at the same time. oh, wow. so you can t do this hard work unless you re keeping up with the books? like everything in life, you have to work for it. this is derek parker. hi t. derek. he s in a position called a co-manager.
co-manager. he went to the national part of the internship, and he s now staff now. derek is running operations, he s a full-time farmer. this is a big part of empowerment, the youth run the board. these are all the companies and businesses that buy the food? yeah, and parker is our vanna white. vanna so when you started here as an intern, was your goal to still be here nine years later? no, hell no. when i m done with my aa, i m out of here. i started razing i wanted a job where i felt like i was living a legacy. the most amazing thing about this farm is the workers, college students getting up before dawn to work hard. when i was in college, i was going to bed at dawn. and i hadn t been working. let s talk about the thing i keep hearing about here is food sovereignty. what is that and how important is that? the idea of food sovereignty is, you re growing food,
they tailed the plane and after that little plane landed at the closed airport, the feds landed right behind them and it turned out that little prop plane that landed at that darkened municipal airport was carrying almost a ton of marijuana. and it turns out the co-manager of the airport, who was in on the whole drug smuggling with airplanes after hours at the hattiesburg airport thing, the co-manager of the airport who was in on it, that was the son of the wealthy businessman, the one who had been looking up that judge with that awesome illegal oil and gas royalty deal. you know what happens next. his son gets arrested in this drug smuggling thing so the businessman calls up this judge who he s been greasing for months now. he calls him up and says, hey, i need you to do something about this drug smuggling case that my son is all messed up in. imagine you are this judge.
workers we were filming with, walmart informed it is workers including cindy and barbara that their black friday protest was not a federally protected action. that means that every worker who participated in the protest is in serious danger of losing their jobs. they believe what we did isn t right. an emergency meeting is called. we were taken to the corn path, each and every one of us individual today. what happened? our managers took each one of us, three of us individual out to the corner where nobody else was. he brought his other co-manager, a big guy. they took me first. and what did he say? he read a sheet of paper that was saying that we were