Andres Almeida is a server at a restaurant in New York, along with being a graduate student and advocate for the organization, One Fair Wage. The restaurant he works at didn’t close during the pandemic, so Andres tells us all about what it was like working during all the different stages of the past couple years, including adapting to new safety regulations, but also adapting to the attitudes of different customers. Roundtable guests: chef and host of Broken Bread, @chefroychoi, and author and President of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman (@sarujayaraman_ofw).
Miski Noor is an organizer and writer based in Minneapolis, MN where they are Co-Director with Black Visions, a power and base-building force for Black Queer and Trans people and their families within the larger Movement for Black Lives. They were mere blocks from George Floyd when he was murdered in 2020 and can speak to what it was like protesting during a pandemic along with how transformative justice informs their vision for a brighter future in Minneapolis. Part 1 of a 2 part series.
This week, we chat with not one but TWO essential workers that are directly keeping the country’s supply chain afloat!
It takes the work of many hands to get the products we all rely on from the factory to our homes. What to the consumer may just be the push of a button, requires the heavy lifting of factory workers, longshoreman, truck drivers and hundreds more. Longshoreman Nicole Salima (@nicolee.310) and truck driver Armando Pacheco are two of the workers responsible for that heavy lifting. Nicole Salima is a longshoreman at the Port of Long Beach and Armando Pacheco has been a commercial truck driver for decades. Hear their stories and more in Part One of a two part series on America’s supply chain!
This week, grief expert and psychotherapist Megan Devine (@refugeingrief) contextualizes what grief has been like on a larger scale throughout the pandemic for first responders like Anthony Almojera, our essential voice featured in Part One last week.
This week Lieutenant EMS Paramedic Anthony Almojera shares with us what he and other paramedics saw and experienced at the height of the pandemic in NYC. Part 1 of a our 2-Part Series on one of the frontline workers that answer our calls in times of need.
EPISODE 10: The majority of farm workers in the U.S. are migrant workers, many of whom are undocumented, and who were unable to stay home. Blanca, a farm worker in Monterey County California, kept working in the fields even when there was immense fear of bringing COVID home to her family. Blanca shares why this country needs to value the work she and her colleagues do every day, and reminds us all that she is essential in this country. Roundtable guests: Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta and Mónica Ramírez, founder of Justice for Migrant Women.
Host Wilmer Valderrama hears from the people who kept this country running in & out of the pandemic. Tuesday’s on iHeart Radio & all platforms!
