Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute Collection

Untold Stories: Portuguese-Americans Along the 99 Corridor

Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute

2020

A project of the Portuguese-American Oral History Program at Fresno State.

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and there's our dean
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dean chapman how are you
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doing really well denis how are you this
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is afternoon
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we're all doing great i'm doing great
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thank you and i think our uh
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consul general of portugal and san
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francisco is also on the line
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time
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i think that just about everyone who's
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supposed to be on the panel is here
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um we do have a couple other folks who
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as they have told us so i'm going to
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take this off because we want to be true
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to our time
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frame so we are at 1203
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at pacific standard time so we'll start
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this
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good afternoon everyone welcome one and
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alt who are joining us
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be it on the webinar and uh on those of
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those who are joining us through the
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social media platforms
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uh welcome uh welcome to those joining

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us locally
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throughout the central valley and the
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state of california joining us in
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various
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various parts of the u.s we have people
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participating from hawaii to
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massachusetts
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uh in canada from toronto to vancouver
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in brazil we have folks from mainland
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portugal and of course from various
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islands at least i know from at least
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three different islands
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in the azores so thanks to all the
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various government entities
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who have taken time to be present for
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this premiere
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as well as colleagues from the three
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colleges that house
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the college of arts and humanities
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college of social science and the jordan
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college of agricultural science and
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technology
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our staff our most amazing students of
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course
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and we welcome community leaders and
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of course some of our most awesome
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interviewees

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uh a bit of background uh about the
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portuguese american oral history project
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at fresno state
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we have two projects going on
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simultaneously one with the college of
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social science collecting audio
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recordings
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from the portuguese american community
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these oral histories
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began with an extensive seminar led by
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then dean
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uh and dr michel denbesti and since then
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we have collected over 25 recordings
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process of being archived
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at the portuguese american oral history
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project
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at the henry madden library thanks to
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the vision the work
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and the excitement of dean del rita
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hornbuckle and her amazing team as well
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the pandemic hit our projects as it hit
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everything else in our community
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with community uh members organizations
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and with high school students
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um these projects had to go on standby
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oral histories through zoom
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which included the history of the
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portuguese radio in california
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a 100 year history which we've done five
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different sessions once we
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can all gather in person hopefully we
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sponsoring an event with an exhibit of
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all these oral histories that were done
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the audio files the other project is the
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video
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and i should say videos because we want
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this to be the first of many
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department mcj
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from the college of arts and humanities
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again with the pandemic we have taken a
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bit of a hit on our schedule but we are
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pleased to have done
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many of the interviews on our original
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list that allowed us with the leadership
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of doctors candice egan
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and kelly mccoy and the list of very
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very talented students
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to put forth the documentary you're
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about to see plus
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all of these interviews in its entirety

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are transcribed and will be part of the
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collection
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that i've mentioned in our library and
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we hope to continue collecting these
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stories
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maybe as soon as the fall of 2021
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in person and we will see however if we
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cannot we'll continue them with the zoom
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as much as we can
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also totally i should say that in a year
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basically one year because the pandemic
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hit in march um
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as far as life it was one year as you
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was launched in february of 2019
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but including some of the efforts that
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we've made since the pandemic
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we've been able to collect over 45 oral
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histories
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uh and i think that's an accomplishment
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thanks to all the community leaders
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and thanks to everyone who has put forth
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an effort into this
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um but enough of an explanation we're
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here to see the documentary and
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afterwards to hear from our team
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here today some could not unfortunately
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first let me thank a few of the entities
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that are here today and ask them for a
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uh some brief words to greet all of you
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who are joining us on
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zoom and all of you who are joining us
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on social media
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and um i'm not going to give any longer
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brief uh um descriptions
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because i want to hear from all of us
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want to hear from all of you
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and to see our documentary so um our
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interim president saul jimenez sandoval
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a very strong supporter of all pbi
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projects
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could not be here today uh due to his
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schedule but we are pleased to have dr
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onora chapman
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who is the interim dean for the college
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of arts and humanities
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um welcome everyone on behalf of the
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california state university fresno
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on behalf of our administration our
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faculty our staff
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and certainly are amazing over 25 000
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students

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ladies and gentlemen dean chapman thank
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you so much
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denish and thank you all for joining us
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we're so grateful to vlad for supporting
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uh efforts of pbi
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and dinish's remarkable leadership
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we also appreciate the community support
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for pbi
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i see my colleagues interim associate
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dean sergio laporte on this call
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who is so proud of this work through
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as well as kelly mccoy and candace egan
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who were directly involved in the
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creation of these stories
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and you should know that the purpose of
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the entire california state university
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system
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is to give our students a voice
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to speak their truth so that they can
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build a life for themselves
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and their families and what's so
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beautiful about this oral history
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preserving the voices of people along
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the 99 corridor
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who helped build this entire
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civilization here that's based on
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agriculture and central to that history
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are the portuguese and portuguese
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cesareans who came here
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the most productive land in the world
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in no small part thanks to the
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portuguese community
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your efforts to preserve the stories
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and for creating the stories that are
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being preserved
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and uh we look forward to engaging with
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you in the future and i can't wait to
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see the documentary
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thank you thank you dean chapman thank
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your guidance and your vision and your
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of the azores the autonomous government
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of the azores director jose andrade
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who is the director of the zorian
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communities
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good afternoon from the daytorius it is
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and an honor to participate in this
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worldwide presentation of untold stories
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just a few words to greet the
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authorities
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and i would like to acknowledge
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the importance of this event
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but we have a common mission to
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to preserving our cultural identity
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in north america without forgetting
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the portuguese language and i must set
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an example so i will now speak
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thank you so much to the regional
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director of historian communities
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representing of course our sponsor a
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major donor in the last two years
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of all the events that pbbi has put
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uh for and there and there have been
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uh it's been a 24 as my wife tells me
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it's a 24 7 project for you
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um and it has been a 24 7. i find about
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a little bit of time for her and she's
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okay with that because then i'm not
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bothering her all the other times
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but uh indeed it is um it's been
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together in the last two years and we've
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been able to do it only because
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of the uh commitment of course of the
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university
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of the of the community but certainly of
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the luzo american development foundation
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so we thank dr hito fatim who we had the
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pleasure of having here
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in the fall of 2019 for a wonderful
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lecture that we all enjoyed tremendously
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and visited several parts of fresno
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uh if not uh next semester for sure
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spring of 2021 here's our invitation
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and so please put it on your calendar
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and again it is my pleasure
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to introduce to you dr hida fadden uh
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president of the executive council
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of the loser american development
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foundation flat thank you so much for
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joining us i know that you're very busy
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we appreciate the time regardless
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good afternoon hello everyone dear all
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colleagues and friends thank you for the
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invitation
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at flat we aim to promote the
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development of portugal
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through the cooperation with the united
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states we work to strengthen the ties
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between our two countries
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engaging with its people and
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institutions
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one of our priorities is to promote
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portuguese cultural
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and heritage in the united states at the
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taste at the same time
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to enhance the importance of the

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transatlantic relationship
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to both our countries it is clear to me
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that the community of americans of
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portuguese descent is a key partner to
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achieve this goal
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this is why flood has followed and
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supported the work
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of pvbi since its establishment
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the whole history project is
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particularly relevant it contains
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important documentation that helped us
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write the history
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of portuguese immigration to california
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and it highlights the importance of the
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azorian diaspora
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in this history through this series pbi
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helps keep
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portuguese identity values and cultural
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alive in the united states
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in 2019 as denis was saying as i made my
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first visit to the west coast of the
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united states as flat's president
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i had the opportunity to visit fresno
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state and watch
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some of these stories for me as
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portuguese they were particularly moving
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i take pride in the courage and

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determination
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of all the hard-working portuguese men
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and women
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that have contributed to the prosperity
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of the country
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both in private and public sectors while
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keeping alive the portuguese cultural in
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their families
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all these stories tell a tale of social
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inclusion
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and friendship between two countries in
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2021
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decades even in some cases more than a
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century
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after the arrival of these portuguese
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immigrants to the united states
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americans of portuguese descent keep
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alight the values and resilience of
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their ancestors
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today this is done in a new context the
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new generation of portuguese americans
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are already born integrated into the
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american society
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these create unique opportunities for
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cooperation
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between our countries in areas such as
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education

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science trade cultural and of course
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security and defense
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flood is committed to further such
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cooperation
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i would stress two aspects of our action
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that can be
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understood in this light first our focus
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in education
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in special our study abroad program
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through zipper the study in portugal
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network many
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many american university students come
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each year to study in portugal
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this program has also included the
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cooperation
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between fresno state and the azores
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university
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that we hope may be enhanced in the
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future and extend it to other
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universities in the california state
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university system on the other hand flat
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is committed to a greater political
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representation
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of the portuguese-american community we
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are
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aware of the role of fresno state in
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this

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we have seen an increased number of
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portuguese americans elected to public
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office
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as you know three members of the u.s
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congress of portuguese descent
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are from central valley jim costa david
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nunes and david valladon
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and they are all enthusiastic about
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pbi's activities
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towards the empowerment of the community
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through a unique closeness to the
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community you have done a great work
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in promoting the engagement of
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portuguese americans of all ages
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especially the younger generation i am
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certain
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that this new generation will be
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inspired by the stories of their
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ancestors
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told in this documentary and i
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congratulate denis bosch
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for his vision and drive coordinating
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this important project
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thank you muto brigada
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brigado thank you so much president and
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i see
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congressman jim costa has joined us he

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has a background he looks like
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he's uh he's uh just about to jump off
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somewhere so
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um i think he's uh uh able to
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uh mute and we'd love to uh hear from
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you congressman costa before we begin
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the uh of the uh
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documentary because we have um i know
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that you're unlimited schedule and
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documentary is about 25 minutes or so so
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congressman costa thanks for joining us
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well actually i was on before but the
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link didn't allow me to to
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participate but i want to thank you uh
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miami
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denise borges and um all of those who
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are participating
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today uh the partnership
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that we have created uh
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pbbi uh with our universities
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uh with uh uh ita uh
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farren with flog thank you for your kind
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words
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it's good to see you i was hoping
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they'll be there this spring but i'm not
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so sure
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that the the covet's going to allow that

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but
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clearly we make the best we can under
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the circumstances
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but this partnership is so important i
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believe
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because it really unites the portuguese
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communities
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and uh jose a thought from the as orders
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uh please
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um give miamix my very best
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uh for um uh the communities there that
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and the islands that we love the
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the partnership though happens and it
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exists because of
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all of our collective efforts and that
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cannot be
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uh overstated this uh i think
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over the last several years has proven
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to be very
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important for portuguese communities not
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only in the united states but
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specifically in california reuniting the
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partnership with the university of the
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azores with flogs
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support is so critical
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and we we have a proposal there and i
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want to

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thank you for your continued
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consideration
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obviously it has all of our support
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and anything i can do to to enhance and
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to
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further that along please let me know uh
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for your good work and and please tell
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them
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all i said hello this video
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is just but part of the work that
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we are dedicating ourselves to
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to further uh increasing the ties with
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my colleagues
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as a member of the portuguese caucus
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with my colleagues congressman nunes and
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valadal i see their representatives are
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participating as well we work
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together on those portuguese
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american relations
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at the highest levels and uh that's
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because uh
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the long history of portugal and the
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united states goes back
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to the very founding of our country and
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uh
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so um we want to continue to build on
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that

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and i want to do everything i possibly
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can
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denise to offer my good
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services and that of the portuguese
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caucus
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to do everything we can to enhance this
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partnership
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so with that let me say thank you i've
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got to go
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through airport security actually i i
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have
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a number of other background filters
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here i will
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put that on oh i like that one you like
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that one
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i love that and um
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and but it's uh and i've got to get one
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of the islands uh i don't have one of
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that but i
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i i have many beautiful pictures of the
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islands i'll make sure that i get them
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in my background
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scene and uh i love your background
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saint marita
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because i've had many good meetings
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there over the years
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and we look forward to getting together

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as soon as the
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covet passes and it allows us to meet
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safely but anyway thank you so very much
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and i'll look forward to
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to continue to participate once i get
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through security i'll see if i can come
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back on
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sure thank you so much if not we'll send
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you the link so you can see the you're
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one of the stars
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of the year of this show so we need to
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have you back on if you can
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thank you so much congressman jim costa
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thank you appreciate it and um
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right before we turn on and hopefully
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technology will allow everything to work
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perfect i'm always
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uh leery of everything when it comes to
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that that aspect but we'll do the best
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we can
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i'd like to um uh invite certain the
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honorable consul general of portugal in
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san francisco uh our good friend
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uh dr maria juan lopez cardozo for a few
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words
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as well thank you so much for joining us
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i know she has been going from zoom to

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zoom to zoom
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but we appreciate your presence
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good morning all good afternoon all
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denise thank you so much for inviting me
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and for
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being able to participate senora
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our congressman has left
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[Music]
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i was what can i say uh
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you have already mentioned uh the
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importance of the portuguese community
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here in california
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and in the united states as well uh you
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probably know over five million
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portuguese
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live abroad of which about
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uh only 2.3 million were actually born
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in portugal
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the portuguese diaspora is everybody
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is all those that have portuguese
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ancestry
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and who have kept our culture and our
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traditions
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alive in fact it's most of you who are
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attending uh
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this webinar and uh please remain
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assured we are really really proud of

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you um
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and we consider you our best ambassadors
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and i'm a diplomat so i'm you know i can
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say that like
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you're our best ambassadors and i've
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been here almost for four years and
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uh i'm still uh it's incredible uh what
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this community has
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done for themselves and for our
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00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,280
relations uh
578
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,760
with the united states um several
579
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,960
publications
580
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,960
exist on the portuguese in agriculture
581
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,559

portuguese uh
582
00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:42,799
the butch gives whalers there's another
583
00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:44,640
book now published by a member of our
584
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,240
community just recently called
585
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:48,159
portuguese in california
586
00:22:48,159 --> 00:22:51,679
and um but uh the work that
587
00:22:51,679 --> 00:22:54,320
our honorary council and director of the
588
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,480
portuguese beyond bodies institute has
589
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,120
done
590
00:22:57,120 --> 00:23:00,159
uh professor dinish bosh is
591
00:23:00,159 --> 00:23:03,200
incredible in the sense that he
592
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:07,120
has given voice
593
00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:10,559
to these ancestors and uh he knows i'm
594
00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:11,679
really proud and i'm

595
00:23:11,679 --> 00:23:15,120
um i hope i'll be able to watch this um
596
00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,320
to see to leave these uh to to
597
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:22,000
to record all the oral uh
598
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,280
stories of people who are slowly leaving
599
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:26,720
us because some of our mem
600
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,880
of the members of our community are
601
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,000
already old
602
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,320
and so uh through them we'll be able we
603
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,080
will be able to preserve
604
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,039
a part of the history and uh which have
605
00:23:37,039 --> 00:23:38,640
which is priceless
606
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:42,880
and um this corridor in 99 is one of my
607
00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,799
favorite road trips now i've been locked
608
00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:46,720

at home for one year but you know
609
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,000
99 highway 99 is uh all
610
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,640
you know in my first three years in san
611
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:53,840
francisco
612
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,240
you could always find me traveling along
613
00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,919
the 99 or sometimes
614
00:23:57,919 --> 00:24:01,440
across from the 99 to the 5 to
615
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,200
in spring to watch the almond blossoms
616
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,559
and so um i'm looking forward to this
617
00:24:08,559 --> 00:24:10,240
documentary
618
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:13,440
and i'm really excited about this and so
619
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,919
denise thank you so much for all your
620
00:24:15,919 --> 00:24:17,120
efforts
621
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,760
we really appreciate it thank you thank

622
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,039
you thank you for joining us and thank
623
00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:22,320
you for your kind words
624
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,880
and uh so ladies and gentlemen let's uh
625
00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:26,320
let the show begin
626
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,240
uh let's see if i can do this right if i
627
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,080
can't professor candace again will
628
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,520
surely uh hit me a couple of times next
629
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:34,880
time she sees me it's not
630
00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,960
abuse it's just normal it should be that
631
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,159
way if you mess up
632
00:24:38,159 --> 00:24:40,400
um you know years ago as i get this
633
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,840
ready years ago the
634
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,679
uh editor of the journal portuguese
635
00:24:43,679 --> 00:24:46,320

alberto some of you might remember um
636
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,080
was interviewed by the audience teachers
637
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:50,559
which is at one time wasn't still is a
638
00:24:50,559 --> 00:24:52,240
very important newspaper in portugal
639
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:53,679
at that time it was the main newspaper
640
00:24:53,679 --> 00:24:55,840
this was in the late 1980s early 1980s
641
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:56,799
and someone asked me
642
00:24:56,799 --> 00:24:58,720
asked him what do you do as an editor he
643
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:00,799
says well besides turning on the lights
644
00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:02,240
and turning off the lights and sweeping
645
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,120
the floor
646
00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:04,640
and uh you know paying the bills and
647
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,320
doing this and with that i also you know
648
00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,159
uh edit the newspaper and i kind of you

649
00:25:08,159 --> 00:25:08,480
know
650
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,039
that's me at pbi i'm gonna do technology
651
00:25:11,039 --> 00:25:12,880
and all that i can so let's uh
652
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,279
uh relax sit back and let's see if this
653
00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:16,000
works
654
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,600
i and hopefully you will
655
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:24,000
that's not gonna be let me stop that one
656
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,039
and start again and it is music and we
657
00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:30,320
have this on
658
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,360
we see it do we not
659
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,080
do we see a bunch of ships yes
660
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,480
correct thank you so much okay enjoy it
661
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,840
here we go
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00:25:46,140 --> 00:26:04,680

[Music]
663
00:26:05,679 --> 00:26:08,640
california a land that has long captured
664
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,720
the hearts and imaginations of those
665
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,600
yearning for a better life including
666
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:15,200
countless immigrants from around the
667
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,559
world
668
00:26:16,559 --> 00:26:18,080
immigrants from portugal and their
669
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,480
descendants are among those who make up
670
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:21,679
the state's rich
671
00:26:21,679 --> 00:26:25,440
cultural tapestry about 350 000
672
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:27,919
californians identify as being of
673
00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:30,159
portuguese descent
674
00:26:30,159 --> 00:26:33,200
most are from the azores many have
675
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,360
settled in cities and towns

676
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:37,919
along the highway 99 corridor of the
677
00:26:37,919 --> 00:26:39,440
central valley
678
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,440
a sprawling farming region 450 miles
679
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:44,799
long
680
00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:46,880
despite the important contributions
681
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,240
portuguese americans
682
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,760
from the central valley have made
683
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,240
locally and nationally
684
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,120
little is known about them azorians had
685
00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,039
started settling here in the central
686
00:26:57,039 --> 00:26:59,600
valley in the 1870s
687
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,039
they started out as sheep herders they
688
00:27:03,039 --> 00:27:06,559
developed a good reputation for being
689
00:27:06,559 --> 00:27:08,640

steady and willing to stay out in the
690
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,480
field with sheep
691
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,679
and so they were hired first
692
00:27:13,679 --> 00:27:16,799
in these large ranches out by lamore
693
00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:18,880
and then of course they sent letters
694
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,799
home and
695
00:27:20,799 --> 00:27:24,240
told of the opportunities here and
696
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,480
more of them came and started settling
697
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,520
in the area
698
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,440
there were two waves of portuguese
699
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,520
immigration to the united states
700
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,360
the first was in the late 1800s to the
701
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:35,840
1920s
702
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,760
and was made up of individuals and

703
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,279
families seeking
704
00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:41,840
better opportunities in america the
705
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,039
second wave
706
00:27:43,039 --> 00:27:45,520
followed the eruption of the volcano on
707
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,039
the island of feyal
708
00:27:47,039 --> 00:27:50,880
in the azores in 1958 john f kennedy
709
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,200
then a senator from massachusetts
710
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,240
co-sponsored the azorian refugee act
711
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,520
making it possible for almost 5 000
712
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,320
displaced portuguese citizens to come to
713
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:03,760
the united states
714
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,279
the family reunification act of the
715
00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:07,760
1960s allowed
716
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,679

those who had come either at the
717
00:28:09,679 --> 00:28:11,520
beginning of the century or those who
718
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:12,320
came
719
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,679
post a capilling volcano in the late 50s
720
00:28:15,679 --> 00:28:17,360
to bring forth their families their
721
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,200
siblings their mom their dad
722
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,559
um and and that was the last exodus
723
00:28:22,559 --> 00:28:25,840
from the 1960s early 1960s
724
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:29,440
until basically about 1976 to 1980.
725
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,200
when we left our island of florida there
726
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,120
was no no electricity at all
727
00:28:33,120 --> 00:28:36,000
on the island there was no running water
728
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,080
in any house
729
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,320
there was there were no roads no cars

730
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,679
my brothers and sisters grew up reading
731
00:28:45,679 --> 00:28:49,120
and learning to read by an oil lamp
732
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,480
you know that and this is in my lifetime
733
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,520
and uh it's so life was was very
734
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,520
difficult and challenging
735
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:00,399
it was just subsistence living so you
736
00:29:00,399 --> 00:29:00,880
had a
737
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,640
you had a good living in that it's a
738
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,720
very fertile place very green place
739
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,440
there's fish in the ocean and and things
740
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,360
grow year-round
741
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,159
but that's all you had and you were you
742
00:29:12,159 --> 00:29:12,559
were
743
00:29:12,559 --> 00:29:16,399

very isolated and so this was a
744
00:29:16,399 --> 00:29:17,919
this area here in the san joaquin valley
745
00:29:17,919 --> 00:29:20,320
was a great area to come to
746
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,399
based on it was very similar to what you
747
00:29:22,399 --> 00:29:24,799
had in the azores in terms of fertile
748
00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:27,919
land and you could have animals and grow
749
00:29:27,919 --> 00:29:28,799
crops
750
00:29:28,799 --> 00:29:30,799
i think we've made some contributions in
751
00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:32,720
certain industries more than others
752
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:34,399
and of course in the san joaquin valley
753
00:29:34,399 --> 00:29:35,840
in agriculture
754
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,039
in the dairy industry according to
755
00:29:39,039 --> 00:29:40,720
all data that has been published
756
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,880
throughout the years in the 1970s

757
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:43,600
especially
758
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:45,679
the portuguese controlled about half of
759
00:29:45,679 --> 00:29:47,200
the dairy
760
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,080
products that were being manufactured of
761
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:50,880
course when they
762
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:52,559
immigrated and they didn't speak the
763
00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:55,360
language the opportunity for them was to
764
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:56,000
all
765
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,840
milk cows so the portuguese people
766
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,000
whether they were cow people
767
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,679
in their homeland when they got here
768
00:30:01,679 --> 00:30:03,600
they milked cows by hand and that was
769
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,880
their opportunity
770
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,480

to get started in in to get jobs
771
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,120
and then to start their own businesses
772
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,480
well
773
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:14,399
my dad couldn't speak english and we
774
00:30:14,399 --> 00:30:15,600
pretty much start doing
775
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,960
this taking jobs that you know
776
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,080
portuguese immigrants you know they were
777
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,440
offered to um the milking cows
778
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,960
working the dairies uh farms and that's
779
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:29,840
on my dad
780
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:31,200
you know it was a big change for him
781
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,360
also um to take
782
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:34,799
you know start working the dairy in
783
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:36,720
there you know it he probably there's

784
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,559
some of that when he was really young
785
00:30:38,559 --> 00:30:41,919
uh in azores uh but he was
786
00:30:41,919 --> 00:30:44,640
you have to adopt you know to that again
787
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:45,600
i do remember my
788
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,000
my brothers are very involved in um you
789
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,120
know helping to milk and feed calves and
790
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,120
you know taking hay the cattle and all
791
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,760
that kind of thing my father
792
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,240
went to milk cows at first he had never
793
00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,760
i don't know that he had touched the cow
794
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:01,360
in the azores
795
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,519
but he went to milk cows for about three
796
00:31:03,519 --> 00:31:04,559
months
797
00:31:04,559 --> 00:31:08,559

we all grew up working here on the farm
798
00:31:08,559 --> 00:31:12,080
from a young age i don't know exactly
799
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,600
when i estimated somewhere between
800
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,039
first grade and third grade maybe before
801
00:31:19,039 --> 00:31:19,679
school
802
00:31:19,679 --> 00:31:23,279
after school weekends saturday
803
00:31:23,279 --> 00:31:26,480
sunday summers
804
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,840
we worked all the time and so
805
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,360
you know it's it's it's the
806
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,640
story of the immigrant uh farmer uh
807
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,399
that is so i think um typical
808
00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:43,760
from so many of the historians who chose
809
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,360
to come to the valley
810
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,799
with really nothing more than the

811
00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:49,200
clothes on their back and a strong work
812
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,000
ethic
813
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,120
and a willing to do their best
814
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,200
and certainly my grandparents and my
815
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,960
parents reflect that
816
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:01,840
that dream
817
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,480
language played a role very i mean still
818
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:07,919
plays an important role in the
819
00:32:07,919 --> 00:32:10,240
beginning obviously it was a way for
820
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,320
people to communicate with each other
821
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,840
i got together because of the language
822
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,279
it was a way to communicate and keep the
823
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:16,480
language alive
824
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,760

there was no way to lose the
825
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,760
primary language it was no way
826
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:27,120
so we kept the language because
827
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,440
in the house we always speak portuguese
828
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:31,440
my husband didn't speak another language
829
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,720
we had to speak portuguese so my gran
830
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,600
my parents came over from azores of a
831
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:38,240
year
832
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,799
to live with me then afterwards they
833
00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:42,480
didn't speak english either
834
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,440
my daughter's we kept and my it's a
835
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:46,000
habit
836
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,880
my daughters and i we never even though
837
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,480
i speak english now

838
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,440
my daughters never speak portugue uh
839
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:54,399
english whether
840
00:32:54,399 --> 00:32:58,000
with us never it's a habit so
841
00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,760
when i was growing up my mom and dad
842
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,279
were very adamant that we were going to
843
00:33:01,279 --> 00:33:02,880
continue to speak portuguese so at home
844
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,399
we spoke portuguese
845
00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:06,159
and every day after school my mom would
846
00:33:06,159 --> 00:33:07,840
sit us down at the kitchen table and we
847
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:08,720
had
848
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,640
our portuguese lessons so she had
849
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,399
brought books from the azer's and so we
850
00:33:12,399 --> 00:33:13,919
actually had lessons in portuguese
851
00:33:13,919 --> 00:33:16,640

i kind of like my language i think i
852
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,760
think it's uh
853
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,840
it's a very rich language you know what
854
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,039
i mean
855
00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:24,240
uh the the spanish might be
856
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,279
a little bit more um
857
00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:31,120
suave a little bit more
858
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,320
uh romantic because
859
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,440
portuguese is a little bit stronger like
860
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,120
we say porto fresh apart
861
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:53,840
everything is very soft very nice
862
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:58,320
portuguese language radio was a very
863
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,320
important bond between the communities
864
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:01,840
and it was our way to connect

865
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,919
also to keep on having contact with the
866
00:34:03,919 --> 00:34:06,720
language i'm a firm believer
867
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,280
that if we did not have portuguese
868
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:10,480
language in the
869
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,918
programs radio programs in the 1960s 70s
870
00:34:13,918 --> 00:34:16,239
and 80s and even through the 90s
871
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,000
we would not have folks speaking
872
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:19,599
portuguese that they speak today
873
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,719
the portuguese community depended on
874
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:23,359
radio
875
00:34:23,359 --> 00:34:27,280
for the news i used to go to portugal
876
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,079
and go from village to village with a
877
00:34:30,079 --> 00:34:32,560
small
878
00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:36,560

tape recorder to record messages from
879
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:37,359
the people
880
00:34:37,359 --> 00:34:41,199
in asos to the people here in the united
881
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:42,079
states
882
00:34:42,079 --> 00:34:44,159
in those days a lot of dairies and they
883
00:34:44,159 --> 00:34:45,359
needed milkers
884
00:34:45,359 --> 00:34:49,359
they needed people to work the land
885
00:34:49,359 --> 00:34:54,480
uh or or to take care of the the dairy
886
00:34:54,879 --> 00:34:58,160
so i would advertise not charge it was
887
00:34:58,160 --> 00:34:58,800
free
888
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:00,560
but this was service to the community
889
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,359
right a dairyman calls me
890
00:35:03,359 --> 00:35:06,640
and i need a milker i need a hurtsman
891
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:08,880
i need this i need okay give me the

892
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:09,839
phone number
893
00:35:09,839 --> 00:35:11,520
and then i go in portuguese okay we need
894
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,599
it i got
895
00:35:13,599 --> 00:35:15,680
hundreds of thousands over these years
896
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,680
thousand jobs just
897
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,079
and sometimes people will passed away
898
00:35:20,079 --> 00:35:21,680
and they didn't have money
899
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,040
i would ask donations i we help in
900
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,480
everything not just me
901
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,480
all the other colleagues who who did
902
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,920
that we we help people
903
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,359
so much i charged the sponsors
904
00:35:37,359 --> 00:35:39,680
for my radio program but the services to
905
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,200

the people were free
906
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,640
but they gave me other service
907
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,880
for instance they would cook they would
908
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:47,920
give me soup
909
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,760
they would give me fried fish linguists
910
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,320
all these portuguese things so it was
911
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,200
kind of a
912
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,920
mutual exchange there was a radio
913
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,440
program here in turlock
914
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,920
and and it's a great story that i
915
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:02,480
learned
916
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,839
a lot from and mr mendoza
917
00:36:05,839 --> 00:36:08,560
is the one who spoke on the radio and
918
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:10,640
the name of the program was franklin

919
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,560
speaking his name was frank
920
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,560
i was with my aunt at her house and she
921
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,560
had the radio on all the time
922
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,280
and this gentleman is speaking i said
923
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,320
the audience
924
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:23,119
who is this man oh he speaks portuguese
925
00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:24,960
very well and he's got a radio program
926
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,640
and we all listened to it
927
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,800
and i came from portugal you didn't
928
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,160
speak in a radio unless you were a
929
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:30,960
professional
930
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:33,920
i said tiaria but he doesn't speak well
931
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,680
enough to speak in the radio
932
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,160

and she and she says well he speaks very
933
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:38,720
well
934
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,359
he taught me english to i got my
935
00:36:41,359 --> 00:36:43,280
citizenship paper so i could bring you
936
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:43,760
here
937
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,080
and he speaks very well
938
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,170
[Music]
939
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,880
so the church was part of of everyone's
940
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:53,760
upbringing
941
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,599
you were catholic and that's just what
942
00:36:55,599 --> 00:36:57,280
you were yeah the
943
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,760
the church definitely plays into the
944
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:00,480
heritage
945
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,079
definitely uh big influence

946
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:06,560
i i it would be hard to be portuguese
947
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,160
and not be catholic and put all the
948
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:09,280
pieces together
949
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,560
i was brought up going to church
950
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,440
every sunday and then i brought we
951
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,920
baptized all our kids
952
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,440
and my son still goes
953
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,599
i don't think my daughters go see they
954
00:37:23,599 --> 00:37:25,760
already got a little
955
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,680
but but that helps you know a base of
956
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,079
a foundation of something that you have
957
00:37:32,079 --> 00:37:33,599
to believe in
958
00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:36,800
when they came here in a land that was
959
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:37,599

different
960
00:37:37,599 --> 00:37:39,520
in a land that had many different
961
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,520
religions uh
962
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,119
mainly christian but different
963
00:37:43,119 --> 00:37:44,960
denominations other than catholic
964
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,000
what could you keep that was yours
965
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,280
your faith my parents
966
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,800
thought it was important for me to
967
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,520
maintain some portuguese identity i had
968
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:58,560
learned to speak
969
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,720
portuguese and my grandmother's paternal
970
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:02,400
grandmother's home
971
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,920
she spoke portuguese in the home
972
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,119
and we would attend portuguese holy

973
00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:10,800
ghost celebrations
974
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,920
this idea of celebrating queen isabella
975
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:14,880
portugal
976
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,079
and what she did during a very tough
977
00:38:18,079 --> 00:38:19,920
time for portugal which was a famine
978
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:21,920
which which was she that she sold the
979
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,200
jewels of the crown
980
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,359
to feed the poor this idea that we have
981
00:38:25,359 --> 00:38:26,720
a responsibility
982
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:29,440
for our fellow human being um
983
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:30,880
independently of one's
984
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,839
ideology is is is the basis of the holy
985
00:38:33,839 --> 00:38:35,680
ghost fishers and if the zorians ever
986
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:36,880

lose that in california
987
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,880
they lose who they are you know i mean
988
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,240
and this culture and the cult
989
00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:41,680
that you have here in the valley it's an
990
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,599
interesting uh micro
991
00:38:43,599 --> 00:38:45,599
culture that you have because you still
992
00:38:45,599 --> 00:38:46,880
you have these
993
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,680
these uh portuguese halls that are
994
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:50,640
mainly built upon
995
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,960
around religious festivals but you know
996
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,280
these date back to the late 1800s early
997
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,520
1900s and they're all over the
998
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,960
valley here i mean nearly every
999
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:00,880
community has one and they're still

1000
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,079
going today
1001
00:39:02,079 --> 00:39:04,079
some of my best recollections now even
1002
00:39:04,079 --> 00:39:05,359
as a teenager
1003
00:39:05,359 --> 00:39:07,760
was sitting at the portuguese festivals
1004
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,599
underneath a shade tree
1005
00:39:09,599 --> 00:39:13,200
and my dad talking um with his friends
1006
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,839
you know about things that they missed
1007
00:39:15,839 --> 00:39:18,360
in the old countries
1008
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:22,709
[Music]
1009
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:24,400
there's always been an ethnic pride
1010
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,440
about the azores and about
1011
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,000
about those islands and um and i think
1012
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:30,640
it's even
1013
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,720

bigger with those who are of a zorian
1014
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:34,720
ancestry than those who are portuguese
1015
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:37,040
people normally say i'm portuguese but
1016
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,640
they sometimes will follow up i'm
1017
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:40,160
portuguese from the azores
1018
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,800
or in portuguese or i'm from the zilage
1019
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,079
which literally translates
1020
00:39:44,079 --> 00:39:46,480
from the islands i go to the azores
1021
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:47,359
every year
1022
00:39:47,359 --> 00:39:51,520
i love the azores i love portugal
1023
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,680
it's i guess the way i describe it
1024
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,880
it's it's my biological mother gave me
1025
00:39:58,880 --> 00:39:59,920
life
1026
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:01,839
and i look at america as being my

1027
00:40:01,839 --> 00:40:03,839
stepmother that opened me with open arms
1028
00:40:03,839 --> 00:40:05,040
that treated me
1029
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,119
like one of its own you know this small
1030
00:40:07,119 --> 00:40:08,160
island so
1031
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,839
everybody knows everybody um so
1032
00:40:11,839 --> 00:40:15,440
and a lot of especially in our village
1033
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,480
people remember us you know my parents
1034
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:19,760
especially
1035
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,040
um and that was what touched me the most
1036
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,240
people still
1037
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,920
come and came and just hugged us and
1038
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:30,560
like
1039
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,200
just saw us yesterday you know i've been
1040
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,079

going since
1041
00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:37,359
my that first initial trip about 25
1042
00:40:37,359 --> 00:40:39,119
years ago when i first
1043
00:40:39,119 --> 00:40:41,040
savored the lavish i'll never forget
1044
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,480
that uh
1045
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,040
to just about every year going there my
1046
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,359
mother had three sisters who never left
1047
00:40:47,359 --> 00:40:50,560
uh the islands so their children
1048
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,400
basically all stayed there so a lot of
1049
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,640
first cousins i'm in contact with them
1050
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:55,280
all the time
1051
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,280
i think portuguese have a very strong
1052
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,720
family commitment and family ties and
1053
00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:04,160
matter of fact i've gone back to the

1054
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,760
azores several times my
1055
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,119
children have gone back i want to make
1056
00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:08,720
sure my children go back because i want
1057
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:10,319
that family connection
1058
00:41:10,319 --> 00:41:14,000
so what i've noticed is our friends and
1059
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:14,960
family
1060
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,160
that go back to the old country and
1061
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,280
actually firsthand witness the culture
1062
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,040
and the traditions and things
1063
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,079
they come back just really excited about
1064
00:41:26,079 --> 00:41:27,280
the culture
1065
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,480
and we even have cousins who their their
1066
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:31,440
kids
1067
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,839

who are our kids ages come back and they
1068
00:41:33,839 --> 00:41:35,359
want to learn the language and they want
1069
00:41:35,359 --> 00:41:35,839
to do
1070
00:41:35,839 --> 00:41:37,760
everything portuguese because they've
1071
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,839
actually gone back and witnessed
1072
00:41:39,839 --> 00:41:40,560
firsthand
1073
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:42,960
since we haven't been back there we kind
1074
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,560
of have a little bit less of an
1075
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:46,560
excitement about the culture
1076
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,960
than if we had gone back so someday when
1077
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:49,839
we go back
1078
00:41:49,839 --> 00:41:52,079
we will probably come back and you know
1079
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:53,260
be on fire
1080
00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:57,839
[Music]

1081
00:41:57,839 --> 00:42:00,400
i am very proud of the portuguese i'm
1082
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:03,280
very proud of what they have done
1083
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,760
their work their sense of
1084
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,200
community the sense of
1085
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,520
helping they always want to help someone
1086
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,839
i think of being portuguese as being
1087
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,040
part of one of the pillars that holds me
1088
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,480
up i guess
1089
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:28,400
so i think of myself as american i think
1090
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:29,520
of myself as
1091
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,400
a californian i think of myself as a
1092
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:33,200
catholic
1093
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,599
i think of myself as a dairyman i think
1094
00:42:35,599 --> 00:42:36,880

of myself
1095
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,880
as portuguese so it's it's not
1096
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,760
it's part of that whole structure that
1097
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,520
holds up my identity
1098
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,640
i might just say i'm portuguese i don't
1099
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,240
even say i'm portuguese american
1100
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,480
i might say to somebody i was born in
1101
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,200
years or i can be an american citizen
1102
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,359
and i'm very proud of that i mean i mean
1103
00:42:59,359 --> 00:43:00,720
it's just um
1104
00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:04,800
i have the best of both worlds you know
1105
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,599
it was born portuguese it's great you
1106
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:09,599
know
1107
00:43:09,599 --> 00:43:11,839
feels great being portuguese and here i

1108
00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:13,520
am i'm american
1109
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,760
i'm a citizen of this great country you
1110
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,839
know i have had such a blessed
1111
00:43:17,839 --> 00:43:21,680
life and and really that is in part
1112
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,720
to to the sacrifice that my parents made
1113
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:28,079
i can't imagine leaving a world
1114
00:43:28,079 --> 00:43:30,000
that you know for a world that you don't
1115
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,200
know
1116
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,280
thousands of miles not knowing the
1117
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:34,800
language not knowing what's going to
1118
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:35,839
come your way
1119
00:43:35,839 --> 00:43:38,000
and why are you doing it you're doing it
1120
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:40,160
for the better life of your children
1121
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,440

so um i just will be eternally
1122
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,480
uh forever grateful for
1123
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,640
to my parents for giving me the
1124
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:49,599
opportunity
1125
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:51,920
to live in this wonderful world in
1126
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,040
between these
1127
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:56,480
two worlds that i live in the central
1128
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:59,680
question has always come back to me
1129
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,880
what would my life have been like if it
1130
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,319
were not for the incredible courage
1131
00:44:06,319 --> 00:44:09,839
of my grandparents to be
1132
00:44:09,839 --> 00:44:13,200
real risk takers i mean we think about
1133
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,280
how you know our country has been
1134
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,480
so fortunate to have so many risk takers

1135
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,960
and my grandparents were part of those
1136
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,079
risk takers
1137
00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:26,079
i know my life would have been much
1138
00:44:26,079 --> 00:44:27,359
different
1139
00:44:27,359 --> 00:44:31,119
um if um if my grandparents
1140
00:44:31,119 --> 00:44:33,599
had not chose to take that risk and come
1141
00:44:33,599 --> 00:44:34,640
to the
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00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,960
to the new world to america to have a
1143
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,640
better life for themselves and for their
1144
00:44:41,140 --> 00:44:44,310
[Music]
1145
00:44:48,839 --> 00:44:51,839
children
1146
00:44:53,050 --> 00:46:00,870
[Music]
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00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,359
and uh the congressman always makes it
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00:46:13,359 --> 00:46:15,920

gets me emotional i always i can i can't
1149
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:18,000
watch that last part
1150
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,079
because uh it's i get the same tears in
1151
00:46:22,079 --> 00:46:23,839
my eyes that he gets in his
1152
00:46:23,839 --> 00:46:27,040
um so that is our first project i hope
1153
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:27,839
all of you
1154
00:46:27,839 --> 00:46:31,599
enjoyed it um uh it is only one of
1155
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:32,640
several as
1156
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:34,400
we've mentioned hopefully we'll continue
1157
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:35,920
to get funny to continue to
1158
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:37,359
work on these there's many other
1159
00:46:37,359 --> 00:46:38,960
projects and many other folks that we
1160
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,480
need to interview
1161
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,520
um and uh and so

1162
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,440
uh and we had plans to interview three
1163
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,520
or four more but for this first part but
1164
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:48,400
it didn't
1165
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,640
happen because of the pandemic um
1166
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,240
however we hope that
1167
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:56,079
um all of you uh uh have enjoyed it
1168
00:46:56,079 --> 00:46:59,280
as much as we have enjoyed uh putting it
1169
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,520
together and so i'd uh i'd like to ask
1170
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:03,119
um professors
1171
00:47:03,119 --> 00:47:06,160
kelly uh mccoy and uh candace
1172
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,160
egan to give me a little bit we'll start
1173
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:10,079
with kelly a little bit about
1174
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:13,520
your um your thoughts on this um i know
1175
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,839

that you have been uh you were
1176
00:47:15,839 --> 00:47:17,280
raised here in the valley so you know
1177
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:18,480
you've heard of what it's like being
1178
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:19,680
portuguese or you've heard of the
1179
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,440
portuguese community because of your
1180
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,440
ties to hanford but tell me a little bit
1181
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,960
from someone from the outside what is
1182
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:25,920
your take
1183
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,400
uh after this project of the last year
1184
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,920
or so
1185
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,520
absolutely i grew up in hanford
1186
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:36,640
went to catechism classes
1187
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,000
regular classes in school alongside
1188
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,920
portuguese american kids in fact one of

1189
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:44,520
the
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00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,599
interviewees roland rosa
1191
00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:50,000
was a classmate of mine and his brother
1192
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,880
noel graduated with my youngest sister
1193
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,359
but you know didn't really know much
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00:47:55,359 --> 00:47:56,000
about
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00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,119
portuguese culture and this
1196
00:47:59,119 --> 00:48:01,440
documentary gave me an opportunity to
1197
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,680
kind of fill in those blanks
1198
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,240
not only for myself but i think through
1199
00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:08,480
the work of the documentary as well as
1200
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,760
other things that pbi is doing pbi
1201
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,960
is doing is filling in those important
1202
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:15,760

blanks
1203
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:18,520
for all californians who are not
1204
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:19,680
portuguese-american
1205
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,240
and are not aware of the fantastic
1206
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:23,760
contributions
1207
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:27,200
that that they've made across the board
1208
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,359
in a number of different industries
1209
00:48:29,359 --> 00:48:32,480
and so for me personally um
1210
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,520
i have to say that this project
1211
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,400
was the most interesting most
1212
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:39,839
informative
1213
00:48:39,839 --> 00:48:42,559
and oftentimes most deeply inspiring
1214
00:48:42,559 --> 00:48:43,839
projects i could have
1215
00:48:43,839 --> 00:48:46,880
ever had the good fortune of working on

1216
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:49,280
in fact i've often characterized it um
1217
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:50,559
as a blessing
1218
00:48:50,559 --> 00:48:53,599
you know to have interviewed people um
1219
00:48:53,599 --> 00:48:54,720
like maria
1220
00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,200
and helder and the judge you know i see
1221
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:58,160
you here
1222
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,160
for for you to have opened your homes
1223
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:02,240
and shared your stories with us
1224
00:49:02,240 --> 00:49:04,640
just immensely moving and and i want to
1225
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:05,440
thank you
1226
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,240
for for doing that and i want to thank
1227
00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:08,880
vlad
1228
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,400
for your support of projects like this
1229
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:16,000

and lastly the three colleges that were
1230
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:16,800
involved
1231
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,839
good to see you dean chapman um and to
1232
00:49:19,839 --> 00:49:20,720
be able to work
1233
00:49:20,720 --> 00:49:24,480
alongside denise and candace
1234
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,839
and to work alongside two our kids
1235
00:49:27,839 --> 00:49:30,880
from mcj who were our camera people and
1236
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:32,000
our editors
1237
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:33,520
this has just been a fantastic
1238
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,520
opportunity so thank you to all
1239
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,200
i guess i'll step in um from
1240
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,240
kelly it's been awesome being a part of
1241
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:47,359
this project
1242
00:49:47,359 --> 00:49:51,359
i've started doing oral histories

1243
00:49:51,359 --> 00:49:55,280
i mean i'm six seven eight years ago and
1244
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,400
i originally was a journalist then i got
1245
00:49:58,400 --> 00:49:58,880
into
1246
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,480
more production and so i love doing oral
1247
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:04,400
histories because you've got to learn
1248
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,000
so much from these first-person accounts
1249
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,680
and i grew up here and i learned a whole
1250
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:12,079
lot
1251
00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:14,640
that i didn't know and didn't appreciate
1252
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:16,000
and probably was seeing
1253
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,520
every day but hadn't really understood
1254
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:19,920
it and
1255
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,559
actually now realize how many friends
1256
00:50:22,559 --> 00:50:24,079

and colleagues i have that are
1257
00:50:24,079 --> 00:50:26,160
portuguese american
1258
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,160
even one of my colleagues who's back in
1259
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:29,280
the midwest
1260
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,280
has roots back here and so when he
1261
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:32,880
learned i was doing this he was very
1262
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,720
pleased and excited so
1263
00:50:34,720 --> 00:50:38,319
it's been very gratifying and
1264
00:50:38,319 --> 00:50:40,720
just enjoyable and i love working this
1265
00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:42,960
little trio of folks we have here kelly
1266
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,559
indonesia and myself it's a great
1267
00:50:44,559 --> 00:50:46,559
collaborative team
1268
00:50:46,559 --> 00:50:49,760
and i am so looking forward to
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00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,359
continuing on

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00:50:51,359 --> 00:50:54,400
on future things i know denise has lots
1271
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:55,760
of cool ideas
1272
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:57,920
we throw in a couple suggestions here
1273
00:50:57,920 --> 00:50:59,040
and there
1274
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,520
um but i'm very much looking forward to
1275
00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:03,280
where we go next
1276
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,240
thank you thank you and uh jake uh on
1277
00:51:06,240 --> 00:51:08,000
behalf of congressman nunes i'd like to
1278
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,040
hear a couple of thoughts
1279
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,720
uh from you yeah um first off thanks
1280
00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:14,319
again for the invitation to be a part of
1281
00:51:14,319 --> 00:51:15,200
this
1282
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,160
um obviously the congressman was a part
1283
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,640

of this was a part of this program and
1284
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,720
because he is portuguese american um the
1285
00:51:22,720 --> 00:51:24,000
work of pb
1286
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,359
um i is very close to his heart and he
1287
00:51:27,359 --> 00:51:28,800
cares deeply about
1288
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,760
the work that is happening um and really
1289
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:33,520
the special relationship between
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00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,680
portuguese americans the azores the
1291
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,200
portuguese community and the central
1292
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:37,680
valley
1293
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,480
in california as a whole um so i mean it
1294
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:41,440
was incredible to watch
1295
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,200
um growing up in the valley you know
1296
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:44,640
experiencing first-hand

1297
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,079
a lot of my friends who are portuguese
1298
00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:47,839
americans and kind of being a part of
1299
00:51:47,839 --> 00:51:49,599
the culture that way
1300
00:51:49,599 --> 00:51:50,880
and now it's an honor to work for
1301
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,720
portrait is american in congress um
1302
00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:53,839
and so again on behalf of the
1303
00:51:53,839 --> 00:51:55,040
congressman just thank you for the
1304
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:55,760
invitation
1305
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:58,720
for all of your work here um and i know
1306
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,079
he's very much looking forward to
1307
00:52:00,079 --> 00:52:01,119
watching this as well
1308
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:04,319
so thank you thanks and uh brandon uh
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00:52:04,319 --> 00:52:06,559
unfortunately we the pandemic hidden we
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00:52:06,559 --> 00:52:07,839

couldn't record uh congressman
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00:52:07,839 --> 00:52:08,559
philadelph
1312
00:52:08,559 --> 00:52:10,559
uh who was just elected uh well
1313
00:52:10,559 --> 00:52:12,000
reelected again
1314
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000
uh after a little bit of intermission
1315
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:15,359
but uh thanks for joining us
1316
00:52:15,359 --> 00:52:16,640
and uh thanks for joining us on behalf
1317
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,400
of the congressman's hold up
1318
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:19,839
thank you so much for inviting our
1319
00:52:19,839 --> 00:52:22,720
office um to today's screening and thank
1320
00:52:22,720 --> 00:52:24,160
you so much to all the panelists for
1321
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:25,599
sharing with us today
1322
00:52:25,599 --> 00:52:27,520
um congressman david valdez extremely
1323
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,839
proud of the work pbi is putting on and

1324
00:52:29,839 --> 00:52:31,599
would love to take place take part in
1325
00:52:31,599 --> 00:52:33,680
future projects um and give his story as
1326
00:52:33,680 --> 00:52:34,480
well
1327
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,800
um but you know coming from someone who
1328
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,559
isn't of portuguese descent this is an
1329
00:52:38,559 --> 00:52:39,920
extremely helpful
1330
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,079
documentary and i feel i learned a lot
1331
00:52:42,079 --> 00:52:43,680
today and um you know there's a lot to
1332
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:44,640
be proud of in
1333
00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:47,359
portuguese history um i'd also like to
1334
00:52:47,359 --> 00:52:48,800
announce that um congressman david
1335
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:50,079
valdeo will be um
1336
00:52:50,079 --> 00:52:53,680
rejoining the american portuguese
1337
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:56,319

caucus as a co-chair so he's very proud
1338
00:52:56,319 --> 00:52:58,640
to get back to work there and
1339
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,240
he's i'm glad to be back in office and
1340
00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:01,359
thank you so much for having us here
1341
00:53:01,359 --> 00:53:02,480
today
1342
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:03,760
thank you brian that's great news thank
1343
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,359
you and uh he's actually on our list
1344
00:53:05,359 --> 00:53:06,880
he's on our he's been on our list we
1345
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,559
just need to get away now
1346
00:53:08,559 --> 00:53:11,599
uh to uh after uh uh
1347
00:53:11,599 --> 00:53:13,520
the pandemic and hopefully hopefully
1348
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:14,720
late summer early
1349
00:53:14,720 --> 00:53:17,440
fall we can do that um and i i'd like to
1350
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:18,880
hear from some of our uh

1351
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:20,720
as we call them subjects some of the the
1352
00:53:20,720 --> 00:53:22,800
ones that as kelly put it
1353
00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:24,880
and uh and professor candace as well
1354
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:26,000
both professors put it
1355
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,839
that welcome us into their homes and um
1356
00:53:29,839 --> 00:53:31,839
and you know uh we messed up their lives
1357
00:53:31,839 --> 00:53:33,520
for a few hours there you know
1358
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,920
and uh and what are your thoughts on it
1359
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:36,559
obviously
1360
00:53:36,559 --> 00:53:38,079
i just want to make sure that everyone
1361
00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:39,760
that is following us understands that
1362
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:41,599
most of the interviews were 35 40
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00:53:41,599 --> 00:53:43,119
minutes long um
1364
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:44,800

these are just excerpts you know to tell
1365
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,200
a story uh and all of the interviews are
1366
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:48,960
going to be archived in their integrity
1367
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,240
i mean they're all
1368
00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:53,280
uh totally uh have been um uh
1369
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:55,359
thanks to all the work that they've been
1370
00:53:55,359 --> 00:53:56,880
has been done by mcj
1371
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:58,160
they're all transcribed and they'll be
1372
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,319
put forth in our oral history
1373
00:54:00,319 --> 00:54:03,680
archive which we are creating a website
1374
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,640
through um the library where folks will
1375
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:07,680
be able to hear the
1376
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,559
interviews in their entirety okay uh but
1377
00:54:10,559 --> 00:54:10,960
this

1378
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:12,400
and hopefully when we do other
1379
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,319
documentaries on other thematic units
1380
00:54:14,319 --> 00:54:14,960
that's our
1381
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,680
one of our projects that will uh use
1382
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:19,359
some of these subjects again because
1383
00:54:19,359 --> 00:54:20,559
there were lots of other information
1384
00:54:20,559 --> 00:54:21,359
that they gave us
1385
00:54:21,359 --> 00:54:23,200
that certainly can be used but i'd like
1386
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,040
to hear from some of you um i know
1387
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:26,800
the congressman is still on i know maria
1388
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,440
ortiz is here i know elders here
1389
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,160
and uh and judge and judge congressman
1390
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,800
you have to catch a plane so tell us
1391
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:38,160

yes can you hear me we can um
1392
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i just want to uh once again thank
1393
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:41,760
everybody for their participation we're
1394
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:43,599
excited to have our friend congressman
1395
00:54:43,599 --> 00:54:45,520
david balladeo back
1396
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:49,200
uh and we have our newest member of the
1397
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:50,000
portuguese
1398
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,079
caucus the first woman ever elected the
1399
00:54:52,079 --> 00:54:53,920
congress lori trejon
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00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,160
who could not be a part of this but she
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00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:58,559
asked me to give her best wishes
1402
00:54:58,559 --> 00:55:03,440
and um and i understand that
1403
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,079
our good friend former assemblyman rusty
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00:55:06,079 --> 00:55:06,720
aureus

1405
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:10,640
his daughter is on and she is keeping
1406
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,480
that tradition going she's the first
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00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,079
portuguese woman
1408
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:17,200
elected to be the president of the
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00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:19,440
university of southern california
1410
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usc and she did an internship
1411
00:55:22,720 --> 00:55:26,480
this uh last fall in the azer islands as
1412
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:27,760
a part of the uh
1413
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,559
the portuguese azurian government in
1414
00:55:30,559 --> 00:55:31,839
puente delgado
1415
00:55:31,839 --> 00:55:35,520
a three-month experience and so she uh
1416
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,400
may soon be one of our new uh who knows
1417
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:39,040
elected
1418
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,359

officials and i see miguel vaz is on as
1419
00:55:41,359 --> 00:55:43,200
well miguel it's good to
1420
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,559
always uh see you and the our flog team
1421
00:55:46,559 --> 00:55:47,760
with rita
1422
00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,799
and we can't thank you enough but um
1423
00:55:50,799 --> 00:55:52,000
i'm going to have to get on this
1424
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,640
airplane
1425
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,480
and then voice my camera and yeah
1426
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:02,319
and and and when you get home i know
1427
00:56:02,319 --> 00:56:04,160
you'll be able to see it again your
1428
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,599
thoughts on the documentary
1429
00:56:05,599 --> 00:56:07,280
i hope you made us christ so i hope you
1430
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,040
enjoyed it as much as we did
1431
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,240
well you know as i said our ties

1432
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:16,079
uh between uh uh portuguese americans
1433
00:56:16,079 --> 00:56:18,240
and our portuguese roots
1434
00:56:18,240 --> 00:56:21,920
are strong and deep
1435
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,400
and i think the the peace that you did
1436
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:30,079
that we all saw is a example of that
1437
00:56:30,079 --> 00:56:33,599
deep feelings uh and
1438
00:56:33,599 --> 00:56:36,319
it's interesting because whether as uh
1439
00:56:36,319 --> 00:56:37,440
some of our friends
1440
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,400
uh the machados and others that actually
1441
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,240
immigrated into this country
1442
00:56:42,240 --> 00:56:44,240
are some who are first and second
1443
00:56:44,240 --> 00:56:45,440
generation
1444
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,240
i think when aretha and i have discussed
1445
00:56:48,240 --> 00:56:48,640

this
1446
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,680
and and miguel even in the
1447
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,839
second generation and the third
1448
00:56:53,839 --> 00:56:56,319
generation alexis aureus is
1449
00:56:56,319 --> 00:56:59,599
third generation and she still wanted to
1450
00:56:59,599 --> 00:57:00,000
go
1451
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,200
back and spend a semester
1452
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:05,920
in in the azores to learn of her roots
1453
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:07,359
and to learn the language and the
1454
00:57:07,359 --> 00:57:08,559
culture
1455
00:57:08,559 --> 00:57:11,920
so i think that this video is the
1456
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,280
testament to those deep
1457
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,880
ties uh that
1458
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:20,720
transgend time and that's why flog is so

1459
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:21,359
important
1460
00:57:21,359 --> 00:57:25,680
with our partnership with pbbi
1461
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,119
to maintain and to continue uh
1462
00:57:29,119 --> 00:57:32,960
those uh partnerships uh regardless of
1463
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,760
the generations that we reflect so i
1464
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:37,040
just want to thank you all
1465
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:39,760
and thank you i will get on my airplane
1466
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:40,160
and
1467
00:57:40,160 --> 00:57:43,119
uh we will see you soon thank you thank
1468
00:57:43,119 --> 00:57:43,599
you
1469
00:57:43,599 --> 00:57:45,839
thank you
1470
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:50,480
uh a few others um any uh
1471
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:51,920
thoughts you were one of our subjects
1472
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:53,839

and so your thoughts on
1473
00:57:53,839 --> 00:57:55,920
on what you've seen and uh and thank you
1474
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:57,119
for allowing us
1475
00:57:57,119 --> 00:58:02,000
uh to have you as part of our project
1476
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,599
uh yes um i'm honored
1477
00:58:05,599 --> 00:58:08,960
to be part of this outstanding group
1478
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:12,000
i would like to begin by thanking you
1479
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,359
professor
1480
00:58:13,359 --> 00:58:16,240
denise bosch for the outstanding work
1481
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:17,680
that you have done for the portuguese
1482
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:18,640
community
1483
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,960
and american community and for keeping
1484
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:22,000
the portuguese
1485
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:24,319
language and culture alive we owe it to

1486
00:58:24,319 --> 00:58:25,040
you
1487
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:28,400
um this was wonderful uh it is i'm
1488
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:29,920
honored to be part of this
1489
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,040
of this documentary um these are great
1490
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:34,559
people there's a lot of stories out
1491
00:58:34,559 --> 00:58:35,520
there like these
1492
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,799
and and it was fun i
1493
00:58:38,799 --> 00:58:42,240
i thank fresno state
1494
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,839
for coming to turlock to talk to me
1495
00:58:45,839 --> 00:58:49,839
um a special thank you to flop for
1496
00:58:49,839 --> 00:58:52,960
supporting these events uh the pbi
1497
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:56,880
and it it's a pleasure i i
1498
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,040
you know great story it's just touching
1499
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:00,319

it it just makes you
1500
00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:03,200
touches your heart so thank you very
1501
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,839
much
1502
00:59:05,839 --> 00:59:09,200
and uh judge sylvaida i don't know
1503
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:10,559
you're on mute so we're gonna have to
1504
00:59:10,559 --> 00:59:12,640
unmute you i can't from here
1505
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:14,079
but i think you figured that one out
1506
00:59:14,079 --> 00:59:15,839
already
1507
00:59:15,839 --> 00:59:17,280
there you are there you are there you
1508
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,040
are thank you well
1509
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:22,400
uh i want to congratulate you on
1510
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,000
this uh documentary that we just viewed
1511
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:29,359
it's very well done i i was quite
1512
00:59:29,359 --> 00:59:32,160
impressed with your panelists with

1513
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:35,440
all parts of the program and
1514
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,880
i want to say that you've inspired me
1515
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,720
to finish something that i started doing
1516
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:44,480
quite a while ago
1517
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:48,799
which is writing a short history
1518
00:59:48,799 --> 00:59:52,240
of my family here in
1519
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:57,279
california and their roots in nasals
1520
00:59:58,799 --> 01:00:00,400
thank you i don't know if i've inspired
1521
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:02,079
you you've inspired me for many years so
1522
01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:04,079
it's about time i give you back some
1523
01:00:04,079 --> 01:00:06,000
inspiration i guess
1524
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,440
uh thank you so much you've been an
1525
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,599
inspiration to all to me and to many
1526
01:00:09,599 --> 01:00:10,480

many many
1527
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,319
uh portuguese americans throughout the
1528
01:00:12,319 --> 01:00:14,319
valley uh well look who's
1529
01:00:14,319 --> 01:00:17,520
uh i can't i can't hear anyone we can
1530
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,119
hear you congressman the
1531
01:00:19,119 --> 01:00:21,599
congressman not coach the congressman
1532
01:00:21,599 --> 01:00:23,200
yeah go ahead i got the earphones on
1533
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:24,160
talk
1534
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:27,680
and we can see you go ahead
1535
01:00:33,359 --> 01:00:35,599
who says there's no bipartisanship look
1536
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:36,720
at that
1537
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,760
or bipartisan okay
1538
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,000
we need we need pictures of this because
1539
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,680
there is bipartisanship in the

1540
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:45,040
portuguese community
1541
01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:48,720
and there certainly is huh yeah
1542
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,200
anyway there's aretha flagg and uh
1543
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:51,760
welcome
1544
01:00:51,760 --> 01:00:54,720
welcome david well nice to see you i've
1545
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:55,200
got two
1546
01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:57,599
calls going on at the same time so i got
1547
01:00:57,599 --> 01:01:00,400
one on this phone and this one
1548
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:01,920
well thank you so much thank you for
1549
01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:03,599
showing up and and and
1550
01:01:03,599 --> 01:01:05,280
brandon do well thank you thank you take
1551
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:06,720
care and
1552
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:10,720
elder oh denise uh
1553
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,040

great job uh fantastic job well thank
1554
01:01:13,040 --> 01:01:14,319
you very much for that
1555
01:01:14,319 --> 01:01:17,599
um i'm so honored and humbled to be part
1556
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:19,839
of this program this series
1557
01:01:19,839 --> 01:01:23,280
uh i'm a new um immigrant
1558
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:27,440
i mean been here since 1975
1559
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,400
and i just thank give thanks all the
1560
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:31,359
time to the
1561
01:01:31,359 --> 01:01:33,359
the ones that came in the first wave and
1562
01:01:33,359 --> 01:01:34,720
second wave
1563
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:36,480
uh that create the groundwork for this
1564
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:38,640
great community and allow me
1565
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,839
you know me to succeed today uh without
1566
01:01:41,839 --> 01:01:42,559
that

1567
01:01:42,559 --> 01:01:44,960
uh i'll probably be here today i
1568
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,240
probably won't be
1569
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:48,400
i went to fresno state and got my degree
1570
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:49,280
there
1571
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,559
uh those are their true trill
1572
01:01:52,559 --> 01:01:55,760
blazers uh portuguese drill blazers and
1573
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:59,280
um always always think about it and
1574
01:01:59,280 --> 01:02:01,839
thank them for that uh again thank you
1575
01:02:01,839 --> 01:02:02,559
very much
1576
01:02:02,559 --> 01:02:06,400
thanks for interstate for uh um
1577
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,280
been part of this great great program
1578
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:10,079
and uh
1579
01:02:10,079 --> 01:02:12,880
thank you we thank you thank you for
1580
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:14,559

your support all these years as well
1581
01:02:14,559 --> 01:02:16,400
uh with the exchange program for those
1582
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:17,680
of you who don't know elder dominguez
1583
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,039
has been
1584
01:02:19,039 --> 01:02:21,680
the very first um the very first support
1585
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:23,440
that we got from flat he matched it for
1586
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,359
the exchange program to the azores
1587
01:02:25,359 --> 01:02:26,960
and that has allowed this to continue
1588
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:28,240
all of these years thank you so much
1589
01:02:28,240 --> 01:02:28,880
heather
1590
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:31,520
um and um and so we're going to we're
1591
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:33,039
about at the end of our program i'd like
1592
01:02:33,039 --> 01:02:34,240
to hear from anybody else who would like
1593
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:35,760
to add anything else i don't know if

1594
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:37,839
uh dr hita fadden would like to add or
1595
01:02:37,839 --> 01:02:39,359
the council general after watching it
1596
01:02:39,359 --> 01:02:41,039
what your thoughts are on it
1597
01:02:41,039 --> 01:02:43,119
um good thoughts if it's criticism we
1598
01:02:43,119 --> 01:02:44,079
don't know i'm just kidding
1599
01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:46,240
it can be either way but uh thank you
1600
01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:47,920
all again uh thanks
1601
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,960
it's never enough to thank flat and
1602
01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:52,640
to thank all of our subjects to thank
1603
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,039
the work of my esteemed colleagues
1604
01:02:55,039 --> 01:02:56,400
to thank the leadership at the
1605
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,400
university also for allowing us to do
1606
01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:59,359
this
1607
01:02:59,359 --> 01:03:02,160

we have all three deans are magnificent
1608
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:02,799
um
1609
01:03:02,799 --> 01:03:05,440
and and the interim associate dean as
1610
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:06,160
well
1611
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,000
seju has been wonderful working with a
1612
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:09,200
lot of new projects that we're putting
1613
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:11,359
together at pvbi thanks to him as well
1614
01:03:11,359 --> 01:03:13,039
and of course our president uh saul
1615
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:14,720
jimenez sandoval our interim president
1616
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:18,000
uh dr hitafatten thank you denise i just
1617
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,079
i would just like to congratulate you
1618
01:03:20,079 --> 01:03:22,559
and the team that has made these
1619
01:03:22,559 --> 01:03:24,960
videos because it's very interesting
1620
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:26,319
it's very well done

1621
01:03:26,319 --> 01:03:28,480
i think i have had the opportunity to
1622
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:29,440
see some of these
1623
01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:32,400
interviews and it's as i've said it's
1624
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:34,160
very moving to see
1625
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,000
the stories and the connections that
1626
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,680
people
1627
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,599
maintain and continue to feel with
1628
01:03:39,599 --> 01:03:40,799
portugal and
1629
01:03:40,799 --> 01:03:42,640
in this case especially with the azores
1630
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,000
of course and that
1631
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:45,680
is the connection that we at flood
1632
01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,440
treasure and we
1633
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:51,119
we will continue to work to
1634
01:03:51,119 --> 01:03:54,319

to maintain that link and i am also able
1635
01:03:54,319 --> 01:03:56,160
to announce today that we have decided
1636
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:56,960
to continue
1637
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:00,240
funding the pbbi so i hope we will be
1638
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:01,039
able to see
1639
01:04:01,039 --> 01:04:04,240
in the future thank you jim we will be
1640
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,079
able to see in the future
1641
01:04:06,079 --> 01:04:09,359
uh more developments of this project and
1642
01:04:09,359 --> 01:04:11,200
more stories like this thank you all and
1643
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:12,079
thank you denise
1644
01:04:12,079 --> 01:04:14,480
thank you so much and uh honorary
1645
01:04:14,480 --> 01:04:15,760
council you'll be uh
1646
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:17,200
on the honorable council i'm the
1647
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:19,359
honorary you know let's not get that one

1648
01:04:19,359 --> 01:04:20,480
confused you're the
1649
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:23,039
master you're the leader you're the boss
1650
01:04:23,039 --> 01:04:23,760
uh so
1651
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,000
uh honorable consul general uh our good
1652
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:26,960
friend buddy as well
1653
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:28,640
uh any thoughts from you as well as we
1654
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,440
end women women always rule
1655
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:34,480
their niche i've never i've known that
1656
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,280
for a very long time i've known that
1657
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:40,480
from my grandmother yes
1658
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:43,039
with whom you look very with whom you
1659
01:04:43,039 --> 01:04:44,160
have great
1660
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:47,599
affinity and look like i saw the picture
1661
01:04:47,599 --> 01:04:49,760

no denise thank you so much just to
1662
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,359
congratulate you as well
1663
01:04:51,359 --> 01:04:54,960
uh this news that flood will pursue
1664
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:58,240
uh supporting uh pbvi is
1665
01:04:58,240 --> 01:05:01,680
a wonderful news thank you to vlad and
1666
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:03,280
congratulations to you
1667
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:05,359
and so i just want to see more and more
1668
01:05:05,359 --> 01:05:07,440
of these interviews and you know i love
1669
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,039
this and i think this has
1670
01:05:09,039 --> 01:05:11,440
as i said it's priceless so uh
1671
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:12,960
congratulations and we're looking
1672
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,480
forward to more of these documentaries
1673
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:18,240
thank you all uh thank you all for
1674
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:20,000
participating thank all of you who are

1675
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:23,039
also following us on social media
1676
01:05:23,039 --> 01:05:25,520
please stay safe and we'll see you next
1677
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,359
time we have another pbi event
1678
01:05:27,359 --> 01:05:29,359
a full week of a symposium called
1679
01:05:29,359 --> 01:05:31,039
filaments of the atlantic heritage
1680
01:05:31,039 --> 01:05:33,280
starting on the 18th and ending on the
1681
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,359
24th with two sessions per day
1682
01:05:35,359 --> 01:05:37,839
again thank you all take care and stay
1683
01:05:37,839 --> 01:05:40,160
safe we love you all thank you bye-bye
1684
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:43,200
thank you bye-bye thank you all
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thank you