Hi Everyone,

As most of you know, I have been partnering with the River Fund NY food pantry for the past 24 years, bringing food to the people during the holidays. This season, as I plan our cooking event for Christmas, I have been told that our annual Christmas Feast for the People might need to be cancelled due to lack of toys!! Toys R Us is no more, and they were our connection to toys. PLEASE HELP! We are looking for angels to spread their wings and open the toy flood gate! You can donate to the Toy Drive online, by clicking here! Please spread the word. For so many children, this is their only gift! Please help us keep this tradition alive!

A few years ago, I started asking people to go through all of their earrings, and other jewelry that they don’t wear, and to polish them up, and put them in a box, and donate them as gifts for the older children or adults. This is a win/win for everyone! You get to clean out your jewelry box, and someone else gets a new gift they otherwise wouldn’t have! All donations can be dropped off here at the iEat Green Homestead in Old Westbury.

Our Christmas Feast for the People, is an Italian Feast with Baked Ziti, Caesar Salad, Garlic Bread, Brownies and Apple Cobblers. As always, we will continue our Coat and Winter Clothing Drive, along with toiletries, towels and blankets, which can also be dropped off at the iEat Green Homestead. If you are interested in helping to cook, please sign up for a shift!  https://doodle.com/poll/w3tb45uqy35ugsxq 

We also need Christmas Carolers to help serenade the guests as they wait on line. Please send me an email at Bhavani@iEatGreen.com if you would like to join us in the park to sing! 

My guest this week on the Progressive Radio Network is Leonel Perez, a key leader of the award-winning human rights organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), for over a decade.  Mr. Perez worked for years in the fields of Florida and along the East Coast harvesting tomatoes, watermelon, and other crops.  Today, as a part of the Fair Food Program, Mr. Perez and his colleagues educate tens of thousands of farmworkers’ on their rights in the fields on all farms participating in the Program, including the right to work free of slavery, sexual violence, and health and safety risks.

Leonel Perez 

Mr. Perez also hosts shows on the CIW’s community radio station and community communications, and throughout the year facilitates and conducts dozens of popular education trainings for weekly membership meetings.  Finally, Ms. Perez represents the CIW at a national level, speaking publicly on the challenges faced by farmworkers in Florida, both during major actions with thousands of consumers and in dozens of presentations throughout the year.  He has been featured in publications such as CNN’s Freedom Project and best-selling books such as Tomatoland (2017) and I am not a tractor (2018). Please join me on Thursday for a great conversation!

Remember, my show is recorded live, every Thursday, from 10-11 am, EST.  To tune in, navigate to PRN.fm and click the “Listen Live” button on the left.

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If you missed the show, you can listen to it in the PRN archives, or through the PRN app. Of course you can also access the shows through my website.

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With love and gratitude,

Bhavani