some of them  the community to speak to the community to provide information about ongoing activities and events so we're having a conversation on how much longer you can stay but you are immigrant first generation american it's fine and great my parents were born in italy they came over as teenagers they didn't meet in italy right over here and i was the first of two children ok so do you have any yourself or yes i have one daughter here and actually has a channel on the station will mention them but it's in the native language of ethiopia well i think channel seventy seven ok the public access to run by c e o community ok and that's a great channel it's a soap box it's free to any citizen or resident ok ok you can go on there and you can make your own show you can talk to your people you can talk about issues that are important to you you can put this show up with i think we're going to put it i think we're going to put on this on the channel but what's interesting also is that now with the whole internet and we have you tube and you stream all these other places to go look at content but if you're a citizen of seattle you still have a place you can go and learn about how to get on these are actually right and so now there's two options there's what's now become the old option cable television where you go to your cable box and you go to channel seventy seven the now  then r t i has a new option coming up web streaming you don't need to cable cry he you don't need to pay cable subscriptions which you do need is a computer and a browser to get through the internet and then you can watch a live call in show exactly right from this studio right and even on your phone or tablet i'm sure yeah so there's not be a computer i mean even those come from a computer you can watch it on any kind of intelligent device computer devices can be tapped at your p c your phone being a provider for digital content your so yes so and i thank you for the partnership is going to happen because it's not just with seattle channel and not just him or marciano but there are other professional organizations that are be a part of this  was speaking to that there's also different departments in the city who are helping out in order to make this a viable place for youth to come and make television and to learn about media office of immigrant and refugee affairs ok is working closely with us to publicize and distribute information about this institution beautiful also comcast in wave of carrying the channel nor see other community colleges also providing he and support with their public access channel so there's lots of different departments and ways that we're trying to help make sure that every community in seattle has a voice right and a way to interact not only with government but with each other exactly so their action of government is key because as a citizen even if you're a migrant you can store immigrant on a micro immigrant you can still vote you know so your vote is definitely a way that you two can voice your opinion to have something that you want to happen voting is watch live are going to the vet right then wow so as a citizen how do we get involved and production great question and i'm glad you asked that number one go to m m r t i website find about their programs their shows their training you can also go to the city of seattle seattle their website that will direct you to more opportunities in the differences department ok excellent well  hello this is john jim bear so general manager of the seattle chair and i'm here working with m and r t i multimedia resource training institute that provides training video production editing and live web streaming for any events and interests of to the community please make sure to mark it on your calendar and to find it on the website so that you can participate in this great community endeavo be here again i've worked with for size for a number of years and this is a great place and great work is being done that at the studios with respect to teaching use gill's and media skills and science and technology computer skills editing skills and addition that's what the pan african technical source and that's what we do are so we teach the youth about science and technology we offer and adduction the science and technology class in los angeles and in ethiopia and we want to bring that here too and that's what one thing we're going to work with and what we do in x lasses is that we introduce children to solar technology so there's a little sma car that they learn to put together and learn how to and it's photons help to bring energy and make the car move we also learn a little bit back in pewters computer programming which circuit boards and they learn simple programming how they vary also in los angeles to science and technology centers there and maybe the museum here so we want to bring these programs to seattle and want to continue them in los angeles and continue them in the theology and that's where your support comes in you can help i website also you can you know your fire and you can give your time you can help us do editing and help us do english type editing too because the children want to learn that so some of the projects that we're going to work on with your help  is helping to bridge the gap between the students in ethiopia and the students here in seattle and los angeles the students and the ethiopian they need to get the english better need to understand  number weeks there and helping the students with their english and while all of the students from the states are there the ethiopian students can help them with traditional ethiopian culture and being exposed to that so we're real excited about the opportunities we have and you are here in the seattle area the l a area and various other areas of the world can help us to bring these to if you wish and continue our programs because we've been established for a number of years and we're working well but we want to expand and we want to do more and with your help we can do more so again go to our website w w w p a t a us dot au argy and go to the m m r t r website and do what you can to support us individuals contributing to keep his his vision and his studio alive and i've been helping him from a technical standpoint so most recently i've been able to do a google hangout google hangouts is a way you can do video chat and audio shot using your computer and we actually have a connection with some and different tools and ethiopia to do a international correspondents and how some students this summer going over there exchanging students from ethiopia come here it's pretty fascinating situation and we have and i've got a friend that has just met him going to have a conversation about that since we're trying to do a google hangout this morning unfortunately in ethiopia it's a holiday and so we were able to get the actual connection today but we've been doing testing and it's working from cell phones to as tops laptops google hangouts are truly amazing utility that you can use but anyway my friend finished high school ok and i went to college when i was in college i was i'm really happy now where you go i want to from the canton ok i've seen new york and i wasn't really happy with you know i thought i knew what i wanted to study right and i and  after two years after i figure like a kitchen change my major said oh well i don't know what i want to study and i just don't want to keep with the money so my sister talk to me was a she said you know it ok we don't know if you don't want my sister actually in seattle ok she called me and she said ok like i color so you know i don't want to i don't know what to study maybe that you know the kids and kids take a year off that's really what they want to do right she asked me for i want to go backpacking ok but i always told actually travel for work and i always like been jealous of that like i'm about right to that yeah so back for the first couple of days i was just poured on my mind and a little bit lonely i don't know what to do right so i just got on a bus and went down to downtown se quite central station and i just looked around and i was like i think can't believe i'm here and then i went back to the hostel ok i switched my house to another house too but luckily my mother have a best friend  right then i got a contact and she had best friend who actually even sent me ok so i went to their house ok and you know they are very nice people i stay with them when i can't find a job ok they really did help me a lot i haven't really got close to the daughters but luckily i found a job in form and mel and victoria in melbourne ok so i went there i took the train with a twelve hours right wow ok and i actually got there i got a  i kid you know it's like seattle ok because soon as you get off the train station or you see that the body took an ok ok ok all right so i got there and i went to because she was this is my mother's best and no food right ok and the only time get a chance so i mean we left and then within a couple of days ok right and i went back and i actually went back to sydney then actually found my way to work or we saw the australian ok and over  currently an adjunct at the arts is food and we have a lot of returning students in the sense that the classroom teaching now is more i would say probably forty percent of them are military individuals that  released from us or in the in the coming back to do another career and one student told me that profanity is part of their language you know they curse all the time and also the part of like ok i was at home and i was telling my sister and she was kind of like i never see you happy like oh wow like the knife and says i came here i was looking like i came in with the mindset of you i want to do something especially i want to be involved in my community  apply i never really understood it to write yesterday ok oh wow ok right but the fact that you can do so much with it is not just not just the video conferencing but there's a whole thing wrapped around chatting text chatting you can share documents you can share your  screen and so people can see what you're doing on your screen even with the phone if you could do that even the phone so i never really got a chance to confront him at beknown learned about it like you listen to new every day that's true yeah yes it is cool manager research envelop er and he spends probably about a third movie half of the year in ethiopia and he's been coming to see out a couple of times he's given the lectures on the history of ethiopia and most recently he's been able to  have of colonel james robinson first name jim robinson was a pilot in the twenty's one nine hundred twenty s went to ethiopia to help them out because they're having a war with italy and so on he's training pilots and then when the war is finished he comes back to the states as one of the founding members of the tuskegee airman so a lot of people that's that's what we're to when african americans were had their own own unit basically and they're flying planes and  they're able to not have a single tanker or a single plane get shot while they're following them right there are there to protect the planes and in world war two and so unfortunately a the well for the well for the kids right from here and there i actually met the two girls that i've gone when i met them last week on friday ok all right and they would have been dinner and i was pelion but i got a chance to talk to them and they were very excited about show on the station looking forward to it   i center and the such a district of seattle right in the heart of the central district twenty third in jackson i've loved this experience it's a great experience i even though i'm the one being interview i noticed the kind of enthusiasm from all of the students who are here i noticed as well that all of the students will be trained for great work that being trained for the media and the media is extremely important i try to do what i can in terms of african american history in terms of writing african american history but it's really up to the media to try to spread that story and so that's why i think what you guys are doing is so vitally important in terms of the future of black people here and across the globe as well as all of the people in seattle and all the people in the u s i'm david keyes i'm the community technology manager for the city of seattle in the department of information technology and i've had the opportunity to work with m m r t i for for all ten of its years and in fact even before that when boonie in the ethiopian community mutual association started their computer lab many fourteen years ago i think to begin to get the message out to be going to train community members and m m r t i has been a great organization and a really valuable one and we're really glad at the city of seattle and the department of information technology to have a chance to have partnered with m m r t o see them grow and get them to this point ten years later and still growing and still building community i think that m r t i has been a great a great leader in the community in bringing the voice of the east african community sometimes to the city government bringing the community together to be able to hear from each other it's we can't take it for granted that places like eminem r t i that are training kids and adults how to do video and and getting the messages out we can't take it for granted that they'll be here so it does require us to support it to keep it going you know it's without it i think we don't necessarily get a chance to see what are people in the east african community having to say about taxicabs about health about youth violence and and the programs here bring that to life so it brings it to life for for us at the city for other community members and i think it's also having people stories told in people's issues come to light and being able to see that  brings community together and it lets people feel like they're more a part of the community and when they get to hear and see each other's stories and each other's concerns and then the training programs here  just been great i think the m m r t i brings together they teach kids how to work together they teach them video skills they teach them story writing skills in so that that i think it gives them a greater sense of success a greater sense of their voice being strong and gives them skills in working together collaborating gives them technical skills and i know they get a chance to not only do the camera work but to do sound to create graphics and that's all part of things that industry needs it's part of of what brings the stories to life and so i look forward  to continuing our partnership with them r t i i'm really glad that the community is stepping forward to support them and keeping these important community media centers going in these important training programs going it certainly enables the city of seattle to be able to distribute information that we have about essential services utility discounts opportunities for lower cost cable for low income lower cost internet for low income residents how to get health information online you know m m r t i is an important media center today is for us to distribute also into the community so find some r t i keep it up thanks to all those who have contributed produce programs just made things behind the scenes work and let's keep going views and learn new information about different cultures it certainly enriches our media world so that we just don't have you know the stations that we see on t v on cable but we have a variety of ways of learning