hello and welcome. today, a new documentary is in the works titled "a song for ces cesar." the producer is here in the studio. ♪ we begin today with project hired. wounded warrior project, with me here are glenn ford and jeremiah is an army veteran and they brought with them rocky. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> sir sh tell me first about rocky, why he's here and what he does for you. >> well, rocky helps me with

ptsz and tdr. he helps me with everything day living. i have severe migraines that he's able to detect before they get too bad so i can take the medication for it. anxiety levels, they won't let me know that i'm getting a little anxious and calm me down a little bit. >> what does he do? for instance, he's laying peacefully now. what does he do to alert you? >> he starts nudging me. gets up in my laugh when i get migraines, jumping up in my lap, wakes me up if i'm asleep. medications, he's able to go get medications. >> that's awesome. and so, you came back from where, sir? where did you serve and what was it do you think brought upon the ptsd? >> i was in korea for three

years, then i would do prisoner transport back and forth from iraq. i was in an incident, one of my deployments, which my ptsz has issues from that. >> how hard is it for you to talk about that? >> it's a little difficult still today. i'm working through it. a lot better than i used to be. working with a service dog has definitely helped me a lot. i'm now working and, a lot further than i used to be. before, i didn't want leave the house. >> well, good luck to you. how, and that's the reason we're here. you're working now. how i don't want to say impossible, but how difficult would it have been for you to

find a job without the resources of project hired? >> i don't think i would have been working without project hired. project hired was there with all the resources i ever needed to get the ball rolling. i was able to get the service dog through project hired. which took some time to you know, work with my service dog, make me confident to look for a job when i was ready for job market and project hired was there to help me look for that job. >> what is it that your agency did that allowed and allows folks like jeremiah to find work? >> well, for jeremiah, we saw the need for his assistance being our service dog program. he was not quite ready to go back to work yet, so we have a trainer who we contacted after his therapist contacted us to start working with him and the trainer matched the dog. she went to the shelter, got the dog and matched it with

jeremiah. it took a while. it's been a few years since we started working with jeremiah, but the dog has been able to get him to be independent. encouraged him to get back into the workplace, so we were able to find him a job. actually, the job we found was one we needed filled out at our call center. he's come to the point now though he's ready to move on to the competitive market in a bigger job. he's done an excellent job out at our call center and patient scheduling. >> and now, you want to help other veterans like jeremiah. >> we have a wounded warrior workforce conference coming up at the end of may. we do this every year. and it is to bring employers and our veterans, not just our woended veterans, but all of them together, to find employment. right now, on may 31st, it's the wounded warrior conference. we have over 44 companies

already signed up they have to come with jobs. and then we have other resources that are going to be there to support them. we're trying to educate the employers, so two days before the actual conference on the 31st, we're going to start an executive summit and that's for executives at the director's level and above to come together and talk about hiring veterans. and most particularly, our wounded, injured and ill veterans. getting processes set up in their places of employment that will welcome and support veterans and their families. so, at that summit on the 29th and the 30th, we will be talking to executives about issues, best practices, benchmarking, et cetera. it's a good time for them to really get together and to you know, look at what each of them are doing, discuss the issues in getting veterans hired in the

workplace and is been very successful every year. this year, we pulled it out into a day all by itself at the request of the executives who have been attending over the past year because the time allotted during a conference wasn't enough. >> what does it say about those executives and their companies who say i'm here to help and i'm going to hire? >> you know, what a progress. it is just really very exciting to see the companies now stepping up and saying, we want to hire veterans. we want to do it right and we want to keep them once we hire them and so, they're showing up for the summit and other things. they're calling us. they're asking for consulting help to help them put their programs together. they're asking for veterans to hire. they're sending us jobs and they're also using us to help retain those veterans once they hire them because we'll act as their coach, act as their mentor. we also support the veteran once

they're hird, so if they have difficulty, there's a place for them to go. >> maybe if you're a veteran and you'd like to seek out the help of prokt hired, are you still aseptembering recruiters? >> yes. >> there is the web address. the event is happening may 29th through the 31st. we'll be back to talk more about rocky. stay with us.

we're back with project hired and the wounded veteran project. how was the training with rocky in getting him acklclimated to your daily process and what not? >> the training was challenging at first. like i said, i isolated myself a lot. so, i pushed myself to take rocky out in public because he

needed that. needed to be out, be out in front of people. crowded places. that was one of my trouble spots, was being out in that crowd. so, it took some time. but it helped me push my limits, so it was good training for both of us. >> gwenn says you're ready to transition into the global market. if you will. give us your sales pitch if there's an employer out there to take advantage of having the assets that you provide. >> i'm a hard worker and come a long ways from where i was at. you know, there to make your

company succeed. i took a beating and i'm back up on my feet and ready to go again. >> good luck to you. it might be easy for folks like jeremiah to get in a shell and stay in a shell, but he hasn't done that. how vital is that and how encouraging is the work you're doing to make sure they don't stay in a shell? >> well, jeremiah has worked very hard, especially with rocky, but it's still important for us to be there. it's not us in particular, but any employer be there to provide support. jeremiah brings some very good skills and work habits to the workplace. he's reliable. he's diligent. and all of that is something that employers are looking for. and his skills are very good and we know that when he says he's going to be some place, he's going to be there and so, the employer really depends on him a lot. but even with that, there needs to be some flexibility because he's still recouperate ng some

ways and flex work hours, things like that, a lot of our veterans need. a lot of people with disabilities, period, need that. but if we can provide that, but the biggest thing is employers need the not fear service dogs in the workplace. as you can see, rocky is very obedient. so he's going to stay under the desk or where ever he's supposed to stay, so it's okay to have a service dog. >> might be a little distracting because my co-workers here in the news room were all over rocky. >> it's amazing how the service dog calms the entire office done when they come into the workplace, so i think that flexibility, that willingness to know that the service dog is an accommodation just like a wheelchair would be. >> it's prokt hired and they're doing some fascinating work across the bay area. any final thoughts before we let you all go? >> i just want to encourage the

employers to attend the conference. they're going to give training workshops all day long for our employers and career fair all day for the veterans and it's an opportunity for them to really see how they can adapt their workplaces to accommodate our veterans. >> thank you for what you're doing and sir, thank you for serving. up next, thank you to rocky as well. up next, a song for cesar, the documentary. stay with us.

it's a new documentary called a song for cesar. spearhead ago project. welcome back to the show. i saw the trailer. we're going to show clips of the trailer and boy, it keeps you riveted. you want to stay and watch the entire documentary. you have some great images, great sound bites with this guy right here, carlos santana.

when we think of -- we think of the music that went along and you've brought all the player together who had their hand on the music. >> we've been very blessed with that because there were so many people involved in the initial movement and they, so we kind of one thing led to another in the evolvement of the documentary and so and so would say, hey, you should talk to carlos or joan baez. the boycotts and the strikes and the music and the musicians were supporting that through benefits to help the movement. help cesar pay you know and help these people to have some meals while they were boycotting and doing all this extra work to try to get better conditions as we know. so, there was a wonderful period of the music, these wonderful artists and the music.

it was fantastic. we should show up sometimes at the concerts. that was wonderful because he dressed the group. so much power involved in addition to what he brought to the table was so great, but to see all these people who were participating and that's what we've done with this documentary. it evolved out of an initial idea. we started with one song -- >> did it acoustically for us in our other studio a while back. >> that was the seed, if you will, of this particular documentary. it's evolved to all these people who have come aboard. >> it helped that you were a rock and roller from san francisco. you have those connections there, but i would imagine that it wasn't hard to convince the santanas, both brothers and chicano and other guys to say i need you to talk about -- >> no, it wasn't hard at all. in fact, they were honored. it holds a special place in all

their hearts as well. we were a little hesitant at first and really after one two calls, we realized wait a minute, this is an honor, a beautiful thing to participate, so everyone was just so happy to be aboard and kind of relive that. the generations have disconnected in a sense and we're trying to permeate the legacy. >> that's awesome. able was kind enough to send us a trailer of the documentary. we're going to show it in its entirety at the end of the show. how long do you think it's going to be? you're still raising money to kind of finish the project? where are we at right now? >> correct. we've got all the content, that's where the idea came we need to finish it. a few months, probably the end of the year, but what we're doing is fund-raiser time. this has been done all kind of grass roots from the beginning and from the heart and everybody's just come together on that level. but we've run out of heart and grass roots, so to speak, not so

much heart, but money. kind of revisiting what was done back in the day and bringing all these folks together to have concerts to support the documentary. it's a quality piece. it's primarily an educational tool to reach generations today, so that's why we want to do a real nice job at the end. >> how long do you think it's going to be and where do you want to showcase it? >> pbs is on the plate right now. initial possibility and first of all, it's going to colleges, schools and educational. that's our goal and remains objective, most important, actually. and then we go to pbs. which is great and then people have been talking about well, you know, hbo would be a great outlet as well, so we're ready to shoot the moon.

>> why not. >> yeah, whatever it can do, the more people it reaches, the better. >> just show you some of those images again. when you look back at those images, able, does it bring back a lot of that nostalgia with cesar did and sacrifices he made and the people who backed him up? >> oh, yeah, that's really what drove the heart, our hearts, to see that. and if we can help in any way and all these artists and musicians and people who were a part of it, that's why we're on board. it still continues today as you know, any way we can continue to help, the movement, the ufw, the foundation, because that's what the whole goal of this thing is, to kopt to help those folks that work so hard to put food on our tables and nourish our spirit. >> i always tell folks when we go out in the field with our cameras, that the cameras can show you the work they're doing, but the lens can't show you the aches in our backs or the dust inside their eyelids. it's all there and what cesar

did to make their lives a little bit better can't be taken for granted. >> that's correct and it's beautiful. let us not forget the great lady and she's very much a part of this. >> you want to talk about her? >> oh, yeah, we have to honor. she's our -- you know, god mother. >> we have the information. tell us about the fund-raiser in sacramento. a short drive in san francisco, san jose and oakland. >> correct. it would be really worthwhile to come support this, so we can, as we say, finish the documentary in our time sper perspective and we're having a lot of these clips of the documentary, like a trailer and previews. we'll be previewing that and also a concert performance by what we're calling the -- all-star review. >> wow. i can imagine how that's going to be. >> yeah, so we've got a whole list of surprises, you know, so

we're excited about that. >> all right. and you're talking about colleges and that's where it is right now. we have about 20 seconds. talk about how important it is to education the youth on what it meant back then and what it should still mean now. >> that's probably the most important thing is to educate the youth of the sacrifice. that's what it's all about. we want them to internalize it and to capture those core values that cesar chavez was about. so many people core values and that's what we're going to still, that they, too, can be leaders and lead for the betterment of humanity. >> thank you so much, brother, for coming back. again, we're going to watch the trailer.

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cesar," a documentary. >> it was a walking lesson. and being around him, it was. >> our job was one who didn't just talk about it. he put his life on the line for what he believed. >> i remember he clearly thinks that somebody ought to do something about this. it's not right. somebody ought to do something about it. knowing that four years later, he was going to be the one doing something about it. it's how it started. 700 miles. ♪ >> to build a union, a free and

democratic union and good union for good people willing to do it. >> the power of persistence. you know, he wouldn't take no for an answer. he had a strong sense of the injustice that farm workers had in our society and what to do about it and he kept with it. ♪ he did it with so much grace. so much class and tenderness that a lot of conviction. >> people who are in the face of discomfort and sadness and tranl di and yet, they stand up you know, strong and they say i am not going to give up and i am going to fight for what i believe in and my family and who i am.

♪ >> just always heari ining horr stories about what's going on, then cesar chavez shows up and things are getting done. >> i told cesar, i want to be a photographer for the union. he says, no, we have joan bae z available, we want you to go out and do concerts and fund-raisers, so, said, okay. >> the reason for the movement. as a young teenager, i use d to play with farm workers in small rallies. this was in the '70s. we use d to play when he would come up in a station wagon, get out. >> the young generation was ready to go, especially after the movement came out, everybody got all gung ho about doing something for our people. ♪ >> pretty soon, all these bands were involved and playing these concerts. they called it the farm worker's

benefits. a lot of great bands. us, malo, cold blood, bob scags, taj mahal. >> i think the times affected the music and the music affected the times. >> we were looking for some identity and that music was something we could call our own. have 15,000 people in the stadium, you have cesar speaking to them. >> i wouldn't have wanted to be part of any movement that didn't have -- >> his dream, his hopes, his desire. his work. we live as long as we are who are alive keep it alive. >> courage and awareness, but mainly he was -- >> the world should know

about -- and music is a great vehicle to express our feelings, our thoughts. should be remembered and recognized for his good deeds worldwide. there's farm workers in india, all over the world. >> as long as there's one in a body, then -- be used to fight thr this good cause. in the end, we will win.

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