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We may be two weeks away from a potentially crippling port strike. News world New Jersey's Chris Keating along Newark Bay with the story. October 1st is when longshoremen who care for all the ships and containers that dock at these ports have threatened to walk off the job. And it is a very real possibility because these two sides have not been negotiating some 45,000 port workers from Elizabeth and Newark to Maine and all the way to Texas plan to strike if demands for a reported 77% wage increase over a six year contract are not met. Mark my words, we'll shut them down. October 1st. If we don't get the kind of wages we deserve. The US Maritime Alliance is said to be offering a wage increase of 40% US. Ma says they're ready to sit down and talk adding it is disappointing that we have reached this point where the I A is unwilling to reopen dialogue unless all of its demands are met. Union leadership also says they want improved health care and no attempt at automation. If the ports shut down, the hardship on consumers would not be immediate rather we'd feel it around the holidays. Says one labor expert, there could be a scarcity of goods. Rutgers, Professor Will Brewer says all of those ships heading our way would be stuck in the bay or head west to count that creates all kinds of problems with uh distribution because it's not only changes in shipping, it's changes in rail, it's changes in trucking. Meanwhile, the National Retail Federation has put in a request for the Biden administration to assist with negotiations, but the president has not yet agreed to help in Bayonne. I'm Chris Keating News. 12, New Jersey. All right. Back to our vote. 2024 coverage. Now with a month and a half until election day, my next guest, Juan has a message that she wants you to hear representation matters, it matters in every industry and it matters in our government. Give your situation a voice we deserve and we desire more. If you want something changed, you need to vote. Just some of the voices from a documentary called Dear America. A letter from black women. Joining me now is the founder of the Dear America Project and the CEO of the New York based project Ready Chanel, Barnes, MCLA, Chanel. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much for having me. All right. Talk about the Dear America project and and why this is so deeply personal to you. Absolutely. Uh So last night I received a phone call that my father, mother was in the hospital and that he'd had a mild stroke. And as I was rushing to the hospital, I was remembering how much my father instilled in me as a black girl. The importance of using my voice, the importance of making sure that I advocate for myself, the importance of America. And then as a black woman, you get into America and you're suddenly told that you're not good enough that your voice should be silenced, that you don't matter. And the dear America of the Dear America project, dear America. A letter from black women is very much about traveling the nation capturing the voices of black women and putting at the forefront how we have been a catalyst for democracy, a catalyst for change. Uh When we look at the suffrage movement, black women show up, when we look at recent presidential elections, black women show up and we are always showing up. And if our voice is always important during these moments, why wouldn't it be important that they ask us? Well, what do you want from democracy? And that's what we do in our film. Uh on your website, you have a countdown clock on it. Uh You do and it's, it's entitled Days Until Black women shape the future. What kind of feedback are you getting uh to the project? To the video? Incredible feedback. Every woman that we interview every black woman, she took a moment and she shed a tear and she shed a tear because finally someone was asking her, what is it that you want from democracy? And from there education comes up, maternal health comes up, closing, the wealth gap comes up. Uh being able to afford childcare comes up and these women are just excited to be able to share their story and to be able to make a mark on democracy at this pivotal moment is this initiative not so much about who you vote for, but that you go out and you cast that vote. This is all this initiative is about. It is a nonpartisan initiative to activate the vote and we have used black women as the backdrop for that conversation. What do you say to, to the disenfranchised out there? I mean, listen, this especially in this cycle, there are a lot of people who just aren't happy with either choice and there's been a lot of grumbling that people might sit this out. We say to all disenfranchise, disenfranchised voices from the front line to the finish line, we will persevere if we just keep hope and if we make sure that we don't see the vote as something that we should cast away, but we see it as an opportunity to exercise our power. Can you talk about the documentary more because it's about to make its premiere here. It's basically going on tour. It is, it's going on right now. We're traveling to six states on Monday, we golf in Chappaqua, New York. Then we're in Newark, New Jersey. We're in Durham, North Carolina. Uh This just in, we're gonna be in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and we're gonna be in New Orleans, Louisiana. What do you hope that people take away from the film? First and foremost, we hope that people decide to vote. Second. We hope that people use this as an opportunity to truly hear the voices of black women and what black women have to say. And finally, we hope that after we get past this presidential, we can have a concerted conversation about a black woman's policy agenda. It's time to have that. Now. Now, in addition to the documentary in the film, you also have a new iheart radio show. I do, I do. I'm gonna be on iheartradio on Wor I am the only black woman in the news line up that is a host. We kick off that show on September 22nd. And the vision is to amplify the voices of disenfranchised voices across the nation right now. I mean, you're spearheading this effort. Your goal is 100,000 black women to commit. We need 100,000 black women to commit to vote. That's what you are hoping for. Do you have any idea of what the numbers are right now? So right now, we're actually at roughly 10,000. So we're getting really close. We launched our 100,000 black women voter commitment roughly around August and the momentum just keeps picking up. We're driving hard, we're pushing hard. We think we're gonna make the goal. All right. So final message, uh I, if, if you, because you have viewers ears right now, what do you wanna tell them? What I wanna tell viewers is if you are in a state of thinking that you should not vote that your vote doesn't matter that even if you vote for one president or the other, you're not gonna truly be able to see the America that we all deserve. Don't lose that faith and don't lose that hope. Make your way to the polls. Also, if you can't make your way to the polls, exercise your opportunity to be able to vote from home. Chanel Barnes mcleod. Thank you so much for being here. Prayers to your dad as well. Thank you so much. He's gonna kill me for saying it. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. And we'll be right back with more power in politics right up.

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Welcome back to New Jersey. Power and Politics. I'm Eric Lands Krenner. This week was the special election to serve the remainder of the late Congressman Donald Payne Junior's term in the 10th congressional district. The winner in a landslide New York Council president, democrat, La Monica macgyver, you can see garnered 81% of the vote. Republican Carmen Bucco got 16%. Mcivor will serve out the remainder of Payne's term through January. But in November, Macgyver and Bucco do square off again to decide who fills the seat for the next two years. Madam president. It is a distinct honor to stand in this esteem chamber as a member of the world's greatest deliberative body, the United States Senate that I'm even standing here just as the 81st New Jerseyan, the 2000 and fourth American, currently the only Arab American and the first member of the Coptic church to hold the title. United States senator is something I have never managed imagined and still struggle to accept another week of firsts for Senator George Helmy delivering his first speech on the Senate floor. Senator Helmy also presided over the Senate for the first time posting to X to commemorate the event as you could see right there. Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway announcing this week that he will be stepping down at the end of this academic year. In a statement Holloway said in part, this decision is my own and reflects my ruminations about how best to be of service Holloway telling the star ledger, the political climate surrounding universities drove his decision. You recall, Holloway came on intense criticism over how he negotiated to end the encampment on campus in the spring, as well as for how he handled a surge in anti Semitic incidents at the school. He was called before Congress to explain the quote inadequacy of Rutgers response to the intensity and pervasiveness of anti Semitism on its campuses. New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik reacting to the news. She was on the Congress committee and released this statement saying in part quote, Jonathan Holloway must resign in disgrace immediately for allowing anti Semitic mobs to repeatedly target and threaten the safety of Jewish students. Governor Murphy who in the spring also criticized Rutgers handling of the encampment released a statement this week saying President Holloway has been a strong partner in leading Rutgers University over the past five years. Well, New Jersey took its shot but in the end, it was an air ball, the 76ers will not be moving to New Jersey after all. Philadelphia's mayor says that she struck a deal with the team to build a new arena in the city's Chinatown. She said that her administration will be sending legislation to the City Council for its consideration. Uh The City Council would still have to approve it. New Jersey did try to lure the 76ers across the river offering major incentives to build a new arena in Canton and that'll do it for this week. I'm Eric Lz Krenner. Thanks for watching New Jersey Power and Politics. We'll see you again next time.

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