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First Responders Children’s Foundation’s 19th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade Breakfast
FIRST RESPONDERS CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION ,TO ANNOUNCE SCHOLARSHIP IN HONOR OF
9/11 FIRST RESPONDER LUIS ALVAREZ AT THE 19TH ANNUAL THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE BREAKFAST.
A presentation will be made to the family of NYPD Detective Luis Alvarez The First Responders Children’s Foundation Public Service Hero Award will be presented to FDNY Lieutenant Sarinya Srisakul, the first Asian female firefighter in the FDNY.
Over 1,500 guests are expected to attend the 19th annual Breakfast that began in the wake of 9/11 to provide a welcoming holiday community for first responder families who endured tragedy.
The Luis G. Alvarez scholarship will be announced and presented to Detective Alvarez’s widow Alaine Parker Alvarez.
Alvarez, who passed away from 9/11-related illnesses, is known for his advocacy on behalf of 9/11 first responders and his lobbying efforts including pleading before the United States Congress to replenish the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
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First Responders Children’s Foundation’s 19th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade Breakfast-2019
New York City Veterans Day Parade – 2024
BY: Adal Hussain, Chief Editor for World Liberty TV, @ 25th St & 5th Ave NYC, Mon Nov 11 th 2024
Honor Ruck, 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s Salute to Service and Wreath-Laying Ceremony, Honoring Service Members that precede over nation’s largest Veterans Day Parade.
On Mon November 11th 2024, beginning 12-30pm, the 105th Annual New York City Veterans Day Parade- the nation’s largest commemoration service, marched up Fifth Ave, from East 25th Street to East 45th Streets in honor of our nations Veterans.
The parade that is produced every year, by the United War Veterans Council (UWVC), is expected to feature nearly 300 marching and vehicle units and welcome 20,000 participants from across America.
Representing every service branch of the military and every era, thousands of veteran’s military members, service organizations and youth cadets participate with marching bands, floats, motorcycles and vintage vehicles adding to the celebratory atmosphere.
Ahead of this year’s parade, the UWVC and its partners, hosted a series of ramp-up events.
On Sunday, November 10th, veterans and active military participated in an honor Ruck (fitness march) from the Eternal Light Flagstaff at Madison Square Park to the World Trade Center Reflecting Pools.
The ruck ended with an speaking program, featuring 9/11 Memorial and Museum’s President and CEO, and United States Air Force Veteran Elizabeth L. Hillman, alongside the United States Marines Corps as part of the Museum’s annual salute to service, a tribute that honors those who served in the military , as well as the families and communities that support them.
Right before the parade, the annual wreath laying – ceremony took place, with the wreaths presented by veteran representatives, public officials, foreign allies, and senior military leaders.
Which included: Grand Marshall Dakota Meyer, Honorary Marshalls, Mercedes Elias and John Escalante.
United Veterans War Council, President and Executive director, Mark Otto. Veteran’s and currently serving military personnel.
About Grand Marshal Dakota Meyer: is a former United States Marine. A veteran of the War in Afghanistan, he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Ganjgal on September 8, 2009, in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
Meyer is the second-youngest living Medal of Honor recipient, the third living recipient for either the Iraq War or the War in Afghanistan, and the first living United States Marine in 38 years to be honored.
On November 6, 2010, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James F. Amos, told reporters during a visit to Camp Pendleton, California that a living United States Marine had been nominated for the Medal of Honor. Two days later, Marine Corps Times, an independent newspaper covering Marine Corps operations, reported that the unnamed person was Meyer, citing anonymous sources. CNN confirmed the story independently two days later.
On June 9, 2011, the Marine Corps announced that two other Marines on Meyer’s team in Ganjgal would receive the Navy Cross, the second-highest award for valor a Marine can receive. Capt. Ademola Fabayo and Staff Sgt.
Juan J. Rodriguez-Chavez were recognized for their roles in retrieving the bodies of the fallen Marines and Corpsman. Before Meyer began searching for the missing servicemen on foot, Rodriguez-Chavez drove a gun truck into the kill zone with Fabayo manning the truck’s machine gun.
When President Obama’s staff called Meyer to set up a time for the president to inform him that he would be given the Medal of Honor, they were told Meyer was working at his construction job and were asked to call again during his lunch break. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony on September 15, 2011.
When a White House staffer contacted Meyer to arrange the ceremony, Meyer asked if he could have a beer with the president and President Obama agreed to the request.
He received an invitation to the White House to meet Obama in the afternoon before the ceremony. Meyer also requested that when he was honored, simultaneous commemorative services should be held at other associated locations to honor the memory of his colleagues who died or were mortally wounded during the ambush and his rescue attempts.
About United War Veterans Council: The mission of the United War Veterans Council (UWVC) is to honor and serve America’s veterans.
We are dedicated to ensuring that the public always embraces its commitment to provide all veterans and their families with the care, recognition and opportunities they have rightfully earned.
The United War Veterans Council (UWVC) traces its lineage back to groups founded by veterans of the Spanish-American War (1898). These groups continued activities and traditions established by veterans of the Revolution and the War of 1812.
The modern UWVC was revived in 1985 by a group of Vietnam veterans, initially for the purposes of salvaging the New York City Veterans Day Parade, which was on the verge of extinction.
Today, that Parade has grown into the largest Veterans Day event in the nation, drawing tens of thousands of participants and hundreds of thousands of spectators.
Going forward, the UWVC is being led by our latest generation of Iraq, Afghanistan and Post-9/11 veterans.
We are building on past successes by focusing our efforts on our Health and Wellness Programs, and Legacy and Education Initiatives. Our goal is to ensure that the UWVC will continue to honor, support, and serve veterans for years to come.
The UWVC Foundation is the 501 (c) (3) arm of the United War Veterans Council. The Foundation supports UWVC’s initiatives to honor and serve our veterans.
It was a very well attended parade thousands of people in attendance from all over the world, to support veterans and military personnel.
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105th Annual New York City Veterans Day Parade-2024
Exclusive interview with Adrian Alicea World renowned fashion designer-2024
We had the pleasure of covering many shows for Adrian Alicea, for the past 15 years, in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channels. I would go as far to say he is a dear friend. who has deep passion for helping people, with his fashions and I will go a little further, these 2 shows are the very best of Adrian Alicea, if there was an award for NYFW 2024, as the best designer, Adrian would definitely get might vote, as well as yours, after you see the exclusive interview and his 2 fashion showcases, during New York Fashion Week 2024.
Behind a great designer there is a great publicist, I want to thank Tadhi Coulter, director of communications, for the Wall Port Media Group (WPMG), for helping us each step of the way to help contribute to this article and help us to set up the interviews. Job well done Mr. Coulter.
Sit back folks and enjoy, the interview and Adrian Alicea’s, two fashion shows, right here in our World Liberty TV, Fashion Channels.
Cosmoda: Alliance featuring ‘Decades of a Living Legend’ Designer Adrian Alicea: In the historic banking hall at 30 Wall Street, downtown New York, Private-label, made-to-order designer Adrian Alicea presented his SS25 collection of over 40 looks at Cosplay’s Cosmoda Alliance (IG: @cosplay. runway) fantasy-focused runway show.
Says his PR spokesperson, Tadhi Coulter, ‘We’ve been focusing our work together on collaborations that emphasize the kind of wardrobe and costume designs ripe for film, television, and theatrical roles and stories.
I really see Adrian’s brand missing a wonderful opportunity as one of the most iconic Costume Designers for generations to come.” Thanks to the Cosplay community and Cosmoda Runway, the namesake designer demonstrated further the connection between his designs and the storytelling prowess of producers and audiences of entertainment.
‘Decades of a Legend’ designer Adrian Alicea thanks the following for giving the show wings, depth, and that “IT” factor it deserves: Cosplay Cosmoda Show Producers
Catherine Schuller, Daniel Hort; Casting Director Casting-by-Catalina; Hair Hair-by-Madeline and Carlos Roman; Designer Assistants Gazbe Debonair, Jacklyn Allain, Diogenes Spignolio; Music Steve “DJ Chip Chop” Gonzalez; Vogue Dancers Myroc Productions and Karma Stylz; special guest host Zara Korutz, Press & Media Wall Port Media Group, and sponsors Dr. Flora Luyando and Absinthe Absente
A-Listers Blanca Soto, Judy Torres, Patricia Velázquez, Camila Alves, Chingy, Lil Kim, Zoe Saldana, .
/10/”>Daddy Yankee, Marilyn Manson, India Arie, Paris Hilton, Nick Cannon, Larisa Martinez, Melissa Ford, and Melba Moore among others have been styled in Adrian Alicea designs.
‘A New Romantic’ presented at “Win the Runway Beauty Brunch”: At La Victoria NYC, Adrian Alicea presented 8-10 best-selling looks from his prior collections. For Adrian Alicea, it’s all about the temerity and confidence of individual looks, style, and presentation.
Each model reveals the muse-like sentiments and qualities of Adrian and Catalina, his Casting Director. This show, too, suggests the power of icons such as Coco Mitchell, who’s been modeling for three-plus decades to return to Adrian Alicea runways.
‘A New Romantic’ is fragrant, titillating, captivating, permeating with the allure of wanting to know the beautiful human creature who may walk, sit, stand, or lean and careen against the winding staircase; or whose columned back kisses the wall, their hand gripping the spirit-filled crystal glass raised with intermittent kisses to the perched lips of this rare and majestic creature oozing with confidence, passion, and self-expression.
They wear New Romantic pieces emblematic of Belle Époque—Adrian Alicea. New Romantic channels the spirit and radiance of one’s inner beauty laced and styled in designs from this powerful and mesmerizing collection
.New Romantic inspires confidence: “I’ve got to know this person!” it teases, begs, ingratiates. Each garment is made-by-hand with love, care, familial detail, and thoughtful sustainability by private-label designer Adrian Alicea.
‘A New Romantic Designer’ Adrian Alicea credits and thanks the following for the success of the show: GenArt, Connect Group, La Victoria, Marc Harvey Beauty, Casting Director Casting-by-Catalina; Hair Carlos Roman and Colon Jessica, NJ Hair Curls Color Keratins; Hairstylist Dixi and QTM and Hazel Austin; Make-up Artist Whitney Genee’ Esthetique; Designer Assistants Gazbe Debonair and Jacklyn Allain; Press & Media Wall Port Media Group, and sponsors Dr. Flora Luyando and Absinthe Absente
A-Listers Blanca Soto, Judy Torres, Patricia Velázquez, Camila Alves, Chingy, Lil Kim, Zoe Saldana, Daddy Yankee, Marilyn Manson, India Arie, Paris Hilton, Nick Cannon, Larisa Martinez, Melissa Ford, and Melba Moore among others have been styled in Adrian Alicea designs.
ADRIAN ALICEA: Discovered at the iconic nightclub, The Tunnel, by Rae Dawn Chong, Adrian was invited to audition and walk for Thierry Mugler’s couture show in Paris in 1989. From there, the rest is history.
His career as a Vogue dancer took flight with his and Willi Ninja vogue performances on fashion runways, including Theirry Mugler, the Joan River Show, Hermes, Giorgio Armani, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Gianfranco Ferre, Vivienne Westwood, and Patricia Fields, gracing the stage with supermodels Iman, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, Debra Shaw, Veruschka von Lehndorff, and Naomi Campbell.
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Kronk Boxing Gym in Detroit headed by legendary boxing trainer Emanuel Steward-2024
St. Patrick’s Day Press event for Weekend Boxing Event on Friday, March 15 2024 at MSG-NYC
41st Dominican Day Parade 6th Ave NYC-2023
BY: Adal Hussain, Chief Editor for World Liberty TV , Sunday August 13th 2023
The annual NYC Dominican Day parade for the Dominican Republic. The parade was on Sixth Avenue (AKA “Avenue of the Americas”, which no New Yorker calls it, but is appropriate for today). The parade was from 1pm to 5pm and started at 36th Street and went, I believe, to 62nd Street (that’s right next to Central Park).
I knew it would be big, but I’ve been to big parades: Puerto Rican Day, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick’s, among others.
I figured this would be well attended. It was more than “well attended”. It seems that everyone who even knows someone in the Dominican Republic was there. Huge crowds.
I was at Bryant Park, the corner of 42nd Street and 6th Avenue. There’s an elevated part and I managed to get to the top of the stairs, about 3 feet higher than the crowd in front of me.
Overall, the crowd in front of me was 6 or 7 people deep. That’s the deepest I’ve seen any parade except Thanksgiving (which is a special case).
Yes, that’s a snake around his neck. We parted like the Red Sea. He was one of three guys with snakes around his neck walking through the crowd (you can see another of them right behind him). After the parade, I saw two more.
Anyway, the parade started at 1pm and the crowd, which was already pretty wound up, cranked the noise level to 11.
The parade featured a number of different participants, but the radio stations seemed to be the all-out favorites. The crowd wanted loud, loud music; and the politicians really didn’t provide it.
There were a few new sights at this parade. There were groups of what I can only describe as “colorful characters”. I’m sure they are symbolic of some folk traditions, but I don’t know what they might be.
Some of them had horns (really long horns) and some had devilish masks, and some just had bullwhips. Yep, bullwhips. That’s a new one on me.
At one point, about 20 characters came out cracking their whips and the crowd loved it. Me, too. Then there was a small group of others and then a group of kids with bullwhips. They were really into it, but they just couldn’t crack the whips like their elders.
The Dominican Day Parade is much more than a parade. Throughout the year, we hold various events including workshops, scholarships, food drives, the annual gala, and parade kick-off events in all five boroughs.
The mission of the Dominican Day Parade of New York City is to celebrate the richness of the Dominican culture, folklore, and popular traditions.
The Parade highlights promote and acknowledge the heritage and contributions of the Dominican community in the United States and throughout the world.
The Dominican Day Parade, Inc. is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, that organizes the annual parade and festivities that promote the richness of the culture, folklore and popular traditions of the Dominican Republic.
The organization strives to provide an understanding of the heritage and contributions of the Dominican community in the United States of America and throughout the world.
The parade is a tradition beloved by the Dominican community, but it is only the tip of the iceberg for our organization! For us, the Dominican Day Parade is much more than a parade.
Throughout the year, we hold various events including food drives, the annual gala, and parade kick-off events in all five boroughs.
Understanding the value of education, the Dominican Day Parade takes great pride in providing scholarships and mentor opportunities to exceptional students of Dominican descent.
Through the funds raised from our annual gala, we granted $200,000 in scholarships in 2019 to support awardees through college and post graduate institutions.
Helping these promising young people continue to excel in their future ventures allows us to achieve our primary goal: to support and celebrate the Dominican community!
President Luis Abinader , The Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader was in attendance and was recognized as the Grand Marshal. Other Diginatries in attendance and marching in the parade included: Governor Kathy Hochul, Senator Chuck Schumer, New York State Attorney General Letitia James, Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Public Advocate, Jumaane D. Williams, Congress member, Adriano Espaillat, Congressman Jamaal Bowman, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, New York Police Department’s Commissioner, Edward Caban and many more political leaders, labor leaders and community in attendance.
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