Latino Union’s Eric Rodriguez Receives Excellence in Service Award from MALDEF
Congratulations to Eric Rodriguez for his Excellence in Community Service Award from MALDEF.
The poor among you
By Ken Camp, Managing Editor | Source: BaptistStandard.com Published: March 30, 2012 They gather at dawn at day-labor centers or designated parking lots where contractors hire workers. Some stop on their way to pick up a cheap breakfast taco at a convenience store, ing their meal from an employee earning minimum wage. At the store,…
Nepali immigrant charges in lawsuit that L.I. restaurant bosses exploited him
Says he was forced to work 12 hours a day for little pay By Erica Pearson, New York Daily News | Tuesday, search April 3, 2012, 10:14 AM A Nepali kitchen assistant says his Long Island restaurant bosses made him live with other workers in an isolated basement room so he could toil for as…
Out of the Shadows & Into the Streets, to Stop Arpaio!!
There are so many indescribable words that can portray yesterdays [March 20th2012] act of bravery and resistance by six undocumented students. These six students stepped up to the plate, without anyone telling them to. Why? Because they believed it was time to take matters into their own hands. Tired of not seeing any progress, and wanting to empower their communities, they did what many of us would not expect six undocumented (not to mention two minor aged) students to do. They mobilized and faced the Phoenix Police Department challenging to have Arpaio to come and get them.
Saúl Linares es uno de los nuevos miembros de la junta directiva de la Red Nacional de Jornaleros.
http://www.noticiany.com/noticia/18114/13/jornalero-de-hempstead-es-reconocido-a-nivel-nacional Saúl Linares es uno de los nuevos miembros de la junta directiva de la Red Nacional de Jornaleros. Linares: “En los próximos dos años tenemos por delante una lucha gigante”. Eliana López En octubre del año pasado, s Saúl Linares, un jornalero salvadoreño miembro de la organización Centro de Derechos Laborales (CDL),…
Poster Contest “Our Lives, Our Struggle”/Concurso de Cartel “Nuestra vida, nuestra lucha”
Poster Contest “Our Lives, Our Struggle”/Concurso de Cartel “Nuestra vida, nuestra lucha”
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To celebrate its 20th Anniversary, The Workplace Project calls on all interested people to participate in a Poster Design contest with the theme “Our Lives, Our Struggles”
GOAL:
To contribute to the fight for the recognition of the multicultural nature of our society, the struggle for respect of diversity and for the rights of immigrant workers in the United States and especially Long Island, NY.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Posters will be received from February 25, 2012 until April 10, 2012
Women at the Fore of the Day Laborer Movement
When I first went to a day laborer corner to offer training about wage theft, some people looked at me like I was out of place. After all, I was the only woman in a crowd of a hundred day laborers who looked for work every day in our nation’s capitol.
But the truth is that I’m one of many women who proudly participate in the day laborer movement for worker and human rights. I organize among day laborers because both my parents were immigrant workers who faced similar struggles. While the majority of day laborers are men, women play a vital role as both laborers and organizers.
Jornaleros Detenidos de Tucson – Raúl Alcaraz Ochoa
Buenos dias tengan todas y todos ustedes. Me llamo Raúl Alcaraz Ochoa aquí junto con compañeros representando el Centro de Trabajadores Southside de Tucson, AZ.
Les presento hoy con gran tristeza y rabia en mi corazón.
En Tucson, zona fronteriza, vivmos una realidad pesada. Existe una militarización y criminalización de nuestra comunidad inimaginable. Nuestra zona es única por estar cerca de la frontera, con Patrulla Fronteriza saturando nuestras calles y personas cruzando y muriendo en el desierto a diario.
Reflecciones en la asamblea 2012
Domingo. 19 de Febrero
“Me pareció interesante, a llegado un buen grupo de trabajadores y cada vez hay mas mujeres que estan participando.
La risa de la noche fue para la actuación de El Cipitío, el personaje mítico de la leyenda, buena presentación cultural educativa.” – Saul Linares
The President of Arizonification
As President Obama reflects on his trip to Arizona on Jan. 25, he has some soul searching to do. In recent months, the President has displayed a schizophrenic approach to immigration as he attempts to straddle impossible opposites. He gives lip service to legalization but doubles down behind policies that criminalize. The Department of Homeland Security, headed by Arizona’s former Governor, has made conscripting states into immigration enforcement a centerpiece strategy while the Department of Justice sues states for usurping federal authority. Within the white house, it would seem that constitutional rights and discriminatory deportation programs are in a tug of war.