for immediate release Contact: B. Loewe, Chris Newman, Day Laborers to Debate Future While All Await Word from Supreme Court Decision Whether or Not to Hear Case of Redondo Beach Day Laborers President Trumka of the AFL-CIO and Tavis Smiley to Address Day Laborer Convention 02.21.2012 Los Angeles, CA.…
DetailsEvery year for the past 10 years, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has convened labor organizers and low-wage workers from around the country to discuss strategy and networking. But the intersection of policy and personal experience appears to dominate this year’s meeting. – KPCC 02.20.2012
DetailsThree hundred immigrant day laborers and activists from around the country are meeting this week in Los Angeles to exchange labor organizing tactics, and to discuss immigration. – The California Report 02.20.2012
DetailsBuenos 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.
DetailsEstar organizados es la clave para los participantes de la sexta asamblea nacional de la Red Nacional de Jornaleros (NDLON, there por sus siglas en inglés), que se realiza desde el 19 y hasta el 23 de febrero en el hotel Sheraton del centro de Los Ángeles. Ayer, cientos de trabajadores de 14 diferentes estados de la nación, presenciaron charlas por pa
DetailsThe way Omar Sierra remembers it, dozens of day laborers gathered in the Kmart parking lot that day more than 15 years ago. A county mobile health clinic arrived with a mariachi band and free food and offered HIV tests to those waiting for work. Sierra got in line and sat for his test. He heard a commotion, turned and saw men running. He thought
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