immigrant workers
A detention center vigil that defies La Migra
March 6, 2018"We can't just watch the immigration policy of this country play itself out and do nothing, while ICE and the Border Patrol hunt people down and tear their families apart."
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California hotel workers celebrate as Emeryville calls for sanctuary workplaces
April 7, 2017Hotel workers and union and community supporters rallied April 4, marking the 10th anniversary of a historic struggle in which hospitality workers – many of them immigrants – won a living wage with workload standards and...
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Worldwide uprising against Trump agenda draws millions of marchers
January 21, 2017The streets and thoroughfares of every major American city were packed with hundreds of thousands today declaring their rejection of the dark message of hate and division that Donald J. Trump laid out yesterday after he...
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Immigrant communities brace for Trump
November 23, 2016“People here have to remember the power they’ve built on a local level and use it,” one immigrants’ rights activist says, “even in the face of a national defeat.”
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Analyst: Adults, not teens, are lopsided majority of minimum wage workers
August 12, 2016Researcher Monica Garcia-Perez presented her findings to an AFL-CIO-co-sponsored conference on race, income and inequality.
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