Invisible Workforce: Immigrant Domestic Workers Push for Better Conditions
 

Invisible Workforce: Immigrant Domestic Workers Push for Better Conditions

PRI's The World, News Report, Odette Yousef, Posted: May 21, 2013

Domestic workers, many of them women immigrants, are getting behind a nationwide push for better working conditions.

 

Samoan Dance Brings Healing to Violence-Prone SF Community

 

Silicon Valley DeBug/ New America Media, Video, Jean Melesaine, Posted: May 18, 2013

Pelenise Faataui teaches Samoan and Polynesian dance in a San Francisco neighborhood long plagued by poverty and violence.

 

Invisible Workforce: An Undocumented Immigrant Caregiver Shares Her Story

 

PRI's The World, Video, Monica Campbell, Posted: May 17, 2013

Nannies, housecleaners, caregivers—they are sometimes called the world’s most invisible workforce. Most are women and many are immigrants.

 

In May Revise, Gov. Brown Raids Fund to Tackle Climate Change

 

New America Media, News Report, Ngoc Nguyen, Posted: May 15, 2013

Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Tuesday to divert money from the state's cap-and-trade program, money intended for local communities, to the general fund.

 

UC President: Serving Minorities 'Key Question' Going Forward

 

New America Media, Video, Peter Schurmann/Video by Josue Rojas, Posted: May 12, 2013

Outgoing UC President Mark Yudof says the university needs to do more to meet the demands of an increasingly diverse California.

 

Aging Undocumented Immigrants - A Burden or a Boon?

 

New America Media, News Analysis, Paul Kleyman, Posted: Apr 29, 2013

Elderly immigrants are being increasingly pilloried by opponents of immigration reform, even as their most basic needs are being ignored.

 

Boston Bombers -- The Denial of American Grandeur

 

New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 24, 2013

As the story of the Tsarnaev brothers unfolds, I hear echoes of another set of brothers from my own country, Vietnam.

 

Jailed Mother's Immigration Fight Exposes Dubious Arizona Felony Charges

 

New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernandez, Posted: Apr 23, 2013

Luz Ruiz Rascon has stood her ground -- in a Phoenix jail -- for months, refusing a plea that could end her path to citizenship under immigration reform.

The News Media’s Public Disservice in Boston

 

Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Apr 22, 2013

We Americans all swim in centuries of racial bias only made more acute by 9/11 and its aftermath. Unchecked, such bias can take over.

 

'Gang of 8' Immigration Bill is Practical, But Far From Ideal

 

Ponte Al Día, Op-ed, Ponte Al Día Editorial Staff, Posted: Apr 17, 2013

Big business and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stand to gain much if the proposed immigration reform bill becomes law.

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