The Yakima Herald-Republic reports: Workers at the Columbia Reach plant in Yakima have had to tap into their inner strength as their strike approaches the four-week mark. Columbia Reach is the last fruit-packing plant with workers on strike. While workers at other plants have been able to reach … [Read more...]
Opening all Hearts: A Vigil for immigrants in a time of pandemic – June 10th
Over two days from June 9th and 10th, Jesuit Ministries in Seattle, Spokane, and Tacoma will host a virtual Vigil (a devotional watching or keeping awake in the Catholic tradition) calling for support of and financial relief for undocumented workers in Washington State during this time of COVID-19. … [Read more...]
AMID PROTESTS, PHOENIX POLICE SWEPT UP IMMIGRANTS ON MISTAKEN CHARGES. NOW THEY FACE DEPORTATION.
JESUS MANUEL ORONA PRIETO was downtown in Phoenix, Arizona, as demonstrators took to the streets on the night of May 30 decrying the police killings of George Floyd and other black people across the country. But he wasn’t protesting, according to his girlfriend, Corina Paez. They were on a … [Read more...]
Open All Hearts: A Vigil for Immigrants in Time of Pandemic, June 9-10, 2020 (Online)
Support for Undocumented people: We are still waiting to hear a response from Governor Inslee regarding relief funds for undocumented workers. Meanwhile, there is an online vigil next week sponsored by the ministries of Jesuits West: facebook.com/events/254915238934963 To keep informed of the many … [Read more...]
Slicing into whether agencies are watching out for agricultural workers’ health and safety
There have been strikes that have occurred at seven Yakima County fruit growers and packing companies over the last three weeks, and various news outlets have been covering those strikes. The striking workers have been seeking safer working conditions, increased transparency from companies regarding … [Read more...]
New Organization, All in Washington, to Support Relief for Undocumented Workers with Matching Funds
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project has been proud to partner with the Washington Dream Coalition (WDC) and its COVID-19 Relief Fund for Undocumented Individuals in Washington State. This fund is already providing critical support to thousands of families in Washington who do not have access to … [Read more...]
ICE DETAINEE WHO DIED OF COVID-19 SUFFERED HORRIFYING NEGLECT
From the moment the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, advocates and experts warned that ICE’s network of detention centers posed a serious problem — medical experts at the Department of Homeland Security called the facilities a “tinderbox” for the spread of the disease — and … [Read more...]
ACTION ALERT! Show your Solidarity Today with WA’s Farmworkers: Covid-19 Protections Now!
Familias Unidas por la Justicia and Community to Community Development are currently supporting six farmworker strikes in Yakima County in solidarity with workers who have walked off the job due to health and safety concerns around Covid-19. Workers at Allan Brothers Fruit walked out on May 7 after … [Read more...]
Phone Action in Solidarity with Washington COVID-19 Farmworker Strike
Sunrise Seattle is organizing a remote phone action every day during the week of May 18 in solidarity with the Washington state farmworkers currently striking for COVID-19 protections and hazard pay. Click here to sign up for a shift to take action at the same time as others, or use the following … [Read more...]
More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy
Historically, young migrants who showed up at the border without adult guardians were provided with shelter, education, medical care and a lengthy administrative process that allowed them to make a case for staying in the United States. Those who were eventually deported were sent home only after … [Read more...]
Protect Farm Workers’ Rights to Demand COVID-Safe Work Environment, May 18, 2020
We are currently in the midst of an unprecedented strike wave in the fruit processing plants of the Yakima valley. Strikes like these have not been seen in WA State since the 1980s. Packing shed workers and their families are organizing in solidarity across six picket lines to stop retaliation for … [Read more...]
Movement to End Deportations and Detention
It's Time Our Elected Officials #ActOnIt and Move Their Talk into Action to #FreeThemAll Go to https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2632349890425924 to watch and share La Resistencia’s latest video, featuring testimonies from family members with detained loved ones, Senator Rebecca Saldaña, essential … [Read more...]
For Latinos and COVID-19, Doctors Are Seeing an ‘Alarming’ Disparity
In Iowa, Latinos account for more than 20 percent of coronavirus cases though they are only 6 percent of the population. Latinos in Washington State make up 13 percent of the population but 31 percent of cases. In Florida, they are just over a quarter of the population but account for two of every … [Read more...]
Everyone Should Be Able to Vote, Especially in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis puts workers, immigrants, LGBTQ individuals, Black and Brown people, and the most vulnerable among us at great risk. They are on the front lines of the crisis. While DI partners and allies are working day and night to protect their respective communities, President Trump is … [Read more...]
Migrants’ rights and health must be protected in the face of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is a test of our common humanity. It has revealed our shared vulnerabilities, and only a coordinated response based on justice, solidarity and humanitarian principles can help us overcome it. Unfortunately the coronavirus crisis also is exposing problems of inequality … [Read more...]
Alone in ICE detention, teens fear arrival of COVID-19
Advocates and parents worry about the safety of undocumented youth being held in two Pacific Northwest facilities. While the plight of adults and migrant children in federal custody has received some attention, undocumented teenagers with troubled pasts and held by ICE in secretive facilities … [Read more...]
Women, minorities shoulder front-line work during pandemic
As America tentatively emerges from weeks of lockdowns, it is becoming clear that the pandemic has taken its toll on workers who have been on the front lines all along. They have been packing and delivering supplies, caring for the sick and elderly, and keeping streets and buildings … [Read more...]
These migrant families walked north for safety. Now they face coronavirus.
More than a year later, the coronavirus pandemic has sealed the borders these groups once crossed. Some wait for asylum in the U.S. or in Mexico; many work on the fringes of the informal economy. The virus has frozen their applications, and with it, their futures. The cramped camps where they live … [Read more...]
Lifting the Voices of Farmworkers through Community Organizing.
More than 3 million migrant and seasonal farmworkers are estimated to harvest food in the United States. Farmworkers help provide the majority of the food people in America consume, harvesting produce, maintaining dairies, and working in the meat industry. Farmworkers make a substantially lower wage … [Read more...]
LNI & DEPT OF HEALTH MUST FOLLOW FARMWORKER LEADERSHIP WITH EMERGENCY RULES
Dear supporters, C2C has been sounding the alarm about substandard and often nonexistent health and safety protections for farmworkers, most notably with regard to the dangers of pesticide exposure, for 15 years. For the last month, we have been begging the state to implement emergency rules to … [Read more...]
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