Day Laborers, Helping Hands
About 50 or so people gathered outside a storm-ruined taco restaurant on Saturday morning in Coney Island, on a backstreet behind the Boardwalk near the Wonder Wheel.www.nytimes.com
Thanksgiving celebration held at Pomona day laborer center
Jason Conley and fellow Pomona police officers load more than 100 turkeys to be distributed to needy families. Day laborers and their families also got free turkey dinners on Tuesday at the Pomona Economic Opportunity Center. (Thomas R. Cordova Staff ...www.dailybulletin.com
Day Laborers Will Be Key to Recovery After the Storm
Day laborers, migrant, and low-wage workers will be key to rebuilding New York and other affected areas. The workers who lend their labor to homeowners and contractors on a daily basis are gathering at worker centers and at street corner hiring sites ...www.huffingtonpost.com
Day Laborers Play a Role in Sandy's Aftermath
These day laborers are mostly illegal immigrants. They're not authorized to work in the United States, but they have long been part of the city's fabric.www.wnyc.org
After Hurricane Sandy, Day Laborers Play Central Role in Cleanup, Rebuilding
These are day laborers, nearly all of them undocumented immigrants, who are helping to clean up and rebuild New Jersey and New York after the storm that left power lines down, homes and buildings flooded, sidings contorted ,and trees lying across ...latino.foxnews.com
Wind of Spirit hosts Sandy day laborer relief brigade Sunday
Day laborers in New York and New Jersey are mobilizing to offer their most valuable asset, their labor, for communities that have been damaged by Hurricane Sandy, according to a news release.www.dailyrecord.com
Sandy Sweeps Away New York City's Only Day Laborer Center
A storm surge from Hurricane Sandy unmoored the Bay Parkway Community Job Center, New York City's only center for day laborers, and moved it a couple hundred feet inland from the Bensonhurst shore, cracking one of its walls in the process.inthesetimes.com
While rebuilding Sandy-struck areas, immigrant day laborers are undergoing ...
Some of the community groups that advocate on behalf of the New York metropolitan area's day laborers pointed out on Nov. 8 that some hiring sites have been damaged during Hurricane Sandy, that many workers' families have been forced to evacuate their ...www.gsnmagazine.com
Man arrested for Thanksgiving Day nail gun assault
A Burlingame man was arrested on Thanksgiving afternoon after firing a nail gun at two day laborers and their truck because he felt they were being too noisy working on a fence at a nearby construction site, according to prosecutors.www.smdailyjournal.com
Mexican immigrants in NY and NJ left homeless, jobless in Superstorm Sandy's ...
Groups that are part of the National Day Labor Organizing Network have also brought day laborers to do volunteer cleanup activities on weekends.www.washingtonpost.com
Oakland municipal ID, debit card program expected to roll out in January
Day laborers are often paid in cash. No bank account means they often carry that cash around. No U.S. ID means they're often afraid to report any crime, for fear of being deported.blog.sfgate.com
What a Little Land Can Do
In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than illiteracy or belonging to castes at the bottom of society. At least 17 million rural households in India are completely landless, living on others' land and working as sharecroppers or day ...opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
Video: Giving Thanks: St. Anthony of Padua Church Provides Meals to the Needy
The parish at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church has provided breakfast to hungry day laborers on Caesar Chavez Street for the past 15 years.blog.sfgate.com
Myanmar's Rush to Democracy Leaves Its Poor Behind
Children splash in filthy puddles along deeply rutted roads, and day laborers sleep away the afternoon in rickety wooden shacks awaiting jobs that come too rarely.www.nytimes.com
Dominican Republic farm laborers get wage hike to US$210 per month
The salaries of farm workers compete with those of day laborers in construction for some of the region's lowest paying jobs, with RD$400 per day, or RD$9,000 per month.www.dominicantoday.com
Cellphones Reshape Prostitution in India, and Complicate Efforts to Prevent AIDS
Indeed, the recent closings of hundreds of ancient brothels, while something of an economic victory for prostitutes, may one day cost them, and many others, their lives. .... The lane was teeming with laborers, uniformed schoolchildren, and veiled matrons.www.nytimes.com
Lots More Food Still Needed for Community Thanksgiving Meal
For the past 16 years, Malibu community members have rallied around an all-volunteer effort to feed up to 300 homeless and day laborers on Thanksgiving Day. To make that happen again this year at Malibu United Methodist Church, more volunteers are ...malibu.patch.com
Obama's Army of Illegal Election Workers
It is a "partner" with the far-left Center for Community Change (CCC) and the National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON).www.rightsidenews.com
'The Harvest' screening at The MV Film Center, November 24
While Victor is often in the fields, he's glad his younger sisters are still spared the ordeal of picking up to 1500 pounds of tomatoes a day. Scenes from THE HARVEST/LA COSECHA have been presented to the US ... The organization runs an online ...marthasvineyard.patch.com
Coming Of Age In Khaki
Dulled by her repetitive duties at a checkpoint for Palestinian laborers, one day, Lea is shocked by the stench arising from the trunk of a car.www.thejewishweek.com
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