New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice

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    • Guestworkers Urge Secretary of Labor Solis to Revoke Exploitative Bush Administration Regulations - 2/24/09
    • Guestworkers Launch Strike To Expose Tennessee Employer Who Violated Federal Law - 2/18/09
    • MN Congressman to fast for Indian workers detained in Fargo, demands their release 12/17/08
    • Guestworkers sue major Louisiana grower for labor trafficking, slave-like conditions - 12/10/08
    • ICE Raid Targets, Snares Human Trafficking Victims - 10/29/08
    • Indian trafficking survivors suspend hunger strike on Day 29 after huge political gains - 6/11/08
    • ‘Hunger strike strongman’ Paul Konar forced to end fast on Day 23 after hospitalization - 06/05/08
    • Top US Congressman for Indian affairs vows to help Indian hunger strikers on Day 23 of fast - 6/4/08
    • Indian hunger strikers confront US Congress over H2B guest worker program expansion - 5/21/08
    • Indian Embassy feasts while hunger strikers starve - 05/17/08
    • Indian labor trafficking survivors to launch hunger strike in view of the White House - 5/14/08
    • 100 satyagrahis grill Indian Ambassador during three-hour meeting - 3/27/08
    • Indian human trafficking survivors tear up guest worker visas at White House rally - 3/21/08
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  • NOWCRJ in the News
    • 3/7/07 The Times-Picayune - Worker’s fears prove to be prophetic: ‘He hated going under the houses’
    • 3/14/07 Time Magazine - Guest Workers Fighting Back
    • 7/1/09 The Times-Picayune - Day Laborers Call for Action on Wage Theft
    • 7/1/09 WDSU - Councilman Wants to Stop ‘Wage Theft’ From Workers
    • 6/30/09 Fox 8 News - City Council Promises Help to Unpaid Day Laborers
    • 6/30/09 The Times-Picayune - Laborers Pack N.O. City Council Chambers to Support Wage-Theft Legislation
    • 6/30/09 WWLTV - Day Laborers, Huge Task in Region for Wage Theft, Ask Council for Help
    • 5/1/09 The Times Picayune - Workers Decry “Wage Theft” In Protest At City Hall
    • 12/25/08 Miami New Times News - Bolivian Workers Scammed: The odyssey of 24 laborers flown to Miami and then left to their own devices.
    • 12/10/08 Associated Press - FBI Probes treatment of Mexican workers in LA
    • 11/20/08 Project Censored - Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
    • 10/6/08 City Business - Off the Hook: City Works to Iron Out Wrinkles in Info Hotline
    • 9/23/08 The Times-Picayune - Shelter System will be Retooled, Official Vows
    • 9/15/08 The Associated Press - La. DSS Secretary Resigns Over Gustav Response
    • 9/10/08 The Seattle Medium - Displaced Poor Still Returning to New Orleans as Saints Go Marching In
    • 9/7/08 The New York Times - No Shelter From the Storm
    • 6/7/08 The New York Times - Workers on Hunger Strike Say They Were Misled on Visas
    • 5/15/08 American News Project - Immigrant Laborers in Limbo
    • 3/27/08 BBC News South Asia - Indian men in US ’slave’ protest
    • 3/15/08 Hindustan Times - India Mulls Law to Stop Rogue Recruiters
    • 3/11/08 The New York Times - Workers Sue Gulf Coast Company That Imported Them
    • 3/11/08 Hindustan Times - Workers Sue US firm, India cracks down on recruiters
    • 3/10/08 NPR - ‘Guest Workers’ Sue Mississippi Shipyard
    • 3/10/08 Hindustan Times - US dream lost in packed dorms, stink of stale food
    • 3/7/08 ABC News - Revolt in Mississippi: Indian Workers Claim ‘Slave Treatment’
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Flickr Albums:

Hunger strike launch 5-14-08

Hunger strike launch 5-14-08

19 Photos

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Paul Konar hospitalized - 6/5/08

Paul Konar hospitalized - 6/5/08

10 Photos

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Day 15 - Paul's birthday

Day 15 - Paul's birthday

4 Photos

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Hunger strike Day 11 - 5/24/08

Hunger strike Day 11 - 5/24/08

6 Photos

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Hunger strike Day 8 - 5/21/08

Hunger strike Day 8 - 5/21/08

20 Photos

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