New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice

building worker power, advancing racial justice, and organizing workers to build a social movement in post-Katrina New Orleans
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    • Federal judge orders Sheriff Gusman to release immigrant detainee from illegal custody – 11/15/10
    • Immigrant Workers Hit Sheriff with Federal Suit in Campaign to Win Right to Remain in New Orleans – 2/2/11
    • 4/20/2011 EEOC SUES MAJOR LABOR TRAFFICKER, VINDICATES GUESTWORKERS
    • 2/7/11 Community Condemns Sheriff’s Intimidation of Community Leaders During Prayer Vigil
    • Low-Income Residents Sue Housing Authority of New Orleans – 9/29/09
    • 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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      • Protesters Demanded the Release of 22 year old Antonio Ocampo, Vanessa Bolano Reports 11/15/10
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      • 4/20/10 People’s World – Power Act would curb worker abuse, senator says
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Alliance Demands DOL Act to Protect Guestworkes Affected by BP Oil Spill

A letter to the Department of Labor, Administrator Nancy Leppink from July 9, 2010

“Never Again: Lessons from Louisiana’s Gustav Evacuation”

A report by STAND, a grassroots project of NOWCRJ, that exposes the impact of Lousiana’s unjust and inequitable evacuation policy during the Hurricane Gustav on the state’s poorest evacuees, based on hundreds of interviews with evacuees. The report was highlighted in a New York Times masthead editorial on Sunday, September 21, 2008.

“And Injustice for All: Workers’ Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans”

The most comprehensive report on race and labor after Katrina, based on interviews with over 1,000 workers. Released with the Advancement Project and National Immigration Law Center.

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ABOUT NOWCRJ

The New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice is dedicated to organizing workers across race and industry to build the power and participation of workers and communities. We organize day laborers, guestworkers, and homeless residents to build movement for dignity and rights in the post-Katrina landscape.

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  • Martin Luther King Day 2012 Report - Dissident Voice

Recent Posts

  • Immigrant Workers Hit Sheriff with Federal Suit in Campaign to Win Right to Remain in New Orleans
  • Through My Eyes: Louisiana’s First Independent Evacuation Shelter Monitoring Report
  • Detention Conditions and Human Rights Under the Obama Administration
  • STAND with Dignity v. Housing Authority of New Orleans
  • “Honorable Wage for Honorable Work!”
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