PUBLISHED REPORTS
BUILDING WORKER POWER, ADVANCING RACIAL JUSTICE AND ORGANIZING
TO BUILD A SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Reports
NOLA Shakedown: How Criminalizing Municipal Fines and Fees Traps Poor and Working Class Black New Orleanians in Poverty
2019 Report on how using Fines and Fees in the local civil and criminal justice system significantly impacts low-income New Orleanians and creates additional barriers to move out of poverty through improved work opportunities.
From Vice to ICE Toolkit
Collaboration between Congreso and Breakout!
2014 Toolkit on how to build coalitions and bridge communities with narrative, story sharing, community building activities and more. This toolkit is the product of a real-life collaboration between El Congreso de Trabajadores and LGBTQ+ Youth organization Breakout! from 2011 through 2014 and beyond.
Criminal Alien Removal Initiative in New Orleans
2013 Report on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement testing program called Criminal Alien Removal Initiative (CARI) that was essentially a 'Stop and Frisk' form of policing to racially profile the Latine community with the added surveillance instrument of mobile fingerprinting devices that had a guilty until proven innocent method at its core, the opposite of the founding principles of our judicial system.
Making Justice Real - the Southern 32
This narrative and policy report centers the experience of immigrants in the face of civil, labor and human rights provisions when it comes to ICE's own Prosecutorial Discretion Policy.
In Their Own Words: Lives of Guestworkers
In this report, H-2B Visa Holders in the Gulf Coast - especially in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas - describe their ongoing struggles for just employment. At the center is the Alliance of Guestworkers for Dignity (later National Guestworker Alliance), a group that organized to improve immediate conditions, gain release of workers in exploitative worksites, and successfully litigated against several corporations for back pay.
Never Again: Lessons from Louisiana's Gustav Evacuation
Report on the extreme conditions at state-run shelters where New Orleanians and others across southern Louisiana were taken to after a mandatory hurricane evacuation was called. Policy recommendations in the report led to several small but meaningful changes regarding the minimum standards needed for future shelters during mandatory evacuations.
And Injustice for All: Workers' Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans
Groundbreaking Report documenting the working conditions and political economy in the immediate post-flood context in New Orleans through hundreds of worker testimonies, both Latino day laborers as well as Black residents trying to find work, rebuild their homes and city all at the same time. The report was written and published with the assistance of the Advancement Project, the National Immigration Law Center, and several academic partnerships that aided in the research process.