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From: Aparna Kothary
Date: March 25, 2008 3:31:11 PM EDT
To: amritawassan@gmail.com
Cc: aparna@saalt.org
Subject: Re: Housing 'anu100@gmail.com'for Indian Guest Workers
Dear all,
Thank you for your help in finding housing for the workers! Fortunately, we found a church in DC that has agreed to house ALL of the workers. This is an ideal situation because it allows them to stay together and reduces the confusion of traveling around the city separately.
I also wanted to reach out to you to let you know that organizers of the march need help finding interpreters for March 27- April 2 for public meetings, strategy meetings, and some legal interviews. Translation needs include Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu. They are looking for interpreters pro bono.
To assist, please email Rahul Saksena at rahul.saksena@gmail.com with the following information:
-Language proficiency
-Date/time available (between March 27th-April 2nd)
-Your contact info (cell phone and email)
We are expecting to hold a community event later this week with the workers and other allies so we will definitely keep you posted on that as well!
You can follow the workers’ journey here: http://nolaworkerscenter.wordpress.com/
Again, thank you so much for your help!
Kindly,
Aparna
______________________________________________
Aparna Kothary
Fundraising and Development Assistant/Americorps VISTA
SAALT (South Asian Americans Leading Together)
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 506
Takoma Park, MD 20912
Phone: 301-270-1855
Fax: 301-270-1882
Email: aparna@saalt.org
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Then let them get the hell out of Louisiana and Mississippi! They don't like anyone taking their jobs, and to be honest, I'm starting to be a bigot of a sort myself, but only when it comes to outsourced jobs and "guest workers". Now every time I call customer service and hear an Indian accent, I want to hang up. All I can hear are the sobs and anguish of yet another misled and misplaced American worker.
ReplyDelete@justthoughts: I hear your concern for American workers. I think if we raise the standard of workers everywhere, we can help control the race-to-the-bottom that drives so many of our jobs overseas. But importing workers under false pretenses and holding them in slave-like conditions doesn't help anyone. The companies that perpetuate this have to be held to account if we want this kind of exploitation - and American worker displacement - to stop. Human trafficking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_in_human_beings) cannot be tolerated.
ReplyDelete@justthoughts: I hear your concern for American workers. I think if we raise the standard of workers everywhere, we can help control the race-to-the-bottom that drives so many of our jobs overseas. But importing workers under false pretenses and holding them in slave-like conditions doesn't help anyone. The companies that perpetuate this have to be held to account if we want this kind of exploitation - and American worker displacement - to stop. Human trafficking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_in_human_beings) cannot be tolerated.
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