Marco Amador (top), caregiver and her charge (middle), Iraqi refugees flee the burning city of Basra (bottom).
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Looking Back, Moving Forward 2007
December 26, 2007
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As the year 2007 ends, we reflect on three key issues we covered this past year and hear the voices of: the immigrant labor force in post-hurricane New Orleans, domestic workers in the United States, and Iraqi refugees on the streets of Damascus.
Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Samson Reiny, Joaquin Palomino, and Elena Botkin-Levy
Featuring:
First segment from New Orleans:
Arthur Robinson, independent business owner; Israel Lopez, immigrant labor worker; Marco Amador, New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice field worker & National Day Laborer Organizing Network member.
For more information:
New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice
Loyola Workplace Justice Project
Loyola University New Orleans
College of Law
7214 St. Charles Ave., Box 901
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-861-5550
molina@loyno.edu
The New Orleans Worker Justice Coalition
504-363-1108
organizer@neworleansworkerjustice.org
www.neworleansworkerjustice.org
National Day Laborer Organizing Network
www.ndlon.org
Second Segment on Domestic Workers:
Radha Kanan, domestic worker; Christine Lewis, domestic worker; Joyce Frances, domestic worker; Erline Brown, domestic worker; Marina Lopez, domestic worker; Joyce Campbell, domestic worker; Sylvia, domestic worker and volunteer, Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
For more information:
Domestic Workers United
2473 Valentine Avenue
Bronx, NY 10458
718-220-7391 x11 or 23
domesticworkersunited@gmail.com
www.domesticworkersunited.org
United Domestic Workers of America
2760 5th Ave. Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92103
619-641-1190
800-621-5016
unionheadquarters@udwa.org
www.udwa.org
Mujeres Unidas y Activas – San Francisco, CA
3543 18th Street, #23
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-621-8140
Juanita@mujeresunidas.net
www.mujeresunidas.net
Mujeres Unidas y Activas – Oakland, CA
2647 International Blvd., Suite 701
Oakland, CA 94601
510-261-3398
maria@mujeresunidas.net
www.mujeresunidas.net
Data Center
1904 Franklin Street, Suite 900
Oakland, CA 94612
510-835-4692
www.datacenter.org
Day Labor Program
Women's Collective of La Raza Centro Legal
474 Valencia Street, Suite 295
San Francisco, CA 94103
Tel. 415- 575-3500
www.lrcl.org/daylabor/daylabor.asp
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
2533 W. Third Street, Suite 101
Los Angeles, CA 90057
213-353-1333
info@chirla.org
www.chirla.org
National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
310-8th St., Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94607
510-465-1984
nnirr@nnirr.org
www.nnirr.org
National Immigrant Solidarity Network
ActionLA/The Peace Center
8124 West 3rd Street, Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Tel: 213-403-0131
Info@ActionLA.org
www.immigrantsolidarity.org
Third Segment on Iraqi Refugees:
Eman Abdul Rahid, Iraqi woman whose arm was broken in a car bomb; Adhem Mardini, UNHCR public information officer, Damascus office; Abu Noor, Iraqi man, retired teacher; Omar Jassim, 40-year old Iraqi man, laborer; Rathman Shakr, Iraqi man, former detainee, tortured heavily; Adnan, 59 year-old Iraqi man, ex-Army officer; Dr. Omar Al-Khattab, young Iraqi doctor, fled his country due to direct death threat; Sarrah, 20 year-old Iraqi woman, student of dentistry; Hummam al-Mukhtar, 17 year old Iraqi student; Hussam, 22 year old Iraqi student studying communication engineering in Syria; Adel Al-Jabbah, old Syrian man who owns a spice shop in the souk; Amir Alaby, Syrian man who owns a soap and sweet shop; Adnan #2, Syrian merchant, blames Bush for the crisis; Abdel Aziz, 30 year-old Syrian man, owns stationary store.
For more information:
Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches:
mail@dahrjamailiraq.com
www.dahrjamailiraq.com
Refugee International
1705 N Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
202-828-0110
ri@refintl.org
www.refintl.org
IRIN
(U.N. based humanitarian news agency for excellent reports and
updates on the refugee crisis)
www.irinnews.org
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR)
Case Postale 2500
CH-1211 Genève 2 Dépôt
Suisse
+41 22 739 8111 (automatic switchboard)
www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies
PO Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
+41 22 730 42 22
www.ifrc.org
New York Delegation to the U.N.
International Federation
800 Second Avenue
Suite 355, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10017
212-338-0161
www.ifrc.org/contact/index.asp?navid=14