Break the Chain Campaign
Break The Chain Campaign seeks to prevent and address the abuse and exploitation of migrant women workers through holistic direct services, leadership training, community engagement and survivor-driven outreach and training.
- September 22, 2011
WAMU
Visit the publisher's website"I moved out here from L.A. to work on the DREAM Act," says Matias Ramos, who lives in D.C. "I had been a volunteer for the Obama campaign and I really thought there was going to be change. I’m not a felon; I’m not a criminal."
- September 21, 2011
Multi-American
Visit the publisher's website"Last month, the Obama administration announced that it would review some 300,000 cases of immigrants in the deportation pipeline, potentially sparing many deemed a low priority for deportation from removal. Among these low priorities were young people who arrived here as children, and who have or are pursuing a higher education degree in the United States.
"Challenges to the policy shift were inevitable, as people whose cases are eligible for review continue to move through the system. But a particularly high-profile challenge has surfaced now in the imminent deportation of Matias Ramos, one of the nation’s most prominent undocumented student leaders and the co-founder of United We Dream, an advocacy network for undocumented youth. A well-known spokesman for these students, Ramos was most recently quoted in a news story about how some pay for college.
"Earlier today, Ramos tweeted, 'Obama gave someone a contract to put an electronic shackle on me.' Ramos, 25, who was born in Argentina, attached a link to a photo of himself wearing an electronic monitoring device."
- July 9, 2011
The Morris (MN) Sun Tribune features article “The New Caregiving Movement”
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The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT) features article “The New Caregiving Movement”
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The Financial Times
Visit the publisher's websiteHousekeepers already face hazards in the workplace “let alone the additional risk of sexual assault,” said Tiffany Williams, a social worker at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank in Washington, DC.
- February 10, 2011
The Mountain Mail (Salida, CO) features article “Silencing Human Trafficking Victims in America”
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The Huffington Post features article “Silencing Human Trafficking Victims in America”
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The Richmond (KY) Register features article “Raise the Minimum Wage”
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Common Dreams features article “Raise the Minimum Wage”
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The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT) features article “In 2010, Let's Treat our Domestic Workers Better”
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Tiffany Williams