Ms. Khobragade stated that she would pay her domestic worker $4,500 dollars a month. Instead she paid her $3.31 an hour or $573.07 a month.
Ms. Khobragade instructed the domestic worker to tell U.S. Embassy officials that she was being paid $9.50 an hour.
In India $3.31 an hour may be somewhat common. But in the U.S. – no.
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CESAR CHAVEZ Movie Trailer. In theaters April 4th, 2014 Join us on Facebook http://facebook.com/FreshMovieTrailers Directed by Diego Luna, Chávez chronicles …
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Harsha Walia is a Vancouver (coast salish territories) based South Asian community activist organizing in various migrant justice, indigenous solidarity, and anti capitalist, anti colonial movements.
She is speaking at City is a Sweatshop on February 21st, 2009
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Since the start of the economic crisis, we’ve seen workplace raids, handouts to the rich, increased deportation, targeting of migrants and the shattering of social services. On May 2, join the fightback and insist that NO ONE, poor or undocumented, IS ILLEGAL!
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I just signed a petition to Jon Gurule, Immigration & Customs in AZ, John Sandweg, Director of ICE, and ERO ICE Community Outreach: No father should be deported for driving to work!
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AMADO – Protesters rallied for Customs and Border Protection to remove a checkpoint on Arivaca Road near Interstate 19 on Sunday.
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Added “Decolonize” page of sites to Community Village
“I started writing because there was an absence I was familiar with. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy – a yearning I had as a teenager… and when I get ready to write, I think I’m trying to fill that.” –Ntozake Shange
#DecolonizeHistory is about storytelling that disrupts space to present narratives that have been actively silenced or neglected.
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“Colonialism set the foundation for all other ‘ism’s’”
– Krysta Williams
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“People always tell me to forget the past. I should just let it go and move on. Why do people of color always have to forget?! Would you tell a Jewish person to forget about the holocaust and just move on?! Would you tell the family of those who lost their lives on 9/11 to just forget about it?! So why are our tragedies forgettable and others are not?! I WILL NEVER forget! I will ALWAYS honor those who lost their lives unjustifiable.”
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When Erick Garcia first talked to VOXXI two weeks ago about participating in a hackathon hosted by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy group FWD.us, he confessed he was nervous.
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