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Sept Rally/Strike for Immigrant Rights in LA
by Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights
Thursday, Sep. 28, 2006 at 8:52 PM
cdir_usa@yahoo.com 213-241-0906 337 Glendale.Blvd. Los Angeles. CA 90026
The Coalition in Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR) supports this mass action at the Los Angeles Inernational Airpots Complex. September 28th marks the new stage of the immigrant rights movement. On this day, immigrant workers will take on the hotel industry, which employs hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers around the country.
We will demand that the hotels along the Century Corrido-LAX respect and value their immigrant workers by paying them a living wage and allowing workers to rise out of poverty.
SEPTEMBER 28th
Labor of immigrants should be valued and respected!
Help stop the hotel
industries exploitation of immigrant workers!
WHEN: Thursday September 28th
Rally begins at 4:30PM
March begins at 5:30PM
WHERE: Meet in front of the Radisson LAX (corner of Sepulveda and Century Blvds)
WHAT: Join September 28th as hundreds of immigrants, workers, students, and religious leaders risk arrest in the one of the largest acts of non-violent civil disobedience in the history of Los Angeles.
WHY: September 28th marks the new stage of the immigrant rights movement. On this day, immigrant workers will take on the hotel industry, which employs hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers around the country.
We will demand that the hotels along the Century Corridor respect and value their immigrant workers by paying them a living wage and allowing workers to rise out of poverty.
Patty Simmons, a waitress and an immigrant from Peru, explains how the wages she makes working at the LAX Hilton don't allow her to make ends meet for her family. "I am the sole supporter for my family because my husband is a disabled. I make $1,900 a month after tips and taxes and this is not enough to cover rent, medication, health insurance, food, and utilities for myself and my family. This has left me and my family homeless and I have now taken a second job to try get my family in our own apartment."
Immigrant workers at the LAX Hilton and LAX Westin and other hotels on Century Blvd. are working full time, yet are not paid enough to make ends meet and are still living in poverty. This exploitation needs to end now!
LAX Century Corridor is Los Angeles's largest tourism sector and the home of over a dozen hotels that employ thousands of immigrant workers. Many of these workers live in the surrounding communities of Lennox, Hawthorne, and Inglewood, where one in four residents live below the poverty line.
In preparation for the mass action,Reverand James Lawson, Board Member of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and a working colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1957-1968, will hold a training on non-violent civil disobedience on September 14th at 6pm.
The training will take place at Angelica Lutheran Church located at, 1351 Burlington Ave. in Los Angeles at 6pm on Thursday September 14th.
SPONSORS: The September 28th action is sponsored by UNITE HERE along with the We Are America Coalition, whose coalition members include: the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC),
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