human rights

Join Media Mobilizing Project, Juntos, One Love Movement and DreamActivist PA TOMORROW NIGHT as we welcome the Border Network for Human Rights!

The Border Network for Human Rights is based in Texas, and has a general purpose of facilitating the education, organizing and participation of marginalized border communities to promote human rights.  These organized communities work to create political, economic and social conditions where every human being is equal in dignity and rights.

We are living in a very uncertain time and in thinking about the future of this movement and all of our organizations, we must reflect on the future faced by society as a whole.

Two weeks ago Philadelphia Parking Authority sent notices to approximately 100 taxi drivers, claiming that the drivers were owed money from past credit card transactions and should report to the PPA office on Wednesday, June 30th to receive their unclaimed check. As the drivers arrived at the Parking Authority, they were hand cuffed and arrested. In total, 27 drivers were arrested, 22 drivers were ultimately released and the whereabouts and identities of the other drivers is not known.

In January of 2010, the Poverty Initiatve, a group based in New York that aims to reignite Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, visited Philadelphia for an immersion tour. The tour highlighted the history of the struggles of poor people in this city. Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis, of the Poverty Initiative,  shared stories about the struggle of the homeless in 1995 and 1996.

Latino leaders decried on Wedeneday the sentences of the two teens acquitted in the beating death of Luis Eduardo Ramírez, for related charges to the July 2008 fatal incident in Shenandoah, Pa. 

"There was no Justice done for Luis Ramirez, and we should not and will not rest until all four perpetrators of such a hideous crime are duly prosecuted under federal hate crime statues and found guilty of murder," said Reverend Miguel Rivera, chairman for the National Coalition Of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders (CONLAMIC).

In this interview, Darnell Dixon details the working conditions he faces as a janitor in a center city building in Philadelphia. Mr Dixon explains that the company he currently works for recently established a series of new rules which are clearly violations of Darnell and other workers' human rights. Some of the rules these workers are forced to endure include: no talking on the job, no humming on the job, no pausing for a drink water, and no complaining about lack of ventilation. The broad edict for the workers is that they must be continuously cleaning and continuously moving.

People across the country are in the midst of a debate about the best path to fixing our broken health care system and getting quality healthcare to the un/underinsured. While attention is focused at the state and federal levels, the city of Philadelphia is about to lose another vital institution that serves the healthcare needs of poor and working class Philadelphians--Northeastern Hospital. This city-wide struggle to save Northeasterngoes hand-in-hand with the national fight. Keeping Northeastern Hospital open and fixing our country' healthcare system are two sides of the same coin. Listen to a report from Labor Justice Radio.

On Friday, May 1, an estimated over 1000 people from across Vermont, including nurses and other healthcare workers, descended on the State Capital building in Montpelier for a "Healthcare is a Human Right" rally.

Harrisburg, PA – Over 80 concerned community members, faith leaders, union representatives, and social service providers gathered at the State Capitol Building today to counter the heated rhetoric that enters much of the current debate about immigration in Pennsylvania.

Escuacha esta entrevista con Cruz Salucio miembro de la Coalicion de Trabajadores de Immokalee (CIW) y locutor de su estacion de radio, Radio Conciencia.  El CIW se organiza en la defensa de los derechos humanos de los trabajadores que pisca tomates en el sur de Florida.