Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

 Jose Tello, attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLS) will be making a special presentation to students at LA Trade-Tech College on worker rights.  Mr. Tello will be presenting on wage/hour laws, breaks, leaves, and other workplace laws and will talk about NLS's work in the community.

The presentation/workshop will be in TE 221.

Don Tanaka of the Southern California Pipe Trades District Council 16 will be speaking to students in Bill Loiterman's Political Science class about his work and the labor movement.

 Jane Templin, ETI Outreach Director from IBEW Local 11 will speak to the the students at Harbor College's women's history class about her life and work in the unionized trades and in the labor movement.

 "MOVING MILLIONS: How Coyote Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration" <http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/PressRelease/pressReleaseId-70657.html> (Wiley, May 2010), a new book from Los Angeles-based journalist and long-time PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye, looks past fences and green cards to address the underlying causes of immigration and how conservatives and liberals can work towards truly comprehensive reform. Please respond to this email if you're interested in receiving a complimentary review copy of this important work.

Kaye's phrase "coyote capitalism" captures the idea-practiced by many businesses and governments-that people, like other natural resources, are supplies to be shifted around to meet demand, without considering or taking responsibility for the consequences for economies, communities, or individuals. An immigrant himself, Kaye gives startling account of frontline stories from the real immigration battle-from Arizona to the Philippines, Pennsylvania to Senegal-between workers of every kind and the global forces that have created the most nomadic population in the history of the world.

 El miedo no cuenta

Come by the Student and Community Census Rally on Thursday, April 15, 2010 from 12:30pm to 3pm at the Auditorium Foyer at East LA College.  There will be music by Maleco Collective, free comic books and an appearance by Lalo Alcarez, free iTunes cards, census assistance and food sales to benefit student club S.E.R.

This event is sponsored by MALDEF, the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute, Students for Equal Rights (S.E.R.) and VotoLatino.